Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Guilty pleasure"

A sequel to to the first Hitman: Codename 47. The game is for me one of the greatest games of 2002. It has everything and more that the original Hitman didn't have.

The game has 21 missions witch can be done ether stealthy and quiet or with aggression and a big shootout. You can choose ether unless if your on a professional difficulty then you'll need to play in the stealth mode.

The graphics are better, the game play has greatly in proven. A crouch optioan has been added to the game which would have been very useful in the first game. Also a lot of the keys are set differently than in the first game (notably the Action, Sprint, Backwards, Look Left, Look Right and Inventory Keys).

The story line is also a bit thine just like in the first game. In the beginning of the game 47 has quit life of killing and lives in Sicily in a church with his friend Father Emilio Vittorio who is kidnapped by a couple of mobsters. So 47 asks a favor from his old agency to find his location. After 47 searches for him in the first mission he learn that he is no longer kept captive, but he still has return the favor for the agency and do a couple of missions for them (meaning the whole game).

Through the game you get to see a couple of familiar faces (Agent Smith, Mei-Ling). The main anagonist's are Sergei Zavorotko and Agent 17(another clone of Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer the guy who created 47 and the guy who you kill at the end of the first Hitman). The targets look funny and some sound hilarious the voice acting was done quite well. The soundtrack features a grim opera sound by Jersey Kyd witch goes very well with the game.

I suggest everyone to try this game out its everything that the first game should have been (game play wise).