Eidos Interactive announced that Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, the follow-up to the worldwide best-seller Hitman: Codename 47, is currently in development for the PC. Created by Io Interactive, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is currently slated to arrive on store shelves in Spring 2002.
“The Hitman series continues to be groundbreaking in the thinking shooter genre,” said Chip Blundell, Marketing Director of Eidos Interactive. “Hitman 2 expands on the adventures of the original game by placing gamers in the role of a hired gun and gives them more of the exploits, advanced features and thrilling missions that raised Hitman to the top of its genre.”
Hitman 2’s storyline begins in a Sicilian monastery. His attempt to distance himself from his violent past is detoured as he is discovered by a Russian crime lord and tricked into returning to his trade. Caught in the middle of a ring of deception, Hitman soon discovers that he has been manipulated and is now a target himself - of a highly trained ex-Spetsnaz assassin.
Hitman 2 has an outstanding list of new features, including: a choice of 1st and 3rd person viewpoints; mid-mission save options; a revised and enhanced inventory system allowing gamers to acquire and carry weapons and equipment from mission to mission and ending pre-game “shopping”; a new ranking system; multiple play styles allowing missions to be accomplished with the primary target as the only casualty or “blast-your-way-through,” and variations in-between; and finally, an advanced level design and engine dynamics providing gamers with open levels and no set path.
News source: Gamezone
“The Hitman series continues to be groundbreaking in the thinking shooter genre,” said Chip Blundell, Marketing Director of Eidos Interactive. “Hitman 2 expands on the adventures of the original game by placing gamers in the role of a hired gun and gives them more of the exploits, advanced features and thrilling missions that raised Hitman to the top of its genre.”
Hitman 2’s storyline begins in a Sicilian monastery. His attempt to distance himself from his violent past is detoured as he is discovered by a Russian crime lord and tricked into returning to his trade. Caught in the middle of a ring of deception, Hitman soon discovers that he has been manipulated and is now a target himself - of a highly trained ex-Spetsnaz assassin.
Hitman 2 has an outstanding list of new features, including: a choice of 1st and 3rd person viewpoints; mid-mission save options; a revised and enhanced inventory system allowing gamers to acquire and carry weapons and equipment from mission to mission and ending pre-game “shopping”; a new ranking system; multiple play styles allowing missions to be accomplished with the primary target as the only casualty or “blast-your-way-through,” and variations in-between; and finally, an advanced level design and engine dynamics providing gamers with open levels and no set path.
News source: Gamezone
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Dear Compaq Business Partner,
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC), Compaq Computer Corporation announced a worldwide voluntary
recall and replacement program for approximately 1.4 million AC
adapters used with certain commercial notebook computer products.
Compaq customers affected by this recall and replacement program will
be eligible to receive a replacement AC adapter for each recalled
adapter. These AC adapters were distributed worldwide in notebooks, as
separate options, and as replacement spares for the following
notebooks:
* Armada M300 * Armada 110
* Armada M700 * Prosignia 170
* Armada E500 * Prosignia 190
* Armada E500s * Notebook 100
* Armada V300 * Presario 800 (South Korea only)
* Armada 100s * Armada 3500
Exceptions:
* Taiwan, PRC, and Hong Kong: the recall does not include the
Prosignia 170 and Prosignia 190
* Japan: the recall does not include the Armada 110
This recall and replacement program involves AC adapters made by only
one of the multiple manufacturers used by Compaq; thus, not every
notebook computer listed above will be affected by the recall. The
affected AC adapters can be identified by the adapter Model Series
Number located directly under the Compaq Computer Corporation name on
the AC adapter label.
* Model Series PPP003SD
* Model Series PPP003
* Model Series PP2012
This recall and replacement program only affects AC adapters with the
above listed Model Series Number, not the notebook computers
themselves. It is imperative that affected customers be notified of
this recall. Notebook users who ordered an affected notebook, option
AC adapter, or spare AC adapter between September 1998 and July 2001
may be eligible for the AC adapter replacement program. Affected
customers must be notified to discontinue use of the recalled adapters
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