Hitman: Blood Money

Hitman: Blood Money is a 2006 stealth video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360. It is the fourth installment in the Hitman video game series. High-definition ports of Blood Money and its predecessors, Silent Assassin and Contracts, were released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in January 2013 as the Hitman HD Trilogy. Remastered versions of Blood Money and its successor, Hitman: Absolution, were released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as part of the Hitman HD Enhanced Collection.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Great graphics for its time.
 * 2) Really good voice acting.
 * 3) Lots of things have been added that would later become staples of the franchise:
 * 4) *You can now climb objects, which allows you to traverse the levels in many different ways.
 * 5) *You can now throw objects like knifes and distract enemies with a new item, the coin.
 * 6) *NPCs that are knocked out is now a permanent state.
 * 7) *You can now hide bodies and hide in closets.
 * 8) *The suspicion meter has been replaced with the tension meter, which is much more viable and easier to read than the suspicion meter.
 * 9) *Another screen will show up showing important events or that you've spotted by a camera, which is really helpful and allows you to not miss seeing your target getting assassinated.
 * 10) You get to visit memorable locations like a hotel which has two parties. One on the top floor has the theme of Heaven while the other is on the lowest floor with the theme of Hell.
 * 11) The currency system returns, but instead of only using it to buy weapons, you use it to lower your notoriety and buy upgrades for your weapons and equipment.
 * 12) Getting Silent Assassin gets you a $150,000 bonus.
 * 13) Great soundtrack with a memorable and beautiful theme song that has become the official theme song to the franchise.
 * 14) An interesting plot that has a man telling the backstory on how he closed in on 47 and caught him.
 * 15) When completing a mission, a newspaper will be shown, showing how your actions are affecting the real world. It can also have some pretty funny articles as well.
 * 16) This game features some of the most iconic levels in the Hitman franchise.
 * 17) * The final mission, "Requiem". 47 is brought back from the dead and rises from his coffin to gun down all those at his funeral.
 * 18) * "You Better Watch Out", the Christmas level.
 * 19) * "Curtains Down" for not only providing an atmospheric level with some creative assassination options, such as replacing a prop pistol with the real deal, but for providing context for the plot of Contracts.
 * 20) Okay gunplay.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) For years many considered this as the definitive Hitman game, with interesting, large levels with various ways to kill your targets. However, nowadays its various mechanics can come off as pretty limiting with the levels and worldbuilding also feel quite small and simple and the mechanics aren't as refined when compared to those of the World of Assassination trilogy.
 * 2) *The game will have you awkwardly skating and strafing around when in gunfights.
 * 3) *Throwing objects is a bit janky.
 * 4) *While the closets are useful, they're useless if an NPC has spotted you in a room. Even if you hide in a closet before the guards arrive, they head straight for your location and start shooting at you while in the closet.
 * 5) *The character models haven't aged well. Not to mention how strange each NPC looks with most male NPCs being really muscular and female NPCs being skinny and buxom.
 * 6) You don't get special weapons for getting Silent Assassin like in previous games.
 * 7) Some of the voices for the NPCs don't really match the characters and sound strange at times.
 * 8) The Notoriety meter is practically useless since the game gives you enough money to remove most of your notoriety.
 * 9) The game's advertising campaign drew controversy. In particular, one ad depicts a woman lying on a bed in lingerie, seemingly asleep but with a bullet hole in her forehead, with the image's caption reading "Beautifully Executed". Other promotions depicted a dead woman in a bath after being electrocuted by a toaster (Shockingly Executed), a cellist whose throat was strangled by a garrote (Classically Executed), a dead man's body in a freezer (Coldly Executed).
 * 10) "Death On The Mississippi" is the worst level in the game. You have to assassinate 7 different people, most of whom reside on their own private deck, which has a steady traffic of civilians. Making it harder is that all but one of the targets are armed.
 * 11) Artificial Difficulty:
 * 12) * You can't take disguises from bodies you've hidden and if you steal the clothes off someone in a bodybag, the bodybag is removed instantly so the now stripped body can be found again. Both were fixed in future games, but this game provides no explanation why 47 can't just reclose the bodybag or take the clothes of someone in a dumpster.
 * 13) * There are many ledges that can't be used to hide bodies or push people off from, despite being almost identical to those you can use.

Reception
Hitman: Blood Money received "generally positive" reviews across all platforms, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Many considered that this was the definitive Hitman game, with interesting, large levels with various ways to kill your targets. However, nowadays its various mechanics can come off as pretty limiting. For a few examples, you can't take clothes from hidden bodies, all melee weapons are lethal, the detection meter is less clear in how it works, and you need to use either syringes or a gun to take out targets non-lethally. The levels and worldbuilding also feel quite small and simple when compared to those of the World of Assassination Trilogy.

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