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What's there to like?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Every year around Thanksgiving, I always get several new games for PS2. I've had faith in my magazine I subscribe to, and have managed so well in the past at getting awesome games that my bros seem to depend on me to make a good decision. This year, I went out on the limb to buy Hitman 2, which I thought would surely make a great game as every review I've seen has been almost perfect. For the first year in my 'fantabulous game' streak, I got a terrible game.
When you start out in Hitman, you get a basic (if not overly simple) tutorial on how to play the game. It's enough to get you hyped up to play the game, but that's about as fun as the game gets.
Although the game does have a unique story line, an interesting concept, and a nice list of weapons, it fails to deliver a quick paced, get in - get out feel that you'd imagine a hitman would have. The game depends far too much on the player's patience.
For example, once you start in on your first mission, you feel like you can take on the world - like the perfect hitman. So, you listen to what the game all but tells you, and kill and assume the role of a helpless postman. Fair enough. But as soon as you walk to the gate and get searched by the guards, you get gunned down after they discover your sidearms. Okay...so this time you try again by leaving your weapons outside. Again, you're gunned down for letting a guard see you try to enter a room beyond the front door. Am I the only one that finds that ridiculous? After replaying the mission to death, I decided to run in guns blazing and managed to beat the first mission.
Beyond just requiring your patience, the game seems to ask the impossible at times. For another example, some missions require you to find your sniper rifle and then head to a designated sniping point to make a shot. Sounds easy enough, but just getting to the location is a feat in itself. If guards see you with the rifle, they start blazing. If you try to assume the role of a guard and then try to carry a sniper rifle, they still start blazing upon seeing you. Why does it have to be this hard?
Even just walking from place to place is annoying. If you run, guards will get suspicious and, you guessed it, shoot you. But if you try to walk to where you need to be, it could take hours to play one mission. The 'sneak mode' that you can enter by pressing L1 may help you to take out one guard, but you move so slow that either he'll eventually turn around and see you, or his friends will come to his aid. All this is on the EASIEST setting.
Wow. I have to say I've never played a game quite this bad. The only thing this game is good for is helping you realize that life is short and you need to get off your butt and get outside.

poor gameplay ruins a great concept

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this because of the many positive reviews I read here. However, I've found the game to be utterly frustrating and very little fun.

My complaint regards the gameplay/controls. Your left stick controls where the character walks/runs, and the right stick controls where he looks (the camera). That in itself isn't so bothersome... lots of other games do that too. But in Hitman2, the camera won't automatically swing around to follow him. So if you start walking at a 45 degree angle to the right, the camera may very well be looking at a 90 degree angle to the left. And it will stay there until you manually rotate it. This, for me at least, led to frustration and more than a little nausea. Don't get me wrong... I want to be able to look around 360 degrees. But when I start moving in a certain direction, the camera should automatically swing around behind me and look over my shoulder. I don't want to have to control my direction and my camera simultaneously every single moment of the game.

I found this disjointed view issue so annoying that I gave up on the game entirely after the first mission.

Bloody awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...Cos that's the only age group this abomination would appeal to. I've just recently bought an xbox, the first console I've owned since I bought a playstation1 way back in 95. Am I impressed, not yet. The games don't look that much better to me than my old playstation games used to. And unlike the old playstation controller their controller is just bloody impossible to use. What are Microsoft thinking? I have had this controller problem now with every xbox game I've played, although Hitman is the worst. I'm going to have to go back to PC games. They're far more slick, and at least you can easily control them with a keyboard and a mouse. Anyway, that's enough about the terrible xbox controller. This game is bad on so many levels. Firstly the beginning is just pathetic. You're a hitman, currently on sabbatical. Even though you're supposed to be a cold-blooded murderer your best pal is a sicilian priest, and you live in his empty garden shed. Any of this sounding ludicrous to you? You go to confession and admit your a murderer, but he says, in his stereotypical italian accent "no, no, my son, you are a gooda boya, I've seena you attending the gardena" or some embarrassing garbage like that. Then we actually get to hear the bald-bonced killer saying his prayers, and whoever wrote the script has obviously never said a real prayer or been inside a real church in his life. Anyway, the priest gets kidnapped by the local don and you go on the warpath in revenge. The way the character moves is horrible, not natural, he slides all over the place. Because of the controller you can never follow him properly and forget about being able to aim your weapons. And finally I really want to slap him on that big bald slaphead. All in all an abortion of a game. ...

ANOTHER PIECE OF GARBAGE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: August 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

IF YOU WERE BORN WITH 36 FINGERS YOU'LL LOVE THIS GAME. THE KEYBOARD CONTROLS DON'T WORK AND THE FRUSTRATION LEVEL FOR THIS GAME IS OFF THE HOOK. HITMAN CONTRACTS? MAYBE AT THE 99 CENT STORE!

The Video Game didn't play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Video Game CD which was used, but it was scratched,
and I didn't play the game.

I see no reason for anyone to make a game like this.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being a spy is one thing, but being a hitman is another. A hitman is not a good idea for a Video Game hero. The game looks like ... as well. You kill someone and you have to hide their body so no one sees it. What about that huge blood mess you made on the ground. Oh well if anyone sees it they'll just think someone spilled their fruit punch all over the ground and forgot to wipe it up. What a stupid game. Give me a break.

Alot of walking, very little shooting!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game teases you with potential, but in the end, it's the blind date that never shows up. All it allows for is you as the Hitman walking around, choking or shooting bodyguards, stealing their clothes, and then walking past security, trying to walk slow not to alert them. The only way to win this game is by trial and error since all the environments are wide open and there is no logical path. Normally, this would be a good thing, but then again, in a shooter game I'm usually rewarded when I kill the bad guys. In this game, the goal is not to use your weapon at all, just be sneaky all the time. This gets very old after a couple of missions. When it comes to shooter games, I like a nice mix of great action, quality cut scenes, awesome graphics, good music, and a sense of building to a great, killer shootem' up ending. With Hitman2, you get great graphics, ok music, great guns (that the game DOESN'T want you to use), an awkward storyline, and a very easy, ... ending that leaves you wanting more. Rent the game, don't buy it, play the first two levels and you will have experienced all the game has to offer you. And just so you don't think I'm kidding, the final mission takes place exactly where the first mission starts off. What a joke!

Don't buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: August 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is not fun at all. why is it the trend nowadays for games to be boring and extremely difficult???? the controlling sucks. how are you supposed to move forward with one joystick, turn with the other, and shoot with another button all at the same time?? this game is reatrded and a waste of money.

Too difficult

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: October 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited about renting this game. The graphics are nice, and the idea is great! But the weapon controls are about the worst possible ever. Aim with right stick and fire with R1 ?
That was about the worst I have ever experienced and I couldn't shoot myself in the foot by that method. This game ... Obviously the positive reviews were written by the developers.

Epitome of culturally insensitive; a moronic idea for a game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Sikh community is appalled by images and text in
the sniper-themed videogame "Hitman 2" portraying Sikhs being killed within their most prominent temple, the Harimander Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple. Eidos 's choice to target a specific religious group in Hitman 2 is not only socially irresponsible, but also potentially dangerous to Sikhs worldwide, as their turbans have made them the focus of backlash attacks in the post-September 11th environment. By focusing on a religious minority and setting the violence in their sacred shrine, Hitman 2 mindlessly encourages racial and religious prejudice. I cannot allow videogame developers to use sacred religious settings to promote killings and intolerance. This game is an embarrassment to the entertainment industry-- DO NOT BUY.

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