HIT, MAN!

User Rating: 9.5 | Hitman: Blood Money PC
I started the first on a recommendation from an English friend (he actually gave me the game while I was in England) and I was skeptical. But that was quickly replaced by interest, then awe. Surely it couldn't be this good? My enjoyment of the first led me to the others, each getting successively better until Blood Money. I am writing this quite awhile after playing, but it is still (and will ever be) fresh in my mind. It rates up there with Max Payne and Far Cry, but achieves a different tone all together. Blood Money is one of the best games I've ever played, because I've never played anything quite like it. It gripped me as soon as the opening starts to play Ave Maria sung by a male soprano (Vienna boys choir? Welsh?). Immediate goosebumps, if you know the previous games, especially "Silent Assasin". The only thing they had to do is improve the graphics, which they did, and they could keep on drilling out story lines and making these games. It's like Half Life 2: Keep them coming baby, there will always be one here to play it! Over-all, an excellent game. Agent 47 is smoother than Curtis Mayfield.