Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $3.99

Features:

• Investigate target location
• Find an entry point
• Subdue the opposition
• Disguise yourself
• Eliminate the target

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Please read this review. [Posted on 2005-10-16]
This game, no denying, is a breath of fresh air from all this non stop action games, like Halflife, Counterstrike, Doom 3. But it is fun none the less. Many people call the controls clunky and bad. So go change them you idiots. And there is always a way to do a way quietly, unlike that Peter Shaub guy says. The sniper is in the subway. So? But if you just check your map, you find a point of interest. Go to it, you find a truck loaded with soldier uniforms. Don one on, and go back and get the rifle.
Really a no brainer.
Unfortunately, there are some idiots that want every thing layed out for them. Well, then it wouldn't be good because it would be too easy. However, some idiots feel that that is necessary. What, do you want a huge arrow pointing at where you need to go? Idiots.
But aside from them, this game was FANTASTIC. Almost the same thing as contracts, in fact. Basically, you roam around as a Hitman, your origin unknown (unless you played the first one). You've retired to a Scicilian Monastary and have donated your fortune to it and now work as the gardner there. Your suit lays dusty and forgotten in your wardrobe, and your hardballers are just sitting in the suitcase under the shed you live in, not having been used for years.
For the first time, you have a friend: The priest that lives at the monastary with you. But one day, he's kidnapped by the mafia. You're given a ransom note demanding 500,000 dollars. So you go and dig up your suit, hardballers (you get dual now), fiber wire, anaesthetic (for nonlethal takedowns lasting anywhere from 1 second to 5 minutes depending how much you apply to the victim) and binoculars and lockpick.

Time to go to work.

So you go, assassinate the don at his mansion, and... well, no spoilers. But needless to say, i was impressed by how many ways you could do the mission. There's a mailman walking up: you wanna take him out and steal his clothes? sure. The delivery man's delivering groceries. Want to ambush him to get into the mansion? Or just put your guns into the grocery cart so when you're frisked as the mailman, you're not caught and the guns go into the mansion, 1st class mail. Or maybe that guard thats pissing on the tree should get choked into oblivion and his clothes taken. Any way, after you're in, you got another bunch of choices.
Say, there's a sniper rifle in the garage. Want to grab it and go back out up a hill and snipe the don? Fine, but it's loud, and his body will be found, and you need to get to him anyway to get the key to his dungeon to free the priest. Or maybe you could just pay him a visit as the guard and blast him with a silenced pistol. Or go around the back, use the ladder to climb up to the roof and strangle him from behind? Your choice. Then there's the extraction plan. Want to take out the don's brother to get the car key for that nice red sports car in that garage? But he's always walking around with the don's son, so it means 2 extra kills. Maybe you could shoot your way out. Too messy. Or maybe you could just run back to the insertion point.

That was just the first level. Intriuged? If you aren't you aren't human. Not to mention you got some other hitman tailing you that makes some failed hits on you on the last couple of levels.

Weapons: wide variety-9mm pistol, 9mmpistol silenced, dual silver ballers, smg, uzi, ak, m4, m60, 5.45 pistol, .22 pistol, shotgun, sawnoff, spas 12, blaser r93, w2000 rifle, m195 rifle, deagle, revolver, golf club, poison, custom sniper rifle, silenced smg, dragunov, etc etc could go on forever.theres even a scapel for you guys wanting to be doctors. and a crossbow for really silent kills.

cons: wheres the sniper in the suitcase? Where that minigun? i need it on the last level. Conking people on the head with ur gun butt should be more effective. Guards are stupid one second (not seeing some other russian secret agent threaten this guy with a gun in the middle of a huge party) while they start shooting when you pull out your bottle of anaesthetic taht they cant see (DUDE... OUCH ... ITS... OWIE STOP SHOOTING... OUCH ... TYLENOL!). Then, how can civilians here me pull out pistols when they know i'm there but when i'm uncorking a big green bottle of anaesthetic, they dont hear a thing if they dont know i'm there. There was also one instance where i had to really howl in laughter.
In one level, in a huge party, i tail this dude. He opens a safe. When he does, i blast him with a pistol. At that moment, a guard walks in and sees the dead body, my pistol, blood on the ground, and me standing there, he saunters out and leaves. When i leave the mission, i just reach the extraction point when it says: WARNING GUARDS FOUND DEAD AMBASSADOR

About time too.

So for the last time, BUY BUY BUY BUY THIS GAME. BUY IT. NOW. DO IT YOU WILL NOT REGRET. AT WORSE RENT IT. IF YOU LIKE GAMES LIKE DOOM DONT GET IT. ITS ALL THINKIN AND STEALTH. so if you want to go in, kill everyone, this is not your game. If you however, like games like splinter cell or metal gear solid but thought they were too "one pathed", then this is the game for you. GET IT. NOW.

47, signing out.

My favorite game ever! [Posted on 2006-01-09]
Perfect Game, Great music, Jesper kyd (Who compose the music to the game) is a genius, the missions are very very interesting and the end of the game is although exciting, One of the best games ever! But it Now!

best game [Posted on 2006-01-21]
it is a nice game bcas it has good graphics and it is not difficult as hitman codename 47. buy it and enjiy it.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (PC) [Posted on 2007-01-05]
Excellent Game - Some minor video issues w/ XP SP2

Cool [Posted on 2007-03-19]
This is such a cool game with a lotta levels ,,and time spent for me on this was big. well worth the $$ as is blood money also. why did i wait so long?

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