Sora96's Hitman: HD Trilogy Review

[Sora96 17,256]

Hitman: HD Trilogy combines Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money in one package for PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360. They're also all available on PlayStation Now. Hitman 2: Silient Assassin and Hitman: Contracts have been remastered in high definition while Hitman: Blood Money was released on Xbox 360 originally and as a result it's already in HD, but of course now in HD for the first time on PlayStation platforms. It also includes the downloadable Hitman: Sniper Challenge for free.

 

Silent Assassin and Contacts have aged poorly, these games are now both over ten years old and it shows. They look dull and plain, the story is seriously lacking, the controls could be better and there's too much of a steep learning curve. Blood Money has a promising opening level but then you're thrown into something completely different and yet another boring story.

 

Fans of Hitman: Absolution expecting a similar experience will be sadly disappointed. I quite enjoyed Absolution. What you had to do was clear and the game gave you many ways to do it. You could take a complete stealth approach, you could play it like a third-person-shooter or you could develop a mix. It was as they wanted, much more approachable than these titles. With these titles it's all trial and error, you must be patient, you can't rush into anything. Even on the easiest difficulty settings you can't play these games like Absolution.

 

There are maps but it's still hard to find your target a lot of the time in these games. And honestly you move too slowly for what they try to do in Contacts.

 

Music is nice though to be honest. And David Bateson is of course the voice of Agent 47 and does a great job.

 

The trophy/achievement lists are lazy to be honest. The images are boring with the exception of Blood Money. There isn't many trophies/achievements, most of them are hard and honestly most are uninteresting.

 

I enjoyed Hitman: Sniper Challenge but it was developed for Absolution so it wouldn't be fair to include it in the overall score.

 

If you enjoyed these games on PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube pick this up, it's a good HD collection. if you didn't be sure you know what you're getting into, these games aren't for me I know that for sure.

 

6/10

[Silent 824]

Did you play blood money all the way through? There are plenty of levels where you had multiple options to take out a target. For example the level in the opera you could snipe from the balcony, you could set explosives on the over head lights so they fall on the target, you could replace the world war 2 pistol prop used by the actor playing the executioner with an actual pistol. The way you start to describe absolution is just how i remember blood money. Though i do agree that absolution is a much much easier game if you are into that. I grew up playing games like splinter cell so i never had any problems with the difficulty.

[Sora96 17,256]

Did you play blood money all the way through? There are plenty of levels where you had multiple options to take out a target. For example the level in the opera you could snipe from the balcony, you could set explosives on the over head lights so they fall on the target, you could replace the world war 2 pistol prop used by the actor playing the executioner with an actual pistol. The way you start to describe absolution is just how i remember blood money. Though i do agree that absolution is a much much easier game if you are into that. I grew up playing games like splinter cell so i never had any problems with the difficulty.

 

Nope, it was too hard for me.