Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (PC) > Reviews > He's back and this time its personal!

Author's product rating:   

Playability & Enjoyment	Excellent - very playable game
Graphics	Excellent
Sound	Excellent - makes full use of my speakers
Difficulty & Complexity	A difficult game - needs a lot of patience

Advantages:	Fantastic Graphics, Great gameplay and story
Disadvantages:	Inconceivably hard

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Well at the end of hitman codename 47 we all thought, how could the story develop from there? Well the answer to that is that he has befriended a priest and has hung up his Hitman attire. He is now a groundsman at a church in Sicily. How could it all go wrong??

---The Start---

At the start we get used to some new controls and have the ability to roam around the grounds. Then you go to the confession box and spill all about your previous life as an assassin. Your new friend leaves, and meets some mysterious strangers at the gates, who promptly rough him up take him away and leave you a ransom of $500000 to pay for his safe return. The Mr Rieper goes into his hut, pulls out his suit and laptop, and get out his guns and contacts the agency of which he worked for. You are now an assassin again!

---The missions---

Your first mission takes you to the mobsters who kidnapped your friend. You must kill the don and find the priest. You do this to pay back the agency the price of surveillance of the priest. The missions in general are very good. Some are short and sweet but some are gruelling slogs over vast landscapes, where you will fully appreciate the new feature of saving the game. You get surprises over the missions; you fight a varying array of characters from ninjas to playboy bodyguards!! All missions will give gamers a challenge, as it is a very hard game to master but still very enjoyable

---Graphics---

This game looked very good on my high-end system. All was smooth and life like. For example the church looked stunning. Guns, characters and other objects looked fine, everything about the graphics was good. There were some neat lighting effects. For lower end pcs this game is still good and graphics can be minimised to allow for faster game play.

---Sounds---

The sounds on hitman: silent assassin, are excellent. The music was sung by the Budapest choir with a full band to accompany them. The music varies depending whether you are in a full throttle gunfight or are sneaking down a road. Game sounds such as speaking and guns are excellent. The sounds have been upgraded ad you can notice the difference.

---Game play---

With all these excellent graphics and sounds, the game play can't be good as well can it??? Well the answer is yes, in fact it is excellent. Even if you decide not to use stealth you can have a lot of fun. There are many weapons and instead of getting rid of them after each level, you can collect them in your hut. You can have some excellent guns such as the M60 or double pistols (ballers) or your classic fibre wire. The game includes an excellent feature for all you FPS fans out there. You can actually switch views depending what you are doing. I love this feature, as it looks brilliant. Another new feature to the game is the inclusion of a warning bar to see how suspicious you look, so if you have just taken out a load of full haired people and are wearing their clothes, people tend to get a tad suspicious. You can do this where you kill people and take their clothes off them to gain access to places. My favourite part of this game was what the ballers can do. These double pistols are extremely vicious and you can send enemies flying with them matrix style.

---Overall---

This is an amazing game, much better than the first. New feature kept me impressed and excellent missions did it for me. This game continues to be a favourite for me whether I follow he rules or go on a crazy shooting rampage!