Reviews

This is an educational program that puts you in the shoes of a killer, a hired assassin, a hatchet man, in other words, a hit man - so you know how it feels. Side 1 gives you informations and instructions on the game with BIG colourful and detailed graphics, so much so that I almost identified the blood type of a guy.

Then you can finally load the real game from side 2. The boss tells you about the new job, the taxes on your payroll etc. [anyway it's always about killing government agents, which is part of the educational side of the program], then you must choose a vehicle to use for the getaway, but they cost and your budget determines what you can buy among a helicopter, a motorcar, a motorbike and a bicycle. Then you must choose your weapon among a crossbow, a laser gun, a magnum and a colt 45. Next step: you must find the hideout of the agents in the city, which is a slighty 3D view of a flat black ground littered with blue and cyan boxes that are supposed to be buildings, and when you touch their visible short side, walking against them with the yellow, microscopic, matchstick little man that is supposed to be you, you gain information about the position of the agent, through a contact, in the form a of a vertical and a horizontal arrow at the bottom of the screen. You can obtain four of these indications, the fifth time is your last chance to guess the right house - or your mission is a failure.
Anyway, once you have found the hideout, there's the shooting: the screen changes again and it's again big, detailed and colourful graphics, and you move a gunsight or something, Operation Wolf/Cop Out style, trying to hit the agent that sometimes peeps from behind a trash can or from a window - but there's a time limit. Once you have shot the agent, you must run away, but there's no arcade section for this, you just press a key and you discover if you are caught or not - which depends on the vehicle you used: a helicopter has a 100% of successful escape, the bicycle a 70% [you must be quite good at riding bicycles]. If you are caught, there's the TRIAL, and it's again just a couple of lines after pressing a key. I've been caught and put on trial two times, the first time I was found innocent: a real insult to my professionalism. Concluding, it's a unique themed game, lots of images and peculiarities, and moderately entertaining, in spite of the simplistic gameplay - but the details and a little variety make it quite funny. It was even more entertaining when I tried it with the 11 years old son of my neighbor. He's a Wii player, but was quite conquered by The Hit Man.
I hope he didn't learn too much from it.

This turned out to be quite a simple game that I ended up finishing in my first time playing the game, albeit on skill level 1, but still I usually don't finish the game on the lowest difficulty but here I managed it. It's quite a fun little game actually, quite repetitive yes but it was enjoyable nevertheless. I would have quite liked this back in the day if I bought it in fact.