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Hitman II, Silent Assassin ™
It's a first person shooter and to be honest it's a little buggy but it is amusing. The problem is that when you play it according to the way it's designed, you end up spending minutes at a time standing around waiting for the right moment or walking around acting as nonchalant as possible. For my taste this is not why computer games were invented and the entertainment value quickly waned. You have to understand that one of the significant moments in my life was the first time I bobbed my head to avoid getting hit by something flying out of the computer monitor. I like that my brain can be fooled into thnking that stuff is real.
I had already earned the Silent Assassin rating on a bunch of levels and it wasn't getting more interesting so anyway, I finally broke down and made up some new challenges.
1. Challenge One
- This was when I just finished every level: Well of course you have to do that first. I finished all the levels and got Silent Assassin rank on about three of them the first time through without trying too hard.
2. Challenge Two
- Kill every bad guy: This involves, basically, killing every body who would shoot at you, that's the basic principal after all. In addition to this you must try to attain a high shot quality, that is, as few non-head-shots (My spellchecker does not recognize nonheadshots as a word) as possible. (My spellchecker does not recognize spellchecker as a word) Read the warning at the top of the page. This is not for gruesomeness, it's for quality. My first time through with this challenge I did not save any screen shots or anything but I did horribly. I may have succeeded in killing almost no innocents but my shot total was well over a thousand, like around 1200 or more. So I went through it again and did a lot better.
3. Challenge Three
- Finish every level as fast as possible (in a hail of bullets if necessary) Now there is a web site devoted to this already and I don't think I have beat any of the fastest times on that website but I have come extremely close. I think I may have a faster time than the undocumented fastest time for Tracking Hyamoto but then my time is also technically undocumented except for the screen shot of the score at the end. On this web site they let you submit video captures of your levels if they qualify as the fastest. Cool but I don't have the link handy. :(
4. Challenge Four
- Absolute perfect silent assassin on every level. I know I said this was boring but at one point I had completely given up on using the anesthetic because it did not seem to work in the PC version but later on I figured out that it did work but you just had to deal with the person waking up immediately. For example, I was able to knock out the Ambassador at the party and after he woke up, if I did it just right, he stayed in the room and didn't go running around screaming bloody murder. So this was the challenge and I did get screen-shots but I don't know if I remember every walk-through.
5. Challenge Five
- This is the one I'm working on right now and it may be the most challenging. I'm sure I won't be able to do this on every level. I'll have to tweak the rules a little for some of the levels. Basically it's kill every bad guy except the target(s) without even alarming the targets, then finish the level. I've done three so far and I know it's going to be near impossible on some levels. I succeeded in doing this in the first three levels so far, Anathema, St Pete' Stakeout, and Kirov Park. Kirov park was extremely challanging. I had to drag expired enemies into plain view and duck out of site to attract the attention of individual guards and get them alone. Clearing the bottom floor of the Pushkin building was no picnic either. A single non-suppressed shot anywhere near the building was enough to break up the meeting.
6. Challenge Six
- So after a couple of years of not playing this game I decided to see what I could do with the popular challenge of getting all the weapons. It took a little research but I figured out a way to get every weapon except for the golf club. If anybody knows a way to get the golf club and the shotgun, let me know. I can only find them both in Anathema and you can only take one long weapon from each level so I decided to forego the club. Now this plan included having to get Silent Assassin on at least four levels so as to be awarded the M4. There is one other way to get the M4 but it was messy and involved covertly killing a UN guard in the Motorcade level which didn't seem right since that would mean taking out most of the military guards first and I just didn't like it. I went back to the research and eventually devised a way to get every weapon except the golf club and get Silent Assassin on every level. That means you don't get to kill very many extra people just to get a weapon from them. As with the other silent assassin challenge, this one did not involve watching the clock at all but I did make an attempt to fire as few shots as possible even if another shot fired would not spoil my ranking on that level.
