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Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game-play and single player campaign. A few nice surprises along with all the features of previous Hitman games make for a very enjoyable and fun experience. Highly recommended!

Great continuation of hitman series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Hitman 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. When Contracts was released, I was left confused and disappointed by a game that felt overly dark and pretentious. With a bad taste in my mouth, I was hoping Blood Money would not follow in Contracts' footsteps.

Fortunately, it did not. Blood Money offers a wide variety of environments and settings that give the player vast freedom to explore. The scenarios are complex and multidimensional requiring the player to study and analyze a number of factors before deciding on a strategy. Much like the its predecessors, Blood Money is not a game for the impatient. It requires much experimentation and creativity through perseverance, bur the end results are very satisfying.

What I enjoy most about the Hitman series is the character of 47. Silent Assassin did the best job of depicting him as a complex human being, simultaneously cold-hearted and compassionate. Blood Money doesn't do much to build upon 47's character, but does offer other thematic and plot devices which draw the player into the game. Without spoiling it, the game is riveting and has a great ending (if you see it).

Tech specs:
AMD X2 4000+ @ 2.71ghz
2 x Nvidia 7900gt SLI
Played at 1680x1050, all setting maxed - absolutely no hitches, ran perfectly.

What a Blast!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Agent 47 comes to life on your PC. For those of you that play Hitman: Blood Money on your Xbox 360 and were hesitating to get it for your pc, don't. The PC version has better graphics, of course it has one flaw, you have to use the keyboard and mouse to play the game, not an Xbox 360 Controller. If you get the pc game, get the latest patch, to prevent from crashes. And when you play this game, it does help to have the strategy guide when you play, or else you can make a fatal mistake in the game. This game has 13 missions, and mission one is a training level, to get you used to the keyboard and mouse controls that you will be using in the game's progression.

As you go from mission to mission, they will get harder. That is why you need the strategy guide to reference, so you don't get agent 47 killed during a critial mission. You can only save a game while you are playing it, which I think is bad. If you quit the game, you start from the beginning of the mission you were on, no save games to load. But as I said, if you played this game on the Xbox 360, you are used to this feature. All, in all. This is a great game to play if you are into FPS games (for the newbie First Person Shooter). No multiplayer features on this game for the pc or the Xbox 360, sorry. And you must have at least a Pentium 4 processor or better, and I find that at least 2 GB of computer RAM, plus a very good video card (Like the 200 dollar or higher Nvidia PCI-Express or ATI PCI-Express video card. And for the higher powered video cards, you need a more powerful power supply for your pc) will help make the game play smoothly on your pc.

A very well done stealth-action game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my favorite game series of all time. I truly love the Hitman games because they have some of the greatest executions of all stealth games. This one is also great gameplay, in every mission there is a ton of ways to complete them. You can even make alot of the executions look like accidents. Drop a chandelier on a group of Mafia bad guys, knock some bad guys over a railing into alligator infested swamps, and even strangle a guy on the bench-press with the bar! There are just so many ways to kill! But my one annoyance is the freaking AI! It is so unpredictable sometimes, I had to restart the mission. But if you do not let this get to you, Hitman is one of the best series you will play.

Won't work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Impossible requirements for the game meant that it wouldn't run on my machine. Had to return it.

Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A very good game for the $$,, good graphics/controls/action . Worth the ten bucks i spent and then some. get the patches though or else it might be buggy.

interesting game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game it first person shooter, like previous Hitmen. The only problem I had was my computer- not good enough grafic card. But game v. involving. Strongly recommended.

If you can see me, i can see you. if you can't see me, you're looking at the last thing you'll ever see

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

BRILLIANT!! I've played all the hitman games and this one is BY FAR the greatest of them all. I loved Contracts, but this game simply blew it out of the water with more interesting missions, better AI, and more ways to get the mission acomplished!! I especially liked the various "accedental" ways people could die. Don't get me wrong though, if you want to simply blow a whole bunch of people away, this game definately can deliver.

It feels so good to be so bad.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've saved the world from terrorists, aliens, foreign armys, mad scientists, evil kings, and a giant lizard named Bowzer. And at the end of it all, I've had medals pinned on my chest, crowns placed on my head, and made sweet, sweet love to many damsels in distress. Not in this game.

Here you play as Agent 47. Agent 47 is a Hitman; an assassin for hire. He gets paid money for killing people. He is not a good guy. The developers of this game tried to lesson the moral implications of being a cold-blooded killer by creating missions in which your target is someone who deserves to die; child rapists, drug smugglers, and mob bosses seem to be your prey most of the time. I haven't finished the game yet, but I don't expect to see a mission sending me off to kill a second grade school teacher during class. That would just be wrong! But for some reason, it seems less wrong, maybe even right, to kill the gutter slime for profit.

And that's the other thing that Hitman: Blood Money is about; money. After every mission, you are paid. You have to spend money on "clean up" for the previous mission (disposing of bodies, bribing witnesses, etc), but the remainder of the funds are spent on upgrades for your weapons (scopes, silencers, laser sights, etc). Money makes Agent 47's world go round. (You would think that with all of that money, he could afford a nicer hide-out. In the game, it's pretty much a dump.)

Hitman plays like a stealth game, but not the same kind of sleath action that fans of the Splinter Cell games are used to. You can still turn off or shoot out lights, but the darkness isn't as important for moving around. You'll spend most of your time watching your target and planing an attack. This might involve killing or knocking out a guard or maintaince worker and changing into his uniform in order to get close to your target. Or you might prefer to find a nice vantage point and shoot your target from a distance with a sniper rifle. You could try planting a bomb when the target isn't around and detonating it as he walks buy, or simply poisoning his bottle of water. You can always walk in the front door, guns blazing, and shoot your way through the mission if you want to. That's the greatest part of this game; the freedom to plan your attack according to the conditions and your own mood.

The rating that you recieve after every mission, as well as how much money you get to keep, depends of how well you were able to stay unnoticed. Lots of innocent dead people and bullets flying everywhere will take a pretty big chunk out of your pay. But if only the target is killed, and nobody saw or suspects you of being the one who did it, then you can pocket a few hundred thousand dollars for a good hit.

One problem with Hitman is becoming obsessed with performing a clean kill. It's easy to run through a mission killing everyone is sight, but that isn't the MO of a professional assassin like Agent 47. The reality of the game is that you'll likely spend several hours of trial and error on a single mission until you find what works. And the constant repetition gets old. After 50 trys with no success the game starts to become tedious.

The only other problem with the game is the AI. That's not to say that the NPCs are stupid, but rather that they are too smart. Unrealistically smart. You hide in the shadows and take out your target with a silenced sniper rifle, but for some reason the guards know exactly where the shot came from and come running. You can't just run away before they get there either, because they've managed to get a real good look at you from 200 yards away, in the dark, and have already faxed a sketch of you to every guard in the building who is ready to shoot you on sight.

This game isn't better than certain other stealth games such as Splinter Cell, but it doesn't try to be either. Hitman does something unique with its gameplay and is a fun, if at times frustrating, diversion of your afternoon. Most of us are good people who would never think of starting a profession as a murderer for hire. But with Hitman: Blood Money we can get to play as the bad guy for once.

walkthrough a must

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Blood money like all other hitman games needs a walkthrough to be played as a stealth game.To me that is like reading a recepie to bake a cake.I just go in guns blazing and kill everyone and compleate the missions.True this is not as easy as it sounds because of limited amo and hoards of enemies comming after you.To me the fun part of the game is figuring out how to acomplish this.To play the game the way it is ment to be played is to me just plaine boering.I have nothing against stealth games but with a few exceptions they must be played by the numbers and I don't like arithmatic.

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