12/24/2022 0 Comments Hitman 2 reviewWeirdly enough, despite the seriousness of the game’s story, I just couldn’t stop thinking about the comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad! starring Leslie Nielsen while playing, specifically the last act of that movie. “This is a game that lets you play it in almost any way you want to.” By providing so many options, it gave me the urge to go back to these same missions, not only to see what story moments and fun game mechanic possibilities I might have missed from my first go-around, but to see if I was able to conjure up my own Rube Goldberg machines of death together knowing what I know now about the maps. This is a game that lets you play it in almost any way you want to. Perhaps a target is getting a new tattoo, leading the player to look for a tattoo artist to impersonate in order to get close to the target maybe another target is expecting his male nurse to show up soon, and that nurse just happens to be nearby birdwatching. Some of these characters can inadvertently provide story missions (named “opportunities” in the 2016 game) for players, telling a story or describing a scenario that may give Agent 47 an idea. Agent 47 can make use of his “intuition” with the right shoulder button, which feels snappier and faster this time around compared to the previous game, with the UI outlining objects and systems to interact with and honing in on key pieces of dialogue from non-playable characters. Players can make use of guns and other tools, ordinary household items like scissors or screwdrivers, or environmental objects like chandeliers to off their targets. Like in the 2016 Hitman game, which one can describe as a part-sequel, part-soft reboot, maps are significantly larger than they were in the previous Hitman games, providing players with a large sandbox to play with during their assassination attempts. During my time with Hitman 2, I’ve found myself lost in the “world of assassination” that IO Interactive is billing, and as I write this, I am itching to further explore the sandboxes and tools that this game has to offer. I’ve always found Hitman to be an extremely watchable experience, with memories going all the way back to watching a high school friend play Hitman: Blood Money on the PlayStation 2. It is a cleaner-looking game than the landmark 2016 Hitman, and the options provided by the game make its replay value higher than most video games I’ve ever played. Perhaps this full game could have been repurposed into a “ Hitman: Season 2” in some alternate reality where Square Enix didn’t drop the developer and franchise, but as it stands, 2018’s Hitman 2 is an excellent package by itself. That is indeed the case for Hitman 2, and to be quite frank and honest, that was exactly what I was looking for. While a number of second installments have significantly evolved over their predecessor, plenty of other games have received cries of them just being the first one, with some newly added content. There is something I’ve always found odd about expectations with video game sequels.
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