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"Terminate....with *extreme* prejudice." 5+++ stars!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sick of tedious, boring, copy-cat First-Person-Shooters where your character gears up with tons of superweapons and blasts everything that moves?

Nah, me neither---I mean, who can ever get tired of mindless mayhem, ultraviolence, and total carnage?---but "Hitman2:Silent Assassin" is a gonzo break from typical FPS games, sports some outstanding graphics, features amazingly fluid, fast-paced and open-ended gameplay, and is one of the most compulsively addictive video games I've played in the last five years. My only complaint: it's far too short.

THE BASICS: You play Agent 47, a genetically engineered super-assassin who has given up his murderous ways to become a gardener in back of a cathedral on Sicily. Don't worry, though: the local mafioso want to be paid off to keep your secret, and kidnap your mentor, Father Vittorio. You contact the super-secret Agency that hired you before, but for information and help they want you to help them pacify certain regional 'problems'. That's right---travel to exotic and fascinating places, meet new and interesting people---and kill them.

THE GAMEPLAY: Each mission begins with a detailed briefing, including photographs and recon videos of your targets, a map of the mission area, and additional background. And with most of the mission, you get to decide the equipment you'll take in. Best of all, the approach to the missions is extremely fluid: unlike most shooters, you can choose your approach and the target, bodyguards, police and civilians all react differently. Want a truly silent approach? Slip past the guards and throttle your victim with a fibre-wire, then slip back out. Need a shot of adrenaline? Go in with submachine-guns blazing.

Another nice touch is the ability to disguise yourself and slip into the target site unsuspected, getting close enough to your target to cast the killing blow without raising suspicion. You also have a wide range of weapons: crossbows, silenced 9mm pistols, Uzi submachineguns, combat knives and scalpels, a wide range of sniper rifles, even heavier M60 street sweepers. All of them have distinctive sounds, from the 'whiff' of a silenced pistol to the throaty "pokkk-pokkk-pokkk" of an M60.

HIGHS: And once "Hitman2" kicks into high gear, you'd best dust off those fake passports: you're going to be 'paying your respects to a Russian military base in St. Petersburg, Russia; show-up in tux at a German embassy ball; slip into a feudal and high-tech Yakuza fortress in Japan; pull off high-profile assassinations in the glittering Petronas Towers of Kuala Lumphur; and infiltrate cultists and revolutionaries in Afghanistan and India. All of the missions are designed to provide complete flexibility, and you can carry out your objectives with total stealth or with the gun-blazing fury of a mass murderer.

The graphics are also outstanding but the game is forgiving: even on a P-III 700 Mhz machine with a 32MB video-card I had decent frame-rate and the game moved rapidly, slowing down only when I was in combat with hordes of enemy guards. You will want to make sure you upgrade all your video card and sound card drivers; also, a number of gamers have had problems with sound distortion. The way around this is to download a file called AM:3d Diesel, which you may find at www.am3d.com. Patch this into the game, and you'll experience Hitman's gorgeous (and atmospheric) sound.

LOWS: Few saves can make for frustrating gameplay, but once you get the hang of the missions and start planning ahead, you shouldn't have much to worry about. There are a few funky glitches in the game, like shooting a guard with a low-calibre pistol and watching him shoot up in the air and fly back 50 feet, but these instances are remarkably rare. Another problem: you can't effectively attack enemies with your hands, which seems awfully silly, given the game's emphasis on stealthy assassinations with low collateral damage. About the best you can do is conk your opponent in the head with your pistol or machine gun, and that just doesn't do the trick. Finally, the game is just too short.

SURPRISES! Enemy AI is actually outstanding, though it's frustrating when your cover is blown, seemingly for no reason. Also, try getting through the missions without inflicting collateral damage (ie, knock guards out with chloroform and minimize encounters with the enemy until you kill your target)---you'll find you get all sorts of juicy goodies.

Hitman2: Agent47 was a great, safe, and law-abiding way to sate my lifelong desire to be an international assassin; it's got style in spades, fluid gameplay, and is compulsive stuff for a rainy weekend.

Excelent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game leaves you wanting more, in every missions there is more than one way to complete an objective. Usually it's going in silent or just go in with guns raised and blasting. Now when you first start the game it will take a little while to get used to the controls but that shouldn't take to long and besides it's worth the game play. I bought this game about a week after it came out and I still play it.

decent but needs some changes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: August 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hitman2:Hidden assassin looks great and plays just like the first hitman title. Although some parts need to be changed.
* You cant change weapons while running, like in 47
*it pauses the game when you go into inventory, good or bad...maybe both
*the in-game save. sure, everyone cried for it in 47 but it means you dont have to be as careful and tideious like in 47, it built more skills as an assassin. In game save is going to somewhat kill that by making it so easy to go back and reload whenever you mess something up

Other that those things i though should be changed the graphics are great, same old gameplay and lots of fun to be had

Save your Breath : DOESN'T WORK ON XP!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Im not complaning because it stinks or anything but because of something big. THE GAME DOESN'T WORK ON XP!!!!! I returned it to see if it was my computer that is the problem but it is very common for hitman 2 to crash on windows XP. so if it says "Direct3D : unable to create device. Try changing resolution or color depth" and on XP. Return it immediately. I returned it and got it on Xbox.

Good Idea.....Average Delivery

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The premise of this game is great. Your a Hitman, given jobs to travel around the world taking the bad guys out. You have tons of cool weapons, you get to disguise yourself in a variety of ways to work your way into guarded areas. The stealth part of the game is cool. You can walk right into an enemies territory and they won't even know your there...if your sneaky enough.
Its a REALLY good idea for a PC GAME, and combined with the graphics, its amazing to me that it wasn't a little better.

So there are the positives, but after a few hours of playing it, I asked myself why I wasn't getting as into the game as I did in Max Payne, or Soldier of Fortune 2? The graphics are too "cartoonish." When you shoot, you "see" the bullets flying through the air. When they hit their target, he is often throw back 10 feet. If you've ever played SOFII, or even Ghost Recon, you'll immedietly notice the lack of realism in the violence. I'm not asking for TOTAL GRAPHIC chaos as in SOFII, but some realism adds to a shooter, and htis game lacks that. The sound is another issue. Nice music, but the gun shots and sound effects overall are weak. Not the mention the fact that you can barely save your game when you want to, and often times repeat whole missions several times.

The BOTTOM line...good graphics, weak sound, weak relism, GOOD STORY GOOD IDEA. This game could have been delivered ALOT better, maybe modeling itself a little more after a Max Payne or SOFII. I've played em all when it comes to FPS's, and this fell way short of expectations...

Lucy You Got Some Splainin' To Do

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to play this game, but it won't load on a first class system. Not talking about any gameplay here, I'm talking about technically being able to play it. Read about it on the web in general. This seems to be a hit-or-miss thing. Some systems work...some don't. Mine didn't. The EIDOS support team are unable to explain why it functions for some systems, but not for others. If it doesn't work for you, expect to just get rudely shut off from communication with the support team (this makes it doubly frustrating). They just don't know what to do. I'm sure this is a great game, but if you buy it, and it has the notorious crashing problems that it's now becoming known for, return it right away. You've gotta forget it and move on because the designers can't solve the problems, and you won't be able to either. This company may have a great game, with great graphics, but it doesn't mean a thing if you can't load it or play it...and then the support team stiff-arms you when you have these problems. Give it a try, but be prepared for trouble, and if you have trouble, dump it right away...there is no known fix. Don't buy this if you expect something to just load up...and away you go. You might be sorely disappointed.

Hitman for life!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hi everbody.
Why I'm writing, well, there is a answer. I've got Hitman already before it was even out. It had quite a lot of bugs. Then I got the 1.0 version. And it was just awsome. Everybody how mplayed the beta and thinks this game [stinks], ... I swear to god.
Just try it out. Get it from a friend or buy. It's worth it. I thinks it could make it to the GAME OF THE YEAR!

Tried but failed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it had an interesting premise. I was very intrigued at the notion of an action game where the goal is not to kill as many people as possible, but to achieve an objective without anyone knowing you were even there. Great idea. Unfortunately, the result is not so pleasant.
For starters, it is very nearly impossible to complete the missions in the manner the game suggests--quietly, without much unnecessary bloodshed. As an example (and without giving too much away) there is a mission with the objective of sniping a Russian bigwig through the window. You are dropped off at the subway nearby and have to navigate through roadblocks and patrolling guards to set up your kill point in a nearby apartment. Cool idea, right? Expect the sniper gun is stashed in a locker in the bloody subway. That's right. In the middle of the afternoon, in a crowded city subway station. How do you nonchalantly carry a four-foot sniper rifle through downtown St. Petersburg, and not alert any civilians or the dozen or so guards patrolling the neighborhood? Oh, that's right, you can't. Why didn't the shadowy ops who left your gear in the subway not simply leave them in the apartment? Oh, that's right, because its a game and you need an unrealistic challenge. So you're left with two options: blasting your way through every guard post you find, then setting up for your 'stealthy' kill from afar, or leaving the rifle in the locker and attempting the equally ridiculous feat of sniping the Russian with your handgun. Utterly ridiculous. And let me remind you, before you simply write this off as someone who doesn't want a challenge in the game: this is your FIRST mission. There is zero margin for error. Where's the learning curve? Am I the only one who did not buy the first Hitman?
In yet another level, you are expected to choose your kill point from several different areas, then set it up. The only problem is that you have no time to case the neighborhood, because the target is only in area for a few minutes. You have nothing to go on but a cumbersome map interface and some incredibly vague instructions from your employer. You can't even jump over curbs or low (2 feet high) walls. This is realism?
Amazingly, despite these glaring discrepancies, this game was touted by its producers--and hailed by consumers--as realistic. Only in today's video-game driven culture would this in any way be considered realistic. If the targets were really this hard and they absolutely needed to be taken out (to the tune of a six-figure fee), why wouldn't they just be strafed by a gunship? Just as stealthy and probably cheaper.
If you like slow, tense FPS' with a lot of atmosphere, than you may like this one. But if incessant replays and unrealistic challenges frustrate you, skip this game.

If you ever desired to be a hitman, this games for you!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the coolest game ever made. It is not really an action game for the most part though, kind of more like strategy. After beating the first level by simply killing everyone and getting rated a mass murderer, I wanted to go back and do it again more discreately. This game is all about not just running in and blasting everyone away (although it can be fun to do so). The only problem with the game is that it can take a long time to figure out exactly how to complete each mission.

As good as the sequel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played Hitman: Contracts first and wanted more, but I was afraid that Hitman 2: Silent Assassin wouldn't be as much fun. Other than some very minor ways in which the game worked which had been improved, I enjoyed Hitman 2 just as much as its sequel.

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