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Hitman. Best. Game. Ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 44 / 49
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I would of given it 10 stars but, I guess that wasnt an option. This game redefines the whole "shooter" genre. Who else besides me is getting sick of the game that tests how fast you can click, rather how fast you can think? Well, I am and this game rocks the boat! I am not talking about the demo. The demo is like playing on the "paint" program compared to the full game. I used to love Half-Life, and still do! But, to play Hitman, oh my GOD, its as if Im in heaven! The graphics are so incredible, I got lost in the game. The plants move as you walk into them; the fishtanks break; you can even see yourself in the shadows, strangling a chef! Its great! However, there IS a drawback: the graphics are so incredible, if you dont have a suitable graphics card, a part might be messed up. The gameplay and lasting appeal is also great! There are numerous GIGANTIC missions that will keep you on as long as you can keep your eyes from falling out. The levels are different in their own ways and are very nice. WAIT! YOU MUST HAVE 128mb RAM! You can play with 64mb ram, but I warned you, It WILL go slow when you get into some serious gunfights. It will go sooo slow that you will be thinking that you are watching a picture show. I found out the hard way but it is such a good game that I spent $50 to get another 64mb. These are good requirements...

128mb RAM, 500 mhz, good graphics card, good sound card

the rest you should know about. This game is great. DONT forget the pluses! The minuses can be a big part of some action, but if you have the above requirements, get this game. If you dont buy this game, I will personally have a talk with the 47 himself. HAVE FUN! Oh! One last thing, this game can go both ways, you better be able to think. DO NOT load the game thinking its a gorefest run-of-the-mill shooter! You must THINK! THINK! THINK! THINK! DONT GET BOGGED DOWN BY THE THIRD LEVEL EITHER! Thats a tough one, but if you get that one, you will pretty much know what they expect. BUY! BUY! BUY THIS GAME!

Will Outplay Rogue Spear genre.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 23
Date: June 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Having played Rogue Spear for a while, i have come to an appreciation for action games which incorporate not only violence but the ability of the player to use his 'grey matter'. In Hitman, i have come across a game which leave the player sweating, not only from the pure adrenaline rush which this game generates, but from challenge of planning and 'executing' an assination. It gives the user a chance to move away from the normal good verses evil plot into the grey area of morality. You play a professional hitman which in itself is a change from the normal swat or commando type games. You are now the bad guy. Or are you. It is very easy to say that a hitman is a criminal until you delve into the game and you realize that he is a human being (Almost). Then you look at the type of targets he has and you realize that they are the scum of the earth. so on one hand you have a gunman for hire, but on the other hand you have his targets who are low lifes. This, then leads to a very intense and captivating plot.

However before you rush out to buy the game when it is officially released, be aware that your puny little P2 300 will be hard pressed to render the superb graphics of this game. With the high octane graphics engine, any thing less that a P3 with a suitable Accelerated Graphics card,(I recomend an ATI Rage Pro with about 16 to 32MB of memory) will leave you with an inadequate gaming experience. So be prepared to fork over some extra cash to fortify your PC. Happy gaming.

About time someone perfects the 'Stealth FPS' genre!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: May 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I see a lot of people complaining about 'slow-paced action' and 'increasingly difficult' missions -- well, that's a prime indicator that they did an *excellent* job! True, this game isn't for those who frequently cut their teeth on the blast-em-up FPSs a la Unreal Tournament. This is a game of patience, and a game of skill. Luckily, unlike real people in this 'profession', you have the ability to restart! That's the only thing that sets this thing apart from reality. I clock a good three hours daily with Hitman 47. The gameplay is very fluid and easy to pick up -- no holding an insane amount of key combinations to perform basic tasks (*cough* Metal Gear Solid *cough*). The artifical intelligence is amazingly realistic - I have never seen so 'human' reactions from AI. The NPCs stare at you as you walk, and you wonder if they know something...If you pull out a gun in front of them, they will run and hide, and not dance around stupidly like in most games. If they see a police officer walk by, they will run up to them and tell them what they saw. No game I have seen has this level of realism.

If you've ever wanted to be "The Professional", you'll love Hitman. Eventually you start getting 'hitman-smart', and realizing "oh, wait, I shouldn't do that because .....". While a lot of the game is stealth observation and cunning action, you also get your fill of fierce firefights and daring escapes using some of the coolest tactical weapons on the planet (sorry, no missile launchers here folks, this game takes place in a little place called 'reality')

The cold-blooded trigger happy will enjoy the fact that you are not limited to 'being nice' in this game. You are more than able to pull out a gun and blast every civilian who walks by -- although I wouldn't reccommend it! Someone's bound to catch up with you, not to mention 'The Boss' doesn't like you leaving a mess. Little things added to the game like the concept of switching clothes and stashing bodies are what make it so entertaining to replay. It makes you look before you leap, so to speak. If you very effectively take out an armed guard...no what? You're standing in a hostile building with a dead guard at your feet, and more are bound to be patrolling -- bet you wish you would've thought this through first, huh? Quickly you drag the downed guard into an empty store room nearby. Then you switch uniforms with him, and leave silently. You can now walk amongst them safely =) Just as an example.

I think what really intruiges me is you aren't spend hour after hour trying to find that ONE way to succeed -- you can accomplish each mission in a variety of ways - catered to the 'style' of the hitman. Quiet kill, or gung-ho blastfest? Your call =)

Hitman: Finally a new thinker-shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Having just played the demo version, but earlier heard of hitman codename 47, I was stunned by the gameplay. The demo only contained just one mission, but I kept replaying until I did it perfectly.. Superb gameplay, and often quite difficult, this is a game for the mind. Watch how you are observed by the characters when you sniff around hot spots. Watch how they warn and interact with each other..it's nearly real..And the atmosphere and music are breathtaking! (marily manson music on the background should be even better!! hehehehehe)

So, people, if you want to feel this rush of being a perfect cool killer and getting away with it, you should defintely play this game...and don't get ethical about it.. for once..

and for the makers of this game: one shot, one kill. a HIT!

(Tested on a p3 600 32mb tnt2, runs fine on all platforms, even w2k)

devlin

incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: April 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is great! perfect difficulty level, perfect ideas, just great! i've only 2 complaints about this game:

1)too short. 2)some color glitches.

that's all! it just didn't take long enough to beat.

This game will be really good.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: September 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the kind of game we need more of. An action game that focuses more on strategy and ingenuity rather than balls-to-the-wall guns n' gore like "Soldier of Fortune" or "Quake III." Take this example of gameplay for example: You walk into a hotel, but there is metal detector at the door, forcing you to ditch all your weapons. Once through, you need to find a weapon. You go to the kitchen to steal a knife, but first you have to get rid of the chef. You can't use your knife because the blood would alert other people. Instead, you strangle him with your hands and stow him away in a cupboard. From the screenshots that have been released, it is difficult to tell if it is a first of third person perspective, but does it really matter? This game, which utilizes a brand-new graphics engine meaning it won't be just another clone of "Unreal Tournament", will definitely be one of the coolest games released this year.

PERFECTION IN GAMEPLAY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let me just say that this game has set a new standard for all games and all genres. I can't stress enough how important replayability is. In this game you run through sets of missions and normaly you would think to yourself, well once I finish it It will lay on my shelf indefinatly...WRONG!!.. There are so many ways to finish each mission that everytime I played it through it felt like I was playing a new game. This game gets a A+++ in replayability.

I put this game through the test it terms of graphics and gameplay. The one thing many game companies do to us gamers is create a game with awsome graphics but make it impossible for the average computer to run the game at those incredible graphics. In which case we reduce the graphics setting and end up playing a great game in crappy DOS like graphics. This game had that problem unfortunatly. Unless you have a screamer of a PC with an awsome Video card don't bother with this game. You won't be able to enjoy it. I have a 866 PIII with a 64 MEG Gforce 2 graphics card and 128 MEG ram and the game would still ocassionaly get sluggish. I ran it in reduced modes and it just wasn't the same game. The graphics really make this game. This game gets a A++ for gameplay and graphics but only if you have an awsome PC. In reduced graphics modes for which you will have to run if your PC is an older generation I rate the Gameplay and Graphics at a C- at best.

In conclusion however EIDOS INTERACTIVE has done a bang up job creating what will for sure end up on my favorite game shelf. You'll be comming back to this one again and again.

I have a weakspot for this game, here's why:

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game does have its occasional glitches but, if you can truly appreciate good gaming, you can look past those glitches. I came back to write a review of this game, even though its already almost 2 years old. This is probably because when someone asks me some of my favorite action games, I usually always list Hitman as one of the elite. I've tried to figure out why that is, and I've come to the conclusion that it's all about the concept of this game. The graphics are excellent, don't get me wrong, but I can't think of any other game where you have the sole mission of assassinating people for money. In this sense, Hitman goes above and beyond most other games. The people at Eidos also did a fantastic job to ensure that when you're playing Hitman, you actually FEEL like a hitman, which is a key element of any game. Think about it: if you can't slip into the role of the character you're playing as, it's difficult to enjoy the game. Part of gaming is escaping reality, and Hitman enables the gamer to do this, providing hours of evil fun. The first time you use the piano wire to choke someone, you'll know what I mean! Hitman takes you all around the globe, from Hong Kong where you're in the middle of a gang war, to Colombia to assassinate a drug lord. Completing these missions is also extremely open-ended, which is something that I absolutely loved about the game. One mission in Hong Kong requires you to whack the leader of a gang. The question is, do you storm into his restaurant with guns blazing?! OR, do you do as I did and acquire a vile of poison to poison his soup? Now if that doesn't entice you, I don't know what will! This game isn't getting any younger, so pick it up while it's still available!

Hitman Codename: 47 full version review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the theif series you will love this game. It was developed by IO interactive, people I have never heard of, but this was a great game. It does not have multiplayer capabilities, but it's single player game is great. The only thing that would turn some off is the lack of an in game save feature. This game requires patience to enjoy, you need to scout the locations to determine how to make the hit (there are multiple ways to terminate the mark) then carefully execute. Need to pass through a metal detector? Can't bring guns, but you could bring the piano wire and strangle a gaurd, take his clothes, drag him to the bathroom and hide him in the stall. Then you can access other areas and maybe get close enough to make the hit...But then you need to get out alive. The game maybe short, but there are few flaws and the missions are so fun that most will play their favorite missions again. Let's just hope iO releases the software developers kit! The Hitman community would explode with user created missions and MOD's. I hope you enjoyed this game as much as I did.

What I've been waiting for

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's games like this that make me happy to have a computer. This idea is one that I've never really seen before, yet love instantly. A Hitman, one of the adolescent dream professions comes almost to life in this game, and that's what I like about it. It's got awesome graphics, great sound effects, and a cool storyline. There are only three little things I don't like about it: 1) Unlike any other professional, this Hitman cannot use his hands or feet. However, he can get bad weapons like the Oyabun knife (A bigass tanto blade, from what I can tell) and the Fiber Wire (Fiber, so it won't be picked up by metal detectors). Add to this a score of guns and you have an awesome arsenal. 2) You can't always clean up. For instance, the mission that they give you with the demo (The Massacre at Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant) docks 5000 points for every policeman you kill (out of a possible 7) and 3000 for every civilian you kill (my max is 5). If you get more points taken off than you get from the mission, you lose. 3) I don't really mind this, but it IS the real reason the ESRB exists. Not quite as bloody as Soldier of Fortune, another cool game, but it gets right up there. Bottom line, I don't want my mom to know I have this game. But, for all you hardcore gamers, this is definetly a game to get, Have fun!

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