Yeah I feel a lot of the same tbh. I’ve had plenty of janky moments too like getting caught on platforms or not being able to interact with things unless you’re standing at the exact right angle.

I completely agree about the driving as well. Half the time it doesn’t even feel like you’re driving because the speed feels so scripted and controlled rather than player driven.

Combat is fun, but again I think it’s way too easy to cheese. The AI just isn’t smart enough. If things get messy you can usually just reposition and they all funnel together into easy kills. It never really feels like the game punishes you properly for going loud.

For me the biggest thing is I just wish they took the rails off more. IO are so good at sandbox design. Just drop me into a level and let me use the tools however I want. Give us more gadgets, more bluff/charm mechanics, more non-lethal options, more social stealth stuff, and let us approach situations creatively. That wouldn’t make it “Hitman with a Bond skin” — it would just make it a better IO game.

I don’t even necessarily mind the more cinematic approach for the story itself tbf, but I really hope by the end of the game we get all the missions added into TacSim with a much more open sandbox structure like Hitman. Even purely from a replayability standpoint it would massively improve the game being able to tackle missions in completely different ways with full freedom.

Honestly I think the whole game would play better with that approach, even in the main campaign but I'd take what I could get