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Hitman: Blood Money (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £4.47
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 3767
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 15 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6
EAN: 5021290024786
ASIN: B0007A5FYY
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
Agent 47 is back in the game that finally does full justice to the Hitman concept, with huge improvements to the graphics, controls and, most importantly, the number of ways for you to plan your hits - from wading in guns blazing to making it all look like a simple accident.The lowdown:
Although the Hitman games were always a great idea they never quite worked the way you expected, with an awkward control system and camera and far less freedom than it at first seemed. This latest sequel solves almost all these problems, starting with a standard third person camera over which you have full control. Although you can ask for hints on how to carry out a hit you've so many options the game's almost like a macabre graphic adventure - do you use the remote detonated bomb on the chandelier winch in the ballroom or plug the secretary's Coke with poison and hide in the cupboard? The new notoriety system seems a bit pointless but otherwise this gets almost everything right. Most exciting moment:
The game features tons of new additions like grabbing human shields, a quick draw for your gun and the ability to hide bodies. The most fun though is the simple sounding push option, which allows you to sneak up behind someone and send them flying off a balcony by "accident". Since you ask:
Blood Money includes various references to previous Hitman games, the most prominent being the Paris mission in an Opera house, which acts as a prequel to Hitman: Contracts. The bottom line:
The best Hitman game yet, that makes a real effort to fix the flaws of the previous games.
Harrison Dent
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 By far the best Hitman game written May 21, 2008
M. Rawson (Birmingham, UK)
Fans of stealth-em-ups sit up and take note. I've played a few of the Hitman series and was never really convinced by them. This one is different. It's a genuinely huge leap forward and compulsively playable as a result.
The freedom of approach has to be the main draw of a game like this. Want to pop a cap in your target's proverbial posterior? Fine. Prefer to sneak up and quietly stick a knife in him? Go ahead. You can even just stand there and have a good old fashioned shoot out if you want (sometimes at least!). But, as other reviews have suggested, that's not what this game is best at.
A gem of a game, admittedly not without its faults but they don't merit dropping a star. Buy, play and enjoy.
Attention to detail is simply brilliant May 20, 2008
A. Cherrington (U.K.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first Hitman game I played was Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin on console. I had to get it on PC, it was that amazing. The only flaw I found is a bug on the first Hayamoto mission with the truck running over the guards occassionally. A problem when trying to get SA rating. I then bought the first one. Graphics aren't as good and the missions aren't as big of course but the gameplay is better. They don't make games that mentally challenging anymore. Oh, and I did figure out the end by myself. See if you can. Once again, brilliant. Contracts was just a repeat of some of the missions in the first Hitman, ay??, but very dark and mysterious.
Then came Hitman 4. I can't put my finger on my favourite out of 1, 2, and 4 but this one is arguably the best overall. When you consider the graphics, the attention to detail, and the modifications to your custom weapons, yeah it's the best. The only problem is it crashes occassionally. This happened to me when I completed "The Murder of Crows" on SA RATING WITH ALL THE WEAPONS. Check you tube. I'm putting it on there soon. BRILLIANT!! by the way but how annoying.
Get this game but get the others first. Don't get the film though, just rent it.
As for the 'a reader' review:
If you played the others you'll realise why there are a limited number of saves. It's a challenge man!
Classic Game May 9, 2008
Dyspeptic Spirit (Sunny Berkshire)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an infrequent gamer, the Hitman series has always given me great pleasure. This version is the best yet, combining all the elements that have made it such an enduring series and adding a few new things into the mix.
At this price it is a real bargain.
Undeniably the best of a great series April 11, 2008
Daniel Grosvenor (Wales)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been playing the Hitman series since the original game, and while each one has had enough new additions to keep it interesting, they'd all been fairly similar and (in places) quite linear up until now. Hitman Blood Money blows them all out of the water. In fact, the only bad thing that can be said of this game is that once you've played it you'll probably never touch the older Hitman games again.
The free-flowing camera movement is the best improvement in my opinion - games like Oblivion REALLY need to start implementing it. The ability to interact with characters and objects in new ways, and approach the same mission from numerous different angles, means you can play each mission a dozen times and still not experience everything the game has to offer.
I would primarily recommend this game to people looking for something more intelligent and stealthy than your typical action game. While Hitman can certainly go in guns blazing, the game is clearly designed for more than that. If you run into a gun fight you'll find Hitman has an annoying tendency to reload his guns while taking fire - when the character in a standard FPS would opt for the more sensible approach of ducking for cover and grabbing a different gun. If you want a lot of 'constant guns blazing' action this trait will no doubt annoy you. But if, instead of thinking "there's only 20 of them - I can take them" you think more like "I wonder whether shooting a single bullet into that glass roof will cause the shards to fall and impale the guards, giving me enough time to make my sneaky getaway" then this game is DEFINITELY for you.
I've had this game nearly 2 years, and it's still one of my all-time favourites. If you only ever buy one stealth game in your life, make it this one. You won't be disappointed.
An issue with minimum specs June 7, 2007
Dignity Machine (Ireland)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm afraid the star rating is born more of expectation than experience.
Having played and loved the first Hitman game I looked forward to playing this latest outing. I checked the minimum system specs and all seemed well - until I received the game. The minimum system specs described on the DVD box were significantly higher than those listed on the site. The RAM needed is actually 512MB - not 256MB; You need 5GB on your hard drive - not 2GB; the CPU must be at least Pentium 4 1.5GHz or Athlon XP equivalent - not Pentium 3 800GHz or Athlon equivalent. Vitally, your graphics card must be compatible with Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0 - alas mine is only 1.1 (the only point on which the system failed to meet specs). This is not a software but a hardware issue. Without a card supporting 2.0 the game simply will not play.
I can at least take heart from the knowledge that I will soon be retiring my system - the bald one with the barcode tattoo will deliver the coup de grace with his trusty fibre wire - and 47 and I will once again look at the world through sniper scopes. Happy hunting.
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