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Developer:
Io Interactive
Release Date: Out Now
Avg. Price: $49.99, £24.99
Although
UT 2003 has my vote for the best first person shooter.
Other games hang out in my mind for being just plain
exciting. Hitman 2 is one of those games. For those who
aren't familiar with the series Hitman 1 put you in the
position of 47. 47 was a clone, a perfect cold blooded
killer, that could get the job done.
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After
a bunch of missions and some revenge you
disappear. Everyone thinks your dead, or never
existed, but your past is about to come back to
haunt you. Enter Hitman 2. A terrorist, discovers
a recent hit you made, leading him to believe you
are still alive. So he tracks you down and kidnaps
a priest you've been staying with. This bring you
back from retirement, and into yet another action
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I've
successfully played this game through, on normal mode
and I will tell you that some of the missions are the
hardest I've seen in a game. The game play is very nice,
missions range from sniping to sneak in kill the guy and
sneak out. This game is mainly based on being silent,
some missions, if you go balls to the wall you will
fail, this creates more of a challenge, but in the end
makes it fun. Another thing I saw was A.I., which is
good and bad. On one hand if you do anything suspicious,
or that puts you out of place the enemy will know. On
the other an enemy being able to tell your not one of
them when your in a full suit that covers your face,
when your a good distance from them in a blizzard is, in
my opinion a defect. So it has its ups and downs, but
over all make the game more interesting. Controls which
were a pain in the first Hitman, have been simplified in
this new version. Although some key tweaking was made to
make it even easier when I played Overall the game play
was excellent, it was a challenge, even in normal mode,
and keeps you in the action. The game also has a lot
more missions than the first Hitman, which extends the game play.- |
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As
with all games graphics for a consumer such as me or you
have to be good to define that game for us. Well this is
one of those games. Every thing is very detailed, from
the buildings, to the cloths everyone wears. Because it
is hard to say graphics are good . The one bad thing I
found was voices of characters. They didn't have any lip
movement, or it was really off, but at least there was
voices for you to listen to.
What
besides graphics make a game good? Just like any other
game The game has music that sets a mood, and the
realistic sound effects from you and your surrounding
environment make for good play.
| Graphics
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8/10
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Good
graphics and fairly good charcter animation make
Hitman 2 a great sequel. |
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| Game play
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9/10
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Pretty
much the same as the original but nothing wrong
with that right. Gameplay is great and keeps you
entertained. |
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| Sound
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8/10
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Very
nice touch and draws the players deeper into the
games environment. |
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| Longevity
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8/10 |
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Hitman
2 definitely has replay value though if you found
the old hitman repetitive you won't relish this
sequel. |
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| Learning
Curve : |
10/10
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Easy.
Straight foward and simple to learn. |
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Overall
: 43/50
This is a
worthy sequel, with excellent graphics, good
sound and game play with only a few bugs in
the A.I. If you liked the first you'll love
this. |
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