Smegging Awesome!
This is my first Hitman game, but I guarantee you it's not my last! .. Unless 'you-know-who' pays me a visit. I can picture it now:
(Jimmy enters elevator and stands around) (Jimmy gets yanked into a hole in the ceiling by a thin fibre strung across his neck, and is quickly strangled.) (Several seconds later, a bald man drops from the ceiling, wearing Jimmy's clothes and carrying Jim's KeyCard.) (Bald man exits elevator)
Anyway, this game scores all new levels of violence never before imagined! Strangulation, stabbing, poisioning, nails, and a lot more, and good ol' fisty-cuffs when you're out of options. Not to mention 24 different guns, with 5 different sets of gun-parts you're able to purchase! Set people on fire!, or explodiate them!, or just push them off balconies*!, feed 'em to the gators!, how bout just a good ol' fashioned assasination with a sniper rifle complete with advanced zoom, silencer and bolt-action something-or-other that makes your mission a piece of cake!? (
*haha; From Shakespeare?
Music is awesome, but sometimes unpredictable. I might be walking down a hallway when all of a sudden the music turns it's 'dangerous' mode on, which makes me panic and actually end up in trouble, which I wouldn't have been but for the music. You get that? But seriously, I've got Franz Schubert's "Ellens dritter Gesang" (aka 'Ave Maria' aka 'Hitman; Blood Money' theme song) playing right now, and I'm not even playing the game. Rag-doll effect is when the deceased NPC's body goes all loose, and you drag 'em about like a doll. It's very cool, and sometimes looks very uncomfortable for the dead NPC.
Interesting plot, fascinating characters, and a complete morale void in the protagonist Mr. 47. Well, none of the characters have even the faintest whif of a conscience, but Agent 47 most of all, which is interesting to say the least.
Four different levels of gameplay, letting you return to each mission (at least) 4 times.
But I gotta warn you; unless you want to hear a cocunut cracking and see a pretty violent animation, you shouldn't take the butcher knife to the back of a party-goer's head. ... *WHOP*!
AND Stay Away From the Christmas Level! Holy friggin' glitch-land!
Play this game or Agent 47's gonna get you! He's gonna getchu! ... (dials the phone) Hello? Diana?... Yea, it's Jimmy. I have another 'thing' for you to help me with....