Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1535 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2006-05-26
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Adults Only
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .31 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
Agent 47 is back in the game that finally does full justice to the Hitman concept, with huge improvements to the graphics, controls and, most importantly, the number of ways for you to plan your hits – from wading in guns blazing to making it all look like a simple accident.

The lowdown:
Although the Hitman games were always a great idea they never quite worked the way you expected, with an awkward control system and camera and far less freedom than it at first seemed. This latest sequel solves almost all these problems, starting with a standard third person camera over which you have full control. Although you can ask for hints on how to carry out a hit you’ve so many options the game’s almost like a macabre graphic adventure - do you use the remote detonated bomb on the chandelier winch in the ballroom or plug the secretary’s Coke with poison and hide in the cupboard? The new notoriety system seems a bit pointless but otherwise this gets almost everything right.

Most exciting moment:
The game features tons of new additions like grabbing human shields, a quick draw for your gun and the ability to hide bodies. The most fun though is the simple sounding push option, which allows you to sneak up behind someone and send them flying off a balcony by "accident".

Since you ask:
Blood Money includes various references to previous Hitman games, the most prominent being the Paris mission in an Opera house, which acts as a prequel to Hitman: Contracts.

The bottom line:
The best Hitman game yet, that makes a real effort to fix the flaws of the previous games.
Harrison Dent

Manufacturer's Description
Hitman is back and this time he's paid in cold, hard cash. The Blood Money he earns affects his passage through the game and the weapons at this disposal, resulting in a unique gameplay experience for each players. Powered by a new version of lo's stunning Glacier engine, Hitman: Blood Money will deliver the most brutal and realistic sumulation of life as the world's deadliest assassin.

Customer Reviews

Beleive all that you've read....and more!
This is my first venture into a 'Hitman' game having just bought an Xbox 360 and I must say it's worth every penny. All the positive notes you've read before about the graphics, storyline, playability, etc are all true. However, there are other games with similar specs - Ghost Recon on the X360 immediately springs to mind which is also a fine game.

But what makes 'Hitman' my game of the year so far is it's flexibility, i.e. finishing a level off one way then going back and trying a totally different way of killing off the same bad guy. There are so many ways of doing the levels and all can acheive the same objective but with very different challenges.

Example? Well, without giving the game away, I had to kill a crook who was also a wine expert at his own ranch, teeming with guards. So I bumped off one of his guards, took his clothes then made my way through the house without being detected before bumping the old boy off. Great...but, there's also a wall round the back which I can also use to get in the house through the back way, or there's a side door with a fusebox to kill the lights then hide in a cupboard, or....etc,etc, get the drift?

There's so many ways to try the same assignment, some easy, some not so....it's up to you to work out the best way that suits you.

Add to that the difficulty levels that make the game as hard as you like and there's many visits back to the same assignment which increases the longevity of the game.

So buy this game....you won't be disappointed!

A great return for the ultimate hitman
Mr.47 is back in his best outing yet, the previous Hitman game was a bit of a let down and failed to capture the brilliance of Himan 2, but blood money is here to write the wrongs

The game starts with a training mission to ease you into the game and allows you to get to grips with the control system with few problems. Then you are thrust into the game proper, eliminate your target quietly as a silent assasin or run in guns blazing killing all in the way, the choice is yours

Blood money features a money system which you get deposited into your bank depending on how well you do in your mission.money can be spent on weapon upgrades, supplies or affect your notroiety and lower that factor so that people don't recognise you.

the new "accident" system is a great addition as well, push someone of a ledge or cliff and make it look like suicide, and no one will ask questions. in other areas you can even use NPC's to kill your target for you through some subtle item manipulation, like replacing the fake gun with a real one.

all in all, a great game that will keep you amused for a good while, well worth buying

the best Hitman game so far...
Anyone who complains about the length of Blood Money has probably missed the point. You can run through the game, guns blazing, and finish it as a mass murderer but the real joy in it comes from getting Silent Assassin ranks. This is a game of joyous trial and error, and slow building strategies for the perfect kill... The more time you spend in Mr. 47's world, the more fun you can get out of it...

This is the only game I've got on the 360 so far where I don't mind restarting a level every time I make a mistake. The great thing about it is that there are so many ways to approach it, I find myself searching for the perfect route through, and I'll think "Wait... If I restart, I can push him in the water and make it look like an accident...", and I'll happily re-tread the first 15 minutes of the level just to kill one guard in a more imaginative way, and get one step closer to the Silent Assassin achievements.

It's a bit sick, but in a gloriously fun way. It's hilarious to lose your temper and just unleash your shotgun fury on the random bystanders that happened to be passing through when you messed up. The new, utterly fantastic, headbutt move is a pure joy to behold every time. Wrenching an unexpecting guard's weapon off him and executing him with it as he kneels to surrender is worryingly satisfying.

It's not for everyone, obviously, it does get frustrating (the learning curve is pretty much non-existent, it's hard from the very start to do properly), and the AI is wobbly at best, but for the little bursts of sheer elation that come from getting in, taking out your target and getting out unseen, or even just slaughtering everything that moves, make this game worth it. Not essential, but better than most of the 360's limited catalogue...