This game has been a boogeyman for pretty much my entire life. I got it as a kid and loved it, but it was very difficult for a six year-old who had only played a few GBA and N64 games at that point. Almost twenty years later, I still have to finish it, but I have a huge soft spot for it.
@@stephenthedude4383 I actually finished it about a month or two ago! It's not as hard as it was for me when I was a kid. Wasn't really concerned about getting Silent Assassin rankings either, so I had fun with it and finished it pretty quickly.
The game seems to contradict it self by rewarding you with weapons by not using them, but i found a solution for that. When i played it i would make a guns blazing run on every mission, and then i would restart the mission and doing it the stealthy way. This way i completed all missions with the silent assassin rating but also used all the cool guns
This game (along with Contracts but SA has a slight edge) is the best Hitman game. I find stealth good and actually pretty natural (i'm not a huge fan of "perfect" stealth systems, i like bit of unpredictability, and for me this system is quite clear), and gunplay perfect in it's matrix glory. Also Agent 47 here is pure class. No doubt a game in my all time top 10. The only real two problems i can see (both don't bother me) is that for people who like perfect stealth this will be often frustrating, and the second one is that combat makes things very easy, even on harder difficulties - but again combat is here so cool that it doesn't bother me at all. I love doing missions properly, i love speedruning it, but i also love playing any degree of psychopathic killer - you can go gun blazing scaring everyone from far apart, you can suddenly, out of nowhere whip out your silenced 45s and clear the room before anyone can reach any weapon, you cause deaths here and there slowly working towards your target. I rarely use disguise, i love to play it as an ultimate button man, kinda like 47 seen in surveliance footage in first cutscene. Also let's be honest - you are rewarded for Silent Assassin TWICE, with Ballers SD and with sawn-off shotgun - after that you are mostly rewarded by collecting weapons which in few cases requires breaking silent assassin rule, so in totality i wouldn't say SA is more encouraged. And Mass Murderer sounds cooler. I have to add, that sometimes this game feels like slasher flick, where you just happen to play the nightmare.
The game that saved the franchise, thanks to the save system. Even though it was limited to only 7 it was still better than having to play through whole goddamn level again just because of one mistake.
Thank you for talking about one of my childhood games that I still love. Arguably this is still probably my favorite Hitman game thematically, even while BM is more fun to play.
Been a while but quite certain I killed the waiter in several of the many attempts. But you are correct about the sedative. That wouldn't explain the other way to obtain the outfit, though, in which case I didn't kill him. Detection just wasn't clear unless I missed something. Repeated that mission so many times.
Can a disguise become 'un-suspicious'? If so, is there any fancy dining ritual that could explain this? Like maybe the waiters are supposed to remain unseen between courses? I have one linen closet, but some dude is gonna call me poor cause I never heard of a servant closet. Oh well
Searched the game wiki and you have to use a servant's staircase. It was so obvious. Like did you use the _main_ _staircase?_ You did didn't you?--I bet you don't know even what a servant's staircase _looks_ _like._ I cringe at the thought of you ambulating up the main thoroughfare alongside the guests, through multiple failures, like that wouldn't blow your cover. You're so careless I bet you whistled a tune to yourself as you did it. You blew it. How fucking embarassing.
You really don't have to achieve the SA rating in anything beyond the St. Petersburg Missions, there are only 3 unlockable weapons in total Getting SA rating in those 2 Japanese missions is a nightmare
my introduction to the series. Me and my friends would play this in our dorm rooms. Played Codename47 later. Contracts is my personal favorite. Great great series
Same. I remember where I got super scared when the guy in the first mission got punched and kidnaped. I ran out of my room and let the game run for like 30min. Then i just ran into my room and turned the ps off. Years later I'm like "well that's not that bad why was I so scared😂"
I had 1000 hours in the first Hitman but SA really solidified my love for 47. Amazing game with great storytelling and music, level design, the lot. I also really liked Blood Money, the last of the old formula.
I'd recommend Blood Money. It's considered the best one of the bunch and it encapsulates the series' original vision without all the jank of the previous games. It's the most replayable I'd say, offers some customizability (something you didn't get in the previous games) and it's a great place to start. I have played every Hitman entry up until HITMAN 2016 (my PC can't run it, otherwise I would've played all of the WOA entries as well) and I have finished all of them except Codename 47, but I plan to fix that one day. I've seen someone mention Absolution as being a good place to start, but I tend to disagree. Absolution is a fun game indeed (hot take, I know), but it's not really a Hitman game. It's very linear compared to the other entries and its story takes center stage. I've been a lifetime fan of thr franchise and I didn't play them for the story, it's not what Hitman is about. What you should be looking for in a Hitman game are memorable levels with an open-ended, even a sandbox approach to assassinations where gameplay comes first and foremost, and I believe Blood Money is the one that nails everything to a tee in these regards, not to mention it's probably the best starting point. It's also a good choice time-wise since here the AI won't randomly see through your disguise making you restart a level although it's not your fault, unlike the previous entries. If you take a liking into this game, then by all means try out the older titles as well!! They're classics and it's nice seeing where it began. Beware though, they're a bit harder than BM and play a bit differrently, so if you want to get into the series via similar entries as BM, go for the newer WOA which have taken the best out of two worlds (BM and Absolution) and merged it together for a great experience. I consider Blood Money to be the series' magnum opus, being the first time Hitman realized it's full potential, but Silent Assassin (the one frim the video) will ways remain my favorite due to nostalgia and being the first Hitman title I have played (and the one I completed first)
@@myx9588 interesting stuff as I said before I own absolution so I guess it’s not a bad place to start but I understand what your saying. I wouldn’t recommend final fantasy 13 to someone looking to play their first one because that game feels nothing like the others
Blood Money. Even though my personal favourite is Silent Assassin, Blood Money is the most refined and ”true to the formula” Hitman-game that new players will get the most and best experience out of
This was my joint favourite with blood money for years. But if I'm honest the newer hitman games are excellent imo and I think they are better than the older ones in terms of mechanics. But I feel like the older games had a better atmosphere and the soundtracks by jasper kyd are perfection imo. But I have to take off the rose tinted glasses and say they improved the gameplay for the most part. I do kinda miss the slower pace and the artifical difficulty that came from its janky ai, they were much harder games that had zero hand holding. I do feel like now they make it alil too easy to piece hits together, but at the same time I think they are extremely fun to do regardless. New hitman works best when you plan everything yourself with no help from the opportunities the game gives you. I like sticking to the default loadout and abuse coins 😅 like back in blood money suit only style.
This game was sooooooooo stressy like dayumn when i was a kid in the 2000s i couldn't get passed anathema. And i had sleep issues because i was afraid of the game and getting nightmares of it It was a dark game and specially contracts Fun fact was, i let 17 run after me the whole map. I think it's a bug. He will run at you in the whole area and in the train station he wait to shoot you
Definitely a step up from Codename 47, even when it's frustrating, at least you only have to load a save as long as you aren't on the highest difficulty. (Having to only got back 5 minutes instead of an entire mission allievates the frustration a fair biit for me.) I am of the unpopular opinion that I honestly prefer these earlier Hitman games to WOA, WOA kinda went too far in the power fantasy (and the awful unlock feature) to the point where pulling off hits didn't feel as satisfiying as past games.
Yes the main problem with this game is being awarded with only weapons when you are playing as a silent assassin. horrible and pointless design decision. It's like awarding a vegetarian with meat.
When people tell me they like john wick character, mine is this boy 😍 john wick get mad when is dog got kill. 47 will kill his own pet to avoid enemies track him. We're not the same
i played the whole hitman saga, well, not all the games, just the old ones till absolution... and i might say the hitman blood money and this one are the best without doubt.....
Map and level design looks worse than that of the first game. I mean when the modern world happened and 3d level design become more advanced other parts of the visual game like content degraded. Hard to focus on content when all do is focus on visual. But yeah it's amazing how it has come
I heard newer games are good though. The only Hitman game that people say is bad is Absolution, since it was during the time when EIDOS merged with Square Enix (Now they left though) which may have been for the best. But they sold the Hitman publisher IP to Warner Bros and heard legit good things about the newer games
@@Sparrows1121 The problem is, there's no story and the AI is bad, the Ai bullets pass through civilians and the people you go after don't fight back. it's basically 3 games that are the same.
The game that made me fall in love with this series
This game has been a boogeyman for pretty much my entire life. I got it as a kid and loved it, but it was very difficult for a six year-old who had only played a few GBA and N64 games at that point. Almost twenty years later, I still have to finish it, but I have a huge soft spot for it.
How far have you gotten?
@@stephenthedude4383 I actually finished it about a month or two ago! It's not as hard as it was for me when I was a kid. Wasn't really concerned about getting Silent Assassin rankings either, so I had fun with it and finished it pretty quickly.
Lol i finished this in first day back in 2002. I was 13yo.
@@Stubhose that must have been a great day
@@wiinis-official Congratulations!
9:42 probably has very good ears hearing the door getting lockpicked
The game seems to contradict it self by rewarding you with weapons by not using them, but i found a solution for that. When i played it i would make a guns blazing run on every mission, and then i would restart the mission and doing it the stealthy way. This way i completed all missions with the silent assassin rating but also used all the cool guns
Not gonna lie thats a really good idea
This game (along with Contracts but SA has a slight edge) is the best Hitman game. I find stealth good and actually pretty natural (i'm not a huge fan of "perfect" stealth systems, i like bit of unpredictability, and for me this system is quite clear), and gunplay perfect in it's matrix glory. Also Agent 47 here is pure class. No doubt a game in my all time top 10.
The only real two problems i can see (both don't bother me) is that for people who like perfect stealth this will be often frustrating, and the second one is that combat makes things very easy, even on harder difficulties - but again combat is here so cool that it doesn't bother me at all. I love doing missions properly, i love speedruning it, but i also love playing any degree of psychopathic killer - you can go gun blazing scaring everyone from far apart, you can suddenly, out of nowhere whip out your silenced 45s and clear the room before anyone can reach any weapon, you cause deaths here and there slowly working towards your target.
I rarely use disguise, i love to play it as an ultimate button man, kinda like 47 seen in surveliance footage in first cutscene.
Also let's be honest - you are rewarded for Silent Assassin TWICE, with Ballers SD and with sawn-off shotgun - after that you are mostly rewarded by collecting weapons which in few cases requires breaking silent assassin rule, so in totality i wouldn't say SA is more encouraged. And Mass Murderer sounds cooler.
I have to add, that sometimes this game feels like slasher flick, where you just happen to play the nightmare.
The game that saved the franchise, thanks to the save system. Even though it was limited to only 7 it was still better than having to play through whole goddamn level again just because of one mistake.
So glad its popular still. Its one of the best stealth games made!
Thank you for talking about one of my childhood games that I still love. Arguably this is still probably my favorite Hitman game thematically, even while BM is more fun to play.
*the waiter was probably walking up. The knockout sedative is temporary.*
Yup. that's the first thing I thought of when he said that but didn't mention how the anesthetic wasn't permanent.
Been a while but quite certain I killed the waiter in several of the many attempts.
But you are correct about the sedative. That wouldn't explain the other way to obtain the outfit, though, in which case I didn't kill him. Detection just wasn't clear unless I missed something.
Repeated that mission so many times.
Can a disguise become 'un-suspicious'? If so, is there any fancy dining ritual that could explain this? Like maybe the waiters are supposed to remain unseen between courses?
I have one linen closet, but some dude is gonna call me poor cause I never heard of a servant closet. Oh well
Searched the game wiki and you have to use a servant's staircase. It was so obvious. Like did you use the _main_ _staircase?_ You did didn't you?--I bet you don't know even what a servant's staircase _looks_ _like._ I cringe at the thought of you ambulating up the main thoroughfare alongside the guests, through multiple failures, like that wouldn't blow your cover. You're so careless I bet you whistled a tune to yourself as you did it. You blew it. How fucking embarassing.
One of my favorite franchises. I still have the same PSN name HitMan way back from the PS3 days.
My childhood right here
I used to get Extraordinary ninja. Thats the name i remember. Max stealth and agression.
You really don't have to achieve the SA rating in anything beyond the St. Petersburg Missions, there are only 3 unlockable weapons in total
Getting SA rating in those 2 Japanese missions is a nightmare
YAME, YAME!
Still haunts me.
I hear u but those missions are my absolute fav cause they leave no room for error even with all the bugs getting SA is a real achievement 😅😅😅
My fav game of all time.
One of mine too, I like contracts a little more tho
@@wazzhell Contracts' A.I. Is easy to beat.
@@IrrationalGamer Yeah and blood money even easier.
@@wazzhell True, lets not talk about absolution and WoA 😂
@@IrrationalGamer Yeah absolution is embarrassing 🤣 I do like WoA but there are definitely a few things that bug the hell out of me
Only 21 years too late for a review haha. Jk. This game is the goat. Great work
my introduction to the series. Me and my friends would play this in our dorm rooms. Played Codename47 later. Contracts is my personal favorite. Great great series
The soundtrack is goat status.
I loved playing this back when I was a kid, I only ever got past the first two missions though 🤣
Same. I remember where I got super scared when the guy in the first mission got punched and kidnaped. I ran out of my room and let the game run for like 30min. Then i just ran into my room and turned the ps off. Years later I'm like "well that's not that bad why was I so scared😂"
I had 1000 hours in the first Hitman but SA really solidified my love for 47. Amazing game with great storytelling and music, level design, the lot. I also really liked Blood Money, the last of the old formula.
it’s crazy to me after 20 years i still play this game
What was the controversy? I assume it had to do with shooting a particular race?
One level contains a holy Sikh site which was changed
Wow this brings me back.
Using the revolver at long distances, for headshots, was sooo satisfying hehe 😋
i always wanted to try the hitman games. anyone suggest which game i should play? time is limited so would like to at least try just one of them
Absolution is most fun for newcomers imo
@@koosa6289 cool I own that one of ps3. Will check it out. Thanks
I'd recommend Blood Money. It's considered the best one of the bunch and it encapsulates the series' original vision without all the jank of the previous games. It's the most replayable I'd say, offers some customizability (something you didn't get in the previous games) and it's a great place to start.
I have played every Hitman entry up until HITMAN 2016 (my PC can't run it, otherwise I would've played all of the WOA entries as well) and I have finished all of them except Codename 47, but I plan to fix that one day. I've seen someone mention Absolution as being a good place to start, but I tend to disagree. Absolution is a fun game indeed (hot take, I know), but it's not really a Hitman game. It's very linear compared to the other entries and its story takes center stage. I've been a lifetime fan of thr franchise and I didn't play them for the story, it's not what Hitman is about.
What you should be looking for in a Hitman game are memorable levels with an open-ended, even a sandbox approach to assassinations where gameplay comes first and foremost, and I believe Blood Money is the one that nails everything to a tee in these regards, not to mention it's probably the best starting point. It's also a good choice time-wise since here the AI won't randomly see through your disguise making you restart a level although it's not your fault, unlike the previous entries. If you take a liking into this game, then by all means try out the older titles as well!! They're classics and it's nice seeing where it began. Beware though, they're a bit harder than BM and play a bit differrently, so if you want to get into the series via similar entries as BM, go for the newer WOA which have taken the best out of two worlds (BM and Absolution) and merged it together for a great experience.
I consider Blood Money to be the series' magnum opus, being the first time Hitman realized it's full potential, but Silent Assassin (the one frim the video) will ways remain my favorite due to nostalgia and being the first Hitman title I have played (and the one I completed first)
@@myx9588 interesting stuff as I said before I own absolution so I guess it’s not a bad place to start but I understand what your saying. I wouldn’t recommend final fantasy 13 to someone looking to play their first one because that game feels nothing like the others
Blood Money. Even though my personal favourite is Silent Assassin, Blood Money is the most refined and ”true to the formula” Hitman-game that new players will get the most and best experience out of
Almost everything about this game is very well made, I wish the reboots took this game as an example instead of hitman 1
This was my joint favourite with blood money for years. But if I'm honest the newer hitman games are excellent imo and I think they are better than the older ones in terms of mechanics. But I feel like the older games had a better atmosphere and the soundtracks by jasper kyd are perfection imo. But I have to take off the rose tinted glasses and say they improved the gameplay for the most part. I do kinda miss the slower pace and the artifical difficulty that came from its janky ai, they were much harder games that had zero hand holding. I do feel like now they make it alil too easy to piece hits together, but at the same time I think they are extremely fun to do regardless. New hitman works best when you plan everything yourself with no help from the opportunities the game gives you. I like sticking to the default loadout and abuse coins 😅 like back in blood money suit only style.
I'm with you on this 100%
The soundtrack and atmosphere is next level
It's way better then the WoA trilogy.
Hitman games used to be so dark and athmospheric.
I still remember intuitively playing a perfect level but then at the end stepping on that potato-chip ... :D :D
What an absolutely great game!!!
This game was sooooooooo stressy like dayumn when i was a kid in the 2000s i couldn't get passed anathema. And i had sleep issues because i was afraid of the game and getting nightmares of it
It was a dark game and specially contracts
Fun fact was, i let 17 run after me the whole map. I think it's a bug. He will run at you in the whole area and in the train station he wait to shoot you
Definitely a step up from Codename 47, even when it's frustrating, at least you only have to load a save as long as you aren't on the highest difficulty. (Having to only got back 5 minutes instead of an entire mission allievates the frustration a fair biit for me.)
I am of the unpopular opinion that I honestly prefer these earlier Hitman games to WOA, WOA kinda went too far in the power fantasy (and the awful unlock feature) to the point where pulling off hits didn't feel as satisfiying as past games.
YAME! YAME!
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Yes the main problem with this game is being awarded with only weapons when you are playing as a silent assassin. horrible and pointless design decision. It's like awarding a vegetarian with meat.
Yes, downright stupid design choice.
When people tell me they like john wick character, mine is this boy 😍 john wick get mad when is dog got kill. 47 will kill his own pet to avoid enemies track him. We're not the same
i played the whole hitman saga, well, not all the games, just the old ones till absolution... and i might say the hitman blood money and this one are the best without doubt.....
Yeah, I learned to be more forgiving with this finicky game... after I started using the unlimited saves cheat! 🤓
Map and level design looks worse than that of the first game. I mean when the modern world happened and 3d level design become more advanced other parts of the visual game like content degraded. Hard to focus on content when all do is focus on visual. But yeah it's amazing how it has come
Best hitman ever
🤣🤣 bro
One of the best games ever made!
Review hitman contracts please?
This game rules. The new Hitman games suck ass.
Manhunt just entered the chat 😂
💥💥 I used to play this game all the time back in like 2002 on the Xbox the music in this game is great
its still much better than even the new games
I heard newer games are good though. The only Hitman game that people say is bad is Absolution, since it was during the time when EIDOS merged with Square Enix (Now they left though) which may have been for the best. But they sold the Hitman publisher IP to Warner Bros and heard legit good things about the newer games
@@Sparrows1121 The problem is, there's no story and the AI is bad, the Ai bullets pass through civilians and the people you go after don't fight back. it's basically 3 games that are the same.
@@JackCrossSama I prefer a game with good atmosphere over a dried up story. If i want a story i would watch a movie or read a book.
@@Sparrows1121 To each his own, I prefer the older hitman games to the newer ones.
@TheNerevarineJDW-gx8fx Not played Hitman World of Assassin, well a little and its good. But yes, i played older Hitman games.
w SHIT