| Hitman: Blood Money | 
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| From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 8641
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 1.3
MPN: SHTBMPUSOO
Model: SSNOWPUS00
UPC: 788687100458
EAN: 8716051018100
ASIN: B0009V9OY8
Release Date: May 30, 2006
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It feels so good to be so bad. December 29, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've saved the world from terrorists, aliens, foreign armys, mad scientists, evil kings, and a giant lizard named Bowzer. And at the end of it all, I've had medals pinned on my chest, crowns placed on my head, and made sweet, sweet love to many damsels in distress. Not in this game.
Here you play as Agent 47. Agent 47 is a Hitman; an assassin for hire. He gets paid money for killing people. He is not a good guy. The developers of this game tried to lesson the moral implications of being a cold-blooded killer by creating missions in which your target is someone who deserves to die; child rapists, drug smugglers, and mob bosses seem to be your prey most of the time. I haven't finished the game yet, but I don't expect to see a mission sending me off to kill a second grade school teacher during class. That would just be wrong! But for some reason, it seems less wrong, maybe even right, to kill the gutter slime for profit.
And that's the other thing that Hitman: Blood Money is about; money. After every mission, you are paid. You have to spend money on "clean up" for the previous mission (disposing of bodies, bribing witnesses, etc), but the remainder of the funds are spent on upgrades for your weapons (scopes, silencers, laser sights, etc). Money makes Agent 47's world go round. (You would think that with all of that money, he could afford a nicer hide-out. In the game, it's pretty much a dump.)
Hitman plays like a stealth game, but not the same kind of sleath action that fans of the Splinter Cell games are used to. You can still turn off or shoot out lights, but the darkness isn't as important for moving around. You'll spend most of your time watching your target and planing an attack. This might involve killing or knocking out a guard or maintaince worker and changing into his uniform in order to get close to your target. Or you might prefer to find a nice vantage point and shoot your target from a distance with a sniper rifle. You could try planting a bomb when the target isn't around and detonating it as he walks buy, or simply poisoning his bottle of water. You can always walk in the front door, guns blazing, and shoot your way through the mission if you want to. That's the greatest part of this game; the freedom to plan your attack according to the conditions and your own mood.
The rating that you recieve after every mission, as well as how much money you get to keep, depends of how well you were able to stay unnoticed. Lots of innocent dead people and bullets flying everywhere will take a pretty big chunk out of your pay. But if only the target is killed, and nobody saw or suspects you of being the one who did it, then you can pocket a few hundred thousand dollars for a good hit.
One problem with Hitman is becoming obsessed with performing a clean kill. It's easy to run through a mission killing everyone is sight, but that isn't the MO of a professional assassin like Agent 47. The reality of the game is that you'll likely spend several hours of trial and error on a single mission until you find what works. And the constant repetition gets old. After 50 trys with no success the game starts to become tedious.
The only other problem with the game is the AI. That's not to say that the NPCs are stupid, but rather that they are too smart. Unrealistically smart. You hide in the shadows and take out your target with a silenced sniper rifle, but for some reason the guards know exactly where the shot came from and come running. You can't just run away before they get there either, because they've managed to get a real good look at you from 200 yards away, in the dark, and have already faxed a sketch of you to every guard in the building who is ready to shoot you on sight.
This game isn't better than certain other stealth games such as Splinter Cell, but it doesn't try to be either. Hitman does something unique with its gameplay and is a fun, if at times frustrating, diversion of your afternoon. Most of us are good people who would never think of starting a profession as a murderer for hire. But with Hitman: Blood Money we can get to play as the bad guy for once.
walkthrough a must December 20, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Blood money like all other hitman games needs a walkthrough to be played as a stealth game.To me that is like reading a recepie to bake a cake.I just go in guns blazing and kill everyone and compleate the missions.True this is not as easy as it sounds because of limited amo and hoards of enemies comming after you.To me the fun part of the game is figuring out how to acomplish this.To play the game the way it is ment to be played is to me just plaine boering.I have nothing against stealth games but with a few exceptions they must be played by the numbers and I don't like arithmatic.
 Great game but technical problems November 20, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely LOVE this game. It played fine up 'til around level 5 or 6, then started crashing. Tech support told me to update my video card drivers, which I did. I could then play that next level, but upon completion, it crashed again. Re-installing and *NOT* applying the 1.2v patch allows me to play just fine. This kinda stuff really bothers me for those of us that are actually buying the games.
Gameplay is awesome, I hope they release a new one. Just yesterday I played for 8 hours! Wasted the whole day, but I had fun. I'd recommend this title for the PC.
 Really fun with one BIG problem. November 6, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well, if you are a fan of the Hitman series you will really enjoy this new installment in the Hitman series.
The game has one BIG flaw. The game does not allow you to save your place within missions. What I mean is that if you have to stop in the middle of a mission, the game will not allow you to save your place within the particular mission you are on. It will take you back to the beginning of the mission you are currently playing.
Overall I HIGHLY recommend this game!
 FRUSTRATION!!! October 13, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This game has all the earmarks for a superb game. The graphics are outstanding, the AI excellent, the overall look of the game is fantastic. The one thing that made me throw it in the trash however, is the loss of in game saves if you want to quit for awhile and come back later. In other words, lets say you play an hour, and decide you want to turn off the pc, or go mess around in another program so you save your game and close the program. Well, surprise! When you come back you HAVE TO START THE LEVEL ALL OVER!!!! This is pitiful! You have to complete a level at one sitting or you have lose everything. What were they smoking when they wrote THAT part of the game! My pc has been "wiped clean" of this frustration!
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