Cited as a mixture of Rainbow Six and Spec Ops, it is a third-person action game of espionage and assassination. Talking to Eidos at ECTS, it was clear that they are planning big things for Hitman. The jungle levels suck too, but if you can find a cheat that lets you ignore those, there is a disturbing and original game to discover, even if it did fail to inspire other brave attempts at the genre. The story side of the game (where you discover your origin and the meaning of the number 47) is best ignored as it detracts from the real-world feel of it all, and turns it away from the likes of Leon and Grosse Pointe Blank to more hackneyed game-fare. The sequel ballsed it up completely by turning it into another save-the-world-from-terrorists cliche, but in this first outing you really are a cold-blooded killer garroting and sniping your way through levels to eliminate your target for money. But it's amazing that this is still the best, some might say the only, representation of a fascinating profession one would think was tailor-made for games.
It's not exactly realistic - no one bats an eyelid at the piss-poor disguises that somehow turn a bald white killer into a Chinaman - and the controls are often clunky and uncomfortable. It was a bit of a graphical mess when it came out and the engine glitches are all the more apparent two years on - but there's still something deeply alluring about this amoral, hard-as-nails assassin simulation.
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