Having just played through Absolution twice, it's funny just how frustrating the older games are to play, even Blood Money seems clunky and frustrating to me. The controls really are very fiddly and a lot of the older games are purely trial and error. Wierd quirks pop up, like needing to put down object A to swap it with object B (like the gun in curtains down). It's not always obvious why suddenly the whole map becomes hostile to you and start firing from every which way when you seemingly haven't really done much wrong.

In hindsight I think it's a good thing that they put in the capability to get yourself out of bad situations when you are spotted in Absolution. Not sure I'll even get through the older ones.. I was excited by the prospect of older games in HD with achievements but the more I play the less enthusiastic I become.

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For those having troubles getting Blood Money to run, you need to:

1. Remove the HDMI cable

2. Connect to your panel via a standard xbox component or composite cable

3. Restart the console and go into SETTINGS>DISPLAY and change res so you get the prompt to test PAL 50 and PAL 60. When it asks you if PAL 50 is tested correctly, select NO. This will put the console into "only ever use PAL 60" mode.

4. Shut down the console, disconnect the composite/component cable and reattach the HDMI cable.

5. Change your resolution back to 1080p, 720p or whatever you want it at.

Game should then work.

I've done an hour of testing, there is no way to get Blood Money to run on HDMI with newer HDTVs without using the composite/component cable method so don't bother trying !!!

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