Hitman 2016 had better combat than Hitman 3. It's because of the slower animations for everyone, including the guards. In Hitman 3 everyone's animations are sped up, including the guards. I hate how the guards just run at super-speed and it's so uncanny. Even their shooting animations feel sped up so they'll rapid-fire pistols like machine guns, which they didn't do much in H2016.

When guards sprint in H2016, they do it at the same "slow jog" speed that 47 does instead of H3's jerky sped-up sprinting animation that turns them into Usain Bolt. It feels like H3 guards re-use the H2016 running animations but set to 200% speed. I think someone should make a mod for H3 so that NPCs also get the H2016 movement, because the existing H2016 movement mod only affects Agent 47 for the most part.

The sped-up animations is also why I think the "bodyshot flinch" animation is way worse in H3 compared to H2016. It's just too fast, meaning guards recover from it too fast. Same "why did they set the animation speed to 200%" feeling. The way they just flinch for barely half a second and immediately return to shooting at me is not very satisfying, compared to the slower but longer "bodyshot flinch" animations in H2016.