Interesting discussion!
I agree with almost everything @Screaming_Meat has said. What bothers me about Absolution is the exaggeration of the characters, even of 47. It’s like @MrOchoa said, 47 himself is not a good person, he is not a hero, he is a murderer. So that the player still has the desire to play with him and to find him likable, his enemies must of course be even worse.
The problem with Absolution is: to make the enemies bad, they turned them into caricatures in a niche far from “the norm”. As if anything that is not up to the norm is bad - homosexuality, disability, or just being female. Homophobia, misogyny and ableism are thus presented almost as legitimate methods of dealing with these people - after all, they are evil and they must die.
Of course, the enemies in the WoA trilogy are also oversubscribed, but I think they are better representatives of a “real world”, because the whole thing is much broader here.
It’s about capitalism, corruption, terrorism, politics. Absolution is more about individual fates in a small criminal niche. But while the WoA trilogy is at least an artistically free and exaggerated representation of a complex political and business world as we could actually have it, Absolution is more of a poorly written comic with lousy characters and outdated images.