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TL;DR:
Good, but very jank. And very buggy. Also DRM-FREE!
Review:
Previously played this back in my PlayStation 2 days. It took me a while to play this game on PC, since I used to play this with a controller. But yeah, it's great! I never played the original Agent 47, since it was never on the PS2. So, yeah. This is my first Hitman game back in the day. AND MY STARTER ONE. And for good reason (mainly the technical ones) I'm not gonna touch Codename 47.
Hitman Silent Assassin, took place after C47, which follows 47 brought back into the world of assassination by the ICA after his friend got kidnapped by the mob for ransom. And with that, 47 never retired from killing, which resulting it's sequels further down the line.
The game plays as much as I remembered it was back in the old days. With the stealth, freedom, environment levels, gameplay design and all that cool sh!t like I remembered. It's still nice remembering the enemy ragdolls and the way they works. From pacing through the doors guarding and protecting targets and the Save Scum moment to get that SILENT ASSASSIN ranks.
The cons well, the game had several problems on PC. Apart from the jank, the AI behavior can often be broken in some cases, whether over high framerate above 60FPS or random detection moment that made you go "Oh, that's bull$h!t man!". The random detection issue also present in the PS2 versions, but unlike PC, the enemy AI often break immersion on several sequence involving enemy targets at St. Petersburg Mission during the General assembly meeting. I hit the right target, yet Diana keep telling me I f@#k!ng failed. WHAT?!
Another thing, this game lacks of widescreen. Which required you to use the Widescreen Fix by nemesis2000's that combine it with DXWrapper. It's a simple tweak for sure. But I do not recommend to mess around with the in-game graphical tweaks or the game will crash. What else? Oh right, the game was censored on PC due to "REASONING". There is a fix to restore it that required you to downgrade the game. Two things I also experience is that Loading a mid-mission save file from a different computer or OS may result corrupt saves and Reloading and saving repeatedly in some cases could result in Steam Overlay being broken, which made you unable to take screenshot of that Perfect rank or rare moments. And lastly, the game lack controller support. However, there is a fix for it. But it's not really good. It registering some input (button presses skip the intro videos), but it doesn't control the main menu and it disables keyboard and mouse. So yeah. Not good. You can edit the Config on it, but it won't feel great.
The most improved version I could think of is the Classic HD Trilogy that was ported by Eidos Interactive/Square Enix Europe for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It contained a remastered of Silent Assassin and Contracts, along with the enhanced port of Blood Money. I do wish someday that IOI could ported the Classic HD Trilogy to Steam someday, since it has improved controller support and bunch of modernity to play this game. Hopefully, Feral Interactive (who ported Blood Money to Switch/iOS/Android) is gonna be the one that does it, since how they and IOI are old mates.
One more thing, the game is DRM-FREE when you launched it directly through the "hitman2.exe" if you ever wanted to play this game without have to relying it through Steam (or too lazy to open it).
8/10