Used to have Hitman 2016, which got delisted after they made Hitman 3 become "World of Assassination".
Edit: Wait, no. That's the HITMAN Essential Collection (Hitman: Blood Money, Hitman: Absolution, HITMAN (2016), it even kept the logo of the 2016 reboot trilogy (now World of Assassination) while not including it anymore).
Just like most Hitman fans I have quite a few things to say about this lol but it's not relevant to the question so I won't unless you're curious about the details.
I think the reason why Steam might display 6 games for Hitman Collection and 3 for HITMAN Essential Collection is because Hitman: Absolution includes Hitman Sniper Challenge which shows up as a separate app/game/entry in the Steam library. To be confirmed though, could also just be the Hitman 2016 removal.
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Hate how they show HITMAN World of Assassination as being 90% off on the main page, but when you go to its page it's actually only "Part One" (ie. HITMAN 1 levels) rather than the full thing, which costs nearly 10x as much.
Can recommend Hitman: Blood Money though, its quality is at least on par with the reboot series, if one doesn't mind the usual "old game" jank here and there. Absolution on the other hand is easily the worst in the series (that I've played). Less a Hitman game and more like a parody that plays more like Splinter Cell. The antagonists are a bunch of sexy nuns with guns, a weird Texan cowboy carricature, and a failed super soldier experiment that you 1v1 in a wrestling match...
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Hate how they show HITMAN World of Assassination as being 90% off on the main page, but when you go to its page it's actually only "Part One" (ie. HITMAN 1 levels) rather than the full thing, which costs nearly 10x as much.
This. Absolutely hate this. Especially considering that's the part I'm supposed to get for free in the old system because I own Hitman 2016, now they force you to re-buy the levels you already own.
(same thing for Hitman 2 (2018) owners)
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Honestly, I am kinda done with IO Interactive. They have notoriously scummy business practices, track history of delisting games or removing content, false advertisement and so on.
Out of the ones included in the collection, I would say Blood Money is the best but I still wonder if the package is worth that much given how old they all are, and you don't really gain anything by owning them on steam.
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I already have all the Hitman games apart from part 3 of the 2016 games.
IO will never get another penny from me with how they went around releasing all of that.
Fun while it lasted but they made sure to ditch this one loyal customer.
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Funny... Myself, I just got so confused with all the weird Hitman releases, never knowing for sure what was a full game, what was an episode and what was DLC, what was a new game and what was a re-release of an old one....I just gave up on the whole thing and decided not to buy them. I am not even mad at them, I just didn't bother understanding the whole thing.
So, maybe the reasons are slightly different than yours, but at the end it seems we have the same reaction to it.
Cheers!
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For someone who has never played any Hitman games before, should i go for the older games or instead go for World of Assassination?
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Hitman Collection: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/1077/Hitman_Collection/ 94% OFF
HITMAN™ Essential Collection: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/4468/HITMAN_Essential_Collection/ 93% OFF
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there may be variations depending on region
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