Hitman Blood Money Retrospective - Magnum Opus 

Good video, but a couple of corrections/additions: - "You have ability to hide in crates and closets or hide bodies in them". That's how it works in Hitman 2016. In Blood Money you can only hide in closet and only hide bodies in crates. - Notoriety generally only kicks in if you stand in front of a guard for an extended period of time, or if you max it out people can randomly start instantly recognizing you which is very annoying. But yeah, in practice it means next to nothing. - The newspapers also contain articles about the coup story, I'd argue that's where the bulk of it is told. The mission recaps are far less interesting. - I'd argue the tutorial is one of the worst ones ever as while it teaches the mechanics, it doesn't teach you how to think like hitman in a sandbox mission. At worst it does the opposite. - Technical issues: Limit the framerate to 60 and I'm willing to bet most of them go away, at least the invisible walls.

One of my favorite parts of the game was the newspaper. Once I exposed myself so much on the ship mission, that I was identified as Agent 47 on the paper.

47 not getting up and actually being dead is the funniest ending bug I could imagine.

Hitman: Blood Money is still worth playing to completion in 2020.

What I liked about this game vs the newer Hitman installments is the variety of maps. I wish they’d give us 8-10 locations per game vs the 5-7 they do now.

Developers listening to the real fan base is unheard of nowadays

I recall people having issues with how 47 acts in this game. Considering how he kills the guy delivering that letter and how dismissive he is towards Diana among other things. For me though, it makes sense from a character development standpoint. First game has him discovering that he's not human like everyone else and was created to be the ultimate killing machine. Second game has him try and reform himself, only for his reputation to catch up with him and nearly costing the life of his closest friend, so he abandons his life at the Church and tells himself never to trust anyone. Contracts has him facing a near death experience which only served to harden his resolve. By Blood Money, he all but abandoned who he was back in SA and fully immersed himself in his life as an assassin. It's as he said, "I can do whatever I'm paid to." He did have that pet canary showing that deep down, he still had a human side to him. When he was potentially about to be discovered at his hideout though, he snapped its neck without showing any emotion. And by the end, he kills not just Cayne, Henderson and a bunch of FBI agents, but a priest who was there as well. The same kind of man 47 admired the most. All to wrap up loose ends and not be traced. It's all really sobering in a way.

I grew up playing this game on PlayStation 2. Loved the different ways you could play the game, even guns blazing.

Personal favourite missions: Curtains down, A new life, Murder of crows, A house of cards and A dance with the devil. Honourable mention: Till death do us part.

What's also great about the newspaper is the fact that there are some articles that adds to the context of later missions too, like that Veeps article in an earlier mission. I actually read the entire page lol

You’ve run into quite a few technical issues during your playthroughs of the series, and I believe the fix you’re looking for is framerate. Many older games, such as Hitman, have various functionalities directly tied to framerate and trying to play at anything above 60 starts breaking things. You’d think forcing V-sync would be the solution, but that doesn’t always work. I’d recommend downloading a third party program like RivaTuner and have that running in the background while playing. Doing that has fixed all kinds of jank for me in various games, including SA and BM. Anyway, another quality review 👍🏻

I fucking love this game so much, there are not a lot of games I enjoy replaying in general, but holy shit this one just delivers on replay value

Strange about the issues. I recently redownloaded this game, no patches and on Windows 10, and I never encountered a single bug. It ran flawlessly

The newspapers in this game is actually terrifying I went to read one with the rank of terriost and it said “people in Sweden were hearing a success of gunshots, an amount of 167 shots were in people, the guards say this is a tragedy, we hope whoever did this dies, only two witness were there and they said he tried switching appearances, the witnesses don’t know the actual face of him”

The best Hitman game during my high school years

7:36, They did, in fact, do so about 3 years later when I'm writing this with the "freelancer" game mode, getting caught, being sloppy, or, "dying" will result in that level being "alerted", which is just a better notoriety system

The newspaper at the end of the mission might be the biggest stroke of genius I’ve ever seen in a video game.

I still play this game today. The missions were fun and had such high replay value. I love this game so much I bought an original game guide just as nostalgic collectible to have.

"Names are for friends so I don't need one" is still one of my favorite lines to every come out of 47's mouth. Besides all the to die for puns in the world of assassination trilogy.

I found this game interesting, since it's my first Hitman game that I've played. Infiltrating a drug cartel in Chillie felt like I was playing Thief again, except in 3rd person and I'm an assassin. Also it's quite challenging and rewarding.

"it exceeded our expectations!" they then iced the series for years and then DEMANDED the next game be completely reworked to be "more approachable to a wider audience"

That background music was so suspenseful, getting flashbacks when I hear it again.

GOD the blood money intro is forever the strongest

"One of my favourite games alongside Ratchet and Clank Going Commando and NieR" Ah, a man of taste I see

We need a blood money two on the new engine with all the mechanics and a few more necessary ones. Please IOI.

It's insane how Blood Money had more customisation available than the newer Hitman games.

"Wow, a Hitman Blood Money video. Bet they're gonna do the same thing as every other Blood Money review on here and use Ave Maria for the intro" Cvit: Uses Ave Maria as the intro Me: : )

This is still one of the best Hitman games of all time! I also like the story! I play this game so many times! :D The newspaper clippings at the end of each mission was very enjoyable and fun!

Great video on my favorite Hitman game! Just one minor correction, you can’t actually hide yourself in crates, just closets. Hiding in crates (as well as hiding bodies in closets) wasn’t added in until Absolution. Speaking of, can’t wait to hear you rip Absolution a new one!

Blood Money , literally been playing this since it very first came out in like 2006-7 & i haven't stopped ever since not even now in 2024

Hitman blood money is the best game and the #1 game in the entire hitman series to date

Probably the game i have replayed the most in this series. "Blood Money" is just great, with a few minor issues.

Saw this when it was uploaded and I’m so happy to see you’re back. Great video!

Hands down the best hitman game ever made

Beautiful game I can still play from start to finish with a smile on my face.

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG, Thank you Cvit your criticism is very fun to listen to.

Hooray he’s back!!!!!!

Even with the excellent 2016/17 Hitman games, Blood Money is still my favorite in the series. It’s also one of the three PS2 released Hitman titles that hasn’t aged in my opinion. The controls still feel great.

started playing hitman and dmc 5 because of you. keep it up love your stuff

Great video, Hitman series is highly underrated, one of my all time favorites 🙌

Oh fuck yea! Welcome back man and comming back with a banger? A man of class I see.

Blood Money is my fav Hitman game pre HITMAN 1/2

top 4 games from the ps2 era,Blood money,gta san andreas,silent hill 2 and the suffering im so glad i was able to experience it first hand back in the 2000s

Good to see someone giving the series some love!

this is the most calming video ive ever seen

My first ever Hitman game, still play it now

I didn't know until now that everything I associate with Hitman was introduced in Blood Money.

A shame that technical issues ruined "Death on the Mississippi" for you. It's probably my favorite mission. I love having so many targets! I like to think of them as Joey Diaz and his posse of Fred Durst clones :D

Yes. The Coin is the best item in the game. It is the weapon that surpasses Metal Gear. Seriously, Blood Money introduced me to a RU-vidr named TheAuzzieGamer and he made it funny and enjoyable to boot.

Looking back it's so weird that around 2004-06 we got the best entries of Hitman (up until the new trilogy), Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid.

BEST HITMAN GAME EVER!!

Still the best in the series. So sad there are so few vids like this. There's a lot to talk about in the series.

There's this bug where if you try to throw npcs off railings (either their corpses or while using human shield), their bodies were flunged around. This happened while i was playing Death on the Missisipi btw

Small correction 10:38 it takes 5 minutes for the third target to arrive, not 10+

Really was my favorite stealth game ever

YESSIRRR wake up babe new Cvit vid

Good god this hitman is sooo good, but what makes it even better is the ost conparing it to the new hitman. Vegas is my favorite piece of track in the ost

my favorite childhood game 😁

Nothing can compare to blood money. Wish I could go back to when it came out, when I got ot on my birthday for the ps2 and finished it a dozen times during the summer, alternating with RE4 and Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter

I like how they used Ave Maria in the original Hitman film. almost tricked me into believing it would actually be good

Dad finally came back with the milk and cigarettes as promised

The mobile version that just came out freaking slaps I import you to get it

11:00 Sounds a lot like high frame rate issues, very common in older games and you even said you'd never experienced them before Edit: I already saw a bunch people suggesting that same thing lol

Hitman Contracts is my favorite

Omg finally a new upload. This is a radical day!

I want to go back to this game just so I can run down the stairs on the funeral mission at the end and allow the mob boss in a wheelchair to follow and bounce off the walls to his death after trying to ride down the steps.

Woah havent see your video in 2 month glad your back

It is definitely the best of the series. Just perfect, although WoA is a very close contender. First person toggle is amazing.

0:31 special cameras placed around are recording the exact position if someone gave a fuck

Game ran excellently on PS5 when I just recently played it

Imagine listening to your fan base while making a game, and then having that game become, barely arguably, the BEST in the entire series. Who'd have thunk?

blood money is the best in the series.

1:47 ah the good old days, when "listening to the hardcore fans" wasn't a recipe for absolute disaster just as much, if not more than trying to please everyone (not for nothing, but Lucasarts is doin just dandy after TROS, while Warner Bros post Snyder Cut is, well you know)

Great video again! Makes me think that as a fan of WOA, maybe I should give this one a try.

I've never had any of the bugs you spoke of around the 11 to 12-minute mark. In fact, I've never even heard of them.

Been waiting ages for this.

My argument to why the notoriety system was in fact NOT a dud: Less skilled players actually do play the game like terrorists/super aggressively. Those players WILL feel the impact of notoriety gained throughout previous levels. The game will become more difficult to them. The feature still adds another dimension to a game that already has some good depth and therefore, should be commended in this instance.

1:52 which they abandoned for absolution.

Oo your back thank goodness we missed you

Blood money is the only game from The original trilogy still worth playing The others were fantastic when they released but aged like milk

Blood Money was such a great game back in the day, it's hard to go back though now that we're spoiled by the new games. Also those technical issues you mentioned sound like bugs tied to the frame rate. Cap it in your driver control panel to 60 and that moon walking and slow downs should go away, since the animations are tied to the fps.

Let's be honest, we all were waiting for this one ;)

i've been looking forward to this!

The Best Hitman has to offer for.

Good video, but the targets arrive in House Of Cards way sooner on normal terms. You have to lock FPS to 60 from your graphics card's control panel, the vertical sync in the game is broken.

I still feel now that Blood Money is the most complete Hitman game. Game mechanics wise.

After watching The Batman i just forgot that Ave Maria was also featured in Hitman

Maybe I should check out Blood Money soon. I won't be getting Hitman III and I finished 1 and 2 so I'm gonna need some new Hitman.

Played this game on the ps2. Honestly the best looking game on the console

my favorite one in the series I will always love hitman

Ah, the age old problems of "it runs too fast on modern machines". Always cap your frame limit folks. Reminds me of the time I tried to play Privateer 2: The Darkening, and found that it was running at 200x speed and I died as soon as I entered space, murdered by pirates who zoomed around like mosquitos.

Notoriety is kind of a thing in Hitman 3, in freelancer If you die or don’t kill all the targets it will alert the rest of the missions, making more npcs enforcers.

Is is just me or does the first sentence he says give you serious Star Wars vibes?

I always LOVED the newspapers!

0:30 Is this a Polsih reference :D

Great vid, wld love to see the kill the past series of vids

These glitches sound like stuff that happens when you play the game uncapped

I think a few of these bugs can be mitigated by capping your framerate. IIRC that's how I fixed not being able to use the rear path to the exit in the vineyard level so maybe it'd help you get through that door on the ship, it's been a while so I could be misremembering though. Might also help with the staircase issues.

7:25 I think the point of notoriety is to incentivize new players to be better at stealth, instead of being trigger-happy.

I had no clue you could switch out the prop gun at the opera, I just played through this game for the first time, the very first idea I had was to time my shot with the shot in the play