New Release: Hitman: Codename 47

Hitman 1 is very tempermental on Vista and 7 so if GOG managed to get it running perfectly, it's worth spending $5.99 for it.

ya, the option was there in at least some of the games, but it was never meant to be played from that perspective. always felt weird and kind of unfinished.

I wasn't big on Hitman 2 but that was many moons ago. I am willing to give the series another shot when it goes on sale.

Nice. Already own it legally three times but I guess I'll buy it sooner or later on GOG anyway. I'm only wondering whether GOG will manage to publish Contracts. It's the only one that isn't available on Steam because of legal problems considering one or two of the licensed songs found in there. But since it seems that occasionally the GOG team goes a very long extra mile to get the rights to publish some titles I hope that they'll manage to get this one too.

Unfortunately, somebody is suggesting that the game continues to run too fast on some machines. Has anybody who has bought the GOG version been able to play it normally?

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/hitman/anyone_tried_it_yet_on_windows_7

I hate to state the obvious but the GOG testing team probably...?
Send a support ticket! ;)

I've played it for a few hours, until I got shot to pieces when trying to sneak into an apparently off limits area (Say hello to my little friend level). Haven't had any problems. Windows 7 64bit, fancy NVIDIA GPU, and a 4 core processor.

Well it's good to hear a second opinion, at least. With all due respect to those who are having problems, I hope you're the minority.

... doesn't seem to have tested it properly? We'll see.

Even though the first game is much more linear, and is almost not even part of the series anymore, it's great to have easy access to it. Awesome release. Hitman 2 is probably my favorite stealth game ever.

Sorry to disagree with you Fred but the Hitman series, especially the first game, is nothing at all like Thief or Max Payne other than in the most superficial ways i.e. it's got a third person perspective like Max Payne and it's got some stealth oriented mechanics like Thief.

da187jimmbones: Atmosphere-wise Hitman doesn't begin to approach either Thief or Max Payne (it's also much weaker from a gameplay perspective). I/O got better at it as the series progressed and the mechanics improved exponentially in the later games. This first game plays much more like a puzzler with most of the levels requiring a very specific series of steps for successful completion. The frustrating thing is that you're barely given any information on what those steps should be, resulting in frustrating trial and error (made worse by the fact that you can't save during missions). My advice would be to wait for some of the later installments in the series to become available and get those instead. Don't worry about missing out on story or anything since that was never the series' strong suit. Yeah I know it's only 6 bucks..but there are many other bonafide classics on GOG you could spend that on. If you haven't played Deus Ex...get that for sure.

Here's hoping the Thief games are in the GOG pipeline now that the Eidos catalogue is coming in!!

I'm waiting for Agent 48 – he will have a QR Code in the neck instead !

Didn't you know? 47 already slaughtered all those 48s...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Hitman_series#Series_48_clones

Oh man, this game is awesome. I must have finished it at least four times back in the day. As a challenge, I even beat it once without buying any equipment, using only the piano string and whatever I could pick up from enemies during missions.

This game is merely an okay entry in an amazing series. I enjoyed playing it many years ago, but I think that its pig-headed linearity - in the sense that there is usually only one specific solution to each mission - may turn many off. I certainly had a hard time with that element the last time I played it.

However, I wait with bated breath for the release of the rest of the series. Thanks guys. Go team GoG!

Bullshit mister han man!!
This game was and still is fantastic. There's always more than one way to beat a mission and about the linearity, there's a lot of fancy shmansy class A games released today that are more linear than this one; sure it's not as flashy as the other ones in the series and you get no saves during mission but that doesn't bother me, I never used saves in the other games either because it felt wrong.

if they would have added the mission ratings (that "silent assassin" thing) earlier in the series this game would have kicked even more ass.

I love this first game to death and will not stand for any of this badmouthing!

*morciu hugs hitman and kisses him on the head*

Argh, the game appears to be broken for me. It runs way too fast and I can't interact with certain objects in the environment. In fact, I can't even finish the tutorial level since I can't operate the elevator controls to get out of the basement.

I looked at the game subforum and it seems that some people are having similar problems, so beware. I really hope GOG will provide a fix, but given their track record I'm not super optimistic at this point.

Dear lord, so it's because of guys like you that this game actually gets 4/5 stars? Honestly, anyone who knows anything about games knows this one is riddled with flaws. I think most people here have pink glasses on ... As much as I love the later Hitman games, the first was a practice in frustration, trial & error, replaying large parts and getting pissed off by getting killed because the game was being an ass.

Of course, if you replayed it a ton of time, then you get a warped view of a game like this anyway, because you already know the ideal solution to completing a map. Seriously, this game is a very very very rough diamond - great ideas but some extremely horrible missions.

Have you checked here, a fix for this problem was added in the thread

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/hitman/basic_tweaks_and_widescreen_support

Thank you! Those are pretty messy solutions (let WinRAR compress some files to slow down your CPU, wtf) but I'm going to give it a try and see if any of the suggestions solve my problems. I am running the game on a laptop, so F4LL0UT may be onto something there...