Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

THE GOOD:
The sheer freedom the game gives you, there're just too many ways to kill...

THE BAD:
Short, fairly easy and often frustrating

SUMMARY:
Its the game wich has caused so much controversy and quite rightly so. When you think about it, the mere idea of the game, using all your brains, wit and cunning to murder a person ,to kill them in cold blood and then be REWARDED for it, is slightly dodgy. The game is divided into 20 missions including a training level spanning 6 countries (Sicily, Russia, Japan, Malasia, Nuristan and India) each with thier own distinct, superbly detailed terrains and features, once you complete all the missions in a certain country, you can muck about for bit, slaughtering pigs if it takes your fancy, in the training area and Hitmans home. (A monarstry in Sicily)It's here that all the weapons you've aquired over the levels are stored, hung up on a wall in a garden...

THE GOOD:
Wickedly cunning assasinations

THE BAD:
Bunk mission briefings

SUMMARY:
I can see how Hitman's smartly dressed assasin-for-hire grabbed me alumni when he put a hit on the PS2 last fall. This hairless antihero's contract kills are ingenious. Need to knock off a Yakuza kingpin but can't find him? Poison his son's sushi and trace the corpse back to papa-san. If arsenic isn't your bag, you can just put a bullet in his back. The way you complete each mission is limited only by your sick creativity.
Unfortunately, getting close enough to deliver your sordid calling card can be more frustarating than fun. Your mission briefings are so obscure that vexing trial and error is unavoidable. Half the time, I had no idea what i was supposed to do. Flaky A.I. makes mainaining secrecy a total chore, and seemingly innocuous actions often brought the whole town of Hindustan down on my bald head. But each time I circumvented the immeasurable...

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin explodes onto gamecube as everything you ever wanted to grow up to be in life… no, not a junky but a hit man. Now some people may want to be President of the United States or an astronaut but not everyone takes the life of the straight and narrow.
In hitman you play as "47", a retired genetically altered hit man who is now working for a priest as a Gardner. So one day after trimming the hedges he decides to sit down to a confessional with the good father, "47" spills the beans about his past and all burning hell breaks loose. The mafia comes and takes the priest hostage, in turn you get stuck re-living the life you tried so hard to leave behind. So dust off the revolvers, crossbows and other fun explosive devices because you "Mr. 47" have a job to do.

Graphics 9/10
The graphics are fantastic, whether you are taking a shot at someone through the lenses of a sniper rifle or just taking time to smell the roses and checking out the...

THE GOOD:
Everything, but the gameplay and sounds shine the best.

THE BAD:
Occasional slow-down when there's a lot of action, tough to get used to at first.

SUMMARY:
Story--Hitman 2: Silent Assassin puts you in the shoes of a retired hitman, code-named "47," trying to live the life of peace. Peace is never forever for those who live a life of crime, however. While praying in a chruch, the minister, 47's friend, is beaten and kidnapped by a mafia group. A package is left for 47 to find containing a ransom note for $500,000. Unable to pay, 47 does what he hoped to never have to do again...

Graphics--No complaints, the graphics are great. Soldiers look the same, but important people such as your targets are completely different. The game's really realistic; there are blood stains where you killed an officer, bullet holes in walls, etc. even when you leave the room. Blood and gore can be turned off though, so the game's pretty safe for...