Comments on: Hitman: Blood Money

By: David

David — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:11:14 +0000

As I said on Twitter Craig, I couldn’t agree more with the article. And Laurence is oh so very wrong. Sorry, but it’s true!

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:59:03 +0000

Oh, and in response to this: “If I’m being completely honest, Blood Money is, on paper, a better game- the previous two just have the unfair advantage of coming first.”

all I can say is “ner ner ner ner ner, you’re wrong and I’m right”. Ahem. Hmm.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:23:08 +0000

Yeah ok this was my fault really. I won’t mention Hitman again.

But what’s wrong with bitching? I love to read differing opinions about certain games, and enjoy arguiing my own case even more. Does that make me an argumentative arse? Most definitely! But it is still fun nonetheless and a great way of exploring the issues with video games in general :D

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:17:40 +0000

I may or may not be sponsored by eidos. You will never know. Yeah, there is a lot of blood money talk lately, but blame Laurence for baitng me. And this is unashamedly fanboyism and in no way objective, because I love Blood Money, and that was why.

By: rosamez

rosamez — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:32:24 +0000

Yeah I know, just couldn’t stand a bit of a bitching (especially seeing a number of these hitman posts lately) :) – as for the random part: I wouldn’t dare to say that random levels are the solution (heck, one of my favourite games is Nethack, but I never stated that I *know* the solution for the crystal ball effect). Anyway, keep up the good work and keep on exploring games and writing about them, this time I just felt that the balance of the universe was in danger with agent 47 being glorified as an adorable action figure of the present.

By the way if I wanna keep on whining, which is not the case actually, I played through Blood Money a couple of weeks ago and found the story a piece of crap. The cloning scare of the millenium (yeah, can anyone recall Alien 4?) coupled with cheap rendered cutscenes (while the engine was pretty capable) fealt like a disgrace compared to the highly enjoyable gameplay (and seeing him killed the canary did not make me feel all that professional, but maybe I’m just getting old).

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:26:06 +0000

Secretly, we all think Craig is sponsored by Edios.

About your critique of it: It’s a bit unfair to mark it down for having it load the same each time. As a personal niggle I can understand, but in general I think it’s fine this way. Sure, it might be nice to restart every level and have randomised set ups. But think of the development cost and time required to impliment this, then how much it would detract from the depth of the orchestrated playpen that is a Hitman level.
The interface was a bit shoddy if I think back on it, but I wasn’t even aware of it as an issue till you mentioned it.

In all, even though I don’t feel as gushy about Hitman as Craig, this piece is about what it means to him and why it is such a great gaming experience. He only wrote it as a response to Laurence being a cheeky bugger pointing out Hitman’s flaws.

We do write about other games and we’re always trying to find new and interesting ideas to do posts on for you the reader. For instance, I’m always writing bollocks that can be very hit and miss on games I’ve never tried before. They do only very rarely turn out interesting however.

- Ed

By: Rosamez

Rosamez — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:44:23 +0000

Wow, is this fanboyism, or what? Blood Money as an “idea” doesn’t feel all that original (you said the rouge/thief thing and it’s quite right indeed) and the implementation is at times frustratingly buggy (maybe it’s me, but sometimes can walk past guards in my black suit like old Obi Wan, other times, disguised as a rock, mad men running towards me with machine gun fire opened wide), not to mention the fact that *after* playing a level much of the fun/newcomer factor is lost: I will *know* that there will be *that* guard, I will have an advantage on my side (it’s like a magical crystal ball: I read the future, ladies and gentlemen) – you can explore, look around, play the puzzle (which this game is, a sophisticated puzzle game), but you see the future and if you’re such an oh-so-cool hitman you want yourself to be, then you better destroy your short term memory (this takes years of hard work and I’m not sure if it worths it).

Also note that I have the bastard who did the interface for the game on my death list – small characters, terrible configuration, no back button in briefing, tiny briefing screen in higher resolutions, noisy backgrounds and so on; man, millions are spent on developing such a complex game, yet they decided to employ a bunch of munkeys as the UX team.

Though, after this very short rant, I must admit, Hitman Blood Money still is manly fun, maybe I wouldn’t praise it through dozens of posts (unless being sponsored by Eidos): move on man, stop gazing the crystal ball, there are many (some) good games out there, you just have to dare to explore them :D And if you explored them, you can write interesting posts for us, readers.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:52:34 +0000

If I’m being completely honest, Blood Money is, on paper, a better game- the previous two just have the unfair advantage of coming first.

By: EGTF

EGTF — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:30:27 +0000

I support everything you just said, but you forgot to mention Weapon Upgrades. I loved this as suddenly that iconic trademark pistol became very much your own pistol.

The only bad thing I felt was that there was barely anywhere to use the sniper rifle. Too easily people with impossible vision would spot you from a million miles away hidden up in a dark room standing back from the window.

Hitman 5/4 I can’t wait for. Ahh now I need to find Blood Money again, I’ve re-installed it that many times I’m pretty sure the disc is actually wearing down.