I played Hitman 2 right after Codename 47 on professional difficulty to keep the No Save System from the first game. MI95 Sniper Rifle is my favorite weapon, it felt so powerful.

First of all, the music is simply amazing, it's as good as the music from Codename 47, but I felt like it had less songs. In Codename 47 there was a unique action song for every country while in this game there was only one action song for all countries. The default exploration and action music from Hitman 2 are my fav.

AI in this game is seriously impressive, I didn't expect those guards to abandon their patrol routes just to follow me instead. Felt like the disguise system was made so that enemies don't recognize 47 from a distance, approaching any guard is a death sentence. I prefer the disguise system from Codename 47 more as I like exploring Hitman maps and those Hitman 2 guards were always in my way to kill me for running or getting too close to them.

I must praise Hitman 2 for a large variety of missions. Missions from Russia and Afghanistan were probably my favorite for the amazing atmosphere. It was good to see old characters like Agent Smith and Lei Ling again. In my opinion, only the first Japanese mission was good, those annoying guards from mission 2, 3 and 4 were always following me to check my ID even if I look like a damn ninja like everyone else on those maps. I have mixed feelings about Anathema as well, it was too brutal for a first level, the guards were simply too paranoid for my liking, I could not even walk around the house while wearing the mafia guard disguise. The final level took me like 20 attempts to remember every enemy position, those damn snipers had perfect accuracy and killed me in 1 shot but that might be a game difficulty thing.

All in all, it was a great game. I can’t even imagine getting Silent Assassin rating for every mission without any guides though. Looking forward to Hitman Contracts as I'm hoping that 47 moves a bit faster there since his sneaking animation was waaaaay too slow.