You can get Tomb Raider via regional pricing for as low as umm... I think it was like $26 or 28. Russian price, but region free game.

Sent in a support ticket to cancel my $30 Hitman Absolutiuon pre-purchase after seeing this review: http://www.pcgamer.com/review/hitman-absolution-review/.
Hopefully, this works and I'll then pick up the game when it's around $10 or so. Very disappointed since Blood Money is one of my all-time favourites.

Originally Posted by g6grim Sent in a support ticket to cancel my $30 Hitman Absolutiuon pre-purchase after seeing this review: http://www.pcgamer.com/review/hitman-absolution-review/. Hopefully, this works and I'll then pick up the game when it's around $10 or so. Very disappointed since Blood Money is one of my all-time favourites.

how can you be disappointed with one person opinion?

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Several aspects of the PC gamer review have been debunked.

Originally Posted by g6grim Sent in a support ticket to cancel my $30 Hitman Absolutiuon pre-purchase after seeing this review: http://www.pcgamer.com/review/hitman-absolution-review/. Hopefully, this works and I'll then pick up the game when it's around $10 or so. Very disappointed since Blood Money is one of my all-time favourites.

Reviews seem to be all over the place for this game. Anyway, I'm going to keep mine especially since it ended up costing me under $20 after my XCOM credit.

I've read tons of user impressions/complaints and some of the reviews, my take on the situation matches this quote from a review (I think it was Edge review)

Hitman: Absolution is a slick, responsive and mechanically confident game - and on occasions it's one of the most satisfying stealth games in a year that already includes Dishonored - but a range of compromises to Hitman tradition mean it's still going to rub some people up the wrong way.

I've never played a Hitman game, I tried the Blood Money demo but I found it really awkward and unintuitive. Almost everything about Absolution sounds great to me aside from the questionable checkpoint system, so I'm gonna buy it considering the cheap price of $29.

Originally Posted by dEvAnGeL how can you be disappointed with one person opinion?

I'm not paying all that much attention to the overall score or even the glitches described in review, but rather some of the points that were made about gameplay shifting it's focus.
Just mentions of linear gameplay and smaller environments in a Hitman game make me not want to blindly pre-order but wait instead and make a more informed purchase decision.

All the reviews are out and there is a whole lot of user feedback as well, plus youtube gameplay. You can get started on making your informed decision now, if you want.

Originally Posted by Solid-Snake-Eyes Several aspects of the PC gamer review have been debunked.

care to elaborate on that? I'm honestly curious and want to know

Originally Posted by buckythekat care to elaborate on that? I'm honestly curious and want to know

This is the main thing, in addition to various user impressions that dispute some of PC Gamer's claims:

http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...n-is-just-fine


A big thing I've read is that the game plays totally differently between Normal and Hard, and the other higher difficulties, that the AI is very stupid on Normal, so you can take that into consideration. I think reviewers usually play on Normal. There are less guards on Normal also.

After gleefully discovering some CK2 patch since early summer got CK2 working on HD3000 graphics Macs, I decided to bite the bullet and grab CK2 Legacy of Rome DLC from GameStop. It wasn't bad. I was able to pay with paypal instead of giving them my CC. I bought on my mac just to see if they wouldn't force me to use the GameStop App to get my steam keys. No Dice. I had to install the GameStop/Impulse client on my machine to get my Steam keys. Overall experience, not bad. Really irked to have to install a damn client to get my steam keys.

Originally Posted by Daykain For those that are on the fence for buying Hitman: Absolution, watch Conan's review.

Cause I'm a scarecrow in a corn field, motherer!

Originally Posted by Solid-Snake-Eyes I've read tons of user impressions/complaints and some of the reviews, my take on the situation matches this quote from a review (I think it was Edge review) I've never played a Hitman game, I tried the Blood Money demo but I found it really awkward and unintuitive. Almost everything about Absolution sounds great to me aside from the questionable checkpoint system, so I'm gonna buy it considering the cheap price of $29.

Blood Money is one of the best games ever made. I recommend you take another swing at it.

Do note the carnival tutorial level sucks. It's an AWFUL lead. Understand that what it's trying to do is make you do one of everything you CAN do. The real game is sandboxy in style

In for Hitman at $30 for sure

Pre-ordered Hitman on GMG. Anyone else having problems getting a key for Sniper Challenge?

Originally Posted by zeroskie Pre-ordered Hitman on GMG. Anyone else having problems getting a key for Sniper Challenge?

If your in NA I believe you don't get a key for the Sniper Challenge.

I gave up on waiting for Absolution keys to start issuing and just bought it, would hate for the 10% preorder discount to expire early. I traded in some free game for 50 cents, too. Great price for a new release, I was reading on Neogaf and people were so mad that PC players could get it for half price.

Originally Posted by g6grim Sent in a support ticket to cancel my $30 Hitman Absolutiuon pre-purchase after seeing this review: http://www.pcgamer.com/review/hitman-absolution-review/. Hopefully, this works and I'll then pick up the game when it's around $10 or so. Very disappointed since Blood Money is one of my all-time favourites.

If you still want to get rid of it, I'll be keen to get it off you. Not in the US at the moment so the GMG deal comes up to about $35.++ for me even after the discount code.

Originally Posted by kazunori If you still want to get rid of it, I'll be keen to get it off you. Not in the US at the moment so the GMG deal comes up to about $35.++ for me even after the discount code.

I think the UK version comes with a sniper challenge bonus, fyi. NA ones does not.

Just got my Hitman: Absolution key this morning, so check your email's. Pre-loading right now 13.5GB.