![]() ![]() They are slightly more modern games, with more consistent difficulty curves, and in general just coming together better than Silent Assassin did. Hitman 2, surprisingly enough, holds up incredibly well, especially considering its age, and it seems to be brimming with ideas, and with a laser sharp focus on its mechanics.īlood Money and Contracts hold up similarly well, with more varied locales and mission objectives, as they expand on the framework that Silent Assassin so expertly laid down. All three games engage you, albeit not immediately, and pull you in with their unforgiving blend of stealth and covert action. Of course, assuming you can bring yourself to look past all these graphical blemishes, all of this soon stops mattering, because in spite of their age, the three games included in this package have held up stunningly well, mechanically at least. It is at times like these that you find yourself wishing that the developers had put in just a little more effort into bringing these games up to modern standards, visually speaking. The HD actually serves to make matters worse, in that it seems to almost highlight the graphical flaws of the games. Blood Money, being the most recent game (also released on the Xbox 360), fares the best of course, but Hitman 2 and Contracts can get to be eyesores at their very worst. It does get a little jarring: the problem with the games is in their visual style, which strove for the gritty, realistic look that some unspoken law of gaming mandates all ‘mature’ games need to sport. The games are, quite literally, the exact same games as they were on the PS2 and Xbox the graphics seem to have been given a nice layer of minimal HD polish (only 720p is supported), but there don’t seem to be any other graphical enhancements added. So let’s look at what we do get here: three rather excellent, if a bit dated, stealth games that are still unique, if only because of their approach that surprisingly has not yet been emulated or copied by any other game on the market. In any case, it was rather different from the rest of the series, and not even as good, so its exclusion does not matter all that much. ![]() The first game is missing (it always is from Hitman collections) probably because it was PC exclusive while all subsequent games were on consoles as well. Now, to celebrate the storied history of Agent 47’s earliest days, Square Enix brings us the Hitman HD Trilogy, which includes Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts, and Hitman: Blood Money. And while the series has slipped in and out of limelight over the years, last fall’s Hitman Absolution brought the games squarely back into public consciousness, earning itself quite a few accolades along the way. ![]() Starring the hairless Agent 47, the Hitman series of games made a name for themselves back in the PS2 days with their rather unique approach to stealth, mixed in with some rather brutal violence, implicit and explicit. One of Eidos’ most enduring properties is Hitman. ![]()
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