Hitman Triple Pack revealed

By Robert Purchese Published 20 June, 2007

Murderous trio for PC, PS2.

Eidos entered into the killing spirit this morning by unveiling a new compilation of the three most recent Hitman games. This Triple Pack of murder will be available for PC and PS2 on Friday.

Keen shoppers amongst you will note that Play offers a considerable saving on the PS2 version at just GBP 17.99 (retail price of GBP 29.99), and a fiver off the PC offering at GBP 14.99. Those of you with a detective streak will also note Play is standing behind us with great big knife.

The Hitman series - in case you've been stuffed in a car trunk for a few years - revolves around the enigmatic assassin Agent 47. You fill his chameleon shoes and attempt to off various faces for increasingly large figures. The tidier and less detectable you are, the better your rewards.

The first in the Triple Pack is Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, which revolves around a ring of deception with a Russian crime boss in the middle. You fight not only for money, but to stay alive. It relied a little too heavily on sniper range over close-combat alternatives, but was another solid effort from developer IO Interactive. Could do better, said we.

And Hitman: Contracts did, but only marginally. The story this time back-filled Agent 47's career, detailing battles with great adversaries responsible for making him so tough. Again, It was good, but still a little confused about what kind of experience it wanted to present - often falling back on trial and error approaches. Nearly there, we said.

Back to the present day and the most recent outing, Hitman: Blood Money. Here the arrival of an enemy agency turns the war directly in your nondescript face, beginning a dirty and bloody battle. Facing this adventure using an assassin's mind earns you the best experience, but it was still a little easy to mar the picture by resorting to first-person shooter tactics. Still, best yet, said we.

Sounds like a solid purchase in our books.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • IAmBatman #1 5 years ago

    Eidos unveiled it this morning? So how have Play had it listed for two weeks?

  • PearOfAnguish #2 5 years ago

    Why would they skip the first game? I'd consider it if all of them were included.

  • DanWhitehead #3 5 years ago

    This news makes Rockstar cry.

  • AcidSnake #4 5 years ago

    @pear:
    The first game was essentialy the same as contracts...
    Maybe that's why...

  • zuljin #5 5 years ago

    Quick question to the staff at EG:

    Would it be possible to state whether PS2 versions of games will run on the PS3? These I can look up on the BC site, but sometimes new games don't come on until after release, so I can't pre order.

    Thanks!

  • Hughes. #6 5 years ago

    3 games for £17.99 is a nice deal. I just checked Play and they have still have Manhunt 2 on the front page as a forthcoming release? Is this a similar case to them being happy to sell MGS:pO without the correct certification, or more like when they were still listing Grant Turismo HD as a full price title months after it was confirmed to be a free, download only title, I wonder?

    Slow on the uptake is my guess.

  • SBfistfun #7 5 years ago

    Hitman?

    Shitman more like

  • souljacker2000 #8 5 years ago

    @hughes

    I take it Grant Turismo HD has Grant Mitchell in the driving seat?

  • Mho7276501 #9 5 years ago

    @acidsnake & pear

    I think its actually because the first game was pc only and the triple pack is for the ps2 as well.

  • Entity #10 5 years ago

    Was thinking of this series as I read the Manhunt 2 debate, are they (Eidos) trying to test the BBFC? as this comes across as a reaction to the hype provoked by Manhunt.
    Will be interesting to see if this series gets even half the attention MH2 is getting, certainly seems a little suspicious to me as if it was decided last night after seeing the furore stoked by MH2 ban.
    Edited by 1 at 20/06/07 @ 15:36

  • IAmBatman #11 5 years ago

    The targets in Hitman games are always criminals of some sort.
    Edited by 1 at 20/06/07 @ 15:38

  • kangarootoo #12 5 years ago

    Hitman and Manhunt have almost entirely nothing in common other than stealth kills.

    For starters, Hitman isn't shite ;)

  • Hughes. #13 5 years ago

    Aye, and Jason Statham tied up in the boot.

  • AcidSnake #14 5 years ago

    @batman:
    I haven't played the last one, but someone told me you had to kill an innocent at a certain point...

    @mho:
    Or that ofcourse :)
    But seriously, Contracts had some levels which were identical to the first game...I view Contracts as a sort of remake...But without the jungle levels...

  • Dynamize #15 5 years ago

    You do kill an innocent person as an objective in Blood Money once, yeah.

  • aine #16 5 years ago

    certainly seems a little suspicious to me as if it was decided last night after seeing the furore stoked by MH2 ban.

    except, as mentioned in the first comment, it's been listed on play and various other online stores for a couple of weeks. so, not really suspicious at all.

  • IAmBatman #17 5 years ago

    It's been a while since I played it - which target is innocent? I always thought IO had done a good job of covering themselves on that front.

  • Dynamize #18 5 years ago

    It's a fairly big spoiler, so:

    *Spoiler space*




    In the last mission at the crematorium, you have to kill the journalist who's been interviewing the wheelchair dude throughout the game. "No witnesses" or something. In fact now I think about it, I can't remember for sure but you might have to waste the priest as well.




    *End spoiler*

  • kangarootoo #19 5 years ago

    An innocent is killed in a Hit Bloodmoney cutscene. Don't recall there being an innocent target. Could be wrong though.

  • PearOfAnguish #20 5 years ago

    Don't care whether the original was on PS2, I would want the PC version. They could have chucked it in there any way. I'm a completist, buying a compilation that's missing one of the series bugs me.

  • azwipe #21 5 years ago

    Steam has had it for a couple weeks also at USD $30. Blood money for PC was ace, super polished, great levels, humour, great graphics...

  • matrim83 #22 5 years ago

    Three excellent games and really if you've missed out on any one of them its your loss.

  • UncleLou #23 5 years ago

    Blood Money in particular was just brilliant. The level design and the gazillions of options you had to solve them was nothing short of amazing. I used to have a love/hate relationship with the Hitman series as in the older games, you too often had to do it more or less in the one way the developers intended (unless you gunned everyone down), but they really, really nailed it in Blood Money. What a game.

  • Wulfo #24 5 years ago

    There's another innocent killed in Blood Money:

    SPOILERS

    The canary. (In all seriousness, that was pretty sad).