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- Platform: Windows XP / Vista
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Your time has come to enter the Hitman’s world. A world where the Hitman trusts no-one but himself, a player in a deadly game, a combatant on a battlefield most people don’t even know exists. Hitman Ultimate Contract is a collection of all four Hitman titles in one deadly package. In a professional’s hands, everything is a weapon…
Hitman Ultimate Contract includes all four games in the Hitman series:
Hitman: Codename 47
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Contracts
Hitman: Blood Money
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Firstly, let's get the marketing side of my review out of the way. Essentially you're paying £15 for four top class, extremely enjoyable games. Truthfully, I could leave the review here as that should be enough for anybody, but let's delve deeper......
You play the role of Agent 47, in the employ of a shadow company of Assassins. The capital letter is important, as you're not merely a sniper on the Grassy Knoll, no indeed. You are a hand-picked, trained since childhood, genetically modified Assassin. Oh yes. The games focus on giving you a variety of hard-to-get-to targets with a variety of interesting ways to bump them off. Will you resort to sniping them from a distance, for example, or will you incapacitate key personnel and assume their identity in order to infiltrate and get up close and personal? Perhaps you'll abandon or stash all your weapons for a stealth entry, or load up on firepower to batter your way through? In the case of Blood Money especially, maybe you'll arrange for a fictional gun shot to in fact be a real one, or for a chandelier to drop on the head of an unsuspecting target?
See people, it really is this dynamic. You actually find yourself thinking like a Hitman - "well if I stash my weapons in there, then I'll be clear from the search at the entrance and then I can pick them up once inside, then I take this guy out while he's away from the guards, assume his identity and get close enough to be able to......." and so on. The ambience and music of the game is engaging and at best enthralling, and the whole deal basically radiates atmosphere.
Things aren't all rosy; for example the AI can be noticeably thick, and seem to like forming an orderly queue for your bullets in firefights.... Read more ›
You play the role of Agent 47, in the employ of a shadow company of Assassins. The capital letter is important, as you're not merely a sniper on the Grassy Knoll, no indeed. You are a hand-picked, trained since childhood, genetically modified Assassin. Oh yes. The games focus on giving you a variety of hard-to-get-to targets with a variety of interesting ways to bump them off. Will you resort to sniping them from a distance, for example, or will you incapacitate key personnel and assume their identity in order to infiltrate and get up close and personal? Perhaps you'll abandon or stash all your weapons for a stealth entry, or load up on firepower to batter your way through? In the case of Blood Money especially, maybe you'll arrange for a fictional gun shot to in fact be a real one, or for a chandelier to drop on the head of an unsuspecting target?
See people, it really is this dynamic. You actually find yourself thinking like a Hitman - "well if I stash my weapons in there, then I'll be clear from the search at the entrance and then I can pick them up once inside, then I take this guy out while he's away from the guards, assume his identity and get close enough to be able to......." and so on. The ambience and music of the game is engaging and at best enthralling, and the whole deal basically radiates atmosphere.
Things aren't all rosy; for example the AI can be noticeably thick, and seem to like forming an orderly queue for your bullets in firefights.... Read more ›
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By M. Corbet
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Hitman games follow a simple but brilliant premise: you are an assassin with one or more targets on a map full of security personnel, civilians and all sorts of places to go and things to use to accomplish your objectives. You can assume the identity of others by rendering them unconscious (or dead) and stealing their clothes. Highly interactive and open ended (especially the fourth title, Blood Money) this approach creates a massive amount of re-playability, and considering we're talking about four games, that makes this a serious bargain.
Although there are certainly some missions where there is an obvious way to complete your objectives, for the most part there are plenty of different opportunities to get close to your target. You could dress as one of his / her bodyguards, you could sneak in as a delivery boy or a tourist or one of many other different guises including pool cleaners, rednecks, waiters and loads more. Once next to your victim, you can utilize the environment to fake an accident (such as food poisoning, a pyrotechnics accident or a weak chandelier fixing to name a few). Of course, a few bullets from a silenced pistol do the job just as well. In fact, you are welcome to blast your way through the levels with a machine gun if your attention span should wane! The games are full of dark humor, with plenty of opportunities for creating your own (ever gone on a killing spree dressed in a clown suit before?) and the gameplay is unique and entertaining.
Obviously, the older games aren't exactly polished in modern terms but are still highly enjoyable nonetheless. Probably my personal favorite game series of all time.
Although there are certainly some missions where there is an obvious way to complete your objectives, for the most part there are plenty of different opportunities to get close to your target. You could dress as one of his / her bodyguards, you could sneak in as a delivery boy or a tourist or one of many other different guises including pool cleaners, rednecks, waiters and loads more. Once next to your victim, you can utilize the environment to fake an accident (such as food poisoning, a pyrotechnics accident or a weak chandelier fixing to name a few). Of course, a few bullets from a silenced pistol do the job just as well. In fact, you are welcome to blast your way through the levels with a machine gun if your attention span should wane! The games are full of dark humor, with plenty of opportunities for creating your own (ever gone on a killing spree dressed in a clown suit before?) and the gameplay is unique and entertaining.
Obviously, the older games aren't exactly polished in modern terms but are still highly enjoyable nonetheless. Probably my personal favorite game series of all time.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By sotonraver
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All games are superb. Ignore the specs and techs stuff, ALL games work on both vista, XP and win7.
Codename 47: the beginning. I loved this when it came out and its still good. Slight problem with the resolution but all the game script works better than ever.
Silent Assassin: the sequel. In my opinion the best game. Excellent, no problems.
Contracts: the third game/flashbacks: REALLY good to see the original missions remade and restyled. May slow down if you have a windows sidebar or similar device active on your desktop.
Blood Money: the final game. Much better than the PS2 version. Slow if you have a "too-sophisticated" graphics card. Don't ask why but its better with a not-so-up-to-date graphics card.
overall: easy to install, easy to use, maybe not best to have all games installed at the same time, but thats just me and my shippy laptop
Codename 47: the beginning. I loved this when it came out and its still good. Slight problem with the resolution but all the game script works better than ever.
Silent Assassin: the sequel. In my opinion the best game. Excellent, no problems.
Contracts: the third game/flashbacks: REALLY good to see the original missions remade and restyled. May slow down if you have a windows sidebar or similar device active on your desktop.
Blood Money: the final game. Much better than the PS2 version. Slow if you have a "too-sophisticated" graphics card. Don't ask why but its better with a not-so-up-to-date graphics card.
overall: easy to install, easy to use, maybe not best to have all games installed at the same time, but thats just me and my shippy laptop
By I. Wilson
Amazon Verified Purchase
Overly complicated gameplay, poor graphics, poor story- do I really need to say any more- one to avoid I feel! At least it was cheap!
Amazon Verified Purchase
As there are 4 games, it is worth the money, but first two game not as good as I remember them. Maybe thats just me as my expectaions have grown.
By Cubby Kovu
Amazon Verified Purchase
The good things about this box set is that it contains 4 games all of which are challenging and fun and well made. I advice you play the games in order of release otherwise the game that comes next will make the game before seem not so good.
so play the games in order of release will also help the story line.
you get to kill people in entertaining fun imaginative ways in this game (the only time when killing is fun) the bad things are at times the games can be very very hard. and to work out how to kill in a way that gets the best result can take many many attempts. However this in a way adds to the challenge of the game.
I would reccomend this game to people who like puzzles of a different nature. and also to people who like shooting games becaues you can go in with yours guns blazing if you really want too :)
lots of fun lots of challenge lots of though and sneaking.
so play the games in order of release will also help the story line.
you get to kill people in entertaining fun imaginative ways in this game (the only time when killing is fun) the bad things are at times the games can be very very hard. and to work out how to kill in a way that gets the best result can take many many attempts. However this in a way adds to the challenge of the game.
I would reccomend this game to people who like puzzles of a different nature. and also to people who like shooting games becaues you can go in with yours guns blazing if you really want too :)
lots of fun lots of challenge lots of though and sneaking.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
fun versus controls
the fun factor is up- I bought after seeing the movie
the concept of being an assasin allows for playing from 3rd p shooter to sneaky bastard. Read more
the concept of being an assasin allows for playing from 3rd p shooter to sneaky bastard. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Haraga Georgeta
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant games
Great value. Great game play. Completed all levels in each game. Recommended for all Hitman lovers. Watch out for the 5th Hitman game this year.
Published on 30 May 2011 by redheadsnm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fun!
All of the Hitman games in one awesome package. Great fun, although its also very frustrating when the plan goes wrong! Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2011 by K. King
1.0 out of 5 stars
Avoid
the concepts for these games are good, and the more recent games in the package are okayish. But otherwise not worth it. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2010 by Mr. P. D. Carswell
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hit mans a hit.
Got here quick & apart from a couple of snags with the game itself, i.e. me being too old & stupid to master it properly, everything's hunky dory.
Published on 27 Jun 2010 by Keith Alan Styles
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