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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SO GOOD THEY MADE IT TWICE!, 23 Jun 2004
Upon playing Hitman Contracts initially I was a little miffed that most of the missions were remakes from Hitman: Codename 47 but this really is only a minor complaint.The Hitman series for me, is the greatest game series ever made, and quite frankly I can't get enough of it, the old remade missions actually require different tactics from the originals as subtle changes have been made so it's still all good.
The new missions are fantastic, especially Beldingford Manor, what a map and mission that is. I suggest buying the Prima Official strategy guide to compliment this game, if you're a Hitman fanatic like me you'll want to know every which way a hit can be made, a lot of people have complained the game is too short, although I completed it in what my end stats said was 2 and a half hours, I've actually been playing it every day for over a month, trying and testing every which way a mission can be played, that's the beauty of Hitman games, with the right tactics, I got a final rating of Silent Assassin with only 7 bullets fired in the whole game on hard level, I can't recommend the strategy guide enough, you'll get much more gameplay time out of hitman when you know more ways to complete missions, which then in turn gives you even more ideas to improvise your own, blasting your way through like some of the gamers here seemed to have done is a complete waste of this game, a good hitman takes out only his targets and no one else. The graphics look nice, slightly better than the last hitman, gameplay is quite well done, although there's a major flaw where sometimes a single headshot doesn't kill a person which is preposterous. The cutscenes will make no sense to anyone who didn't play the first hitman game, as he is having flashbacks from previous missions, the first mission is actually a continuation of where the first game ended, where he killed his own father, and all his clone brothers, now he has to escape the cloning lab and sanatorium. Hitman 4 is already being worked on and is due out 3rdd quarter 2005, I personally can't wait for more.
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