I cannot get into Hitman: Absolution at all. Anyone with me?

[Kantor]

Firstly, I apologise to Jay520 for creating negativity surrounding the game

So, I bought and played Blood Money fairly recently, and it was excellent. It was its own game, and didn't try to be anything else. It was about waiting and planning, using your map, finding disguises, travelling through a large and fairly open level and trying to be discreet. I love that game.

But Absolution, dear god.

• Disguises are completely rubbish because apparently everyone has memorised the face of every single one of their coworkers and refuses to accept the possibility that they can have a NEW one.
• I don't even know how the checkpoints work, but it's certainly not the Blood Money system of limited savegames, which was actually different.
• There's no map so the only way to see where your enemies are is using Instinct.
• The levels are painfully linear and some are downright cringeworthy in how much they are trying to be generic action levels (burning building/helicopter chase).
• Several more of the levels are trying to be Splinter Cell and failing miserably because it's not that kind of game.
• Hardly any of the levels actually involve killing anyone. The game is called Hitman, not Escapeman or Hideman.

And a bunch of other things that I can't really think of now. So am I insane, or have they completely betrayed the series and created a painful experience? Seriously, I'm maybe 20% of the way through and I cannot bear to play any more of it.