Hitman: Codename 47

Unplayable, not sure how this game got made into a franchise if this is what it was based off of. Just not fun to play even when you get the hang of controls. Great, I have a pistol, a sniper, and no ammo, and no matter what killing the target triggers the guards to attack mode. Stupid game

first of all game was not running in first place i had to see many yt videos and websites to fix that issue second when game started its controls were soo weird i had to fix them third when i actully started playing game its so hard enemy ai is so bad that game is just unplayable

Really good and enjoyable missions are followed by pointlessly frustrating ones. It’s not strictly stealth game, there are only some elements, but I don't see it as a huge problem. If there is literally a huge problem, it's extensive and empty maps. Anyway, moments like The Massacre At Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant or Traditions Of Trade are memorable and worth to play.

One of my favorite "jank" games i mean people in the 2000s actually played this with the number keys even tho I like this game I can say it is really I mean REALLY outdated and I'm going to admit I can't beat this game without cheats ummmmm embarrasing much overall I hate the Rotterdam missions

Mid. okay for a game from the year 2000 but its mid, its hard to play and you require a stupid, stupid amount of patience, dont play it unless you really want to or its on sale, i dont really recommend it, people tend to look back at it with rose tinted glasses, unplayable without a guide

I want to recommend this game, I really do, but it's just horribly made. and I don't care about when it was made, pacman is still fun and that was made WAY before this game, being old is no excuse for being boring. I played 3 levels and hit a wall on the fourth level because it doesn't even make sense, and the game is too frustrating for me to spend the time and effort to figure it out.

The game is just too dated, that's what it all comes down too. The game needs some pretty severe setting changes, including manually changing values in the hitman.ini file, to start in the first place, and even after that the playing experience is rough. The graphics (understandably) don't look great, the movement and its controls feel weird, and the enemy 'AI' is pretty bad in that they can somehow hear me pull out a knife when I'm standing behind them. I'm sure it was a fantastic game back when it released in 2000, but in 2024 I can't seriously recommend this game anymore. I'm currently about halfway through all the levels, and honestly I'm debating just watching a playthrough on youtube for the remaining levels: the game is just not fun to play.

As much as I loved Silent Assassin, Contracts and Blood Money, this game doesn't really hold up well today. The controls, mechanics and detection system are pretty random, unforgiving and sometimes even unfair. As a neurospicy perfectionst, this is really annoying. But the mirror reflections, cloth and ragdoll physics as well as the atmosphere are really impressive for such an old title. If you want to play it on modern hardware, you should definitely look into the community guides for obligatory fixes. I would only recommend it to hardcore fans, with a lot of patience and high frustration tolerance. For everyone else: Just play Hitman Contracts for a more polished experience, since it includes flashbacks to the most iconic missions from Codename 47, with the hotel (Mission 8) being the most significant.

One of the best childhood games ... love this game ... a lot of memories .

my childhood <3
the 1st stealth action game i ever played was this

Meaninglessly frustrating

i don't now why but its so hard to play
and the game its not good

Very good story. 8/10

The game is a classic game that you can enjoy it even now

This game is a mess. I have a love-hate relationship with it. But in the end, I think I like it enough, though I barely recommend it.

To start with it crashes if I try to put it on a higher resolution, so I had to play it on a tiny screen.
There are no saves during the missions, you have to beat them in one sitting and if you fail you restart the whole mission from scratch. Some missions require 20 or 30 minutes of very precise gameplay, failing those near the end is beyond painful.
There's also a massive load of game breaking glitches everywhere, it is super easy to soft-lock the game, usually by getting stuck somewhere.

The missions vary in quality from abominations to mankind to awesome experiences. I believe I have to talk about every mission individually for one to get a better grasp how much the game jumps in its quality. With ratings from 1 to 5 (3 being good, not mediocre).
There may be spoilers below:

1. Tutorial - 2/5.
Yes, it sets up a nice atmosphere, but this is one very tedious tutorial. It is also mandatory and you are forced to play through it...
2. Kowloon Triads in Gang War - 5/5.
If you somehow got through that irritating tutorial the game stars off with its best mission right away. What an epic beginning. In concept, it is a very simple assassination, but you have multiple ways to perform it and it comes with an awesome twist after you hit the alarm. Pure example of less is more.
3. Ambush at the Wang Fou Restaurant - 4/5.
Even when not playing it in the intended manner it is a lot of fun. Another simple, but awesome mission. Not as iconic as the first one though.
4. The Massacre at the Cheng Chau Fish Restaurant - 3/5.
A bit complicated to perform after the simple previous missions, but doable. I was unfortunate to soft-lock the game, for some reason, after I killed the guy I was able to drag his body, but I went away a bit, and when I came back, it did not let me drag his body anymore... Anyway, once you figure out how to do it, it is a fun mission.
5. The Lee Hong Assassination - 1/5.
I despised this mission. It was the longest for me and mainly due to numerous retries. It took me 4 hours to beat this one. The main problem is that it requires way too much precision and luck from the player and the mission is also very long in itself. The game forces you to kill a guard, but it stand in a way that behind him there is uneven ground and because of this I cannot properly strangle him, therefore i fail half my attempts which usually means an end to that run. Same with safes. One safe is easy to get, but if you have bad luck it will spawn in one which is impossible to get without raising the alarm. The one near brothel had just one guard. I take him out. There are two people in the next room and some guards outside. If I do nothing, no one comes in. But once I begin to open the safe, as if scripted someone comes in and the alarm goes off.
6. Find the U'Wa Tribe - 2/5.
It is a pretty painful mission. You are more or less forced into combat. But it has some fun. The territory is way too big though.
7. The Jungle God - 3/5.
Most if not all the people mock this mission, but I found it to be pretty interesting. Sure, it's crazy to even imagine that in a Hitman game there would be a mission where you have to get past a Jaguar. But here it is and it was fun.
8. Say Hello to my Little Friend - 1/5.
Worst mission in the game. The map size is massive and for some reason you start behind the camp. A normal person would instantly assume that there must be a gap in the wire fence nearby, but nope! You must go all the way around because the entrance is on the opposite side... Once you get inside there is a boss battle! And he has insane health, I used up all my ammo on him and he was still alive and after every shot he claims that I do no damage to him. According to walkthroughs I can kill him with guns, but it must require unspeakable amounts of ammo. Anyway, at least game let's me to strangle him. But the mission is not over yet. I still had to bomb the lab and that section is broken. Whenever I'd try to get in, the soldiers would instantly become hostile and kill my run... It was so unstable and unbearable. This mission was impossible and I had to use cheats. I enabled God mode to get this through. Disabled after the mission.
9. Traditions of the Trade - 4/5.
A very solid mission. Some iconic scenes like the sauna kill. My favourite part is when you have to escape with the bomb and have to find a way without metal detectors.
10. Gunrunner's Paradise - 5/5.
Fantastic mission. Even though I had trouble figuring it out on my own, the visual spectacle of it is awesome. The ending goes hard, when after clearing the hangar you suddenly have to rush and clean everything up and hide all the bodies before the client shows up. It was intense and rewarding.
11. Plutonium Runs Loose - 2/5.
Not as bad as its reputation made me to believe, but it is bad. Main issue is of course that you have a limited range how much you can see, but enemies can see you from a greater distance. It is also painful, that often when you trigger an alarm the villain runs away and if you don't kill him fast it will end your run, but even if you kill him you still have to rush to disarm the bomb which is tough. The mission shines with its large map and many different pathways you can reach the ship. Still, I found this one too hard as well and had to use God mode.
12. The Setup - 3/5.
This could have been amazing, but they messed it up. It is pretty stupid that there are guns laying around everywhere in the asylum, but whatever. The SWAT raid is awesome, but what ruins it is how easily you can just get a disguise and they won't touch you anymore, making the rest of the level a breeze. So all that loot goes to a waste.
13. Meet your Brother - 4/5.
The twist that there are multiple clones of you is awesome. And they are super dangerous in direct fight. The problem is that you have to fight too many of them. I thought that the game just keeps respawning them forever therefore I just forced my way through into the chamber. Had to use God mode again... But the ending is so epic! One of the best endings I have ever seen in a video game. In terms of what happens, it is super simple, but the style, the presentation are so cool, it's just plain awesome! Yet again, less is more.


And that is the whole game. Hit and miss, but more than half of the missions were good. When it is bad, it is really bad, but in the end it is worth it.


7/10

fun and lotta fun

Incredible Game !! Sometimes i forget that gta 3 had the same graphics ones . I think its time for You guys to remaster it in a update since i bought it on pc the entire collection and will buy the remaining woa in some years . Remaster i mean that make the game again with the glacier engine basically a remake not the acting ofcourse . You could give it as a free upgrade too because people have not forgotten this gem and i never would

Crashes way too much. and I already had to fix a different crash at first.

Good game, but a bit too outdated and janky. If you are interested in Hitman game series, the first game is definitely worth playing.

But if you feel stuck, don't be afraid of using a guide or some videos, it took me half of the game to realise the power of the knife.


I did some patches, but in certain aspects they actually made the game worse for me. The draw distance is not supposed to be infinite, and causes performance issues in some levels. It also broke the fadeout in the ending scene. Setting a lower resolution made the UI bigger but after forcing the game to render at my native resolution - the text got broken.

Most annoying part is lack of saves. There are "checkpoints", but they don't actually load the game to an earlier state, they just respawn you, which is typically useless. So unless the mess you have gotten into is salvageble - your only option is to restart from the beginning.

Oh, and the score is amazing, especially the main theme.

Skip this one. Keyboard controls (used WASD layout) are not very intuitive. I played the tutorial and found it frustrating that the entire level must be restarted if I made a mistake.

for being released in the early 2000 this is still a pretty good game

Awesome beginning...

got the whole old series for 9 dollars, this game is janky and the controls make no sense for mouse and keyboard, and yes i did switch to wasd controls, it is still bad

It took 24 years waiting for a discount just to play an old game. I am truly a psychopath
Not yet great but the game is still pretty much enjoyable even at modern days (as long as you don't give a crap about the low polygons graphics)

Good

Well , time for some interesting assassinations.

Nice and beautiful game , I have a beautiful history with it since childhood.

My dad loves playing the game too , it seems to have its own charm.

The courage to go through the enemy's heart , assassinate him from there and try to escape , man , it's just exciting.

I recommend it as a classic game from the golden 2000s generation.

I still sometimes pay my respects to the game by spending some time doing the game's missions and levels.

+

Confusing at input control to move or active things

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Classic.

First of all, only play this game if you consider yourself incredibly patient. You cannot save midlevel and you are going to have to watch the same cutscenes, shoot the same people, sneak around the same hallways, etc. over and over again. This game is also extremely bad at signposting / telegraphing. There are moments where it feels like the game goes out of its way to teach you that you cannot do something that you actually can. Some of the levels I thought were most difficult became incredibly easy after learning some small detail about them in a walkthrough. There are also a few terrible levels towards the middle of the game that you have to dredge through that involve a lot of running around big empty spaces. Despite all this, I think it's a very charming eurojank game with some pretty great levels towards the end (the hotel level is especially good and more reminiscent of the later entries) and a pretty killer atmosphere. Another thing to note is that this isn't really a full on stealth game like you might expect. It feels more like they came up with the premise of what a game where you play as a hitman would be, and then they tried exploring that concept from many different angles. It's extremely experimental in terms of design and structure for better or worse. Only hop into it if you know what you're getting into, otherwise just check out the later games.

Kim Bo Kastekniv

greatest game of all time (those who know)

The birth of one of the best gaming franchises on the market.

It has definitely aged but was miles ahead of its time!

Amazing game but extremely hardcore :)

Graphics looks quite outdated these days (as this thing supposed to work on 3dfx!), but if you like old games and haven't played this -> go buy and play it!

I love speedrunning this game, truly a classic stealth game.
Huge shoutout to Jesper Kyd and old ioi devs!

how i can open the suticase button?

i need to use the bathroom

Definitely jank (it´s 24 years old) but still an enjoyable challenge. Most of these mission were remade in Contracts.

I would not recommend this as it is at times very dated and you can play these missions through hitman contracts with a more put together storyline

funny looking man

the controls are extremely outdated and the gameplay is super janky

this may be one of the most poorly aged games ever 10/10

This is still a good game. It works no problem, and the only drawback is its age. I haven't experienced any bugs, though it is almost necessary to use a guide (which i did for every other hitman game). I still come back to replay from time to time and never used cheats to complete any mission. I guess people are just used to latter instalments "handholding"

The gameplay is terrible and stupid, you'll have to retry some missions for hours until you can get them done.

Pretty good game for the most part. Main issues are that the game is quite vague at most points and has a decent amount of difficult parts which is fine, but having to start from the beginning is not fun especially if you have to run for 5 mins straight to get back to that point. A guide is heavily recommended for this as there are parts you can get completely stuck on or not find the solution to on your own. Always remember to buy armour. It is a noticeable difference from using the armour and not using it. Also the controls are horrendous. You will want to remap them. At least the game lets you remap everything. Game play wise it is very fun but can be annoying since you have to do things perfectly, like using a garrote to kill someone. If you time it slightly wrong or do it slightly too far away you are screwed a lot of the time. Overall this game is a 8/10

This is an old classic. Works fine in Windows 11. This is playable in Ubuntu 24.04 but controls are worse. For example random firing without pressing the trigger.

This game is gem, its so fun to play missions, the original hitman is worth playing
There are patches and mods available which is required to run this game on latest pc

OG Hitman expirience

I really tried to enjoy this game. Despite the mixed reviews on Steam, I finally bought the game on sale and I went into it with an open mind and even excitement to see the beginning of the Hitman franchise (this is my first experience with the Hitman games) and an early 2000's experience. Unfortunately, time has not done this game justice, and even though I did have some fun while playing this game, I ultimately found distaste with it. The lack of autosave or really any sort of save feature is immediately annoying and I too often turned to online guides and videos to see how to get past each level rather than figuring it out myself due to how large some of the maps are, how long some missions are, and how each time I died I would have to start over from the very beginning of the mission. The game, for this reason, felt far more tedious rather than fun, and by the end of the game I was dreading starting the game back up and was just trying to push through and move on to Hitman 2.

I wish I could recommend this game but I really cannot. The only reason I could see someone buying this game is if it goes on sale (I got it for 79 cents) and you wanna add to your Steam collection or you wanna play a PS2 era game, but good luck having fun.

4/10