Hitman: Blood Money Reprisal Nintendo Switch Review 2024

In 2006, IO Interactive made a video game called Hitman Blood Money. Eidos Interactive published the game. It came out in May 2006 for computers, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Hitman Blood Money – Repraisal for Nintendo Switch Roms. is the fourth game in the Hitman series and follows the game called Hitman: Contracts from 2004.

Blood Money is like the other Hitman games. It has sneaking, planning, and shooting. But it mostly involves guessing and trying things out, and the graphics look old. It’s a nice but not necessary part of the series. So, we give you a blended Hitman Blood Money review to get transparent feedback on it.

Overview of Hitman Blood Money

This game allows you to make a lot of decisions about how you move through each level, and it looks great as you play. It could have been easy to make another boring game with many killings, but instead, we got a game that makes you think.

This game had a lot of violent and exciting scenes because of the different creative scenarios. We liked that the game had more things to do at each level, like making it look like accidents happened when we killed someone. It gave us a lot of choices and made us want to play the missions again. But we thought that the notoriety system could have been used better.

The storyline of Hitman Blood Money

This is our best Hitman game Rom on Nintendo Switch Roms, and we think it is the best assassin game ever. It is great in every way: the way it looks, the story, how it was made, the characters, the feeling it gives, and more. We couldn’t find anything bad about this game, so we gave it a good score.

We liked the story in the game and thought the controls were the best out of all the Hitman games. The game runs smoothly and the AIs make everything feel more realistic. Like other Hitman games, this one can be dark, but it has a good balance and is enhanced by great voice actors, music, and graphics. This is the second-best video game ever, and we won’t change our mind about it.

In Hitman Blood Money you are Agent 47, a trained killer, and you are being targeted by a rival agency called “The Franchise”. Start a risky mission to defeat the secret group’s dangerous leaders, and use all your resources to do it without attracting attention. Sneak in, do the job, and get away without being caught.

Sure, this story is just a way to explain a series of assassination jobs that reach all over the world. It’s interesting, but we’ve seen it before too. Hitman: Contracts is similar to the other games in the series, and it often includes the themes of betrayal and the ICA having to shut down. But, does any of that matter? Not really, because the beauty of the story is in the small stories within the individual contracts. There are lots of bad guys for you to defeat in different ways, like rich people on a snowy mountain or a gang on a boat in Hitman Blood Money.

Character list of Hitman Blood Money

The characters are very impressively organized in the Hitman Blood Money game. The character’s motives and plot are well-crafted. All characters have different perspectives and reasons in every mission in this game. Now we will know about these characters and their roles in this section.

Agent 47

Agent 47 is the main character in the Hitman Blood Money game. He used to be a top agent for a company that hires people to kill others. But then he gave away their secrets and shut them down for good. After revealing the ICA and taking down Providence, 47 and Diana now work independently as assassins with no connection to the ICA.

Diana Burnwood

Diana Penelope Burnwood is the second most important character in the Hitman Blood Money game. She used to work at the International Contract Agency and would give Agent 47 people to kill and information about them. She started working independently with 47 after they ruined Providence and 47 revealed the ICA to everyone. The assassin and their manager now run a service where people can pay them to commit murders, and they are not connected to the ICA.

Carlton Smith

Carlton Smith, also known as Agent Smith, is a character that appears in many Hitman games. He is an important character in the early Hitman games and also appears in the newer ones as well. He is often the funny character in the story, shown as a not-very-good spy who always needs help from 47. However, he can help the player many times.

Eve

Eve is a person who was hired to kill Agent 47 at the Shark Club in Las Vegas. She is pretending to be a singer at a party on the top floor. Another assassin named Maynard John is sent with Eve to wait for 47 at a party in the basement.

Alexander Leland Cayne

Alexander Leland Cayne, also known as Leland Alexander or Jack, was the boss of the FBI and also secretly led a group called The Franchise, which did illegal contract killings. The Franchise is part of a secret society called Alpha Xerox. He tells the story and is later shown to be the main bad guy in Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 is going after him in Requiem.

Nolan Cassidy

Nolan Cassidy works for the “Herald” in Providence and listens to the Constant.
Nolan Cassidy was born into a family that worked in the military. He lived near and on military bases all over the United States. He joined the military when he was 18, fought in Kosovo, and received many medals. He wanted to do more to help his country, so he joined the Secret Service’s protection team in 2000.

Mark Parchezzi III

Mark Parchezzi III is a white-haired copy who is now better than Mark Purayah II. He is the second bad guy in Hitman Blood Money. He is the target in the mission Amendment XXV.

Hitman Blood Money Gameplay and Missions

Hitman Blood Money’s Nintendo Switch Rom new notoriety system works well, the upgraded currency system encourages players to save money, and the text-sensitive controls and up-close fighting systems make this usually hard stealth game easier to play.

Gameplay Overview

The new features don’t change the basic experience much, except for the Contracts. People who like the series will see small changes, but the game is basically like playing the old ones. In simpler terms, IO added many good features to the main game, but they didn’t change the basic game of 47. What we have now is a nice and well-known Hitman game.

IO’s new game is a project made up of many small parts that work together. The story is very interesting because it follows Agent 47, who is a top assassin, as he is being hunted by another organization and a hitman. The story also follows a reporter and someone on the inside who are trying to find Agent 47. You should watch all the cutscenes because they show important information about me, and they thoroughly explore the political and global issues related to cloning in a real-world way.

The CG dialog is smart and original, and it’s not just superficial. Also, the show has always used computer-generated cutscenes, which have looked very different from the actual gameplay so far.

The biggest changes in Blood Money are not about the story, but about what Hitman does and the rules for doing them. First, the training is current. The first level is like a practice level that guides you through a real-world situation. Many other games have done this in the past, and now Hitman is doing it too, and doing it well. Next, you will see controls that respond to touch, more ways to control the game, and Agent 47 being more agile.

On the screen, you’ll see three buttons. You can use them to open doors, pick up items, find hidden things in drawers, and use guns. An object that you can use is being controlled and the correct button is glowing in the corner of your screen. This method is good and luckily it makes controlling Hitman feel more natural without being too obvious. The only problem is getting out of windows. It’s a little hard and can be confusing in a hurry.

Missions

Hitman Blood Money has twelve missions. Ten of them happened in the United States. These twelve missions always reconnected to one another and plots are based on the storyline. We found that all the missions were quite enjoyable and thrilling at the same time.

Death of a Showman

Agent 47 came to Baltimore to fulfill a contract for a parent who is very angry because their child was hurt in an accident caused by a failed business owner. Even though Joseph Clarence was the legal owner of the run-down amusement park, the local gangsters were in charge of it. 47 needs to go into the park and kill Joseph Clarence.

A Vintage Year

47 gets a briefing from ICA on a flash drive. He puts it into his laptop and gets the mission information. He has to get rid of Fernando Delgado, a retired colonel from the Pinochet government, who has a vineyard that is a cover for a cocaine factory. To make the murder look like a drug killing, 47 has to also kill Delgado’s son Manuel, and then escape using a seaplane stored in an underground hangar.

Curtains Down

Curtains Down is the third task in Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 goes to Paris to kill a famous opera actor, Alvaro D’Alvade, and an American ambassador, Richard Delahunt. D’Alvade is practicing for a play called Tosca at the Paris Opera House, and Delahunt is watching him practice.

Flatline

Flatline is the fourth task or job in the video game Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 needs to save Agent Smith from being locked up at the Pine Cone Rehabilitation Center. He will use a new medicine that makes it look like Agent Smith is dead, so they can sneak him out.

47 also needs to send away one of three mafia members: Carmine DeSalvo, Lorenzo Lombardo, or Rudy Menzana. Each time the mission is played, a different main person is chosen. The other two men can be optional targets during the mission and offer more money if they are eliminated.

A New Life

After saving Agent Smith, Agent 47 takes another job in the San Diego suburbs of California. 47 needs to kill a former Cuban crime boss named Vinnie “Slugger” Sinistra, who is being guarded by the FBI, and get back a piece of evidence called microfilm.

The Murder of Crows

The Murder of Crows is the sixth job in Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 has been told to assassinate Mark Purayah II, Angelina Mason, and Raymond Kulinsky. They are all part of The Crows, which is a competing group to the International Contract Agency.

You Better Watch Out…

Agent 47 saved the US Secretary of the Interior during Mardy Gras. Now, he is going to a fancy Christmas party at a mansion in the Rocky Mountains near a lake. The party is hosted by a wealthy guy known for his partying lifestyle.

Agent 47 has to kill Lorne de Havilland, a rich man, and Chad Bingham Jr.’s Another goal is to get back an important video.

Death on the Mississippi

After confronting a person who makes inappropriate films and the child of a US leader in the Rocky Mountains, Agent 47 travels to Mississippi. A group of people in the South have a gang that travels on the Mississippi River using a boat called the paddle steamer Emily as their home base.

Forty-seven wants to kill all the gang members, including their leader and the ship’s captain, Skip Muldoon, to get rid of them from the area forever. Another goal is to get any papers from the captain’s locked box.

Till Death Do Us Part

Agent 47 gets off the boat Emily after finishing a job on the Mississippi River. His client then sends him into the swamps to attend a wedding at an old house in the South.

Agent 47 needs to kill Skip Muldoon’s brother, John “Pappy” LeBlanc, and his future son-in-law Hank “Buddy” Muldoon, and also make sure that Margeaux LeBlanc is safe.

A House of Cards

A House of Cards is the tenth task in the game Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 has to stop Hendrik Schmutz, a person who believes white people are better, from South Africa. He also has to stop Sheikh Mohammad Bin Faisal Al-Khalifa, the boss of Arabian Pharmaceutical Exports (APRIX), and Tariq Abdul Lateef, head scientist of APRIX.

A Dance with the Devil

A Dance With The Devil is the 11th task in the game Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 is paid to murder a dishonest CIA agent who is involved in selling weapons, named Anthony Martinez, and his partner, Vaana Ketlyn.

Amendment XXV

Amendment XXV is the twelfth and second-to-last level in the game Hitman Blood Money. Agent 47 has to get into the White House to stop someone from killing the President of the United States, Tom Stewart.

Requiem

Requiem is the last mission in the game Hitman Blood Money. Some people are watching Agent 47’s funeral and cremation. They don’t know it, but 47 is still alive. He’s just been given a serum that makes him seem like he’s dead, like Agent Smith in Flatline. When the mission starts, the game’s credits will show up until the player tries to move 47. After a few seconds of moving around, 47 will wake up and get out of the coffin, like in a Last Man Standing situation. The armed group will become unfriendly towards him right away.

Technical Overview of Hitman Blood Money

Hitman Blood Money still works the same way as before, but the new interface is easier to use and understand. Throwing a naked dead person in a trash can or garbage truck is something new in Blood Money. It can be done quickly and efficiently.

Believe it or not, it was difficult for us to figure out how to throw a coin and handle multiple items at the same time. “Everything is possible, and this Hitman makes it easier to do simple things. ” However, IO has not given up its old ways, so if you have played Hitman before, you will feel familiar with it right away. If you’ve never played Hitman before, you could try this one out.

IO Interactive has completely redesigned its game’s visuals with new lighting, shadows, and better textures. You will see the difference when playing on Xbox 360, PC, or Nintendo Switch. Character designs look a lot more detailed when bump and normal mapping are used. The PS2 version has some visual problems, but the PS2 and Xbox versions still do a good job considering they are not as powerful as other systems.

From a gameplay point of view, there are a lot of new things in Blood Money that make it worth trying for people who are not sure about it. There is now easier access to controls, AI behavior, and combat.

The level design is always good, and you need to think smart and logically to beat each new level. Also, you can play the game many times because there are many different ways to beat each level.

The character movements are not very smooth and you often have to try many times to beat each level. However, the new features don’t change the main experience, which is still very good, but also very familiar.

Platforms

Blood Money came out on PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows on 26 May 2006 in Europe and PAL territories, and on 30 May in North America. Now it is available in both physical and Digital Copies. Physical Copies can be found near retailers and game shops.

Physical Copies

• Amazon
• PlayStation Store
• Switch eShop

Digital Copies

• Windows
• PlayStations (2,3,4)
• Xbox
• Xbox 36
• Xbox One
• Android
• Nintendo Switch

Our Overall Experience

Hitman Blood Money is a great game for people who like sneaky and action-packed games. There are a lot more good things about this game than bad things. In our opinion, the only bad things are that it’s shorter than the previous games and there are some small problems with the controls. Overall, we would give this game a perfect score of 10 out of 10.

Hitman Blood Money has some problems like stiff character movements, not being able to change weapons while hiding, and enemies being alerted for no reason. However, it still gives a very engaging experience by always creating a strong atmosphere, forgiving mistakes made by the player, and offering many ways to achieve your evil objectives.

Final Thoughts

Hitman Blood Money is the next game after Hitman Contracts, which many fans didn’t like. Blood Money makes the engine and gameplay of the previous Hitman games better. It has easier controls and a simpler interface.

In Hitman, you can finish missions by being sneaky or by using force. It’s better to be sneaky, but you can also shoot your way through the missions if you want. The game gives you more rewards for being quiet instead of making a lot of noise.

It’s more fun to play quietly because it lets you complete the mission in different ways, which makes it more fun to play again. Whenever you begin a mission, you can choose special weapons to upgrade during the game. They are optional but really helpful, like the sniper. You have to carry it in a briefcase because it’s too big to fit in your suit pocket, which makes the game more realistic.