Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Manufacturer: Eidos Interactive
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you. Trust no one - if the price is right, the finger of your most trusted ally will be on the trigger. Your targets may hide in the most remote areas of the planet, but their destruction is never prevented - only postponed.
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Eidos’s stylish, strategic, and almost puzzlelike Hitman 2 makes its console debut, managing to address many of the criticisms that haunted the PC original while still falling short of its potential. The premise casts the player as a genetically modified hit man, forced out of retirement when things get a little personal. Each level then sets up an overall mission, broken down into subobjectives, thankfully with a much-requested save game feature included in case things get a little hairy. This isn’t your standard walk-and-shoot kind of game, though; Hitman 2 rewards planning, and lots of it. While there’s no fixed linear route through any of the levels, each will require a lot of thought to be defeated.
What limits the game’s potential are a continual stream of frustrations. The enemy artificial intelligence, for instance, is sometimes very sadly lacking, and there are occasions when the pace drops to snail-like speed, without always generating sufficient tension to carry the player through. That said, when it hits top gear Hitman 2 can be tense, atmospheric, and enjoyable. Graphically it’s very polished, and those who enjoy games that reward solid thinking more than an itchy trigger finger will certainly find something to enjoy. It's undoubtedly a step forward from its predecessor, but still falls short of what could have been. --Jon Foster
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- Pick up contracts in exotic locations around the globe: Sicily, St. Petersburg, Japan, Malaysia, and India.
- Operate in a non-linear world where the outcome of your actions and proficiency as a hitman are measured on a balance between stealth and aggression.
- Stalk and eliminate your targets up close and personal, in either 1st or 3rd person perspectives.
- Execute your assignments with a diverse arsenal of equipment, from armor-piercing sniper rifles and explosives to chloroform and poison darts.
- Acquire and carry weapons and tools from mission to mission through an enhanced inventory and save-game system.
Model: 788687500012
Release Date: 2002-10-01
Great Stealth Action Game
This game is great! I love the patient pace of it, selection of weapons, and stealth requirement. If you ever played any of the Tenchu series then you might like the Hitman series too. One of the coolest aspects is that there are multiple ways you can complete the missions adding to the game's replay value.
The later games in the series are really hot too. Especially Hitman: Blood Money. By the time they produced that one they really had the hitman experience ironed out, and the missions are a blast. Hitman: Contracts has a lot of fun missions too. All three games are great and highly recommended if you dig stealth games.
hit man 2
got this game for fun. gets hard towards the end. but all video games do. i like it alot.
Bad Just Bad.
Hitman seemed like it was going to be lots of fun until It took me 6 hours out of one day just to try to attempt to beat the first mission. I got it this morning and will be trading it in tomorrow. Just for the record I still have not assassinated the Don in the first mission. This game will frustrate you to the point of migraine and that's not something I'd like to endure in my leisure time. I thought video games were supposed to be fun with a bit of a challenge, not this one though, this is all challenge no fun. Dont But it unless you want a headache.
Hitman 2
It is a clever and fun game- but it tries to be too realistic and cant quite keep it up (i mean the AI is smart, but how smart can they really be?) It feels akward sometimes, but is still great fun.
Fun stealthy, thinking, and lots of weapons to use
Hitman 2 silent assassin is a very fun game forcing you to think how to kill the target. you can take peoples clothes to disguise yourself for instance in one mission I clorhorm (is that how you spell it?) a waiter and poisened the food that the target ate. or another time that i pretended to be a shrinks patient and killed the shrink. it is definately a thinking game that rewards planning and stealth.
besides all this there is the huge open missions. all the maps are cleverly designed and are very free-form. there is usually atleast three ways to get into a building and some ways are very well hidden. there is also and abundance of weapons from chloroform and katanas to shotguns and sniper rifles. in one mission you even get a HUGE sniper rifle and are supposed to take out a target with it. that doesn't mean that you have to use the rifle though there are "other" ways. my personal favorite is a silenced pistol which i forget the name of. I like the way that before a mission you can go back to the church where the game began and use all the weapons that you have on a dummy. all the weapons are stored in the shed and there is a lot of them. the sheds walls are covered if you get all the weapons. Hitman 2 is definately a good game
