Hitman 2

Show Business · 02-05-2018 5:51pm #1

Best gaming for me over 15 years back.

Proffs killer against evil in castle.

As known.

B.A._Baracus · 02-05-2018 8:05pm

I never played it

The one that got away. Must finally get around to play it!

Rob2D · 03-05-2018 8:31am

One of the greatest games of all time.

All the sequels were good too, but sadly none were ever able to match this. And I doubt one ever will.

Skerries · 03-05-2018 9:19am

Blood Money shines as the best I feel

Doctor Nick · 03-05-2018 9:42am

Is this on the PS3 HD collection? I have that unplayed at home.

Rob2D · 03-05-2018 11:43am

Skerries wrote: »

Blood Money shines as the best I feel

No way. Blood Money is the worst of the entire lot IMO.

Kerplunk124 · 04-05-2018 8:12pm

Rob2D wrote: »

No way. Blood Money is the worst of the entire lot IMO.

Why? Blood Money is by far my favourite too so curious how someone could hate it haha

RobertFoster · 04-05-2018 9:33pm

The only thing I didn't like about Blood Money was the achievements didn't stack so I had to play through it on all four difficulties :pac:

Apart from Hitman 2016, the rest of the series sort of all blends together in my head.

Canis Lupus · 05-05-2018 6:26am

I've tried so hard to like Hitman. On paper it should be a great game but I always find them a bit underwhelming.

ERG89 · 12-10-2018 2:26pm

This mode looks like a ton off fun.....please no microtransactions as it'd ruin the randomness of it

Zero-Cool · 12-10-2018 3:25pm

That mode looks like a lot of fun, great idea! I think this thread was for the original hitman 2 but might as well make it about the new hitman 2

marcbrophy · 12-10-2018 4:01pm

Is it Hitman 2 or Hitman season 2?

Either way, can't wait!!

ERG89 · 12-10-2018 4:09pm

marcbrophy wrote:

Is it Hitman 2 or Hitman season 2?

Hitman 2 as they aren't releasing it episodically. It's 6 big levels but there is a gold edition that has 2 more locations. It's exclusive to Gamestop for 100 euros; shame it's not in Smyths or Amazon.
I assume this dlc will be in a season pass but I can't find one on stores, yet anyway.
Only special edition I've bought in recent years was just this week for assassins creed as it was 25 quid extra for 2 games and 2 story expansions.

dreamers75 · 13-10-2018 12:57am

The last Hitman is the best of all, I hope this is as good.

I liked the episodic content and the weekly.player challenges were brilliant.

Seriously under rated game.

dreamers75 · 15-10-2018 4:21pm

https://www.pcgamesn.com/hitman-2/hitman-2-multiplayer-ghost-mode

Dammit gonna have to get it now, that mode sounds good.

Exclamation Marc · 17-10-2018 2:08pm

https://twitter.com/Hitman/status/1052545010028007424?s=19

Sean Bean as the first elusive target. Brilliant marketing too.

Zero-Cool · 17-10-2018 3:11pm

Ah, I was all for forgetting about this until a sale but between that ghost mode and Sean bean, day 1 is tempting!

ERG89 · 06-11-2018 1:08pm

I never like advertising them but the gold edition has dropped to €80 in Gamestop, got a voucher for the Sniper Assassin too. Wouldn't normally buy there but the 2 future maps are worth it for me if I get as much out of this game as I did season 1.

Exclamation Marc · 08-11-2018 5:00am

ERG89 wrote: »

I never like advertising them but the gold edition has dropped to €80 in Gamestop, got a voucher for the Sniper Assassin too. Wouldn't normally buy there but the 2 future maps are worth it for me if I get as much out of this game as I did season 1.

It's only £35 on TheGameCollection for the regular edition at the moment for anyone who wants that edition.

Could work out cheaper to get that edition from there if the season pass works out at €35 or less.

TheValeyard · 08-11-2018 7:06pm

I went for the collectors edition

FAILSAFE 00 · 09-11-2018 1:12pm

Just picked up the gold edition.

Not sure what way to play this. Loved Hitman's 2016 episodic release format. I would complete the highest rating and do some additional stuff in each location and then wait until the next release.

In this I'll probably just aim for the highest rating for each location before moving on to the next mission and then comeback later and do more.

Zero-Cool · 09-11-2018 2:54pm

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Just picked up the gold edition.

Not sure what way to play this. Loved Hitman's 2016 episodic release format. I would complete the highest rating and do some additional stuff in each location and then wait until the next release.

In this I'll probably just aim for the highest rating for each location before moving on to the next mission and then comeback later and do more.

I'd be very interested in how you're finding this if you can post your thoughts the more you play? I feel the exact same way about the episodes. I think if I'd buy this now (not toughing anything til I finish RDR2 anyway), I'd probably play through the mission once and move onto the next and not sure if I'd have the motivation to go back through each. With the episodes, I played the arse out of each level and loved it where I wouldn't have if I had all the episodes in one go.

FAILSAFE 00 · 09-11-2018 3:06pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I'd be very interested in how you're finding this if you can post your thoughts the more you play? I feel the exact same way about the episodes. I think if I'd buy this now (not toughing anything til I finish RDR2 anyway), I'd probably play through the mission once and move onto the next and not sure if I'd have the motivation to go back through each. With the episodes, I played the arse out of each level and loved it where I wouldn't have if I had all the episodes in one go.

I'll be continuing red dead also. So I'll be going back and forth between both games.

ERG89 · 09-11-2018 5:16pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

With the episodes, I played the arse out of each level and loved it where I wouldn't have if I had all the episodes in one go.

I think IO were scared they lost sales with the last game's at times confusing* release format; after what happened with Telltale so fast maybe customers will be more wary going forward of paying for episodic games like that up front; obviously IO are hoping people buy this in the first few weeks. As am I, as I worry about the future of the series if this game tanks.

Completely agree with you that Hitman suits an episodic format tho and you gt more value out of it by replaying the levels, over and over until the next episode.

*confusing as the way it was originally planned was 2 packs of 3 levels. Then it released as a season pass or individual episodes after you bought an intro pack. Then you got a full retail release which didn't happen until the season ended and finally a definitive edition which had more content than if you bought a season pass.

09-11-2018 5:21pm

You look at how the game is structured on the Xbox store at least it's clear it was originally intended to be episodic. If you had the last game you get the Legacy levels for free which you can play and get new achievements / trophies.

ERG89 · 09-11-2018 8:59pm

Deleted User wrote:

You look at how the game is structured on the Xbox store at least it's clear it was originally intended to be episodic. If you had the last game you get the Legacy levels for free which you can play and get new achievements / trophies.

Fwiw. I just put in the disc. Currently a svelte install after Red Dead and a 15GB update/day 1 patch which I imagine is a fair chunk of the content.
Have to redownload the old season 1 content too. I was hoping it would move it over as I already have it installed anyway. Gonna be a while before I can play now as my OCD wants me to install everything first

FAILSAFE 00 · 09-11-2018 11:42pm

ERG89 wrote: »

...I was hoping it would move it over as I already have it installed anyway.

Its a remastered version of the first game with new gameplay mechanics brought in from the second game so its a new install.

CatInABox · 10-11-2018 10:32am

I waited until Hitman was on sale the last time around and bought all the episodes together. I played through all the levels, got full mastery on all of them, so I won't have a problem with getting all the levels in one go.

I have changed how I play games over the years though, I now work through my backlog, stick to one game until I totally finish with it, or at least until I get my moneys worth out of it.

CatInABox · 12-11-2018 5:44pm

The Legacy pack for Hitman 2 is free right now, don't know if it's meant to be free, I thought that you had to own the originals first.

TheValeyard · 12-11-2018 7:23pm

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

I went for the collectors edition

Pricks in Game stop cancelled my order due to not having it in stock!!! I'd pre-ordered it a while back!!

13-11-2018 10:41am

Standard editions are 54.99 in Argos.

ERG89 · 13-11-2018 10:59am

Expansion Pass is 40 quid on the psn store. Quite a bit so if you want it before it's on sale. There is a free prologue too; don't ask me what that entails.

13-11-2018 11:40am

ERG89 wrote: »

Expansion Pass is 40 quid on the psn store. Quite a bit so if you want it before it's on sale. There is a free prologue too; don't ask me what that entails.

I've got the prologue downloading, unlikely to be the case but I was curious to see if the legacy missions could be played through it without buying the full game. I'll report back if it works.

EDIT: When I looked at manage game on xbox it lets me install the legacy stuff with just the prologue installed, waiting for those to finish now. and you need to by he game to play them

CatInABox · 13-11-2018 2:37pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I've got the prologue downloading, unlikely to be the case but I was curious to see if the legacy missions could be played through it without buying the full game. I'll report back if it works.

EDIT: When I looked at manage game on xbox it lets me install the legacy stuff with just the prologue installed, waiting for those to finish now. and you need to by he game to play them

I can play the legacy levels without owning Hitman 2

13-11-2018 4:35pm

CatInABox wrote: »

I can play the legacy levels without owning Hitman 2

Odd, it directed me to the store when I tried to start paris. I'll check again later.

CatInABox · 13-11-2018 4:53pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Odd, it directed me to the store when I tried to start paris. I'll check again later.

Yeah, someone else said the same on the Xbox forum, but reddit is full of people saying they can play. Not sure what's going on. I played through the prologue missions while the rest were downloading, then I answered that I wanted to "play from the beginning".

I've played on Paris and Spain so far.

Robert ninja · 14-11-2018 12:40am

zero day crack https://crackwatch.com/game/hitman-tm-2

Demo on steam enables you to review. I can't get it to work since they dropped linux support.

awec · 19-11-2018 12:07am

I downloaded the prologue cause it's free to see how good this is, but didn't realise the prologue is the exact same training mission as the last game.

I was watching the cut scenes and when it all started sounding familiar I wondered if I'd accidentally installed the old game instead.

humanji · 20-11-2018 9:24pm

I just killed Sean Bean, and feel a little guilty.

20-11-2018 9:29pm

humanji wrote: »

I just killed Sean Bean, and feel a little guilty.

Oh he's actually in it? I just thought it was a promo thing he did for them

Zero-Cool · 20-11-2018 9:56pm

humanji wrote: »

I just killed Sean Bean, and feel a little guilty.

Thoughts so far? I'm mad to play it but gonna wait for a sale/RDR 2 to finish up.

humanji · 20-11-2018 10:09pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Thoughts so far? I'm mad to play it but gonna wait for a sale/RDR 2 to finish up.

I'm loving it. It pretty much is more of the same, but that's what I was looking for. It's pretty easy, though. The focus is more on trying to find every secret in each level, rather than trial and error in order to complete a single kill.

If you didn't feel the urge to run out and buy it immediately, then you might be better off playing what you have and/or waiting for a sale.

TheValeyard · 21-11-2018 11:30pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Thoughts so far? I'm mad to play it but gonna wait for a sale/RDR 2 to finish up.

On sale already. Great game though.

FAILSAFE 00 · 30-11-2018 4:23pm

Its interesting that you have to download all the locations individually.

They must have set this up to be episodic like the previous game but then decided on a full release in a short time frame.

CatInABox · 30-11-2018 10:33pm

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Its interesting that you have to download all the locations individually.

They must have set this up to be episodic like the previous game but then decided on a full release in a short time frame.

It's practically an expansion of Hitman Season 1, they probably couldn't afford to change how the engine was set up for the this one.

Robert ninja · 01-12-2018 1:59am

Unlikely it was anything to do with being able to afford it. They probably just didn't bother to change it because why fix what isn't broken? Also compartmentalising it allows for it work with Season 1 and they can release levels later separately as some kind of promotional thing perhaps, like other games do free weekends, or outright give a level away for a holiday or something. Overall there's just no reason to change it.

Still not buying until it gets the linux support that the original had, though. And for them to do away with Denuvo for the second time.

Azza · 01-12-2018 11:26am

Robert ninja wrote: »

Unlikely it was anything to do with being able to afford it. They probably just didn't bother to change it because why fix what isn't broken? Also compartmentalising it allows for it work with Season 1 and they can release levels later separately as some kind of promotional thing perhaps, like other games do free weekends, or outright give a level away for a holiday or something. Overall there's just no reason to change it.

Still not buying until it gets the linux support that the original had, though. And for them to do away with Denuvo for the second time.

Surely if its released on Linux it won't have Denuvo anyway.

Personally Denuvo has never bothered me in a game. But each to their own.

As it stands I'm enjoying the game, its basically season 2, the same game with some very small additions but I really liked the first game so I'm happy with it, but from a PC perspective its disappointing that it lacks the graphics options the first game had. Some of the larger levels seem heavily CPU bound and that's why the lack of DX12 support is so disappointing. I do recall Hitman 2016 having issues for a while after release but the support the game received was very good in the long run and it was whipped into good shape. Hopefully its the same this time around, but you never know, their publisher Warner don't have a great track record on PC. The main issue I have is the game is prone to crashing when loading, although once you get in game its not too bad.

Anyway this is gas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZHYdRLK4as

Greatest game ever.

Zero-Cool · 12-12-2018 11:04am

Hitman 2 on sale today in Argos for 26 fecking quid. None in stock but you can reserve to collect from tomorrow to saturday. Jumped on that, can't wait to give it a shot!

Edit: They actually have copies left in some stores. I have a Limerick Crescent resrvation if anyone wants it (if they sell out in the mean time).

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/8555409/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CVideo+games%7C14419738/c_2/3%7C19780877%7CPS4%7C37328275/c_3/4%7Ccat_37328275%7CPS4+games%7C37328632.htm

FAILSAFE 00 · 12-12-2018 3:01pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Hitman 2 on sale today in Argos for 26 fecking quid. None in stock but you can reserve to collect from tomorrow to saturday. Jumped on that, can't wait to give it a shot!

Edit: They actually have copies left in some stores. I have a Limerick Crescent resrvation if anyone wants it (if they sell out in the mean time).

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/8555409/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CVideo+games%7C14419738/c_2/3%7C19780877%7CPS4%7C37328275/c_3/4%7Ccat_37328275%7CPS4+games%7C37328632.htm

Just pacify your wan at the till when security isn't looking. Place her in the bin behind the tills, grab the game and walk out.

Worked for me. Bonus points for suit only.

marcbrophy · 12-12-2018 4:19pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Hitman 2 on sale today in Argos for 26 fecking quid. None in stock but you can reserve to collect from tomorrow to saturday. Jumped on that, can't wait to give it a shot!

Edit: They actually have copies left in some stores. I have a Limerick Crescent resrvation if anyone wants it (if they sell out in the mean time).

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/8555409/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CVideo+games%7C14419738/c_2/3%7C19780877%7CPS4%7C37328275/c_3/4%7Ccat_37328275%7CPS4+games%7C37328632.htm

I would gladly take the crescent res code, if you still have it, please!

Zero-Cool · 12-12-2018 4:28pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

I would gladly take the crescent res code, if you still have it, please!

Code sent, goodluck Agent.

Hitman 2

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