Hitman II is successful where the original wasn't: it's fun and not just ungodly hard.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin comes along to fix it all and finally make a fun and challenging experience worth your time and best of all, your money.
The game picks up right after the original. 47 is keeping a low profile in Sicily, tending the garden of a church and has befriended the priest, Father Gegorio. All is well until one day the good father is kidnapped by the local mafia and 47 is forced to contact the Agency to pick up information and try to rescue the good man. Unfortunately for him, and good for us, the Agency isn't giving the info for free, making 47 do some dirty jobs to pay the help back. You'll be doing hits, killing crime bosses, hackers, businessmen and even a Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden look-alikes!
And doing the hits will be as fun as heck since you'll have a bunch of weapons available, not including the multiple paths you can take and the weapons you find along the way. By the way, all weapons you find and take to the end of the missions will be made available for future and past (replay) missions, through your handy tool-shed that was converted to a weapons cache.
In this game you'll finally get the chance to save the game in the middle of the missions. The catch will be that you have a limited amount of chances of doing so. And in the highest difficulty, you won't get a chance to save. Also, after each level you'll be graded depending on your stealth, detection, shots fired, killing anyone and etc. You'll get some anaesthesic, so you can drug drones and only kill the main target. But be careful, it comes in small amounts, so choose your targets carefully and make sure no-one sees your action, because if they do, your disguise will be useless.
Graphics-wise, the game is really detailed and looks good on all of the platforms. Rag-doll effects run wild here, you'll be able to drag and drop bodies as you please, and guns will send people flying, believe me.
The cutscenes look awesome and the soundtrack is done by Kid Jasper and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, so you know you'll enjoy it. The controls can take a while to get used to, but once you do, you'll feel right at home, at any console or configuration for a PC pad.
The game is so good and fun that is recommended to anyone remotely interested in the subject. And the price is low now, so you don't have a excuse not to own this.
Thanks you reading!