Hitman 2 Commercial Banned?

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The release of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin was only a few days ago and as such, the release of the Hitman 2 commercial was also fairly recent. In a somewhat surprising announcement made today by Eidos, it was revealed that television networks: VH-1, MTV, MTV 2, TNN, UPN, ABC Sports, Comedy Central, Sci-fi, and USA have all opted to not run the Hitman 2 commercial Eidos released earlier this week. The decision was made on the grounds that the commercial glorifies violence and had too much sexual content. As a response to the advertisement being pulled from so many networks, Eidos has released an all-new Hitman 2 commercial. Check it out below.

News source: GameSpyDaily

Download: Hitman 2 commercial (4.9Mb)

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typed messages stay up on HUD longer
don't limit chat when game is paused
fixed joystick support in menus
added joystick hat support
made sure "showlog" leaves fullscreen first
new HUD options in menus:
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Cut and Paste in Console and server browser/edit boxes.
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Added Min/Max players to Map Selection
Added Author Name to Map Selection for Non-Epic maps
Add Description field for Mod Authors and hooked it to the scrolly
Added Announcer volume control to menus
'Speech' binder menu in Settings.
Mouse wheel support on speech menu. On by default, but the ut2003.ini option bSpeechMenuUseMouseWheel turns it off.
Letter key support in Speech Menu. The ut2003.ini option bSpeechMenuUseLetters turns this on, and you can specify what keys it uses in the .ini file as well.
Fix [ALL] being at the bottom of the speech menu player list.
Fix bug where ragdolls didn't turn skeletal when they fall into lava volume.
If there is no momentum on death, add a small random one. Reduces ragdolls just falling to their knees.

AI:
bots supporting player will grab nearby pickups
fixed bots rotating to acquire targets too fast
added ReactionTime parameter for bots
fixed bots stuck in corners wanting to go to paths above
bots go after adrenaline more

Editor:
fixed editor crash when rebuild paths with new pickupbase
UnrealEd works on Win98

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improved ping measurement shown in scoreboard
F6 bound to "stat net" again
improved client movement on jumppads
Buddy list wildcards
Master server cheat protection MD5 support
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servers no longer don't reconnect to master server on authentication failure
Show server ip in server browser
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IRC client under 'Chat' tab in Server Browser.
Added 'Server Browser' button in-game so you can view servers/chat without leaving game.
Remove spurious qhull-related warnings at the console eg. when running a server.
Removed a lot of server log spam

Compatibility:
fixed CD check problems on some machines

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fix for SiS 315 and certain other non TnL cards not being able to run the game
better debug output for fatal failures
better handling of running out of memory in default pool
possible fix for UD3DRenderDevice::Unlock crash
possible fix for "CreateVertexBuffer failed (D3DERR_INVALIDCALL)" crash
made code respect D3DTEXOPCAPS_MODULATEALPHA_ADDCOLOR caps bit
fixed case that led to an invalid stage setup in certain scenarios
Voodoo 3/5 & G400 workarounds

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added code to correctly fill in GMachineVideo
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friendly error message when trying to run the Editor
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