Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

one of the best hitman games

great game

Simply masterpiece. It not as hardcore as Hitman: Codename 47 but still very-very hard (probably, as all games of old era). Map design and missions are brilliant. Strongly recommended to play.

It requires hours of trial and error to make it work on a modern machine. Don't buy it.

how can the game be for sale if it doesnt even launch

The game is broken on pc.

This is a really good game! I watched Theogony and I did cheats in this game!

A classic

An icon of the great Hitman game series

Nice game

Yame Yame Yame Yame Yame 🥷🏻
Guard Checking Your Id

After a weekend playing Hitman 2, I went back to my office for work on Monday. There I saw a new co-worker I didn’t recognise. While watching them walk across the office, I realised they were walking slighter faster than anyone else, so of course I immediately shot them to death.

Hitman 2 isn’t the worst game I’ve played, I just did not enjoy it. I didn’t play it as a kid so I don’t have the benefit of nostalgia. It’s a frustrating experience, often leaving you wondering “when it gets good”. There are flashes of brilliance, and some levels absolutely click. However, the limitations got old fast.

The most egregious one is running. You cannot run in this game. Codename 47 allowed you to run where you wanted in the right disguise – perhaps not the best for realism but much better for enjoyability when 47s walking speed is so slow. Any fast movement is heard by the guard’s crazy good hearing and is a “shoot-on-sight” offence. This is particularly annoying when you get “caught” just trying to get to the next area and are executed without explanation immediately. Some civvies move faster than your default speed, and for some reason are amazing at seeing through your disguises. You must keep a snails pace at all times to blend in, but also never get too close to anyone. Furthermore, the silent weapons like fiber wire and anaesthetic (with it’s long wind up time) need you attack from the back – you must agonisingly creep up to hostiles and not take a single audible step, while they move faster than you and their buddies can all recognise each other by footfall alone with a hearing radius of about 50 miles.

Hearing comes into play with nightvision too – a couple of levels let you turn off the lights so you can run around in NVGs – oh except they can recognise the sound of an assassin moving past them and open fire with pinpoint accuracy in pitch blackness – what was the point of turning off the lights? Some patrols routes are painfully long – leading to long sequences of waiting where there’s nothing you can do.

The AI sucks at fighting. The Hitman series isn’t really a shooter to be fair (and this is from 2002), but it takes the edge out of the game. On your 10th time being caught for daring to move with any sense of purpose, you realise all you have to do is shoot one guard. The rest will come to investigate, stand in the exact same spot, and stare blankly while you line up a row of headshots. Bullets also move hilarious slowly in this game.

The story is just an excuse to get you killing (fair enough) and the voice work is awful (and downright racist for some NPCs). The inventory will sometimes give you a random item than the one you wanted.

Despite this, it’s not all bad. If you have a lot of patience it could be worth checking out. Jesper Kyd’s soundtrack always slaps. As I said, some levels let you forget all the frustrations and kick ass. While there was some jank (Again, 2002), performance wise it ran fine. I didn’t need to do anything to make my steam version work, and also look good. If you are a fan of this type of game and are happy to take it very slow, go for it. If you’re spoiled by modern innovations like walking faster than 0.2mph, don’t bother.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is, to say the least, an absolutely incredible game—especially considering the year it was released! The gameplay is remarkably immersive, with smart mechanics and level design that still hold up even today. It’s a must-play for anyone who appreciates a blend of stealth, strategy, and creativity. Highly recommend it!

The most unrealistic part of this game is the fact that Russian civilians run to the guards after seeing a man in a suit carrying a sniper rifle.

A great game. It expands on the original Hitman game in pretty much all ways. The stealth is even more important, The combat is a little better with the larger variety of weapons you can use. Some of which you get by getting the silent assassin grade after missions.

The game has quite a lot of diverse missions, even more so than the original with some of the harder ones giving you extra saves in case you mess up which is great. Being able to save at all is already an improvement on the first game where if you mess up you have to do the entire mission from the start and it got tedious after a few tries especially if it was a long mission. The last mission is the worst though since you need to kill all the guards in the mission and there is no saving. You are forced to get into gun fights with multiple enemies at once at points and it is not fun. At least it is the only such mission in the game.

It does have a few annoying bugs on one of the japanese missions, but besides that there aren't too many bugs worth mentioning. It is a little rough around the edges considering it's age but it is worth at a shot 9/10

gives a lot of Bad n Good Feels from the Past Related to this,
but Overall this is a Really great game, Replayed it alot Too!!

Finally I bought a childhood game

Does not work in my new Windows 11 but works excellently in my older computer with Ubuntu linux 24.04.

Unplayable, the game lags so bad for no reason.

I was very pleased with this game. Unlike Codename 47 which I was not a fan of as seen in my review for it, Silent Assassin was a challenging yet rewarding game and I actually felt like I was encouraged to experiment with different ways of approaching each hit. Not to make this too much about Codename 47, but that game felt so linear and unfair, whereas Silent Assassin had new mechanics that expanded the maps and possibilities of how to complete each mission. This game felt like it took pretty much everything good that Codename 47 did and expanded upon it while removing most of the negative aspects of the first game. The biggest problems with this game in my experience were probably the AI randomly turning on you and shooting you and the sneaking mode making you move REALLY slow to the point that it's very difficult to use. Other than that, I was also quite pleased with this game's story. It was interesting to see the religious awakening that Agent 47 was going through in the beginning of the game, the background of each hit, and the ending of the game was honestly really interesting with the choice Agent 47 made and the reasons for it, but I won't get into spoilers.

Overall, Silent Assassin is a fantastic game. Were there some points that were a bit frustrating, outdated, or just pure bad? Sure. However, the great parts of this game definitely overpowered the bad. I had a blast playing this game and I would definitely recommend it for anyone to at least try. Also, If you're like me and had a lackluster experience with Codename 47, I think this one will make up for it.

8.5/10

Might be my favorite game from whole Hitman franchise. It was awesome in 2002 and it still awesome 12 years later. Just classic and perfect Hitman game

good game havent had any issue and didnt have to install a mod to get it running 😎

good

the game won't even start. almost kms twice beacuse of this delightful game. 10/10 experience.

good

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is not far from the first part, retaining the poor controls, improving the picture and a little more advancing the stealth, which is still bad.

** DO NOT BUY THE BUNDLE FOR HITMAN **

This is one of the games you have to download mods in order to get it to operate. You can't just get on it and go. There will be a black screen, another black screen, a picture since the scene won't actually play but with audio and then the menu works but that's about it. rest of the game is a trainwreck unless you roll the dice on a mod and it may not even end up working for you anyway.

You've been warned. They won't refund me despite not playing this game at all because I put more than 2 hours into an entirely different game in the bundle.

Apparently, if your hardware is too good (which nowadays is common for this game), you can't play it (FPS lock bug, never fixed)

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Unfortunately this game doesnt run well at all on PC, a 15 year old game, quite possibly the best game ever and it isnt optimized on here, wow what a pity.

Blatantly doesn't work on my computer, I have a computer good enough to run modern games smoothly, but Agent 47 only moves when he feels like it for me. Not only that, but the first cutscene didn't trigger for me, making it impossible for me to progress.

the game is fun but you need to download community fixes for it to be playable

nice game

Running in this game is considered a terrorist act. I found Saddam Husseins hiding spot at the cost of feeling like Sisyphus chasing people around with the fiber wire. This and the first game should be some sort of capital punishment

goat.

Running in this game is considered a terrorist act. I found Saddam Husseins hiding spot at the cost of feeling like Sisyphus chasing people around with the fiber wire. This and the first game should be some sort of capital punishment

One of my best childhood games of all time, I used to play it on my ps2 back in the day, The soundtrack of the game is so sick especially the japanese mission ost, So nostalgic, It's so sad to see games you used to play shatters by time. I wish I could live these times again, But I will always appreciate the memories.

Pretty solid game! The lore is also good.

Juegazo, Must play, 10/10 IGN

Just about recommend this game. It's a good follow-up to the first one that builds on the format and has a large variety of missions that cover many different settings and tasks. It has some bugs and feels quite dated at times but this generally doesn't upset the rhythm of the game or make it too frustrating. It's also allows freedom to play in a less stealthy way if things become too difficult, which I was grateful for. Maybe a better entry point into the series than the first one as the story felt more engaging. Though I would personally say that there are better stealth game options out there than Hitman. I'm yet to be fully convinced by this franchise. On to the next one...

Great game but the steam version requires patching in order to play on modern hardware by either converting the game to DirectX9 or using Wine on windows?!? It's also censored, an entire storyline is altered to remove references to Gurdwara.
GOG version is prepatched and uncensored so please consider that one instead unless ur willing to download random patches off the interweb

Jank and two awful levels in Japan aside, this is still a really good game. May want to cap FPS of game at 60 or below due to certain mechanics being unstable when running at above 60.

The game where sh*t got real.

You can tell how the budget for this game was way bigger than c47, it has the same ambition and creativity, but after the success of the first game, IO had the money to back it up.

This game is a prime example of what a sequel should be: Improve and build upon the previous game, upgrading and adding new ideas instead of changing it for the sake of being new (e.g absolution)

Can somebody help me to fix this game beacuse it is very buggy and i cant even play it?

FOR ANYONE THAT CANNOT GET THEIR GAME TO GET PASSED THE GRAY SCREEN!
When launching the game make sure you click the "hitman 2 configure" option then disable full screen and put the resolution to the max and it will work. (If you have two monitors hold windows+shift+the arrow pointing to the monitor you want)
-I also went into the files and went to the hitman2 application, went to properties, compatibility and changed the launch option to windows vista(service pack2). IM NOT SURE IF THIS IS NECESSARY BUT IF IT DOESN'T WORK TRY DOING THIS.

That snow level with Snipers is horrible though

Steam version doesn't work without player-made mods

Memories-one of the best Hitman series❤