

As you progress through the game you hear people say things such as how it must have taken a team of killers to do the job that Agent 47 did alone. You play as a test subject known as Agent 47, who has numerous almost super-human abilities that make him an excellent and deadly killer. However, you get extra rewards if you do things such as not kill people other than the target, do not get caught, and/or take things and complete side quests. The aim of the game is to complete assassinations by whatever means possible.


People think back about the Hitman games and in their heads they are seeing Assassins Creed, when really they should be thinking Tomb Raider 2.ĭue to the new interest in the Hitman series, the game developers - IO Interactive - are making a new Hitman game called “Hitman.” This review is for the original Hitman: Codename 47 (2000) game that most people know as simply “Hitman.” The new rebooted game’s release is planned for December 2015. The problem lies with nostalgia, and let’s be honest, nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be. The problem doesn’t lie within the game because when the game came out, it was fine for its era. Lots of people are going back to play the original Hitman games at the moment since the new movie Hitman: Agent 47 is/was released in August 2015, yet despite the fact it is a good game-it isn’t perfect. In addition, there are times when you can run up and pull off a full-frontal assault with Hitman, whereas you cannot with a game such as Thief without being cut up. It has never been as open-world as Thief was, and there are many times that you feel railroaded in both the original version and the sequels, but it still offers enough execution options for you to feel satisfied. The original murder-stealth game that followed Thief.īack in the days when Hitman first came out, people said that it was a modern version of the hit game “Thief.” At the time, they may have been right, but since then it has taken on a life of its own.
