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Is this just me or does the following year look like a giant stop gap between now and the Xenon?
> If people in general still played Pandora Tomorrow I would buy it
> back. Nothing like it on LIVE.
You can always find a game, but its full of really good players. it leaves no scope for a newbie to start playing.
> Hitman: Blood Money as well. Can't get the hang of the latter hitman
> games on PC. The first one didn't have stealth ratings so you could
> play it how you wanted. Both 2 and 3 though are fricking nails to
> control on PC.
I never played the first game but for me the thing that makes Hitman so much fun is figuring out how to get Silent Assassin ratings.
Can't wait for the new game. They're using a totally new physics engine so you can push people off ledges much like in Chaos Theory, also you'll be able to buy your weapons before each level and also decide what kind of scopes and stuff you have on them.
Oh and in the first screenshot 47's pushing Santa off a ledge at an Xmas party in the Rockies where he has to kill a Porn baron.
Game's gonna be the shiztits!
Reading between the lines it looks like they are going back to take elements from what made the first Hitman so much fun only with the excellent rating system from the 2nd and 3rd included.
For me Contracts turned out to be a great filler in the series but it wasn't a great leap forward from Hitman 2 which took quite a few strides to better the first.
One thing it won't do is let down.
Having the sniper rifle etc in a case was great, except that once you got it out you couldn't put it back in, which was particularly annoying.
It was a truly awesome game with and absolutely fricking hilarious mission where you had to kill the guy snorting crack in his little camp in the Jungle. He took around 1000 bullets from the chain gun to the body and face and he was still living off the rush of the crack.
Ahh quality.
That jungle level in the original was rock hard - almost impossible, and I remember the final boss was ripped straight out of Scarface. It was genius, especially as you could shoot the coke and you'd get a puff of white dust, and then you had to get the plane key and make off in the plane.
The game was phenomenal because of the physics, the impact of the bullets meant you could take out knees, and shoot people down stairs and stuff. The MP5 was my weapon of choice just because it was so much fun watching the limbs of your victims snap around as they were hit with your bullets, all of which left lovely red bullet holes. Sick.