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Played the Preview Version - Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have a copy of the preview version of Hitman 2 and it really is shaping up to be a wonderful game. Like the first Hitman it brings tons of action and enjoyable missions to the table. The preview is obviously beta because EIDOS still has some flaws to work out, but when the final version comes I think it's going to be a big hit.

GOOD THINGS IN THE GAME
-Amazing Graphics
-Numerous Fun Missions
-Ability to Skip Missions
-Great Weapons

FLAWS IN THE GAME
-Not able to save often

-Difficult
-Not very "player-friendly"

By September I think the flaws will be worked out and we will have a truly beautiful game!

I don't have the literal game I just go the demo of it....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 18
Date: August 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

SO FAR ITS GREAT! I mean...improved graphics.....same good gameplay...new missions....didn't run too bad on my pentium 4 1.7ghz 256 mb of ram geforce 2 mx....etc. The rest of the review and the detailed version is next up:
Graphics: 9.7; highly superb. The textures look much better as well as other added effects!!And the shadows look a hell of a lot better as well-there are also a lot of other effects that u can enable not available in the original hitman-including enviroment bump mapping!(Though not supported by my video card so its inacessible....)Also, the sun looks very realistic!Now they are using volumetric complex real-time suns!And clouds.
Sound Effects:7.6 Same old sounds-same quality. But good enough!
Music: 8.9: Excellent! Same quality-but very good and kool new songs and sound tracks!
GamePlay: 9.5: Superb! There's a lot more gameplay-and a lot of the old gameplay-which I defnitley like! There's a hell of a lot more places to explorer-and u can do a hell of a lot more things, like for an example-I'm pretty sure you coudn't pick up grociery bags and nearly not as much gameplay or places to explorer. Much more realisim in gameplay as well. There's defnitley somewhat improved gameplay!
KeyBoard control:8.1, not any different from the last 1-just you can zoom in with your eletric binoculars-but besides that- they are great and comfortable from my opinion!

Overal Grade: 9.0. Slammin' defintley a must have-can't wait to get the real full version-its gonna include a lot more final improved qualities and futures and add ons!:). I defintley reccomend this for any gamer!

Great game, but somewhat buggy.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Eidos has taken a very underrated game and made a sequel that is at least as good as the original. The first-person shooter genre is plagued by simple run,jump, and fire jobs that can get a little long in the tooth.

The first Hitman was a breath of fresh air. No more saving every 5 minutes and mindless spray and pray shooting, while running from your oppenents to regroup. In a similar fasion to Deus Ex, the Hitman series requires some thought and strategy to more effectively complete your objectives. While the second installment of Hitman has introduced saves, they are smart about it. You have a limited number. If you were adept at the first game, you may not need them much in this sequel. (I've used 2 so far) A nice assortment of weapons are at your disposal and more can by earned through good gameplay.

As in the first, the music is a welcome addition to the visuals. It is available as a soundtrack, and I may very well pick it up. The graphics are well done and keep in mind, I had to turn the quality down due to my aging GeForce256 card. I imagine they are much better on a newer video card. I heard raves about how good the menus are in Hitman 2 and jeers about those in the first game. I personally liked them better in the original, but after a short while, these are easily acceptable.

Now to the bad... This game is buggy. Granted, I am playing it on a somewhat dated system. ( PIII 733 / 768MB / GeForce256 32MB ) There is already at least one patch out for this game. The performace of the game is fine when it is running, but I have yet to be able to launch, play and quit the game in one session without a hard reboot of my computer. It is more stable at lower quality settings but still somewhat problematic. The AI can be a little quirky sometimes, with soliders inexplicably finding out your cover, but it's not too bad.

Despite those issues, this game is worth the hassle it has thrown at me. If you want a change from the same old FPS games, or liked the first Hitman, you would do yourself well to indulge in this game.

Advanced Players Only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm admittedly still in the early levels, though this may become the first game *ever* I don't play to completion. Graphics are quite nice and the game seems generally well put-together, but controls are somewhat frustrating at times (especially when just trying to turn around via the mouse--it's just not as responsive as usual and doesn't seem adjustable), solutions can be far from intuitive, and I'm finding myself searching the internet for "walkthrough" suggestions pretty much from chapter one, which is a HUGE rarity.

Being a "silent assassin", things are largely based on stealth and disguise as one "goes in", conducts a "hit", and gets out, but knowing how to approach such things is not obvious at all quite frequently. Given one's limitations as to how many times one can save in any level, it can get a bit maddening having to re-cover the same ground multiple times. Things like often having to walk rather than run so as not to attract attention/suspicion can also add to the frustration factor as one just waits to slowly get somewhere. This game **really** needed a more gradual, blatant introduction to its required skills.

If you're looking for an advanced challenge and a new "bar height" when it comes to a game, this would seem to be it (especially if you have patience and don't mind trying things repeatedly to find a solution). If you like standard fare where it doesn't take too long to figure out how to make progress and you don't have to repeatedly try the same challenge with limited saves, this one isn't for you.

I do appreciate a game raising the level as to what's considered "advanced", intelligent gaming, but it's looking like the patience requirement for this one may finally be a bit too far beyond my tolerance. Maybe my attention span's just grown too short with today's usual entertainment???

It's Like Starring In Your Very Own Action Movie!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN combines first-person-shoot-'em-up excitement, movie-style drama, and thinking-man's strategy to create a truly unique gaming experience. It is EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE and A LOT of fun! Picking up where the original HITMAN left off, you start by coming out of a self-imposed retirement at a Catholic monastery in Italy when your religious mentor is kidnapped by a secret, shadow enemy. That's where the murderous fun begins...

From choosing your weapons and ammo, to using birds and pigs as target practice (don't worry, it's only a game), to figuring out your strategy for approaching each mission, HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN really gets your adrenaline pumping. I don't normally play first-person-shoot-'em-ups, but this game is way more than just that. Compared to the last one I had ever played (the now-ancient THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD), HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN gives you an all-around superior gaming experience.

There are many missions; this game takes a long time to go through, especially for a casual gamer like me! These missions are in wildly varying locations---from the Italian monastery to a downtown area of a German city (Munich, I believe?), from a snowbanked Polish outpost to the awe-inspiring Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the locations are gorgeously detailed, and really make you feel like you're actually there! I totally recommend HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN to anyone who wants to completely lose themselves in a video game for a good long time. Now that the price has come way down, there's no excuse!

MOST RECOMMENDED

I can't believe Eidos outdid themselves even MORE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 25
Date: March 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was a loyal fan of Hitman-Codename 47. The game was interesting, original, and above all, great. However, I am proud
to announce that Hitman II is even BETTER than the original. There are many more weapons available, and the already awesome
graphics from part I have been dramatically improved. This game
is absolutely amazing, and the missions and administrations of death are by-far the most excellent in video game history to this date. I played Hitman I for hours a day for two years--now I have another game to keep me entertained for another two!

Something's Missing Here...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hitman 2 has better graphics, more missions, game saves (thank god) and more options in choosing how the hit is carried off. This sequal lacks the game-play frusteration of the original, and even better, it hasn't crashed once. The locations are beautiful and fun to explore, and just like the orignial, the music is great. There is some repetitiveness, but who get's tired of knocking out a guy who's in the middle of taking a leak?

Despite all the game-play improvements, I was surprised to find myself nostalgic and senitmental for the first hitman. This sequal does not keep with the dark, realistic grittiness that made the original hitman so attractive--a sort of grittiness only an obscure game can pull-off. This sequal dissapoints by turning into the more run-of-the-mill shooter--its like "Hitman on Ice" compared to the first one. 47, the main character and hitman, is suddenly emotional and contrite (whatever) not to mention talkative and chummy with the other characters in the game (relatively at least). This is fine, and works to an extent, but its simply not the same hitman.

Please read this review.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game, no denying, is a breath of fresh air from all this non stop action games, like Halflife, Counterstrike, Doom 3. But it is fun none the less. Many people call the controls clunky and bad. So go change them you idiots. And there is always a way to do a way quietly, unlike that Peter Shaub guy says. The sniper is in the subway. So? But if you just check your map, you find a point of interest. Go to it, you find a truck loaded with soldier uniforms. Don one on, and go back and get the rifle.
Really a no brainer.
Unfortunately, there are some idiots that want every thing layed out for them. Well, then it wouldn't be good because it would be too easy. However, some idiots feel that that is necessary. What, do you want a huge arrow pointing at where you need to go? Idiots.
But aside from them, this game was FANTASTIC. Almost the same thing as contracts, in fact. Basically, you roam around as a Hitman, your origin unknown (unless you played the first one). You've retired to a Scicilian Monastary and have donated your fortune to it and now work as the gardner there. Your suit lays dusty and forgotten in your wardrobe, and your hardballers are just sitting in the suitcase under the shed you live in, not having been used for years.
For the first time, you have a friend: The priest that lives at the monastary with you. But one day, he's kidnapped by the mafia. You're given a ransom note demanding 500,000 dollars. So you go and dig up your suit, hardballers (you get dual now), fiber wire, anaesthetic (for nonlethal takedowns lasting anywhere from 1 second to 5 minutes depending how much you apply to the victim) and binoculars and lockpick.

Time to go to work.

So you go, assassinate the don at his mansion, and... well, no spoilers. But needless to say, i was impressed by how many ways you could do the mission. There's a mailman walking up: you wanna take him out and steal his clothes? sure. The delivery man's delivering groceries. Want to ambush him to get into the mansion? Or just put your guns into the grocery cart so when you're frisked as the mailman, you're not caught and the guns go into the mansion, 1st class mail. Or maybe that guard thats pissing on the tree should get choked into oblivion and his clothes taken. Any way, after you're in, you got another bunch of choices.
Say, there's a sniper rifle in the garage. Want to grab it and go back out up a hill and snipe the don? Fine, but it's loud, and his body will be found, and you need to get to him anyway to get the key to his dungeon to free the priest. Or maybe you could just pay him a visit as the guard and blast him with a silenced pistol. Or go around the back, use the ladder to climb up to the roof and strangle him from behind? Your choice. Then there's the extraction plan. Want to take out the don's brother to get the car key for that nice red sports car in that garage? But he's always walking around with the don's son, so it means 2 extra kills. Maybe you could shoot your way out. Too messy. Or maybe you could just run back to the insertion point.

That was just the first level. Intriuged? If you aren't you aren't human. Not to mention you got some other hitman tailing you that makes some failed hits on you on the last couple of levels.

Weapons: wide variety-9mm pistol, 9mmpistol silenced, dual silver ballers, smg, uzi, ak, m4, m60, 5.45 pistol, .22 pistol, shotgun, sawnoff, spas 12, blaser r93, w2000 rifle, m195 rifle, deagle, revolver, golf club, poison, custom sniper rifle, silenced smg, dragunov, etc etc could go on forever.theres even a scapel for you guys wanting to be doctors. and a crossbow for really silent kills.

cons: wheres the sniper in the suitcase? Where that minigun? i need it on the last level. Conking people on the head with ur gun butt should be more effective. Guards are stupid one second (not seeing some other russian secret agent threaten this guy with a gun in the middle of a huge party) while they start shooting when you pull out your bottle of anaesthetic taht they cant see (DUDE... OUCH ... ITS... OWIE STOP SHOOTING... OUCH ... TYLENOL!). Then, how can civilians here me pull out pistols when they know i'm there but when i'm uncorking a big green bottle of anaesthetic, they dont hear a thing if they dont know i'm there. There was also one instance where i had to really howl in laughter.
In one level, in a huge party, i tail this dude. He opens a safe. When he does, i blast him with a pistol. At that moment, a guard walks in and sees the dead body, my pistol, blood on the ground, and me standing there, he saunters out and leaves. When i leave the mission, i just reach the extraction point when it says: WARNING GUARDS FOUND DEAD AMBASSADOR

About time too.

So for the last time, BUY BUY BUY BUY THIS GAME. BUY IT. NOW. DO IT YOU WILL NOT REGRET. AT WORSE RENT IT. IF YOU LIKE GAMES LIKE DOOM DONT GET IT. ITS ALL THINKIN AND STEALTH. so if you want to go in, kill everyone, this is not your game. If you however, like games like splinter cell or metal gear solid but thought they were too "one pathed", then this is the game for you. GET IT. NOW.

47, signing out.

The art of being a hitman

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think Hitman2 is a great game for those who enjoy playing Metal Gear Solid, and other games of the genre. The graphics are superb, and controls for the main character is easy to master. The storyline was simple to follow, but I wish you could choose your missions instead of having to follow the agency's selections. The voice over is weak but what the heck it's a PC-game! The entertaining part of the game (besides terminating your intended target) is getting the best rating in making the hit on your victim. It depends on a lot of factors, which you will find out when you play the game for the first time. The ratings range from "moron", "mass murderer", "psychopath", to the most prized rating as a "silent assassin." Each level never plays the same, it all depends on how you approach your target that influences what challenges occur during the mission. So this game has a good replay value. On the technical issues of this game. I have to agree with other gamers who reviewed Hitman2- this game is buggy. But I think the problem is lessen with the new patch EIDO came out for the game (e.g. Ninjas becoming part of wooden columns). I did experience one crash and the inability to open doors the first time I played the game. It is highly recommended to update your drivers for your video and sound cards, along with upgrading to DirectX 9.0. For gamers with SB Live! sound cards. Enabling the EAX feature will make all the sound effects in the game play like you are wearing earplugs on, so disable the feature. I installed a plug-in that resolves the SB Live!/EAX issue. It is called AM3D DieselPower Configure. Overall I enjoyed the game, and would recommend to others.

engrossing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I never played the first HITMAN, although many friends liked it a lot. So I picked up this a few weeks ago. So far I am an addict. The slow pace of it may put some gamers off - you don't run in blazing away a la DUKE NUKEM (buy DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK DOWN if you want to pour hot lead). The scenery is beautiful. The point in mission 2 when 47 emerges from the sewer into downtown St. Petersburg made me gasp. But of course it's very violent. Missions have a similarity to them. Choose your weapons, sneak in somewhere, kill your target, and get out without raising attention. Hiding, crouching, dragging dead bodies, etc are all part of the game if you want to survive. This game gives you the satisfaction of walking away, as if nothing happened, from a perfectly carried-out killing. Highly recommended!

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