Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Reviews

No go on my win 11 machine. Game is too old it seems.

9/10 - because of those stupid contraversy the indian mission got a massive change because of that they have lost there charm anyway i would say play this game on the PIRATE COPY since it did not lose its charm at all

Massive step up in every way from the original. Introduces a detection meter, a toggle sprint button, save mechanic, more weapons, more missions and more freedom. Not nearly as janky and buggy as the first in terms of controls and AI detection. Great story, Jesper Kyd kills it on the soundtrack once again. Some missions aren't great but I didn't find myself struggling as much to get through them as I did with the worst of Codename 47.

Great game but pretty much unplayable without mods in my experience. Badly needs a rerelease.

Wonderful experience! Much better from the 1st Hitman game, the controls are improved, the overal graphics and gameplay are really good the story is amazing! This game has aged really well!

Definitely better than the first game. Better graphics, functions, and there's actual saves.

Not bad, one of the first games to implement character shadows and full-body awareness. My respects.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is an improvement over its predecessor in every possible way. With significantly better stealth, better level design, creative ways to complete missions, and improved AI behavior, nearly every flaw with the previous game has been fixed. Along with this, the addition of limited saves in every mission has eliminated so much of the frustration that came from Codename 47. With that being said, there are still some annoyances. For instance, the AI is almost too good; they can sometimes detect you way too easily. Yet, with the addition of a save system, this isn't as much of an annoyance as it could have been. Overall, Silent Assassin is a fantastic game that still holds up pretty well. For fans of the stealth genre, I'd suggest giving this a try.

You know coming back to this game from when I first played it back when I was a child back in the early 2000's you'd think I would of gotten a lot better at it. While now yes that is true in some extent I still had to play like I was rambo for the most part and not a silent assassin since the social stealth has lots of rules to follow if you wanted to pull it off right, but it's still very janky and even just being near another person in the same disguise for 0.0000001 seconds would cause them to open fire and alert all nearby people which would also consist of the entire level, so really you just have to avoid all people like a true introvert does. But I'm still glad I came back to this and was able to see the credits finally after so long, would I recommend? I mean if you really can pull off stealth/social stealth and complete the missions without the whole level trying to hunt you down, then yes 100% if you're up for that challenge as it's still possible to do so or just fuckin pull out an M60 since it goes brrrr and make all you're problems disappear very fast hahaha!

This game was my jam back in the day, I played it obsessively, I silent assasined everything. And it aged like rotten milk. Look, we are not hurting for quality Hitman content nowadays. If you're new to the series - play Contracts, play Blood Money, play the reboot trilogy. Hеll, you could consider giving Absolution a shot before even thinking of touching the first two games in the series, because they barely function. The broken AI of this game is the stuff of legends. They open fire if you sprint for five seconds, they open fire if you look at them funny, they open fire just because they feel like it sometimes. And there is no reliable way to knock out someone using anesthetic – only the RNG gods know if the guy in front of you will freak out at the last possible second or not. And they freak out way more often than not. I have a suspicion that this is 60 FPS bug or something, because I don’t remember it being that way, but it is very annoying nonetheless. And all of that exercise in frustration honestly would be forgivable if level design was good, but it’s really not all that. There are around 6 missions out of 21 of them that are even remotely Hitman quality, and by Hitman quality I mean barely passable, none of them are going to the hall of fame anytime soon. Even Codename 47 kinda wins this round because it at least has Tradition of the Trade level in it. The rest are either comically simple, limited and short, or huge giant empty wastelands devoid of Hitman gameplay entirely. The Hidden Valley retroactively approaches Hunt Down The Freeman level of quality and I’m not joking. I can recommend this game either to die-hard fans who MUST finish anything Hitman or to those interested in videogame history. And even then – don’t even bother to do Silent Assassin, it’s really not worth it. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427771731