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Ariadne

13:33 / 14.04.04

Hitman:Contracts, the follow-up to Hitman 2: Silent Assassin will be out at the end of April. Will you buy it? Why?
And yes, it's for my work. Help me out, guys. Praise it or trash it, I don't mind.

Bear

13:46 / 14.04.04

Can't really help with the new one but the 2nd one on the PS2 was ok, pretty average overall I thought although there were a couple of stand out missions - bald guy in a suit with guns - there's talk of a movie right? Maybe you could mention that?

I'm sure someone where has played a demo of it...

(I'm changing company logos on about 200 forms, want to help with that? :P )

Ariadne

13:47 / 14.04.04

Yeah, bung them over and I'll change them while I wait for California to get out of bed and tell me prices.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:02 / 14.04.04

I'm gonna buy it. Hitman 2 was fucking excellent (though, like Splinter Cell, it was a case of having to be in the right mood to play it- otherwise it got tedious really fast).

Not sure what makes 'em so great... there's something about 47's determined demeanour that makes even the crappiest thing you do look like you have a plan.

It's like being Leon. Or Nikita.

Bear

14:08 / 14.04.04

The one mission that stands out for me was the one where you had to assasinate the guy from across the street within a certain amount of time as your slowly being fed clues about his appearance - that rocked...

I just couldn't get a grip of the stealth using the controller maybe I should give it a shot on the PC...

Char Aina

16:50 / 14.04.04

himtan cointracts is the only game whose release i am actually excited about...
i loved hitman 2, and i was ready with a list of potential 'perfections' or improvements as soon as i was three or four levels in. the addiction level is high, with me having played every level at least twice through, and some around the 20 or 30 repetitions mark.

if you get to drive, do photographic recon runs, and if you get to plan your hits* more, then it will be the ultimate game.

*dont you all want to be siting in a shed, figuring out how to attach the gelignite to the claymore mine so that it'll take out the whole building from the basement up? or poring over maps and photographs, looking for that al important fire escape or ventilaition shaft?
if i was a hitman, i'd tell them where i wanted my weapns drop, and where i wanted my getwaway car too. and i'd have disguises at home.

(who do you work for ariadne?)

Char Aina

16:57 / 14.04.04

and i liked the sniper mission too...
al of st petersburg rocks.
have you completed it, bear?
you dont need to be stealthy to get to the end, but it does make you feel a lot better if you do the missions on 'silent assasin' grade.
plotwise, my favouriet was killing hayamoto's son to find his father. killing a gangster just to use his corpse as bait! sick as fuck.
and the ninjas... the best looking ninja baddies in a computer game.

Char Aina

17:02 / 14.04.04

for the sake of your article(?), you might want to include that i wont actually buy it untilk it is much cheaper than the release price of 37.99.
i fucking want this piece of software, but there is no way i am paying out the equivalent of my weed budget for a couple of weeks just to get it with all the hype still fresh. its gonna be a good game no matter when i get it, and if its a stinker(yeah right) that way i'll know before i get it.

i am like this with all games, and also with CDs. fuck'em for overpricing, i can wait.

in fact... i wonder if there is a correlation between the time customers will wait for price reductions and the type of game they are waiting for? its a pretty patience heavy title, y'know. ninjas can wait years for an opportunity to strike cleanly.

Ariadne

17:49 / 14.04.04

I work for a tech wire based in the US. Thanks everyone, this is interesting. I doubt I can get cheap copies, but if I do I know where to hand them out.

Char Aina

19:11 / 14.04.04

if you do, i will totally divorce my wife for an xbox version.
i mean, she's alright, but hitman is the game of my life!

specofdust

19:48 / 14.04.04

To be honest, no. Hitman 2 was a really enjoyable game, I've played through it many times, trying to kill fewer and fewer people. Hitman Contracts could be supurb, but it's not the sort of game I get excited about. The story in hitman 2 was completely uninteresting and I expect the same from the 3rd title, but that's not why you buy it, you buy it so you can turn the lights off and feel really tense, and then feel great when you pull something of. In short, if I end up getting it then I'll probably enjoy it, but I won't be rushing out to game with 30 quid in hand.

Spatula Clarke

20:01 / 15.04.04

Same here. It's not the sort of thing that gets my juices flowing, but if I played it I'd probably enjoy it. A huge amount of the content in the first one (the only one of the two that I've played) - character design, basic gameplay setup, lack of choice - struck me as dull and generic. It's not a series that I can get passionate about either way.

Source

20:33 / 15.04.04

I love the Hitman series - It's the only series of games that can get me to play stealthily and not just shoot the shit out of everything. That, and there's always some weird, unexpected twist in the middle that takes you on a complete mind-f**k of a journey.

I have to confess that I haven't heard a lot about "Contracts", but I'm definitely looking forward to it.

w1rebaby

00:59 / 16.04.04

I've just been seeing the TV ads during the wrestling, and it looks nice, but then anything can look nice in ads.

I only just recently got Hitman 2 on budget for the Cube, so I'll be wanting to finish that first if that ever happens before I buy Contracts. Given my experience so far of 2, I'd be looking for a greater planning element rather than "play it a few times and get killed so you can scout out the map", and a few more stealth/RP options.

Frankly, though, I don't play on the Cube often enough to *need* new games very often, unless I buy shit ones. I've got 2 and Beyond Good And Evil both of which I've barely started, I've got lots of Soul Caliber 2 to get through... and I play games on my phone and GBA more often than I start the Cube up. I guess I'm just not the target market.

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