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lots of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Hitman Contracts continues the story of 47's escape from the asylum. The game starts off good and creepy with great graphics.True to the rating, this game is definetly for mature players or players with a strong stomach to gore and cold blooded behavior.Unlike a lot of games, you have to think this game out.It's aplay again game and worth buying.

Basically, a not-so-good expansion pack.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't played any of the Hitman games, then I highly recommend going for the previous game in the series: "Hitman 2: Silent Assassin." You will find more missions, nicer looking locales (OK, so rain will look just a tad less realistic, but it will not affect the game), a slightly more coherent plot and, last but not the least, a gorgeously executed soundtrack.

This game, however, has little to show. Where the previous game excelled in innovative solutions and attention to details, this game shows nothing but mediocrity. Players are presented with meager 12 missions played as reminiscences by the protagonist about past contracts. As naive and stilted as the previous game's plot was, this game barely has any plot at all. There are just disconnected missions. Unlike the previous game, the locales look dull and boring with much less space to explore. Weather effects, like rain, got improved a bit, which apparently prompted the designers to go overboard: of 12 missions, about 10 are sporting rainy weather.

The soundtrack... Well, as far as I know there is NO soundtrack! All missions I played had the same primitive tune, which made the game even more annoying. This is strikingly different from the previous game with the soundtrack to remember.

The gameplay is not much different compared to Hitman 2. Changes are minor, good and bad alike. Good (in my opinion) changes include the fact that you now only get one syringe per mission. This makes missions more challenging as you now have to carefully plan your way around if you want to achieve the Silent Assassin rating. Another good change is the fact that on several missions you are getting frisked at various points making you devise plans that don't include guns.

Other changes are pretty annoying. For example, you no longer can pick the weapons for missions. You are being dropped with whatever the game designers thought would be appropriate. Also, if you do achieve the Silent Assassin rating on a mission, you are given some nice weapon as a prize. That is great except that there is no way for you to use that weapon or to take it on a mission. I wonder what the game designers were thinking when they came up with that "feature."

Interestingly, an annoying bug that made the game to quietly ignore the save request in case there were too many saved games is still present, prompting me to check whether the game was truly saved after each save attempt.

Overall, while I am pleased with more "Hitman" to play, I am generally unsatisfied with this game. Even if it was issued as an expansion pack for the original game, it would still be lacking. It is especially sad given that Eidos did an excellent job with the previous game. They could have basically issued the same game with different missions and it would have been a success. Unfortunately, they dropped the ball with this game. I just hope that they learn on their mistakes and the next game in the series will be as entertaining as the old ones.

Hitman Contracts great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hitman Contracts is a great game! The graphics are excellent. You are an assassin wit an arsenal of weapons at your disposal. The mission of the game is that you work for an agency and receive different murder contracts to preform. (On the side of good!) The action is none stop, and the interactivity is great. The key board functions on this game are not to complicated ether.

Hitman revisited

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a big improvement over its predecessor. You have more options on how to complete your mission. No more alerts going off when simply walking past people. For gamers who like stealth games, this is one of the few high-rollers.

Not a Legal Resource

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wow! This was definitely not a "do it yourself" contract kit for wanna-be hitmen - it was a game. There are no copies of contracts, nor any direction on how to draw up and notorize contracts on either disk. The game itself was insanely fun, and I couldn't believe how many different ways there were to complete each mission. After finishing this game I replayed the entire thing using different methods - I should be able to replay each mission about 100 times before I run out of creative options - that makes this a super value.

A blast from 47's past

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Contracts begins where the original Hitman ends: Agent 47 must break out of the asylum, aka cloning facility, he was created in. Yes, the original Hitman's wonky controls and camera are history, and you can actually save limited times during missions, just like Hitman 2 Silent Assassin.

There are multiple ways to play out missions, but the stealthiest choices require precise timing. Among the scenarios are revamped versions of five levels seen in the first game in the series.

The AI has been beefed up, making these sprawling levels very challenging: enemies are as watchful as cobras. Furthermore, you cannot disappear by simply stepping in the shadows (like Manhunt), and any unnecessary movements will get you lined up in somebody's crosshairs.

Yet even with these good points, I can't help but be disappointed with the game. I still felt like I was playing nothing more than a glorified expansion pack.

Hitman contracts

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Had some problems with the graphics, black areas and transparent walls. Also not very many levels compared to the other hitman game.

overall pretty good.

john

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