So basically:
- Half of the game is similar to 2016/2018 as well as Blood Money, mostly Dubai and Dartmoore. They have less content / opportunities / feel less ambitious and feel more like the Bank bonus level from 2018 rather than masterpieces like Sapienza and such.
- Another half of the game is Absolution once again, a narrative-driven experience with some assasination taking place in the process. These levels really stand out from the rest of the trilogy, and not in a good way. The plot is no more there just to set the scene for the assassination sandbox, it turns half of the game into a semi-linear experience.
- The last level is literally just a long corridor (a train), with a constant need to use windows and roof to move between carriages and a ton of guards with absurd amount of hp on your way. And unlike the opening of H2, this is a linear experience with no replayability.
- Unlocks are once again very "creative", such as "Lockpick Mk. 3" and the like..
- The game constantly reuses its own ideas and content, you will once again be on the run and will need to kill someone in a nightclub, Diana will once again pretend to betray you via poisoning and once again you will be able to rise and kill everybody. The guards uniforms are reskins of previous games, even inside of H3 elite guards of ICA secret facility in China wear the same stuff as elite guards in Dubai..
- The plot makes no sense. To put it in one sentence, "the Constant offers Diana to become next Constant, so Providence allies with ICA and this is why 47 with Olivia destroy ICA by leaking information about it to the media, then 47 kills some random Providence guys in Argentina where Diana poisons him to get him close to the Constant, while is actually planning to dismantle Providence from within once she's in charge. With no more Providence or ICA Diana and 47 become "vigilantes" with a mission to protect the world by punishing "the untouchables". Yes, really.
- The game feels more like a demo for 007 rather than its own thing. A return to Absolution-esque narrative-driven gameplay, new "spy tools" like the camera which noone really needed and that doesn't add any value to the game.
All in all, the mentioned things kill any sort of hype for me and make it clear I best wait a year before it releases on Steam, or even get it later on this year at a discount as part of Epic sales.