What happens when GOG offers you Hitman?
Date: 2023-01-27
Yesterday I got a nice email from GOG. They offerered me their entire Hitman catalogue for a heavy discount. I already had Hitman Absolution (widely known as Abomination), but the others I did not. So what did I do?
What is Hitman?
Hitman games are one of the best series ever made, not just in the stealth genre, but in overall. Lately we don't have many stealth games, and the HITMAN reboot keeping it alive basically, while we wait for games like Gloomwood.
The Hitman series started in 2000, when Eidos released Io Interactive's first Hitman: Codename 47.
Since I haven't spend much time with these games lately (I only played the first one, and some of the HITMAN / HITMAN 2 from the reboot), I highly recommend Razörfist's video about it. He goes through all the games chronologically, in a way, that he can make you play any games, he speaks with such a passionate voice.
This is not the first time I watched this video, I am fan of the guy, as he likes the Thief trilogy as well.
So yeah, I ended up buying rest of it of course. For 5 USD, it's 4 games, and plenty of gameplay time to enjoy.
How to run Hitman games on Linux?
Luckily, adamhm comes to the rescue. He alone made dozens of scripts for people who likes to play on GOG and Linux. His Hitman scripts, has detailed instructions so I won't bother it with here, if you have the games on GOG, this is easiest way to play them. What's genius is that you can move your game directory, and the saves are separate, so even if you move your data it's easy to continue.
