What a great game, really awesome. Buy it and play it now.

User Rating: 10 | Hitman: Blood Money PC
So, playing a hitman is always a good idea. It is. You are cool and calm and know exactly how to do your job perfectly. The mark is set, the intel is pretty soild and your equipment is ready. In the movies the Hitman always have a 5-10minute act where they take out somebody pretty smoothly and everything goes to plan including the escape. later on the Hitman runs into some trouble and must gun his way out, but the job gets done. It can be the same in this game if you so wish. If you are the type of person who watches these movies and think, "that looks so cool" then this is the game for you.

The game plays really well, that is, the mechanics work and offer so much variation that you are ofen spoiled for choice in how to carry out a mission quickly and silently without ever being seen. You have a choice of equipment that you can customize to your specifications for the mission. You have numerous chances of a 1 shot kill, or a sneaky personal encounter with your mark or perhaps you want an "accident" to befall them? that is also possible.

You can disguise yourself as a staff member, a crew member, a bodygaurd, a security gaurd, a mechanic or even a reverend!! Use this ability to get closer to the target and infiltrate the mansion or vineyard or skyrise. Get close, get brave and choose your method. Do you poison the cake? do you strangle them and hide the body in a box? do you snipe them from afar? or do you simply creep up, and push them over the balcony?

Do it one way, then save, and reload the mission and do it another way, and again, AND AGAIN! until all possible ways have been achiveved....until another presents itself. Just last night I found I could hide a bomb in a bible...yes a BIBLE! Maybe I shouldn't take such pleasure in this game but it is great fun just trying.

Taking out the mark is reletivly quick and a bit of a climax, just waiting waiting waiting for the perfect moment to strike unseen. Really though, this game is more about the infiltration and the escape. Sure setting up the kill is what you are here for, but learning how to get in and set it up unseen takes mucho brain power and patience. Likewise with the escape, you can't just shoot and then leg it. You become the obvious assassin then, you need to escape as smoothly as you got in if not smoother.

The many weapons in the game offer you the greatest choice on how to act. A silenced gun offers a perfectly clean kill, and sends the greatest message, "hey look...we killed your boss, stop what you are doing now". However for a more subtle approach, "Did he fall or was he pushed?" you have to get thinking. You have to think, "do I need the gun? or can I get by with knocking a couple gaurds out, planting a bomb on the lighting rig, hide and wait..can i escape from that scene quickly?". You are a director of death and a maestro of execution, the surgeons knife to the worlds problems...for a price of course.

Oh and remember to pick up your suit again before you leave the mission....and walk out ;)