Hitman Blood Money = Fun

Thanks to #4 lending me his Xbox360 for a while, I’ve become fond of “Hitman: Blood Money” where you’re a hired assassin that takes out all sort of baddies: from drug lords to child pornographers.

I’ve never played any of the “Hitman” games before this one. There is a lot of emphasis on stealth and cleverness; however, you can go in guns blazing if you wish. I think it’s more fun to do it the sneaky way even if it means there are periods in the game where you’re just waiting around. My last mission was pretty fun. It involved sneaking into an opera house during a rehearsal, and one of my targets was a performer in the show. He’s in an execution scene where some Nazi shoots him with a pistol. All I had to do was replace the prop gun with a real one and voila, down he goes.

The mission I’m currently on involves infiltrating an insane asylum, so what do I do? Why, I kill one of the patients, take his clothes, and put his body in a dumpster of course. There’s lots of chances to put bodies in dumpsters throughout the game, and sometimes laundry hampers or conveniently body-sized crates. I also stole a patient’s admission papers to allow me into the mental institution. My favorite part so far is coming up. A security guard has to pat me down before I’m allowed in. Now I have the papers in my hand, and I’m trying to show it to him. What does my character do instead? Well, he grabs the guard by the head and viciously headbutts him in the face. The guard is screaming with blood gushing from his nose as other security personnel begin to arrive. In other words, I’m made.

As hilarious as this was (I had to restart from a saved point), I argue that a crazy person would headbutt people in the face. How could that be more convincing? I’m insane. I headbutt people. It’s what I do. But alas, it is just a game, and any violence towards security will arouse suspicion. As a side note, if you allow the guard to pat you down, he will take all your weapons, but still allows you to enter the complex as if it’s perfectly normal for a mental patient to have a silenced .45 and a sub-machine gun.

I look forward to finishing that mission tonight.