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HITMAN 2: SILENT ASSASSIN A PC game for our
times By Neal Horsley ( The hero of the game is a man named 47. He is a “genetically engineered contract killer.” A
review on gamespot.com, the online voice of the Internet gamer, described the
game this way: “There's no mistaking what Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is all
about. One look at the bald, sharply dressed man on the cover, grim as death
and armed with a hardballer pistol in each hand, and you can tell that this
isn't exactly lighthearted stuff.”
The Game Described If you want to understand why people should know about this game, examine the details of the game as the reviewer continues his description. “The game comprises more than 20 missions in all, which
you'll play through one after the other. Though the settings and the details
of each mission are different, most all of them share some basic themes:
getting in, eliminating a key target, and getting out. How you meet your
objective is up to you, whether by guile and stealth or by brute force, and
most missions are cleverly designed to have at least several viable, even
intuitive solutions. If you're really good, you can make it through most
missions leaving only a single corpse behind--the only one that matters--and
you can make it through having never even drawn a firearm. If that's too
subtle for you, you can opt to try to mow down anyone who stands between you
and your victim. But you'll need to be careful, because your pri (As I read about this particular game, I remember the
hysteria my Web site, the Nuremberg Files, generated three years ago across
the The reviewer then described the difference between Hitman 2 and Hitman 1, “Actually, one of the big differences between Hitman 2 and its predecessor is that, for various reasons, a forceful approach is much more viable in the sequel. At the normal difficulty setting, it's in fact much easier, and much faster, to just blast your way through most missions, partly because your enemies just aren't that smart in a shootout, though they can overwhelm you in numbers. Nevertheless, the game still encourages you to be stealthy, and you'll have to be at the game's two higher difficulty settings. Regardless of how you play, the fact that you can just start shooting if you blow your cover will lead to many thrilling, unscripted gunfights against large groups of foes that look realistic and often act realistically too. A frontal assault can be effective if you catch your foes by surprise. He continued, “…you have access to the sorts of moves and
weaponry that you'd perhaps expect from a character of his nature. You'll get
to see 47 ply his deadly trade from a default third-person perspective,
though the developers added an optional first-person view as well. That's a
nice touch, but still, it's hard to pass up the third-person option, since it
gives you a clear look at all of 47's lifelike animations and gives you some
good peripheral vision too. While 47 has no hand-to-hand combat moves, he can
take out foes at close range by slashing their throats in one quick motion,
strangling them with his trusty fiber wire, or knocking them out with
chloroform--an uncharacteristically humane addition to 47's arsenal. Melee
weapons ranging from a golf club to a katana are also available, as well as a
massive variety of real-world firearms. All manner of pistols, shotguns,
submachine guns, assault rifles, and sniper rifles can be found and used, and
as you scavenge new weapons from your missions, you'll find them lovingly
displayed as new additions to your collection back at your inconspicuous base
out of The review goes on to describe in intimate detail the
process through which the game player will be trained to become a “Hitman 2:
Silent Assassin.” It is no
exaggeration to suggest that Hitman 2 probably should be read Hitman,
too. The game is literally a carbon copy
of the computer generated tools being used to train the assassins and other
sharp shooters in the armed forces of the
The moral of this story? Romans 1:18-32 describes what happens when people refuse to honor God but instead substitute false gods and worship them in His place. If you want to understand the moral of this story, open your Bible to Romans 1 and read again what happens when God gives people over to face the consequences of their idolatry. |
