Hitman 2: Silent Assassin on a netbook

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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is probably the best Hitman after Blood Money. It has a better story – with 47 repenting in a monastery in Sicily, plays better than the third installation of Hitman, and has lots of guns for you to have fun with. You start out as 47, and after a short stint in a Sicilian monastery where your pastor gets kidnapped, you go out in search of him only to find the ‘old life’ too addictive. So from that day onward, you go back to the old 47 that everyone likes.

Planning a silent attack on Soviets

The game is highly enjoyable and has significant entertainment value. The storyline wanes around the first quarter, but each level is designed with great depth and open-endedness that it is actually very engrossing and captivating. You can kill someone by shooting, strangling, slitting his throat or poisoning, and each method has its pros and cons. Eventually, your actions will be judged in a rating scale from the best, Silent Assassin, where you kill minimally or Mass Murderer, which is awarded to people who bring the big guns to every fight, killing unnecessary people and innocent people.

Unlike other Hitmans, this one does not have the concept of buying weapons. Instead, you’ll have to pick them up as you traverse the globe, and add them to your collection. Eventually, you’ll need to collect a few big guns for the last battle back home.

This game has an issue – it still retains the overly sensitive guards from the first Hitman which open fire on you whenever you get too close. The worst thing has to be guards who, once taken notice of you, will tail you until they get close (presumably to confirm your identity) and suddenly open fire.

Fixing the Silent Assassin

The game runs flawlessly and can be played from the get-go without any modification. Although without modification, you will only be able to play in 4:3 ratio, but that can be fixed by going under the hood…

Getting widescreen resolutions

For fresh installations, run the game for the first time so you’ll get the hitman2.ini. Now head to your installation folder and find this file. Scroll down to resolution and change the default setting to 1024×600, or whatever your optimal screen res is. Then, find window 0 and change it to window 1. If your .ini is missing this line, add it in anywhere. Done. Now Save and run Hitman 2.

Like

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Still one of the better Hitman games – not as hard as the original Hitman, not as incompetent as the third

Great depth, good selection of guns

Runs flawlessly and simple widescreen mod

Dislike

Overly sensitive guards

Verdict

This should be the first Hitman you get on your netbook, because it runs so smoothly unlike the first and is captivatingly fun.

Gameplay: Great

Graphics: Good

Work needed to get game to play: Little (5 minutes)

Screenshots: Firingsquad

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