Stay in Character: If you dispatch a butler when no one is looking and choose to step into his clothes to fool the guards, be smart. The game AI doesn’t always respond to evidence you leave behind, but play it safe and stash bodies in closets or dark corners whenever possible. Leave a body lying out in the open, and you may find, after 45 minutes of winding through a level, that you will be swarmed by suspicious guards and forced back to the beginning of the chapter. As difficult as it may seem to play it slow and smart, avoiding most confrontations will help you complete missions more quickly. Look around the map for alternative death-dealing methods.īursting into a crowded room with a shotgun in hand will put your enemies on high alert and make a mission nearly impossible to complete. Sometimes a lethal injection is better, if less spectacular, than an explosive. Take care not to run into every scenario with guns blazing or you may find a fate worse than a thousand virtual deaths: the game will punish you for bad play by restricting your options later in the mission based on the choices you make throughout the game. The game has aged well with decent graphics depicting exotic locales and novel gameplay elements, like donning the gear of a slain enemy as a disguise.Įach mission offers multiple paths to completion with consequences for nearly every choice you make. Hitman 2 lets the player try out a broad range of weapons from the highest tech submachine gun or sniper rifle, to the lowest tech knife or garot wire. The game relies heavily on stealth, encouraging the player to use more brains than bullets and button mashing. Although the game features more weapons than you can count, and more blood than you can ever wash off, it is not a traditional shooter. Either you are deeply disturbed and belong in an asylum or you are the numbered but nameless protagonist of Eidos’ hugely popular game Hitman 2.Įidos followed up the success of the original Hitman by dropping you once again into the lead role of Agent 47, a retired killer-for-hire pulled back into the gritty business of death when an old associate betrays him and kidnaps someone close to him. You like to do your dirty work in silence, and with no one looking. You like action and adventure, but you also like to think a problem through before you resort to gunplay.

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