Hitman Blood Money Retrospective - Magnum Opus

[@TheKotti]

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.

[@Cvit]

yeah that first point was poorly worded on my part. I definitely see where you are coming from when talking about death of a showman maybe i am just too blinded by nostalgia lol

[@kilmerval]

I came here to also say limiting the framerate

[@joerieper6768]

Hi, TheKotti. It's nice to see you here!

[@rukas133]

How do I limit frames to 60??

[@tigercs1]

@@joerieper6768 is your brother Tobias?

[@kafe9972]

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

[@TurboMintyFresh]

it happened to me haha

[@docbrown2045]

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.

[@000100010001001]

Same. I loved how the newspaper keeps track of all the shit 47 does and all the stats

[@kchuen]

That was the best thing. I fed everyone to the crocodiles expecting it to be reported but no… I really wished the future games would incorporate better newspaper reporting. But instead that feature is gone…. Most of the dark humour is gone… the theme is more special agent like than contract killer like. Very disappointing for me personally.

[@hoangphanvu9022]

@@kchuen I really miss the dark, bleak and sometimes oppressing atmosphere of the old Hitman games. The crime-thriller vibe, the grey morality. All gone. Now it becomes another generic action spy game. Yeah the new games have great mechanics and all that, but the feel is totally different. The locations are huge and packed with possibilities, but after awhile, it just feel repetitive. Same way to electrocute someone, same way to poison, same way to drown someone in their own piss... Yeah I get the reasons behind why the devs made the new games the way they are, but it just didn't click for me. Tried, but it didn't click. For me, Hitman ended at Blood money. And let's be real, the new trilogy is just 47 take care of some family businesses. It even ended the same way as every Hitman games before - with 47 keep doing assasinations.

[@jawnjawnson525]

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

[@GuyOnAChair]

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

[@natethegreatreviews]

Lol I just beat it .. No it does not ...

[@SynderNOfficial]

@@natethegreatreviews I mean you are a filthy console casual though. What would you know about the great games we've played? If you don't own a gaming rig in 2021 you clearly haven't been gaming for long.

[@natethegreatreviews]

@@SynderNOfficial lOL I'm 23 dude been gaming my whole life your mad cause I shared my opinion gtfo

[@Siegmeyer_]

@@SynderNOfficial Imagine thinking owning a PC makes you all knowing about great games 🤦🏼‍♂️ Are you aware how long consoles have been around for ?

[@SynderNOfficial]

@@Siegmeyer_ I mean you have cancer(congratulations) consoles are computers, in 2021 consoles are weaker counterparts for average consumers

[@SCBLGamingFilm]

Developers listening to the real fan base is unheard of nowadays

[@mariusss95]

Listening to the dedicated fans:great game, tons of money Listening to the feminists and sjws:no money, losing fans and credibility. So yeah, go woke get broke or do good games and get good money

[@LeoPerkk]

Including Hitman 3 devs, unfortunately :(

[@gingerbreadman1108]

@@LeoPerkk what happened?

[@jetpackandbutlers5915]

@@gingerbreadman1108 Seven deadly sins price

[@zs1962]

And thank god! People think they know everything. I can’t imagine how terrible games would be listening to know it alls. Also, these days people have gone soft.

[@alexanderthered5603]

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

[@cattycyoutube]

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

[@Charles-e4x]

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.

[@TheKiddingStar]

Tbh, it makes 47 an incredibly complex character when you look at his full arc but at the same time i cant help but feel like perhaps things didnt have to be this way for him

[@KegOfMeat]

He could have just let the bird go

[@Louis13XIII]

@@KegOfMeat how about NO *snap*

[@totallynotabot6003]

Leads well into absolution too.

[@vladimirpolitov7769]

Bird in a cage is an homage to Jean Pierre Melville's classic contract killer film "Le Samourai" (1967).

[@__TheBlackSwordsman__]

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.

[@coldramentpm1013]

so the whole game

[@__TheBlackSwordsman__]

@@coldramentpm1013 Yeah I guess. I just think it was that good of a game. I didn't like Death on the Mississippi and Amendment XXV though, and the ones I didn't mention like Flatline and the first mission I found to be just ok.

[@devonaveii2675]

Contracts and Blood Money still have the best missions and locations.

[@eaglerabbit8922]

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.

[@AlkonKomm]

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

[@Omar-zd5dq]

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.

[@vahlok1426]

At the very least, the recent two games' locations are freaking huge.

[@Omar-zd5dq]

Vahlok142 this is a personal preference but I wish the maps were a little smaller so they can give us more maps. If I had to choose between 15 tiny maps, 5 huge maps, and like 8-9 medium sized maps, I’d go for the latter. Nonetheless they’ve done an awesome job with the maps the past 2 games.

[@vahlok1426]

@@Omar-zd5dq I get your side completely. A smaller map means a more intimate experience. Something tailored to that said assassination. That said, things like assassinating the drivers at the Monaco GP is one of my favorite objectives in Hitman as a franchise.

[@napalmkitty6686]

I just wanted blood money dlc

[@vahlok1426]

@@napalmkitty6686 Considering there's gonna be a third in the new series, there's still hope.

[@Raiders1917]

"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.

[@mr.patriotjol]

The best Hitman game during my high school years

[@Protoswaggz]

GOD the blood money intro is forever the strongest

[@schnoodl3]

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

[@apoletestry3766]

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.

[@rowanatkinson3594]

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

[@someguy1894]

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”

[@jankemjunkie6564]

I always thought it was hilarious especially if you miss a lot of your shots the article mocks you by saying “the assailant is assumed to be of low skill and training”

[@PIKL_Creep]

I found one rather hilarious, I got a bad rating on the wedding level and the paper said they thought Agent 47 was gay for being clean and nicely dressed.

[@yellow538]

@@PIKL_Creep bro is hygiene gay

[@satriadicky3732]

​@@PIKL_Creep Police are looking for nearby gay bars. That got to be the most awkward police op😂

[@CriticalNobody]

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 👍🏻

[@spaghettijoe2705]

Yes. I remember when I first started up contracts, the game was just unplayable. I managed to change a few things and set the max frame rate at 60fps. Problem sloved

[@__TheBlackSwordsman__]

@Critical Nobody I'm such a big fan of yours. Whenever you make a new video it makes my day 100 times better.

[@CallForGrandPappy]

Problems for pc only rip.

[@inconemay1441]

Third mission of Contracts is straight up unplayable and it drives me insane

[@AH-is5yg]

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!

[@TheEternalOuroboros]

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

[@potatoesblink3299]

Not really. Blood Money had more upgradeable stuff but WOA Allowed for options that could to variety when replaying levels (e.g emetic guns different insertion points with matching disguises, different stating outfits)

[@Crimson0047]

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

[@nathanthecollector429]

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

[@tmas47]

HITMAN 3 is getting a new "Freelancer" mode. That's pretty close of getting Blood Money with the new engine.

[@CricetoFunni]

@@tmas47 Aside from having a safehouse with all of your gear in it, it's really not at all like Blood Money.

[@zak1872]

@Criceto still doesn't change the fact that currently, it's the closest thing we got to a new blood money.

[@CricetoFunni]

@@zak1872 True.

[@dmcfail987]

​@@zak1872 probably gameplay wise as far as tone and vibe and darkness blood money is miles better

[@originalxbox9924]

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

[@Felix.Fictus]

"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"

[@Felix.Fictus]

ah the all powerful yet ever elusive wider audience. so mythical one might assume it never even existed. truly what better god for the AAA games industry to worship?

[@marakalos3838]

@@Felix.Fictus Yes. Watered down mechanics with not much that was very interesting. *Sigh Shameful really. You try to be widely liked and achieve nothing new to actually do that. Also, the coin in Blood Money was amazing in stealth and some sticky situations.

[@marakalos3838]

@@mariosfunadventureswithlui6197 I tried figuring that out on my first playthrough! I got it after hours of experiments when I was a kid. Unfortunately I often used it to cause shenanigans or to hit people in the head.

[@TurboMintyFresh]

absolution was such a letdown i was so dissapointed after playing this masterpiece

[@schnozcomplex4137]

"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: : )

[@DeanGl]

Lol. It would be a crime if they didn't use it. Ave Maria and Hitman are iconic together.

[@SaintZaiya]

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

[@Lacotemale]

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

[@Firelord500]

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

[@anasshahid224]

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

[@spaghettijoe2705]

Hands down the best hitman game ever made

[@Dribbleondo]

Right after Hitman 2, of course.

[@etangbose4755]

@@Dribbleondo like original or 2018?

[@leatherwoodnursery4135]

Hooray he’s back!!!!!!

[@Burgnut]

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

[@lousassin2912]

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

[@sugreev2001]

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.

[@MegamanNG]

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 KZbinr named TheAuzzieGamer and he made it funny and enjoyable to boot.

[@patheticsquire4342]

Good to see someone giving the series some love!

[@justinlee9638]

this is the most calming video ive ever seen

[@MidwestArtMan]

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

[@joeytunney5476]

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!

[@tdestroyer4780]

I could swear hiding in crates was in Blood money, and peaking out of them could get you spotted? Maybe that was contracts.

[@joeytunney5476]

@@tdestroyer4780 Absolution was the first game to allow hiding in crates. Contracts didn’t have any crates or closets to hide in.

[@joeytunney5476]

@@Bushprowler hiding in closets was in blood money, not crates, you could only hide bodies in crates. My reply to the other person was wrong, there are no crates you can hide yourself in but there are closets

[@EzDoesitYGO]

YESSIRRR wake up babe new Cvit vid

[@ShanaynayGosby]

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

[@maralinekozial9131]

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

[@acetrigger1337]

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

[@AnthonyChiboystiles]

Namely??

[@borism7615]

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

[@mcdanky9461]

My first ever Hitman game, still play it now

[@Jason-oo4jg]

BEST HITMAN GAME EVER!!

[@hexravenz8970]

Woah havent see your video in 2 month glad your back

[@Whocares792]

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

[@necromancypizza]

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

[@jjforcebreaker]

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.

[@MMaRsu]

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

[@sunsetman22]

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

[@leejones8582]

Been waiting ages for this.

[@JynxedKoma]

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.

[@MoonlightGraham0]

Really was my favorite stealth game ever

[@pond0479]

i've been looking forward to this!

[@seebarry4068]

1:52 which they abandoned for absolution.

[@suneater98]

Oo your back thank goodness we missed you

[@johndavidtibbetts7320]

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)

[@unsavourylittlerunt]

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

[@hongquiao]

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

[@pointlessreplay]

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

[@zd3994]

blood money is the best in the series.

[@dey6643]

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

[@jeffryrojas4148]

Hitman Contracts is my favorite

[@zayn1172]

my favorite childhood game 😁

[@olliverferlin4082]

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

[@brennanwn]

The Best Hitman has to offer for.

[@mariomikulic9876]

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

[@AJZulu]

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

[@waveplay3978]

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.

[@curtish9886]

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?

[@lonelywanderer3558]

better than the current trilogy? Sorry, I never played BM back in the day, and the controls are super janky?

[@invidatauro8922]

@@lonelywanderer3558 I find the level design and variety of things to do in the new trilogy a lot better than BM. I think BM has a lot of nostalgia factor behind it as it tends to be most peoples introduction to the series (it was mine and I played it a lot) but I just find the newer games better in, honestly, almost every way.

[@kaustabc7562]

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

[@cybernightzero5891]

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.

[@Growy-Nerd]

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

[@ysdragoon3714]

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

[@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn]

my favorite one in the series I will always love hitman

[@Doctor-Infinite]

Dad finally came back with the milk and cigarettes as promised

[@igauan8010]

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

[@aquilafasciata5781]

6:24 What Alec Baldwin wished people thought.

[@Luke_boy_77]

Game ran excellently on PS5 when I just recently played it

[@servantofgod8920]

I always LOVED the newspapers!

[@lonelywanderer3558]

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

[@benjammn2157]

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

[@dbenz16]

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

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

...what is hitman codename 47 then?

[@dbenz16]

@@dontspikemydrink9382 old milk

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

@@dbenz16 no, that is the OG.

[@crashoutvergil]

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.

[@Charles-e4x]

The only real issue I had with it was that it didn't cost too much to get rid of it, relatively speaking. However, it did serve to reinforce how important being discreet was and to kill any witnesses who saw you. As well as stealing camera recordings of you. The game actively punishes you for not doing any of that. You either lose out on money for upgrades by paying people to look the other way, or you run the risk of getting caught more easily in subsequent levels. Even if at the end of the day, it's pretty much a non-factor if you're trying to get Silent Assassin in every level, I still think it was a cool system and it served its purpose well enough.

Best game and second best soundtrack of the series

[@NicholasBrakespear]

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.

[@nousername7571]

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

[@hidenfn]

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.

[@Vaerenn]

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.

[@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn]

love hitman love cvit

[@infinitum8558]

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

[@Metalc]

Yeah but the problem is that notoriety has almost no impact so there’s not much reason to fear having it grow

[@CoolGobyFish]

​​@@Metalcnotoriety has a lot of effect if you play on professional difficulty. Newspapers will appear on tables and guards would run up to them to check the photo once they see you. Civilians will freak out and yell- you are that killer from the news

[@mmmako]

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.

[@Cvit]

surprisingly i didn't have the bug with leaving the vineyard during the playthrough for this vid which i've had in the past

[@TheBatman39]

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

[@sir1thomas1]

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.

[@MideonProductions]

Great Video. Thanks.