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"So what the hell happens now?"

Release list looks increasingly average, LIVE play is utter toss as it stands and there isn't a whole lot on offer as far as releases go for the following year. The Chronicles of Riddick sequel will hopefully be out before the end of the year but apart from that and Dead or Alive 4 I can't see anything remotely interesting that will keep me playing.

Is this just me or does the following year look like a giant stop gap between now and the Xenon?

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> 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.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> 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!

You could buy weapons for the start of each batch of missions for the first Hitman however the missions then consisted of 3-4 sub-missions in-between. The sniper was concealed in a brief case so you could get around without being noticed whilst carrying it.

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.

the original Hitman was damn near impossible. The levels were absolutely huge, you had to do everything with pinpoint accuracy, if you got caught ONCE in a half an hour level that was it, there were no saves, the AI was HORRIBLE - you would be the only guard WITHOUT a gun, but as soon as you pull one out they all shoot you (go figure), and the actual missions were BLOODY hard, but it was still wonderful. The best mission was the hotel with the guy in the Jacuzzi. I used to drag him around while I shot everyone up, then go and disturb the guy in the shower (why was he wearing underpants?), knife him up good, and then go and get my box of flowers filled with some nice pump action daisies.

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.

I have to agree. The hotel one where you could only take a fibre-wire in order to get through the metal detector was awesome. As was the little cafe one where you had to climb in through the toilet window after getting a toilet room key from the bar-man, you could then crack open the door and take out everyone in the cafe. At the time there was nothing like it on any platform and for that I will always love the original Hitman.

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.

Although drowning the guy in the pool with the fibre-wire with the really fat woman running up and down the side was superb. I remember getting the shotgun hidden in the flower box and just targetting all the fat people in the hotel for the fun of it.

Yeah that was a great level. Wasn't it in hitman 2 though? I didn't have the 1st one and distinctly remember having to kill some fat guy sitting in a jacuzzi in the second.

Yeah that was the top floor apartment with the 3 chicks sat around. This was a hotel and you had to kill a guy in the shower. Similar style missions though.

Hitman 2 the levels were far more structured, with two or three obvious ways of going about each mission. The best level in Hitman 2, for sheer weight of civilians to mow down, might be the skyscraper level, or that Invitation to a Party. Wonderful.

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.

you didn't just have to kill the guy in the shower! You had to kill the guy in the steam room, the one in the shower, the dentist, and then find a bomb and a huge sequence of other items, and there was even a fake bomb in the dentists room.