![]() All three games engage you, albeit not immediately, and pull you in with their unforgiving blend of stealth and covert action. Of course, assuming you can bring yourself to look past all these graphical blemishes, all of this soon stops mattering, because in spite of their age, the three games included in this package have held up stunningly well, mechanically at least. It is at times like these that you find yourself wishing that the developers had put in just a little more effort into bringing these games up to modern standards, visually speaking. The HD actually serves to make matters worse, in that it seems to almost highlight the graphical flaws of the games. Blood Money, being the most recent game (also released on the Xbox 360), fares the best of course, but Hitman 2 and Contracts can get to be eyesores at their very worst. It does get a little jarring: the problem with the games is in their visual style, which strove for the gritty, realistic look that some unspoken law of gaming mandates all ‘mature’ games need to sport. The games are, quite literally, the exact same games as they were on the PS2 and Xbox the graphics seem to have been given a nice layer of minimal HD polish (only 720p is supported), but there don’t seem to be any other graphical enhancements added. So let’s look at what we do get here: three rather excellent, if a bit dated, stealth games that are still unique, if only because of their approach that surprisingly has not yet been emulated or copied by any other game on the market. In any case, it was rather different from the rest of the series, and not even as good, so its exclusion does not matter all that much. The first game is missing (it always is from Hitman collections) probably because it was PC exclusive while all subsequent games were on consoles as well. Now, to celebrate the storied history of Agent 47’s earliest days, Square Enix brings us the Hitman HD Trilogy, which includes Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts, and Hitman: Blood Money. And while the series has slipped in and out of limelight over the years, last fall’s Hitman Absolution brought the games squarely back into public consciousness, earning itself quite a few accolades along the way. Starring the hairless Agent 47, the Hitman series of games made a name for themselves back in the PS2 days with their rather unique approach to stealth, mixed in with some rather brutal violence, implicit and explicit. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.One of Eidos’ most enduring properties is Hitman. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does. ![]() Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. ![]()
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