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Hitman. Also available for xbox and PC.

Amazing game. You are Agent 47, bald assassin extraordinaire.

There is a story involved but it is meaningless.

Basics
The game is centered around a series of locations around the world. Miami. Columbia, New York. Mumbai. Etc. Each location is something. Thailand was a hotel. Italy was this mansion. Right now I'm working on Mumbai and it's the city. At each location you have a few people you need to kill.

Each location is a large, relatively open ended world. There are tons of ways to complete each mission. You find disguises. You set up elaborate sequences of events. You wander around trying to figure out who is doing what and why and how you can influence or change it.

It is not really an action game at all. It's more of an elaborate puzzle.

Each level has a series of challenges and missions that give you some clues as to the variety of things you can do within the location. Things to find. Ways to kill your targets. Story missions that give you some background on what is going on in the level. When you complete the level you get a score based on how well you did and what challenges you complete. The more points you rack up, your level mastery goes up. You unlock new places you can start, items you can get in the level. And then you play the level again because this time you want to figure out how to get the dude to visit his mother's grave so you can push him in.

Each time you start a level you are essentially lost. But you wander around. You mess up. A bunch of people shoot you. You shoot them. Eventually you start figuring out where things are, what disguises you need to go where. And a month or so later you are still playing the level and you are just an assassin god.

I've never played a game that I enjoy replaying as much as I do this one. I've played Mumbai for a month now. I finally figured out how to get Vanya (the slum queen of India) to meet with the Maelstorm in the train yard. And since they were in the train yard I figured I would derail an incoming train to just get them both at the same time.

I've drowned Vanya in a fountain. I rigged her meditation steam room so it would explode while she was in it. I've poisoned her tea. I've disguised myself as her tailor and strangled her while taking her measurements for a dress....and on and on and on. In addition to just shooting her in the head more times than I can count. And there are three targets. Each one has a ton of elaborate ways to kill them. And then there are ways to get them to meet. You just keep figuring out how to unlock the puzzle.

Next I'm trying to figure out how to get "silent assassin." You eliminate your targets, hide the bodies, no one sees you, no evidence. Then I'm going to figure out sniper assassin. Getting them all with the sniper rifle.

Again, not an action game. It rarely requires fast twitch reflex. Just a lot of replay and thinking. The graphics are good. The writing and dialogue is great. A ton of humor in it. Another level I was killing a rock star who was the son of a rich corporate something or other. I had arranged for him to go to a surprise birthday party. Finally figured it all out. He is there. And the dialogue before he blows out the candles was hilarious. When he was done I smothered him to death in his cake.

The point is I love this fucking game.

You might like it as well. IF you decide to take the plunge, start with Hitman 2 and if you like it you can buy the levels of Hitman 1 "in" Hitman 2, so you get the better graphics everything in one package.