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silver DewSky
160,057
TA Score for this game: 1,869
Posted on 24 May 09 at 20:26, Edited on 25 May 09 at 00:15 |
This review has 23 positive votes and 8 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
Blood is on your Hands... {My Giantbomb User Review}
Hitman: Blood Money in my personal opinion is the best of the Hitman games. This one allows you to fully be in disguise and you no longer have to worry about walking or running when around guards when finding your way to targets. The Visuals have been drastically improved and thanks to the Xbox 360, achievements that are worthy to have on your gamercard.
The Story in Blood Money involves a reporter interviewing a former agent as they discuss the assassinations Agent 47 has been involved with over past few months. Without giving too much away, it tells how notorious Agent 47 really is as the reporter finds out about the behind assassinations and cover ups surround the Cloned assassins.
Gameplay in Blood Money involves the typical targets to kill, although this time Notoriety and Money comes into play. After each mission, you have the option to bribe the local police and witnesses in order to stay undetected on missions.
The cool thing about Blood Money is a newspaper that describes how you killed the targets and any other people that got in your way. So for example if you choose never to lower your Notoriety, every one will know who you are at the beginning of missions and will attempt to kill you on sight. It's a great feature, and makes Blood Money more replayable than previous games.
The weapons you receive are pretty diverse, and the custom weapons allow for some great ways to play the game. You can silence guns, add accessories to make bullets pierce walls, and even different types of bullets to the various guns you will receive.
As Agent 47, you have more freedom than ever to play a mission the way you want to play. The new and unique feature to Blood Money was killing the enemy in ways that make it look like accidents. You can push targets over balconies, Poison foods, and tweak the valve on propane tanks to explode a certain target that loves to cook in his room. There are many more, and all are so much fun to do.
Achievements in this game are pretty challenging to get, but not impossible. Work hard at them and 1000/1000 can be yours.
This game should be around the $20 dollar price tag in most places, and it's a great game to "kill" the time. 4/5
+ Greater freedom than previous games
+ Impressive visuals and a another great soundtrack by Jesper Kyd
+ Great Story that leaves you wanting more time with Agent 47
- Not too many negatives in my opinion, I just Hope the Next game has some sort of Cool Multiplayer feature.
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JoshyJUVENILE
47,971
TA Score for this game: 327
Posted on 22 February 09 at 12:37 |
This review has 26 positive votes and 15 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
I found this Hitman to be incomparable to the previous (except for number 2: Silent Assassin, that was pure Legend). I'm fully aware my achievement score isn't that high on this game, which is why I love it. It's such a challenge! That, together with the exciting, twisting plot and the chance to do literally what you like, how you like.
Sneak around with nothing but your fiber wire, pitch a post on a roof/tree-house and snipe or go in all guns blazing with your M4 or SPAS-12. Yes, this has always been the aim of the games for what to do. However in this game your maneuverability has greatly increased and, it seems to me, that if there is something profound you want to try out, you can.
It's a complete open road on how you want to go about completing each level. However! This will affect earnings, ranking and other such things to gain achievements, another reason to see how good you are at assessing situations without leaving trails of bodies ;)
Truly recommended for those who have bought the previous games :) |
Marc Pilkington
80,600
TA Score for this game: 1,869
Posted on 12 May 13 at 12:05, Edited on 12 May 13 at 12:12 |
This review has 9 positive votes and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
Hitman: Blood Money has been out for a long time, however it is still able to compete with games today. For a game of its time, it has great graphics, refined gameplay and varied missions. For a Hitman fan it's a definite buy. For newcomers of the series it's still a great game to jump into as well.
This installment of the series sees Agent 47 going to a number of unique locations to peform hits on many unsuspecting victims. What is great about this game in comparison to previous titles is that the mission locations are a lot more varied. At one point you're in an action packed Mardi Gras festival and then you'll be in a quiet American suburb where people are peacefully cutting their hedges. This is one aspect of the game that really stood out for me because the previous Hitman games didn't seem as widespread in their mission locations. Because of this, the missions in Blood Money feel a lot more memorable.
There is a story of sorts in the game but in my opinion, before Absolution Hitman didn't put emphasis on story progression. Instead, it focused on gameplay and how you are able to take down your target. Blood Money scored high marks in this department because it improves on the mechanics of the last three games. For one, you're able to turn the camera a full 360 degrees so you can see 47's face. It may not be a completely groundbreaking feature, but I welcomed the addition regardless. This installment also introduces accidental kills. This is where you manipulate the environment to perform a kill. You may push someone off a ledge to make it look like they've fallen, blown a chandelier off its rails to make it look like a fatal coincidence, and the list goes on. It makes killing targets a lot more fun as it adds more ways of doing so. The focus is of course on stealth and how well you can complete the mission without getting spotted. The disguises work pretty well in this (unlike Absolution) and so with them you can access places you originally couldn't if you were wearing your suit. Act too much out of the ordinary (or have someone witness your kill) and you will become suspicious and more than likely get shot at. If you prefer, you can go in guns blazing but it will obviously affect your rating. The game has added a variety of new weapons and an upgrade system so that firefights are a lot more fun. Spend the money you earn on missions for upgraded lock picking speed, extended barrels/silencers for your weapons and so forth. However don't expect a walk in the park once you start gunning everyone down. Hitman has been designed to go in stealthily and so preferably should be played as such.
Another new addition to Blood Money is the notoriety system. At the end of a mission it will show how violent you have been and how much noise you made. It will say if there were any witnesses, if you were caught on camera, how many people you killed and so on. If you did a lot of non-stealthy actions then your notoriety will increase. With the money you make from missions you have the choice of bribing people/gaining a new identity so that your notoriety will decrease. If you chose not to do this however, the next mission may be harder because you are more known in the world and may get spotted regardless of what you're doing. If you get the rating all the way to 100 then you will basically be the world's most wanted and so stand no chance of being stealthy whatever you do. In relation to this, at the end of each mission the game presents you with a newspaper with a headline of your target being killed. It explains how the targets have died and whether or not people know who the killer is. If you were very stealthy the newspaper will say that no one knows who it could be, and if you were getting spotted left, right and centre, then there will be sketch of what people think 47 might look like. The higher your notoriety, the more accurate the sketch will become. I thought it was rather clever the way the game did this. Eventually the novelty will wear off but it is still fun.
The achievements in the game aren't numerous. There are only 24 and it is a pretty standard list with not too much creativity. There are some achievements that are quite interesting like 'Get a special rating', or 'Complete a mission with precisely 47 kills,' but apart from ones like these it's your usual complete this, do that and collect these kind of list. It mirrors how much there is to do in the game, though. There are a total of 13 missions in the game (2 of these being a tutorial mission and a small epilogue mission) so it's not a huge game. Your first time through may take a while when trying to figure out how to kill your targets, but once you know each of the locations and what to do, it can be done very quickly. Until now Hitman has never been known for its long length and the amount of hours you can sink into it. On the plus side there is a lot of replayability with this one due to how many ways you can go about each mission. There are achievements regarding each difficulty (and they don't stack) so you're going to need quite a few playthroughs to bag the 1000 points. I'm not finding it too tedious but it can be rather frustrating if you're trying to quickly get through a mission and you constantly get spotted.
This game may be old, but by no means is it out of date. If you fancy a new experience than your mainstream shooter, then give this a go. In my opinion you don't really need to have played any other Hitman game to enjoy this. Just jump right in! While feeling a lot different than its predecessor and having new features added to it, it still remains faithful to its routes and a great part of the Hitman franchise. You'll be able to find it for a cheap price too, or you can grab the more recently released HD collection and play it from that. For a game of this age the graphics are very good and the controls are smooth. If you're wanting a game to sink a lot of time into or you're a one playthrough only type of person, then don't expect too much from this. Length aside, it is a fun game and is still worth your money after all these years.
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Jackey Boy 217
126,589
TA Score for this game: 1,869
Posted on 28 September 10 at 09:47 |
This review has 10 positive votes and 4 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
Well, Agent 47 is back in amazing form in what is probably my favourite Hitman game in the franchise. This game has a brilliant story to match the unique game play where you are the assassin and you choose how to take down your target. This game is definitely worth playing!
Game
With a choice of upgradable weapons and weapons you have collected throughout your missions, you can definitely have fun taking out just your target or just kill everyone on the map, the choice is yours on how to play each level, and you can choose where to go and who to kill with some pretty fun methods like rigging a barbaque and watching them run around in flames :). The controls are simple and you can choose if you want to play the game in 1st person view or 3rd. The story is well done and makes you want to play till the end to find out what happens. The graphics on the game are not the best but the game is a little old now so don't expect anything amazing but it isn't to bad and doesn't drag the games play value down. the levels are well designed and set in many different types of situations such as a suburban home's and night clubs. Overall, a very good game and there's something quite satisfying about going around Mardi gras with a silenced shotgun :P. The new rating system adds a very nice touch and makes it feel somewhat of a RPG because how you do, changes the money you earn, then you choose what to upgrade and your upgrades can change the method in which you complete the next level
Game rating: 4
Achievements
The only problem with the achievements on this game is that the difficulty achievements don't stack, meaning you have to complete the game at least 4 times to get them all. But it dosn't take too long and you can change your method on each level to make it more enjoyable. and the silent assassin achievements are fairly difficult but youtube can easily fix that if your having any trouble are just use some of the guides on this site but aside from that this is a very easy 1000. the one million achievement gave me some greif but i found the best method was to save easy till last and don't spend any money, this way you'll already know what to do on each level and your saving the money rather than spending it all then having to get silent assissin about 100 times repetedly.
Achievement rating: 4
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