Video Game stuff -- Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

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To anybody who has played this game, on any console or PC. Could someone please explain to me why one may consider this fun?

What the frickenty-fracking-flippity-flock are you supposed to do? I have played the first scenario a dozen friggin times and there is not a single thing I can do that doesn’t get me killed.

I’ve hidden my guns in the delivery boys box. I’ve silently killed the postman. I’ve hidden his body and taken his clothes and flowers. I’ve walked into the mansion and handed the flowers to the maid. From there I’m nothing but a target.

If I just stand there … bang, I’m dead. If I try to strangle the one guard in that room … bang I’m dead. If I try to wander around … bang I’m dead. If I go back outside … bang I’m dead.

I do not frigging get it. Please tell me that I’ve rented some sort of hacked copy of the game designed to just drive me crazy, because I think if I try this one more time and the same shit happens, I’ll end up throwing my TV through the window.

Arg!!

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I always just go gung-ho in the first level. Kill everything you see Run through the gates into the mansion killing everyone you see. Go up the stairs, blow the Mafioso away with a shotgun, Go to the basement and then drive off in the car in the garage. 47 actually has WAY too much health, and this level is too easy. Sure, you’ll get a “Mass Murderer” rating by doing a Rambo, but it’s something.

You sure you’re not on “hard”? Don’t run, and get a disguise but don’t get close- they’ll know you’re not really a guard. Always hide bodies also. If you’re prompted that you’re causing too much rukus, don’t worry; you probably aren’t. The Boss has never escaped for me, at least.

Don’t worry- I was confused with this level in the demo. Later levels are more self explanitory (There is usually a drop-off with all the weapons you need, so you know what to do. There isn’t one in the first leve.l)

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This is one of my favorite games for the Xbox. I played it when it first came out so I’m a bit foggy on the details so definately check out www.gamefaqs.com Anyway, I did it the easy way: Garrot-wired the guy at the side door (the one near where the car is parked) grabbed the sniper rifle in next to the car, snuck around and sniped the bastid while swinging his golf club on his deck. Actually I did it a whole bunch of ways but that’s the quickest/easiest. Basically the only thing that the flower/delivery uniforms can do is get you to the front door (past the initial guards). Imagine if in real life if, as a delivery man, you just started walking around the place. One thing to remember is that you really can’t sneak up on someone when they are moving; you just can’t catch up to them without making enough noise to alert them.

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ARG! I hate that game. I wish I had rented it rather than bought it. It was among the worst piece of garbage I have played. It has so much potential but it is boring.

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That is one of the best games out for Xbox. Great game.

If you are getting killed as soon as people see you then you have not dropped EVERYTHING into the delivery box. The only thing you can carry on you is the piano cord to go thru the gate.

If you kill the guard that goes out back to piss and take his uniform you need to hold HIS gun, not yours. That will set them on to you too.

I didn’t even deal with the delivery box. The easiest way to get in is to kill the guard taking a piss outside at the begining. Then you can carry all your shit in the house without any problems.

This game has more freedom than any other game on the market right now. Even more than Dues Ex. You can beat the levels 5 or 6 totally different ways each.

Awsome game.

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I tried it this way too. The only problem with this way is that you still need to get the key to the cellar from him. So you still need to get up to his office to get it so it is pointless to shoot him with teh sniper rifle because it just gets everyone riled up.

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I really enjoyed this game on the PC, with the exception of two or three levels. The first level has a few ways to do it, but only one or two get you the “Silent Assassin” rating.

From the start, run down the hill and hide to the right of the door, behind the little outcropping on the wall. Hide and wait for the guard to head out and relieve himself. Take him out, drag him through the door and leave him in the depression in the ground while you take his clothes.

Put all your guns away, and walk, hugging the right wall, past the kitchen door, then head to the door on the far side (leading to the courtyard). Peek through this door and wait for the son and the fat guard to walk past to the right, then sneak though and climb the ladder on the left while they’re looking the other way.

Once you’re on the roof, you can cross the plank and enter the don’s office. Hide behind the dresser and wait for him to come in, and you can sneak up and wire him. Put the body behind the desk, so if you’re slow on the way out the maid doesn’t discover the body.

Get the key and revolver, and put everything away again. Sneak over to a window and watch the son and the fat guard. It may take a while, but eventually they’ll enter the house. When they do, exit onto the balcony and neak across the plank, back down the ladder, and out to the outer area again. When you waltz past this time, detour into the basement and check out the cell. Now nonchalantly walk out the door you entered from, past the guard you eliminated, and down the road to freedom.

Once you’ve done it a couple of times, you can use the anastethic on the guard and hurry through the rest of the level now that you have the pattern down.

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The way I beat the level:

Sneak up on the postman, anesthetize him, and take his goodies. Sprint over and hide your guns in the delivery boy’s boxes. Sprint back around to the front and go through the front gate. Walk through the front door. When the maid takes the flowers from you, stand still. Shortly, the guard there will follow her through the double-doors.

This is the important part: when the doors have closed, go into “sneak” mode and creep over to the dark area under the stairs to your left. Ready your fiber wire and wait. The guard will soon come back out through the double doors. Strangle him, drag him under the stairs, and take his clothes. Be quick about it, the maid will be back all too soon. Then, move through the door to the right of the entrance and make your way to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, retrieve your guns from the box the delivery boy brought in. Go up the kitchen stairs, being sure to avoid people, and make your way to the hallway outside the Don’s room. Walk just to where the corridor turns to the right. Ready your 9MM silencer pistol before you turn the corner. At the corner, sidestep and nail the guard in the head with one shot.

Watch your map for a good time to enter the Don’s room. Again, you should be able to nail him in the head with one shot from your silenced pistol. Take the key and split. Again, make sure you dodge people. Make your way down the kitchen stairs and down into the dungeon. Check out the cell.

To leave, I took the door near the garage. The guard standing near the door wasn’t moving, but no one was near him and I got impatient, so I once again shot him once in the head with the silenced 9MM. I then walked out the door and on my merry way. Mission accomplished, three shots fired, no alarms raised.

This method didn’t earn the “Silent Assassin” rating, but it got the job done. Besides, getting “Silent Assassin” on the next two levels is easy enough. On one, I nailed two targets with one sniper shot. Booya!

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I can get Silent Assassin on the first level only.

I stand behind the door the guard comes out of to take a leak. I anaesthetise him, take his clothes and gun, and drag him into the trees.

I go around to the side door and come up through the kitchen to the second floor. I watch my radar and wait for that guard in the room with the stairs on the other side of the house to go to the kitchen for a snack. I go in, wack the boss (usually with a silenced pistol), and then go back out the way I came, stopping by that room in the basement.

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My major beef with the game was the issue of speed.

Not performance, mind you, it ran just fine on my machine. I’m talking about 47 himself. Here we have someone who’s allegedly the deadliest, most skilled hitman in the world (or at least, you know, way up there)–yet the only way he moves silently is by creeping like molasses in the antarctic.

For extra irony, contrast this with the bit in the opening footage where Bad People are admiring 47’s handiwork caught in security-camera glimpses. “What speed!” Head Evil Woozle gushes. Exactly. What speed?

I’ve walked up behind folks, tapped them on the shoulder, and startled them; granted, I’ve never done this with intent to garrotte… 47 can only walk up unnoticed behind someone at an eggshell-careful pace, that’s so slow you can pretty much only do so at scripted moment (such as the “peeing every five minutes” guard on the first level).

Real nice concept; I’m hoping they refine it by Hitman 3.

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Jack: If you’re stuck on the first level, just go in rambo style. Kill everybody. Every level can be done this way, if your really stuck on it.

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I hear that. This is my only complaint with this game. It makes using the piano cord alot harder. I don’t know how many times I started creeping up on someone and got jumpy because he was going so slow, tried to choke em out and totally missed the guy with the cord.

Other than that minor issue this game is pretty much pefect iIMHO

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Been there, done it, bought the t-shirt. Sometimes I find myself running around like an idiot with the wire in my hand, trying to garrot this insane soldier who’s running around in circles trying to shoot me. On the other hand, it’s quite funny to watch!

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Ok. Last night after I posted this thread, I put myself into a deep zen trance. I read all the advice twice. I checked out GameFaq (which I was already hip to) and read all the possible ways to do the level.

Then I meditated. Then I offered up a sacrifice of beer and Doritos to the video game gods.

I fired up the game once again. Three tries, the first person I ran across either killed me or alerted the guards. I even tried Ramboing it and I got as far as the kitchen where I was beaten down like a Iraqi at a VFW.

I’m going to work now. I’m going to be calm and peaceful all day. I’m going to divorce my feeling, emotions and opinions from Hitman 2. When I get home I’m going to calmly play this first level again. If things don’t go precisely as I plan, I’m going to use the disk to slice my friggin’ wrists!!!

Then if I don’t die, I’ll play Tony Hawk 4 instead. At least I’m good at that.

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I loved the visuals on this game, but I hated playing it. I’m a saver. I save every five minutes. Nevertheless, I managed to love the first game. This one, I just couldn’t stand most of the missions, plus 47 moves so frickin’ slowly it pisses me off.

But mostly its the fact that Russian guards randomly shoot me. Question: If you are a soldier and see another soldier zipping along towards the restroom, do you:

A) Wave at him.
B) Ignore him.
C) Tell him theres another, closer restroom out back?

Answer? None of the above, in Hitman 2. Instead, you are supposed to blow away every soldier or guard you see making the slightest peep.

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Um… Might be a stupid question, but you DO have all your weapons holstered when you’re not using one of their clothes, right?

And remember not to get too close to anyone when you’re in disguise, they can tell something’s wrong if you get too close. Watch the “awareness” meter…

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Last night I was planning on using the disguise as the delivery boy to get inside, but I couldn’t sneak up on him or he’d run away, and if I shot him, the guards were alerted.

I think maybe I shot him while the door was still open, though.

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This has GOT to be it man. If you have a guards costume on then there is no way you are going to get wasted at first sight unless you are weilding your own weapon instead of the one the guard was carrying.

My advice. Don’t even mess around trying to go in the front way using the delivery guy routine. Its a pain in the ass. Take out the guard outside the wall. Change clothes. Go inside the walls. DONT EVER RUN! Walk slowly past the guard outside the kitchen, or go thru the basement into the house and carry on.

FTR, it took me a while to get used to the game too. I kept trying the front gate thing and was killed 10 times in a row before I realized I couldn’t carry ANYTHING but the piano cord. And then I got wasted over and over by the guard in the fourier.

Its a great game man. Don’t give up on it.

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If this doesn’t demonstrate the difference in playing styles that this game, I don’t know what else could. Aside from the last level, you can avoid almost any non-target deaths through stealth.

The only peeves I have: the incredibly slow sneaking has already been mentioned, so I’ll move on to my second. In the first game, if you had a rifle and pulled out a one-handed weapon, he’d put the rifle in his left hand and the smaller weapon in the right. You could then use the right weapon. In this way you could pull out the piano wire and kill somebody, then switch back to the rifle quickly. In the sequel, he drops the rifle when you pull out a knife or wire, so you have to take out an enemy, then go back for the gun you dropped.

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I found it frustrating at first - but then I adopted a strategy (on every level) of

a) scope the level out from afar as much as possible
b) go through the level blasting until I get an idea of the guards patterns etc.
c) go back and try to be stealthier
d) repeat until I’m a “Silent Assasin”

The first level isn’t really that much fun tho - the later levels are MUCH MUCH better.

Getting the SA rating can be frustrating tho - the ‘getting to the guy behind the glass in the interview room’ thing had been banging my head for hours and hours!!!

TTFN

JP