How Well Does Hitman: Codename 47 Hold Up? (Full Spoilers) | MNTM
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- One man's quest to find a working bathroom.
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Chapters:
00:00 - 00: Introduction
01:01 - 01: The Tutorial
02:31 - 02: Kowloon Triads in Gang War
03:10 - 03: Ambush at the Wang Fou Restaurant
04:15 - 04: Massacre at Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant
05:50 - 05: The Lee Hong Assassination
09:13 - 06: Find the U’wa Tribe
11:26 - 07: The Jungle God
11:36 - 08: Say Hello to my Little Friend
15:53 - 09: Traditions of the Trade
18:27 - 10: Gunrunner’s Paradise
20:23 - 11: Plutonium Runs Loose
27:11 - 12: The Setup
28:42 - 13: Meet Your Brother
30:17 - 14: Let’s Actually Talk About the Game
32:20 - 15: Story & Presentation
34:12 - 16: Sound & Dialogue
37:42 - 17: Representation
39:07 - 18: Let’s Actually Actually Talk About the Game
39:19 - 19: The Most Important Part of a Stealth Game
41:20 - 20: The Health System
42:58 - 21: The Boss Fights
45:17 - 22: Combat Conclusions
45:53 - 23: Stealth, allegedly
50:19 - 24: Level Design
54:06 - 25: The Save System, or lack thereof
55:30 - 26: Replay Value, or lack thereof
59:47 - 27: Codename 47’s Greatest Sin
1:01:18 - 28: Does Hitman Codename 47 Hold Up?
1:02:47 - I Am the Best Hitman
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I like the fact that the game originally had mid mission saves but the developers removed them because then the play testers could complete the game in 4 hours.
I wonder if play tester are regretted later in today back then.
This is honestly the laziest way to add difficulty to your game in my opinion.
FOUR HOURS!!!!
No wonder the game had rather harsh mixed reviews back then. If you don't want to save during a mission, then just... don't use them?
ioi making a game that can be completed in four hours? those who forget history i guess
I always wondered why I could barely remember any of the levels in this game. Then I realised after watching you play through the jungle missions why that was. My brain had simply blocked out all the PTSD inducing memories of frustration that would otherwise result in a stunted adulthood.
Fish restaurant , Hotel and Harbour was very memorable. In fact they are the one of the most memorable missions in the entire series.
I remember trying to be stealthy as shit in Say Hello mission, and killing everyone in the end. Every. Freaking. Time.
Minigun was helpful.
That Hitman Contracts remakes most of the missions in this game aside from the jungle levels is pretty telling.
LMAO ditto. I spent HOURS sitting at my family PC playing this game when it first came out. Like I literally sunk about six to eight months of my teenage life into it. Finished the whole thing. And watching this, I apparently remember about 25% of it. The rest is total blackout.
Stunted adult who remembers these levels here 🙋🏻♂️ can confirm.
The way you put the bathrom line to start each segment of a stage that has dialogues is perfect, makes it look like 47 just wants to find a damn bathroom but keeps having to kill people
Hitman codename 47 : one man's search for the ultimate bathroom!
It's like those dreams you get when you really need to pee but you're still asleep, like running through corridor after corridor, looking in all the rooms but never finding a bathroom.
Hitman 47 is the story of a man who just really needs to take a dump
I played the demo, which I think was just the one mission at the fish restaurant, over and over. I eventually got into that weird territory where you have memorized every single thing in the level and can just grief the NPCs in hilarious ways, or start experimenting with the game's logic and physics. I also started modifying game files to change gravity, slow mo, etc. That is ultimately what I ended up doing when the full game came out. I loved it back then, but it's extremely hard to go back to now.
This was a joy to watch.
I did the same thing with the Hitman 2 demo, that mafia mansion in Sicily. It was mind-blowing at the time. Spent so long with that demo
Thanks! Yeah, good demos are a lost art.
haha, i did the same
Same here, it was a fun game and it took a lot of work to do most of the missions
16:35 "why does a florist have a shotgun in the hotel". Terminator 2 reference had to be in.
When this first came out, the ragdoll bodies were *mind blowing*
I remember that!
Yeah playing Hitman 2 SA for the first time infront of one of my childhood best friends, I'll never forget him watching me drag a body and declare "this game is cool!" :D. It looked so realistic back then, mind blowing compared to bodies glued into position for eternity.
I want to say that the bathroom this sort of a reference to the godfather which a lot of modern players might not have seen the movie. They leave him a gun in the bathroom
If you forget the gameplay and the voicing, the plot, the mood and the insanity of prof. Ort-Meyer are still top notch. It was good enough to grow into a monster of a franchise.
The reason in 14:55 why they sometimes attack you and sometimes they don't because it depends from your disguise. Clothes of soldier with big hat, or simple green, brown unifrom is not allowed. But if you are wearing brown uniform with these two tinies yellow strips on your shoulder then you're allowed (it turns out that these are high command soldiers I guess). How player is supposed to figure it out? I don't know (I noticed it after years). Same problem I had with Prince of Persia: Sound of Time where you have one puzzle which require you to hear pretty unnoticable at first sound, if you never stop character to hear this sound then you have problem. I always played first hitman as a kid with solution so I am more forgiving. I love atmosphere, music and game has it charm. Of course next installments are highly more playable. I think with today's perspective that it''s worth for player to play first hitman one time, but I get how it get on people's nerve. Pretty good analysis. I wish you the best and hope to see more of your content in future.
Wait... are you talking about that teleporting puzzle in PoP?
@@HeavySandvichGuy1 Yes, I'm talking about this one puzzle. I appreciate creativity with that one, but in my youth i played game three times and always stop on this one until i look up in solution.
@@WampiroTerminator I guess it's time to replay the game then and see it for myself. Only now I found out about the sound thing
@@HeavySandvichGuy1 He's super right, that was one of the first times I ever used google in my life was to figure that one out
NOOOOO HES A PRO STEALTH PLAYER HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING HE WOULD FIGURE IT OUT IF IT WERE TRUE YOURE CLEARLY LYING NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
CN47 was the first Hitman game I played and I still love it for all the fun cheesy awesome jank it is. Great video, deserves way more recognition.
My biggest issue with Hitman: Codename 47 (and Silent Assassin), is there is usually a singular intended way to do the missions, but the game doesn't always point you in the right direction.
When I did play through the game, I did end up using a walkthrough, and when that wasn't enough (on like 2 levels, Say Hello to my Little Friend and the last third of Plutonium Runs Loose) I just turned on God mode because the game is too jank.
That criticism only hold true for Codename 47 and the Japanese snow region mission, the other level in Silent Assassin are more in-line with the later Hitman installment
I always wondered if the devs did originally intend to ship the game with a save system, it seems bonkers to have mission design like this without saves or at least checkpoints. Even play-testing this must have been a nightmare. Edit: Didn't realise there was some rumour that the devs removed saves. It's hard to believe they did it to extend playtime, it may have been for technical reasons.
Who knows. It was a wild decision either way.
There's something about small accounts like this one producing such magnificent masterpieces that never ceases to amuse me. Excellent job on this video, it is simply remarkable. I have watched it twice due to how stellar your editing is, your interesting commentary, and your insightful analysis. This is officially one of my favorite videos on YT ever.
Smaller channels often put great effort and pasion into their videos, it's kinda normal.
I played this particular Hitman with my dad since 2000, we were blown away by the size of the levels and the realism. My four-year-old eyes couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was a magical time... Then in 2002, I got Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. But Codename 47 will always be the special game that sucked me into the series. Up until Blood Money which is fantastic.
I loved Silent Assassin, Contracts and Bloodmoney.
Never could get into the first game, not any of the Hitmen after Bloodmoney either. The online nonsense built into it that gameify's everything just made it awful to play IMO.
@@planescaped And then IO Interactive decided to do a 180 and remove the mandatory online nonsense with Hitman 2. Still a major screw up as the servers weren't exactly behaving well. I played through a few levels but never beat the new Hitman games, the aesthetic just doesn't do it for me, and Jesper Kyd is dearly missed (composer).
First time I played Hitman codename 47 was in 2001. At that time it was like no other game in terms of open level exploration and environment interactions, there weren't many games like that maybe Thief II but wasn't at the level of Hitman. I understand that the all the next sequels were introduced on consoles, so many people have played Silent Assassin or the other sequels before Codename 47 since it was not that popular, so when they say it sucks, sure it sucks compared to the sequels because of it's old graphics, mechanics and gameplay limitations, but at it's time it was an a truly epic game with novelty and uniqueness compared to what was there at that time.
Honestly, the best way to experience Codename 47's best missions is just through Contracts.
I agree, i tried giving this game a chance. But after Lee Hong mission i just gave up, and i did EVERYTHING right. But because i assumed the exit was at the beginning... eh it kinda screwed me over once the guards started randomly going ALARM when i went into the wrong room where i robbed the safe from. So i just said "Screw it, go Contracts"
Contracts is great. Plus it has the meat king's party level...
It is extremely common for hotels to have florist shops.
Insanely underrated video. I love how Hitman Contracts updated and refined the best levels from this game
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This game was a seminal part of my childhood gaming years. The concept of changing disguises and the AI reacting accordingly was mindblowing to me, at the time. I get that this game was released during the wild west of 3D gaming, before many design concepts became standardised but, oh boy, it's awful to play in current year. There's maybe 4 levels I would consider good, while the rest range from slightly bad to fooking awful. Luckily many of the more interesting levels were remade in Contracts (a really underrated game, btw). ANyways, great video.
and this game also was one of the first, with a ragdoll system for corpses
I'm so glad some missions in this game are remade in hitman contracts cuz I actually enjoyed them. contracts is a good game
Play this game in his release days was like playing an unreal 5 game the first time at our time. Can you imagine what an awesome game this was...the graphics, the shooting...
YES
and the ragdoll, the vegetation that moves when it was touched and the soundtrack of each level. It's amazing game.
@@marceloavila786 totally, it was like a hole new dimension in gaming. And acctually one of the few games I continue to play till I had an almost perfect score.
@@robertbismark347 I think codename 47 is a very underrated game. I really don't understand all the complaints about this game. Even in this video, some of problems pointed out I've never experienced in my plays. The guards in the Pablo house can be all easily killed with a knife or silenced pistol, and you can enter the lab with no problem using the right disguise. In the 'ship with nuke' level, I dont remenber of those thugs with eyes in the back. Also, the game become much more easy if you know what the knife can do.
@@marceloavila786 Why would a soundtrack suddenly not be good anymore?
As janky as C47 is at times, it's got an atmosphere that no other Hitman game has. Just for that alone it's one of my top-3 in the series.
That old 90s atmosphere of sorts, when PC gaming was at its peak.
The disguises in this game are absolutely top-notch in my opinion. Dresses look classy with vibrant colors, and a lot of other disguises are also not afraid of using the vibrant colors to stand out as well. There is something about the color pallette in the newer Hitman games that stops me from finding disguises so visually appealing.
Man I really thought this was a big channel the edit the video I can see the care and love put into this please do more hitman videos like this
Thanks! I'd like to cover the other hitman games one day but there are other things I want to look at first.
This is deserving of way more recognition. Good job bro
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far from it, imagine thinking the score to this game is "nothing to write home about"
Brother, it's good to see you here 🤚
@@necromech_ yeah I disagreed at that part. How can one not like the iconic theme, blasphemy! But other than that, great review :)
In plutonium runs loose, you don't have to pick up the car bomb. Just wait near the stairs leading to the ship. It's the only exit and Boris comes in no time once alerted
Very great video, agree with most of your points. Just beat the game myself today, and yeah it was rough, but I oddly feel motivated to go back and play a few missions like lee hong assassination or the hotel one
Thanks! It does have that strange allure, yeah.
This is why they made Hitman Contracts. They fixed almost everything wrong with C47... and got rid of the poorly designed jungle levels.
Such an amazing video, this and the Jurassic park one are so good. (Haven't got to watch the others yet but will be binging the rest.)
Thanks so much for making these videos, seriously these are fantastic. Keep doing what you're doing. Please, we need more!
Just stumbled onto your video and I’m really impressed with the quality of your script. Very enjoyable ! Can’t wait to see more of your work
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Great job with this video! Got a good laugh outta me. The first Hitman game I played was Absolution, several years ago. Then I went back and played through all the games from the beginning, just as Hitman 2016 was about to come out. Codename 47 was one of the most frustrating gaming experiences I'd ever done, haha. But Jesper Kyd's fantastic score somewhat made up for it!
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I legit thought your account had like 100K but no, you deserve more mate.
I tried to do Codename 47 but it wasn’t to my liking.
Hitman Contracts already have the Missions on it so it’s fun to do it there, and doing Silent Assassin is much better and rewarding.
I have a soft spot for the first game. It was infuriating but also mind blowing at the time. It was one of the first games to have cloth physics. Hell a lot of games even today don't have vegetation that reacts when you touch it, this game was ahead of the curve big time. The bullet wound detail textures were awesome too!
amazing video, i watched completley and im glad that you could finish it.
Great comedy that doesn't take away from the video, very informative. Never heard of this game until just now watching this, yet I feel so enthralled by it all. Great video, I'm glad TH-cam had me stumble upon it.
Great production, funny, witty, I want more! Review the other 3 games from the old era please! Can't wait to hear your input!
Thanks! I'd like to cover the rest of the Hitman games but there's a few other things I'd like to make videos on first.
Glad I found this channel. Pretty neat, helps me do my work. Nice. Will binge!
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You said it almost perfectly. It is supposed to be pronounced like "boo-duh-pesht" in Hungarian.
Ta.
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By the way, congratulations for beating the game. I gave up at The Lee Hong Assassination.
I know this game back to front as I've played it to death when it was released. Because of that I can safely say that most glitches must be present due to the game not being optimized for current hardware. Especially these random detections - I definitely remember that on release the AI was actually extremely dumb and their ability to see through disguise was strictly tied to location (with each room having a list of acceptable disguises) and a check if new corpse was present in it. Also the models weirdly clipping, disappearing or launching into space - these things were even hard to achieve in the cheat debug mode, and impossible in clean playthrough. Then again, I know that it's all hard to verify without actually testing it on 2000esque hardware with a physical copy of the game, so you guys just feel free to disregard this old man rambling.
I assume most of these technical issues happened because he played with uncapped framerate. First three Hitman games need their fps locked to 60 to function properly. In fact, I replayed Codename 47 recently on 60 fps and had none of these problems, the game was extremely stable.
I'd believe that about the ragdolls. When I played through Contracts a few years ago it was extremely busted, if very funny.
Videos like this let me experience games like this in a actual good way for once. Great video lad
Very nice. I'd love to see you do videos on Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman Contracts.
Thanks! I'd like to do videos on the other Hitman games too, but I don't think I'll have the time for a while yet.
You made this video a while ago, but it's blowing up more recently. This was a really good retrospective, I think I did the same as you, I played some of the older games but I wanted to play them all before the 2016 game release and I had the same reaction as you, it's so janky and the other games have many quality of life improvements.
Enjoyed this video so much, such a joy
I see you uploaded this one day before my birthday. I hope you get back to the game one day, i just did and it was a blast to get through, enjoyed it all the way through.
Hong Kong Themes is still one of my favorite songs ever made, for a game or otherwise. I've praised Jesper Kyd a few times in my Splinter Cell series; the man is brilliant. Great video!
Incredible work on the video dude. Loved every second
Hello, glad to see such a big video about this game.
I have a really bad internet connection, so i can review your review for days after now.
As a big fan of this game, who played this game every day, i appreciate your work.
Glad to analyze it after good concentrational watching.
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I watched the video, you don't always reason correctly, but I'm too lazy to prove something, so I was glad to just look at your review.
I remember playing this game years ago because I loved Blood Money and wanted to see where the series got started. I also remember thinking Plutonium Runs Loose was the worst level in any game I'd ever played, and I still do. Because Codename 47 is so obscure now, I've never spoken to anyone else who'd actually played it and I can't tell you how vindicating it is to hear someone else absolutely slam the festering cesspit that is the worst level in any game ever.
Plutonium Runs Loose makes literally anything else look like a walk in the park. Water Temple? Glorified puddle. Devil May Cry 3 Mission 15? Gentle stroll through some Gothic architecture. Blighttown? Charming little rustic village. I am so glad to finally have someone to say "fuck Plutonium Runs Loose" to who will actually get it.
I love your tactical approach of trying to garrote an enemy with a gun who is firing at you. Made me laugh so hard. Thanks and subscribed.
Your heart goes out to me then because in my Let's Play of Codename 47 (which you can find on my channel), I never used leaning at all.
Excellent viddy! Plutonium runs loose is a special kind of torture. I’d made a story/guide playthrough series and just slammed into a massive wall of OMFG THIS IS SO BORING trying to explain the mechanics of that particular level and abandoned the project to protect my sanity. Well done for getting it through it, i feel that pain deeply! I also had the game crash several times when i’d set off the bomb in the bunker in “say hello to my little friend”. Not sure if that was just a problem on my end but that walk of shame was strutted waaaay too many times. Again, fantastic vid! Off to check out more of your stuff! 👍
Hey good job and this was very entertaining all the way through, surprised no one has gone into this game as you have thanks because this game was still a blast on my old Dell windows XP laptop lol😅
This is a great vid. I hope at some point you do Hitman 2(you know, the first one), if only to hear you tear apart the mess that is the Japan section
this content is already at such a high quality for such a new channel
Here before this channel blows up cause damn this is so good
Fantastic video man, keep it up!
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The way you explain the game is interesting! niceeeee
That's a funny and well edited video. Congrats man. Subbed
The algorithm has finally figured me out and is now recommending small but good channels to me. You got a new subscriber!
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What a great review! This reminds me of what Tehsnakerer would make. I agree with most of your points and this makes me really appreciate how the hitman games are now.
Thanks! Tehsnakerer's stuff is great, yeah.
When 47 said his signature line “I need to use the bathroom” it sent chills down my spleen
Hitman: Codename 47 suffers from a chronic case of "First Game Syndrome." It was the studio's first game, so actually being able to create and launch it was a huge achievement in and of itself. Refinements and polishing had to wait for the sequels.
Two other comments: 1) Mention the music but not mention Jesper Kyd? Shame on you, he's made amazing music that's been iconic to the Hitman series and many other video games (most recently, Warhammer Darktide).
2) I know it's a retrospective point, but this game makes it unavoidable to kill armed guards and others on your way to and from the target in some levels. Since it's sequel, all Hitman games have insisted that the ideal way to complete every mission is by killing your assasination targets and ONLY your targets.
Thanks algorithm for this instant sub! Lenghty and detailed game videos that are nicely narrated are my life passion
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The car glitch works all the way up to Blood Money and is actually part of many speedrun routes
Perfect. Love it.
I just finished this game, and I agree 100% with this video! Well done.
16:30 Pretty sure that's a Terminator reference
Also I didn't find Plutonium Runs Loose that hard and completed it in my third try, although I used a guide, Lee Hong Assassination was still harder in my opinion
And the soundtrack is fantastic, in my opinion best in the series behind Contracts
Excellent video and the best one I have seen for this game. Hopefully you can make more sometime in the future!
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Your review is well structured, very thorough and I enjoy the use of chapters. The accusation of 47 being a “white savior” is incredibly weird tho, as since you played this game his backstory is he’s a mixed race European-Latino-Chinese guy and completely asexual. The entire point of a character like agent smith is to contrast a bumbling american fed with a cool, classy european. It’s imo weird anyway to use american-bred ideas of representation to judge a game made in denmark, but if you’re going to you can at least note that the majority of 47’s targets are in some way racist, wealthy, womanizing or otherwise politically extreme. It seems strange to instead ignore that text and try to look for subtext that a man with not many friends doesnt talk to women all that much. It’s also a strange idea, again imo, to ask for representation in the older Hitman games because they’re a lot less funny about their violence. The only time a pre-Blood Money game had a woman as the target was Hannelore, who was deliberately played as cartoonishly evil so the game wouldnt slip into discomfort. If this game specifically instead of having you save sex workers instead had you strangling women would that be better? I dont think so. The new Hitman games get around it by having lots of diversity but also being incredibly light and slapstick. It’s very difficult to make an audience uncomfortable with killing a black woman if an exploding golf ball is being hurled at her face at mach speed. Anyway interesting video if you make more on the series i’ll watch em
Agreed, the whole “white savior” shtick made me cringe 😬 especially when you make inaccurate assumptions about someone…based on their race….
@@MortusSweet There being a 'Representation' section in this review is cringe-worthy. Seriously, Identity Politics live rent-free in the heads of some people these days.
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You can cheese Dunkachino by just running behind him and one shotting him with melee after his first cut scene. That's what i've always done, never even knew he had additional lines before watching the video.
17:00 In Traditions of the trade you must / can exit by the kitchen not alerting the metal detectors, if my memory is good.
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the video was a banger, love the editing 🤌
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Codename 47 will always hold a place in my heart purely due to nostalgia…but yeah for most people it’s hard to go back to. No shame to anyone that just follows a guide or uses cheats to overcome the more bullshit levels
The worst thing about the game is that it has insane potential, and I genuinely love all the levels that do not feel like torture. That is despite the fact that there are no saves: When the missions feel well-designed, it feels almost like a roguelite because you will make more progress every time you play the game, and there won't be "that" much wasted time doing absolutely nothing. I just wish half of the missions weren't designed to be painful.
The Lee Hong Assassination level I spent hours and hours on when I was like 10-11. So amazing and complex.
LHA is one of the best levels in the franchise history.
I actually gave up on that one. Even when i got everything right. But due to the fact that i didnt go to the right place of exit... so sigh, i went in again and finicky ALARM got me and yeah.
TH-cam recommended me this amazing video you're very underrated keep up the great work
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Glad I found this channel, great reviews. I like your commentary and style of humour, its nice and concise. Maybe the classical music bits went on a bit too long. But otherwise keep it up mate.
16:30 It's an homage to Arnold Schwarzenegger having his shotgun hidden in a box of roses in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Great work! subbed and waiting for more game analysis c:
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This video is great I loved it, please keep making game videos because you're pretty good at it.
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You deserve more subs, this was great
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Damn. Such a quality video. Keep it up my man !
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Good one bro...still remember beating Lee Hong Assassination level and I honestly feel it is the epitome of HARD
Great review and some interesting thoughts and insights. "Master assassin and Storm trooper" well said.
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It was my first game on a PC, i completed it perfectly more times than all other games i played for the last 20 years combined. Sometimes i just loaded Hotel and just chill in a pool or at the bar.
this review mostly is a review of the game from your late play of it, 2016 to present.. but for those of us who played it way back in the year 2000, this game was pretty good, compared to other 3d games out at the time for PC, it wasn't far off the mark compared to other games in quality and popular enough to spawn a franchise and even a movie (and separate "unrelated" movie).
I had this game as a kid on it's original release, and I have fond memories of it.. but I gotta admit, seeing your review here, it's clear this game did not hold up to the test of time.. compared to more modern games in the franchise or other stealth genre games, the original hitman codename 47 looks and appears to have archaic controls and mechanics that aren't what players expect from a game of this type today or even from later in the 2 decades proceeding it's original release
This was such an iconic game from my childhood and it was fantastic to listen to this deep dive. As much as I want to defend this game, even rose tinted glasses can't hide some glaring flaws. But I can't help but appreciate how ahead of it's time the game with features like ragdoll physics, cloth and vegetation physics and even footsteps accurately landing on stairs and curbs.
This video was golden man, you've earned yourself a sub!
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The "lean aiming" is the intended way to play the game.
There should be a setting to unlock it all the time . The way I remember it is that it was the default and the stupid locked one something you had to opt in to... maybe a later patch made it default.
Anyway that is why it isn't mentioned as a feature of leaning; it isn't.
We need another (How does Hitman 2: Silent assassin hold up?) video !!! That was great, I really enjoyed it.
@3:09 Codename 47 is a raw experience. The well known Hitman mechanics like a scoring system aren't fleshed out yet. Completing the mission and staying alive is all it requires, most of the time.
@15:11 You need the officer uniform, mate or it causes you more trouble than necessary. AFAIK it is either in the house or on the lookout right before the hostage in the previous level. Don't forget to bring the sniper rifle from the lookout to eliminate "Al Cheapo."
@44:31 Another option is to kill a clone in time, right after the chamber, use him to enter the final stage and kill the villain asap.
@1:01:49 If you like the raw experience and can tolerate the flaws, it is actually an underrated classic. The lack of a save system doesn't make a difference for those high difficulty suit only player.
The story might not be something spectacular, it is the puzzle piece that gives you the whole picture about 47.
Man, i completed codename 47 like 3-4 times as a kid back then, was one of my first game ever. I didnt had any bugs or issues, that i see in your video, even after i played codename 47 recently on a modern system(which may be your problem), but it was still fine.
I was fine with Hitman Contracts remaking some of the levels in Codename 47, though I remember a lot of people bitching about it at the time. Mostly because Codename 47 was so clunky and aged so badly even by that time.
On a side Sidenote, Hitman Contracts was great and I really liked the significantly darker tone it had.
Great video, hope you do more
10/10 would use the bathroom again
I had to stay and watch the whole thing after you mentioned that you recorded the whole thing in 4:3 just to annoy your friend, because thats something i would have done to my friend aswell
Your last sentiments that it's better to start with the later games are absolutely right. I remember in 2006 having a copy of both silent assasin and CN 47. I played CN47 first and it was too complex for my 10 year old self to figure out. I popped in Silent assasin and it was way more fun
I'm pretty sure the shotgun in the box of roses is a reference to Terminator
This video is really good! Why haven't you gotten popular yet?? Definitely subscribing. I really can't wait for more content! :D
Gen-Z : "Games today are such an exercise in tedium
Gen-X : "Oh sweet summer child... If only you knew the games I grew up with"
Seriously, though, I first played Codename 47 around the start of this millennium and never figured out how to pass one of the first levels. During a retry many years later I remember getting much further, which was probably as far as the hotel. Watching your review makes me glad I didn't do a tried retry.
Great work, had a lot of fun watching it. Was thinking about replaying the whole game to get a boost of nostalgia, but watching your video was enough. Will you do Silent Assassin as well?
Top notch review with great humor.
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Do you planning to cover Hitman 2: Silent Assassin? If you do, can't wait to see your opinion on the mission Hidden Valley
One day I'd like to cover all the Hitman games but there are a bunch of other things I'd like to make videos on first. I can tell you from memory though Hidden Valley was garbage.