Hitman: Codename 47

Hitman: Codename 47 is an adventure game developed by IO Interactive and released in 2000. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Glacier.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Hitman: Codename 47 is the first of 73 entries we hold in the Hitman series. The next entry was Hitman Collection in 2000. Its critic score of 60 is 16 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Hitman World of Assassination at 90.

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Hitman: Codename 47 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average. Players rate it 67, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

The main story runs about 24 hrs.

The minimum specification calls for Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM and 100% DirectX 7.0a-compatible 3d Accelerated Card with 12MB VRAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Hitman: Codename 47 launched on 19 November 2000, within three weeks of Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, Jet Grind Radio and The Operative: No One Lives Forever. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, Jet Grind Radio, The Operative: No One Lives Forever.

We have tested and published 2 cheat entries for Hitman: Codename 47 — 1 cheat code and 1 secret. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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