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It Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It came in a timly manner and It is the best game I have ever played.

A fun, stealth game with some minor downsides.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hitman: Blood Money really impressed me on the PS2. The graphics are good, but the faces are great. I also enjoyed the set of customizable weapons. I played many of the levels over and over trying to find new ways to get the hit. Some of the things I thought were bad about the game were the random witnesses. I try to get the best rank and a mystery witness pops up. Another thing is the legnth of the game. I am a serious gamer and played almost constantly, but I beat the game in only a few days. This game is one of the most challenging games in my collection. I played one level FIVE times trying to get it perfect. It was a Fun fast and slow paced game which kept me on the brink of insanity until the end of the last level, "Requiem." I would recommend this game.

Bloody Good Fun!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hitman Blood Money is thoroughly entertaining and challenging. You can't simply go running around blasting like a maniac. You need patience, skill and stealth to complete the missions and continue on in the game. The new "notoriety" feature is a great addition as well. At the end of each mission, you get to see a newspaper front page that show the deaths of your victims and if you are sneaky enough, the story indicated that the victim died of "unknown causes" or at least that there are no suspects. Go crazy and you get plastered all over the front page.

: )

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game.Alot of weapons... it takes brains if you want to kill the marks quietly or you can just kill everyone who witnesses.But i don't think you get a bonus for making that much noise.You can change clothes to disguise yourself.This game is just all kinds of kool.

like every other hitman...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

hitman: blood money is basically the same game as hitman 2, so proceed accordingly (i think hitman 2 was the best hitman game and hitman: contracts was truly terrible). the graphics here are really nice, and it has a nice tutorial game that teaches you how to play, which i appreciate (reading instructions sucks!) however, there are problems. first of all, i came across a few bugs, which doesn't make sense. if you're going to make this full-fleshed game with great graphics etc., at least fix the bugs too! for example you might come up behind someone to choke them with the fiber wire.. and it doesn't work. also, throwing a coin is relatively complicated. you have to enable the coin from your inventory, then hit L3 (push down the left analog stick like a button), then at the same time hold down the triangle button and release. sometimes i had to try this 5+ times just to throw a coin! also, not everything seems to make sense. you don't always know if a guard is going to notice you if you, say, run farther away from him. one time i killed a guy, and a civilian walked across his body. my caution meter went up, but not all the way.

wait a minute... so you're telling me this civilian saw a guard i killed, told another guard, and they didn't go on FULL alert? hmm, kinda strange. you think they'd freak out about their guard buddy being dead.

but ultimately, anything you don't like about this game will be a result of how you feel about the hitman FORMULA. personally, i think the map kind of sucks. how on earth did agent 47 acquire this magical map that shows him every movement of each guard???? he can tell which way they're moving!! what on earth??? and then you have your legend, including "points of interest" and "optional targets." i think this makes things kind of boring. also it's too hard and complicated to consult the map all the time. i wonder what it would feel like if you had no map and it was a more immersive, first-person game.

basically, if you like hitman, play it. if not, don't play it.

Eeeeexcellent....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't played the 2 previous Hitman games, the controls are pretty intuitive. I did, so I can't really comment on the learning curve. Let me just say that that stupid tutorial level is irritating, and it's also bad form to force you to kill 12 people. Hitman is all about the clean kill. Otherwise it's an easy game. Show some class, man.

The plot is almost nonexistent. Apparently, everybody from 47's agency is being bumped off one by one. Meanwhile, 47 greases hotshot criminals who are housed in fortified compounds. There's also this albino guy (or guys?) and some bad people who want to kill 47 so they can take over The Agency's business. 47 is having none of that. He can disguise himself as almost anybody, provided that nobody sees him changing clothes. Each level is basically you upgrading to better and better costumes until you can cap the target without difficulty (well, obviously, there's more to it than THAT). It's much harder to just waltz in wearing your default suit, but it happens. The locales are pretty good, although I kind of expected to see New York or LA or something, not two whole levels in Mississipi. Oh well.

47 himself isn't as sleek and sinister as he used to be (he looks like a hunchback mortician). However, the camera is totally rotational now, and you can see the cool detail in his eyes as he looks around and blinks. Now, as long as you don't pull out a gun if you don't intend to use it, you can do whatever you want. It's up to Hitman to initiate the violence. Just don't let guards or civilians stumble upon your handiwork, or the cops will be up your keister, mister.

The last two levels are the weakest. One is a dumb montage to the show 24. The finale makes up for it, though. The best part of the game is rigging stuff to kill people ala Final Destination. I'm still finding out new things I can do with this game. You incur penalties for killing too many people who aren't on the hit list. Basically, if your noteriety gets too high (which never happens because you can lower it just by paying off people at the end of the level), cops open fire if you run around too much in front of them. Um..ok. The newspaper report at the end is nifty at first, but gets old really quick when it says the same thing every level.

One of the hardest games I have played.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Im new to the hitman series so I dont know a lot about "Mr.47", but I do know that this game is both addicting and hard. The tuitorial level tells you what to do step-by-step after that your on your own. MY MIND WAS RACING WITH EXCITEMINT!! I didnt know what to do first, kill that guy ,use his suit, sneak in, kill another, etc. I like how the do the news paper after each mission. If you read it (yes you can read it!!) it will basicly rate you on how you did. That was very well done.

Overall:
This game is one the best beacuse it is not easy to beat you always have to think 3 steps ahead of you. Like a sniper.
6/5 stars (******/*****)

Hit man Revived

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Man, I have to say that this game is very addicting to play. I bought this game last week and I just passed it last night. The game's ending is by far the best EVER!!! In any game. I could not see someone coming close to making it better then what they make you do in the last mission "REQUIEM"... The game gives you the chance to make your own strategy to take someone out and make a hit. A Bloodbath is Revived in the End...

A very guilty pleasure...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ever wanted to blow off some steam by popping off a few rounds? Somebody ever rub you the wrong way and you wanted to use force to make things right? Have you ever been so sickened by the world's evil that you wanted to take it upon yourself to take out the trash? Here's your virtual opportunity.

I'll try to keep this short (if you want a lot of excellent details and commentary, feel free to read the longer reviews listed beside this one). Blood Money is an outstanding game. It provides extensive entertainment for shooter gamers of both styles: Unleash your fury of firepower and destroy everyone (including the household pet) in your path, or cautiously and systematically conquer each objective with little or no unnecessary roughness. From big guns to borrowed identities, Blood Money offers an unbelievable sense of realism in the world of professional killing.

There are a lot of missions (I apologize for not having the exact number), and although the primary objectives in each are pretty similar and self-explanatory (kill the target), the means of doing so can vary significantly. Each mission provides a new and exciting environment, with various places to stash the bodies, multiple disguises to jump into, an appreciative variety of weapons to use, and different opportunities to assassinate the targets. Your personal weapons are upgradeable: Silverballer .45 pistol (or PISTOLS once you have the money and progress to purchase that feature), SPAS-12 shotgun, MP5 sub-machinegun, M4 carbine assault rifle, and WM2000 sniper rifle. You can also acquire a lot of different weapons of each basic style, and can also use a few miscellaneous items for the dirty work (poison drinks and sausages, bloody up a hammer or a shovel, or fire off a few nails with the occasional nail gun).

The game can prove difficult, regardless of your method of completion. If you play it on an easy difficulty, simply for the sake of killing everything that moves, you want to watch your health. If you play a harder difficulty, be very cautious and covert. Avoid losing disguises, avoid leaving witnesses, avoid any collateral damage, and make the deaths look like an accident (an exciting new feature). Be careful, because if you're playing on anything but the easiest difficulty, your success in the previous missions can dictate the success of future missions. Try to keep a low profile so as to avoid getting shot the moment you step into the building.

This game is highly addictive and very fun. I am extremely proud to have included it in my collection, and I have yet to grow bored. So much for keeping this short, eh?

It's no Silent Assassin

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"Hitman 2" was one of the best PS2 games ever, so when I bought Contracts and found it to be a poorly made quicky sequel out only to snatch my $50 bucks, I hoped the developers would go back to the drawing board and come up with something on par with Silent Assassin.

No such luck: Above all, Blood Money is silly and incredibly boring. No spoiler, but one mission takes place in the White House. Right, no trouble sneaking in there.
The rest of missions don't follow any real story like HM2 but use the choppy action sequence approach that, unlike Contracts, aren't even entertaining. When I found myself chasing people dressed like birds I knew the game was in trouble.
And finally, the end is the worst ever, on par with, "It was all just a dream!" Save your money.

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