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They need to let us give games like this higher ratings than just a measily 5.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Though not a completely new game, takes some missions from hitman 1 and makes them 10 times as good. The weapons all fire and sound like they should in this game. If you like the first mission in this where you have to sneak out of a window, climb down the ladder from the balcony, and steal a car, and oh yeah, you are gonna have to go back and get the car key if you didn't already, if you liked that, then every mission is better than this one. You have to go to meetings as a triad gang member and talk to a cop in a coffe house, you go to a stripper bar, and in the same mission you are on a boat dodging bullets fom good and bad guys, you go to an s and m club(which is also an opium bar, so have fun as an opium waiter), there is a sweet mission in a biker bar.

The greatest thing about this game is that you getta do what you wanna do when you want to do it. You can go into a mission and start running strait ahead trying to shoot everydody as you run by them and just hurry through the missions, or you can be as silent as possible and not have one person even see you with completing a mission. You can go in and kill 100 people or 0. It is your choice. There are literally anywhere from 5-15 different ways to complete each mission.

Also the music is a definite high point. The most original soundtrack I have ever heard on a game.

So for all you people looking for what I think is the 2nd BEST GAME OF ALL-TIME(PS2 WISE), buy this.

And if any of ya go in that hotel and kill like all 100 people, that will be reported to the police and you will be arrested for destructive behavior that could lead to real life crimes. You have been warned.

Pretty Bad-Ass

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really liked Hitman 2 (PS2), so i decided to check out "Contracts". They definitely made a lot of improvements in the gameplay. There's more freedom and more attack options. Also the realism and detail is noticably better. My only complaint is that some of the levels are pretty lame. Infact, 2 of them are nearly identicle. However, there are still a few really awesome levels. "The Meat King's Party" is a good example of a decent one....you pretty much ambush this drug party with all these people strung out on Opium...pretty cool. So if you're into shooters and esspecially if you liked Hitman 2, check out "Contracts".

Hitman Contracts--Bigger, Badder, Bloodier

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: April 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Thank you, IO Interactive! You've kept everything that worked in "Hitman 2" and improved what didn't.

1) BIGGER MISSIONS. While there are only 12 missions in "Contracts", compared to the 20 in the previous game, we are rewarded with huge-and I mean HUGE!-levels. Sure, "Hitman 2" may contain more missions, but some of them are extremely thin, like "Murder At The Bazaar" and "The Graveyard Shift". Even if you take your time and use stealth, those jobs barely last five minutes. Not so with "Contracts". Each mission is a labyrinth, filled with wrong turns, dead ends, heavily armed bad guys and trigger-happy cops. Finding your way in and out undetected won't be easy.

2) NEW WEAPONS. All of your favorites are back (Silverballers, automatic shotguns, sniper rifles) plus some new toys. Stun-guns, syringes, meat hooks gold-plated Desert Eagles, Micro-Uzis, SILECENCED Micro-Uzis (oh baby!), plus, brace yourselves, a mini-gun. That's right-a mini-gun! If you don't know what a mini-gun is, it's an electric powered version of the Gatlin Gun, made famous in several Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. It holds four thousand rounds and fires fifty shots a second! Perfect for getting into those hard to reach areas.

3) IMPROVED VOICE-ACTING AND DIALOGUE. With the exception of
47's voice, most of the acting in "Hitman 2" made me wince. Remember the drunk Agent Smith? Awful. It was all you could do not to shoot him. But the acting in "Contracts" is much, much better. And the actors are given more intelligent things to say.

4) BETTER DEATH EFFECTS. When you killed somebody in "Hitman 2", their bodies just dropped, which was appropriate when you shot them in the head or the heart, but not when you shot them in the leg. In "Contracts", you can actually wound people without killing them. They'll squirm and moan while you go on about your business. And when you do kill someone, a pool of blood spreads beneath their bodies. Nice.

4) A DARKER, GRITTIER STORY. One of the problems that I had with "Hitman 2" was that 47 didn't seem to have any personal interest in his assignments. It was just do the job and go home, and that's fine. He's a hitman-that's what he's paid to do. But he's not a robot, much as his creator hoped he would be. In my opinion, the best missions in "Hitman 2" were the
first ("Anathema") and the last ("Redemption At Gontranno"), because both revolved around the three basic traits of all great stories: Rescue, Revenge and Survival. All except Love, and you could argue that that was present, too. ("You have been a friend to me," said 47 to Father Vittorio, deeply moving words from a man who was taught to kill without emotion.) "Contracts" picks up on this theme, offering us a more internal view of 47 than we've had before. We find him near death, floating in and out of consciousness while a doctor digs a bullet out of his gut. It's in this state that 47 flashes back to the jobs that haunt him the most, and you'll notice that all of these jobs have a nightmare quality to them, especially "The Meat King's Party", which I won't go into here, but YUCK! It all ends with a bang, though, not a whimper, as 47 wakes in the present to find himself surrounded by half-a-dozen SWAT teams. Sounds like a job for the mini-gun.

Before I go, I want to warn the squeamish that "Hitman Contracts" is rated M for Mature and it wears that M proudly. This is absolutely not a game for kids or impressionable adults. There is strong sexual content-no nudity or porn or bad language, but still highly suggestive behavior, stuff that you don't want to explain to a wide-eyed eight year old. Plus, some of the gorier aspects of the game may be too much for some to handle. But if you loved "Hitman 2", like I did, then you won't have any complaints with "Contracts".

environmental objects

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: February 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the best thing about this game is the ability to use environmental objects ranging from a pillow(to suffocate) to
a meat hook to a pool cue.while the other weapons are good i like the fiber wire the most. This is a very graphic game and if you have a problem with blood spattered walls dont play this game

Hitman misses.......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved Hitman 2 but I was a bit dissapointed in Hitman Contracts for all the same reasons most of the people here said.... same missions repeated, no new improvments. The music and story line were way better in Hitman 2. Other then that the graphics are a little more tweeked and the AI is a little better this time around, it's just a rehash of the previous Hitman games and deffinetly not as fun to play as the others were. I'd like to see EIDOS take a risk and do something different with the next Hitman.

I thought sequels were supposed to be improvements

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a huge fan of Hitman 2: Silent Assasins, I was very eager to play Hitman Contracts. After beating the game in about 3 days, I am hugely disappointed. There are about half as many levels as the previous game, and all of them seem like they are on the same location. In Hitman 2 there were many different environments and locations, with many different types of enemies. In Contracts all of the levels feel the same, and all of the enemies are practically clones. When I did beat the final level, the game just ended. I had no idea it was the last level, partly because it was so easy, and it seemed as though I had only played a few missions to get there. Hitman Contracts is a real miss in my opinion, and it is a disgrace compared to Hitman SA. The only improvement they did make is the Training option. One can go back and choose from their "earned" weapons stash and fight fake enemies or practice on the shooting range. If you feel as though you have to play this game, RENT IT first.

Easily the Best Hitman Game Yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Simply put, this game improves on Hitman I & II in every way. This is quite a feat, considering that both games are considdered to be some of the best action stealth games on the market today (anyone who has played hitman II will know what I mean). With improved graphics, ruthless AI, a huge selection of weapons, large levels with multiple branching paths, stream-lined controls, and lots of replay value because there are SO MANY ways to tackle a situation and make the hit in all the levels, this game is easily the best hitman game yet. If for some unknown and totally screwed-up reason, you didn't like the previous hitman games, or you just don't like stealth-action in general, you should probably stay away from the game. To anyone else, I would highly recomend this game. If you're a bit un-sure about it, the least you can do is rent it and give it a try, because, in my opinion, this is so far, the best game released in 2004, and it deserves all the hype its been getting.

Rent before buying

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like Hitman 2: Silent Assassin then you are going to like this game. The developers improved on the graphics but that is about it. The guns are basically the same and the levels seem very similar to me. They also went a little far with the gore on this game. I'm not whining but it is a little overboard. I would actually be embarrassed if my wife came in when I was playing some levels. The gameplay is very similar to Silent Assassin nothings really changed which I thought they could do more with it. The one thing they did change is making it easier to sneak up on someone and strangle them or stick them with the syringe. One thing that really bugs me about this game is that you carry your sniper rifle around in this cool case and whenever you want to use it there is a cool cut scene of you putting it together, but it does the cut scene every time and you can only put it together in certain spots. This leads to lots of civilians seeing you with a sniper and they freak out and blow your cover. There are also issues with saving and then shortly after you get caught if you load up from your last save point sometimes the game just sets off an alert for no reason and it happens over and over again so you have to start the level over from the beginning. I don't think this was a huge upgrade from Silent Assassing but it's still fun playing new levels and new targets. Rent it before you buy it but if your like me and you want to get Silent Assassin on all the levels you'll probably end up buying it as it takes a lot of time to do a level perfectly.

word on the street is this game will be awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: April 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't we all remembner Hitman II? Fundamentally awesome, with some nice plot twists and cool things like the gun shed in Italy or some of the exotic locations. Hitman II was not without flaws. Faulty AI, the annoying "don't run in front of guards while in digiuse or they'll instantly kill you" rule, and some glitches. Not only will this one fix all of these problems, but it will add some more weapons, smoothe out gameplay, and diversify the game environments, while preserving and improving the open-ended methods of completing misssions that build on the game's replayablity. If Hitman II was any indication, this one is gonna be good.

Challenging!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sure, you can blast your way through any Hitman game, becoming a mass murderer and beating the whole thing in just a few days, but the most fun is to achieve the "silent assassin" status in each mission. It is very challenging! I found the storyline somewhat confusing, but who cares? The missions are very fun, and sometimes it's really, really hard not to blow your cover. There are some repeated mission from the previous Hitman, but I didn't care because they played out differently and I didn't own the previous version, anyway. No money was wasted. I recommend buying the Prima strategy guide for this game and saving during missions quite often. If you're a fan of strategy as opposed to massive bloodshed, you'll enjoy this game!

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