The game is pretty much that, a ton of covering up, and cutscenes. You spend like 75% of the game crouched over and in cover, it's basically Splinter Cell Conviction with some disguise mechanism thrown in.
I can't stress enough how bad the disguise system is in this game, here's the level of stupidty at work. Let's say you steal a cops uniform, well instead of it actually disguising you, if a cop looks at you he has a gauge that fills up and then he becomes suspicious. There's a level in the game where there's a ton of cops and a ton of street vendors, if you take either disguise your cover is blown, you're better off just playing the level as a bald guy with a bar code in the back of his head.
It's only a Hitman game in name and the fact it has a bald guy with a bar code, they could literally just swap Sam Fisher or any random character in and it wouldn't even matter.
Yeah, it's really getting wack. I have no idea what is wrong with these developers. Do they just sit around and have some industry wide meeting and choose to push games in this or that direction? I heard RE6 was like that too. Went from survival horror to action. Same with Dead Space.
Thank God for indie developers.