Hitman: Blood Money (PS2)

The next Hitman game of the PS2 has arrived, and it beats all the previous ones easily. Even though some will see it as a sick game, they will not be able to deny that it is a brilliant one. The bald Hitman is on his final journey on the PS2, and is the best one he has ever been on. Playing this game can teach you the skills of patience, the skill of planning ahead and delaying pressure. Waiting for just the right moment to strike. If it wasn't for the poisoning, garrotting, crushing, stabbing, electrocuting and shooting, the game could be classed as educational software. This game has taken ... more

Blood money is the latest in a long line of great hitman games and features some great tweaks that really make gameplay alot more entertaining and fufilling. The game continues the same basic premise as the previous games - kill some evil drug selling and/or mass murdering and/or arms dealing evil person by sneaking past his small army of body guards and garroting him with a fibre wire, and to that extent not much has changed from the previous games - you still have to kill people who are often overly bad (for example killing black-mailing porn barrons or prostitue-pedeling opera singers) ... more

---STORY--- The back of the case says: Hitman's back, drawing you closer than ever into his deadly world where staying anonymous, being smart and totally ruthless are the key to a perfect execution. Lucrative contracts on the rich and powerful in high profile locations, make killing for money good business. But when a rival agency enters the scene it's war and only the best man will be left standing. The game is about 47's life and the "hits" he has performed. Short game cliips at the start of each mission show a scarred man in a wheel chair telling a reporter about the hits 47 had performed ... more

There have been many growth industries over the years, too many to mention, but one your not likely to hear too much about is the line of business our hero (or is that anti-hero) agent 47 is in and just happens to be the best at it in the process. Merces Letifer... Thats 'death as business' to us who do not speak in the latin tongue. And business is good, so good in fact that in this, the fourth installment in the franchise a rival agency is plotting to wipe out 47 and his employers, the International Contract Agency (ICA)to claim a monopoly of sorts within the killing sector. Blood Money sees ... more

Name of the game: Hitman: Blood Money Platform: Xbox (Also on Xbox 360, PC, PS2) Genre: Action My points: 8 Comments: After briefly playing the original Hitman: Codename 47, and its second successor, Hitman: Contracts, I would be considered new to the Hitman scene. After getting the demo on a demo disc, I decided to give it a whirl. The first thing I noticed was how 'clean' 47 looks. It may just be that I'm used to seeing him in Codename 47, I'm not sure - but what I am sure of, is, it looks stunning! The first level, like the demo level, is a tutorial. As you progress you get objectives on ... more