It's no Thief, but still a somewhat ok sneaker with linear levels. And certainly better than the newer Splinter Cell games, although Chaos Theory is the best game in the series.
Buy it, play it, enjoy it.
An enjoyable game, but not without faults. But my main problem with the game isn't the repetitive of the game, but rather the lack of subtitles and the really bad story. The whole memory stored in DNA thing is just plain stupid. They should just have focused on the 12th century stuff, none of the present day nonsense and especially not the the hologram at the end. The best thing in the game is the soundtrack by Jesper Kyd.
Great characters, great plot, great music, great cinematics and so on. It's a very good game, with one big flaw. There is a cliffhanger, and there will never be a sequel.
Being a huge fan of the original Hitman, I bought this right away. And unfortunately, in my opinion, this turned out to be a mistake as I consider it to be the weakest of all the Hitman games. While much have improved upon the first game, the game suffered by way too many "military levels". What I've always liked since the first Hitman is to walk around civilians in a public place and kill the target without anyone noticing. While the first game had some bad levels, I can't count how many times I've replayed The Lee Hong Assasination and Traditions of the Trade levels. They were simply just brilliant and I had never played anything like them before. Hitman 2 have more levels than any other game in the series, but very few with civilians in them. Instead you're forced to spend time in military complexes or fighting cyber ninjas in the winter landscape. Seriously, 47 should spend his time in resturants, hotels, casinos and so on. Another interesting this is that the two levels in the game that I like the most and do have a fair share of civilians in them (Anathema & Invitation to a Party), are the ones that got most attention in the previews and the ones which were released as demos. Bit misleading. All you need to get the near-full Hitman 2 experience is just to hunt down those two demos, and it won't cost you a dime. Another thing that I was a bit disappointed in when I played Hitman 2 was the story, which I blame all on the official website. The website had a fair chunk of information about the history of 47 about when he grew up and so on, and it raised my expectations on on the game story and that it would be expanded upon in the game, but it didn't happen. So all this Hitman 2 website information wasn't in Hitman 2 at all. That said, Hitman 2 still have the greatest soundtrack of all the games in the series, so at least that's something :-)
This is still one of the best games ever, and the Gold Edition is somewhat rare so this is excellent news to see it here. I will no doubt buy it again, even though I have the retail discs in excellent condition :-)
The Amiga version of Syndicate was one of the first games I bought, still have the box in very good condition :-) Anyway, this game is quite a gem, a true masterpiece and I can't recommend it enough! :-)
Wing Commander 1 is arguable the game that started PC gaming. Sure, there were PC games before WC1, but those were poor ports from other platforms. This was as far as I know the first PC exclusive that made non-PC gamers green of envy. And fortunately for them, the game was later ported to other platforms as well with varying results (I actually like the Amiga version of WC1 more than the PC version). It's also the first game I ever played with a branching story depending on how you play the game. If you succeed with a mission or if you failed have an impact on the story, which is pretty darn cool. It is very unfortunate that the extra WC1 Secret Missions aren't included, though.
