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GameplayHitman is an in which players control, a genetically-enhanced assassin, from a third-person perspective, as he travels to international locations and carries out contracted assassinations of criminal targets across the globe. As in other games in the, players are given a large amount of room for creativity in approaching their assassinations. As such, players may utilise long-ranged rifles to snipe a target from a long distance, or they may decide to assassinate the target at close range by using the aforementioned blade weapons or 47's specially-equipped garrote wire.

A common method to approach a mission is to incapacitate other non-player characters and wear their outfits as disguises, which allows the player to gain access to restricted areas more easily. Actions of influence the game. For instance, players can gain more information about the position of their target through listening to a nearby news reporter.The level design of the game features a structure similar to that of and earlier games in the series, as opposed to the linear structure of. Every episode in the game features a environment which can be explored by the player, featuring numerous ways to eliminate targets from accidents to scripted 'opportunities' which require multiple tasks to complete. Levels are larger in Hitman, in which the maps in the game are 'six to seven times larger than the biggest levels in Absolution'. Levels accommodate about 300 (NPCs), with each having different routines and reacting differently to players' actions.

Players can save their game anytime during missions. Instinct mode, which was introduced in Absolution, returns in a simplified form, no longer being an expendable resource. A player's mission performance review is rated on a 5-star rating system, influenced by factors such as time taken, number of non-targets killed, whether the player was spotted, whether or not they have been recorded on camera or if bodies were found. Completing challenges in a mission will award players with Mastery Points. Gaining enough mastery points will cause the player to earn a level of Mastery Level, with a total of 20 levels when playing on the 'Normal' difficulty setting. As the player progresses through the 20 mastery levels, each level will earn players new items including new gadgets such as weapons, different types of poison and explosives, new agency pick-up locations, or new starting locations. The 'Professional' difficulty setting has 10 mastery levels.IO Interactive introduced a 'live component' to Hitman, with new content being delivered regularly in downloadable form.

This includes time-limited missions called 'Elusive Targets'. If a player fails to assassinate an elusive target before the mission expires, or alert the target and allow them to escape, the target will not return. Successful completion of multiple targets yield cosmetic rewards for the player. 'Escalation contracts', which are contracts created by the developers, include multiple stages that requires the player to complete certain tasks such as assassinating a target with a specific weapon or disguise or breaking into a safe.

Completing a stage will progress through the escalation, and the difficulty will increase with new targets to assassinate, new challenges to comply with or new changes to the level. All additional downloadable content after release will be free of charge. Hitman: Absolution 's online Contracts mode also returned in Hitman, allowing players to assign up to five NPCs as assassination targets, set requirements for how to kill them, and share their contract with other players to compete for high scores on. In an interview with PCGamesN, lead online designer Torben Ellert has stated that past Elusive Targets will not be making a return, saying that the quality of the content would not stand up to multiple replays. SynopsisIn 1999, a man who goes by the alias 47 is initiated into the International Contract Agency (ICA), demonstrating exceptional aptitude as an assassin. However, the ICA is unable to verify his background or uncover any information about him.

With the help of his handler Diana Burnwood, 47 manages to pass all of the tests flawlessly. ICA director Erich Soders reluctantly approves agent status for 47.In 2019, 47 completes a series of contracts for the ICA. Though the contracts at first appear to be unrelated, an unidentified man, referred to only as the 'shadow client', has covertly coordinated these contracts to attack a secretive organisation called Providence, whose existence and covert control over world affairs which were thought to be mythical. The shadow client uses ICA and to eliminate Providence agents so ICA will appear culpable while disguising his own involvement. The final contracts address the fallout caused by the ICA uncovering the shadow client's actions, and by Providence discovering the ICA's role in the attacks.PlotThe shadow client performs an assassination for Viktor Novikov, one of the heads of the international IAGO, and receives a copy of all of IAGO's gathered intelligence as payment. The shadow client proceeds to use the IAGO files to identify Providence's secret operations.

To cover his tracks, the shadow client anonymously discloses to an impending IAGO auction of an MI6 list, to take place at a by Novikov's designer label Sanguine. MI6 hires 47 to prevent the sale by assassinating both IAGO ringleaders, Novikov and Dalia Margolis, at the fashion show in, France.The shadow client sets two more ICA contracts in motion in order to disrupt Providence's activities without exposing himself.

He first discloses to a stockholder in the Ether Biotech Corporation a secret Ether project to develop a deadly weaponised virus, who then hires 47 to assassinate the Ether scientists in charge of the project and to destroy the virus prototype housed at Ether's biolab in the fictitious town of Sapienza, Italy. Providence dispatched an agent to investigate the incident, though he was ambushed by the shadow client who coerces him into handing him a vault key before killing him.The shadow client also discloses an impending military in Morocco to Hamilton-Lowe, a construction contractor with lucrative government contracts in the country. Hamilton-Lowe, who wished to preserve their contacts, hires 47 to eliminate the conspirators behind the coup plot, General Reza Zaydan and fugitive bank CEO Claus Hugo Strandberg—both secretly Providence operatives—in, Morocco. As 47 is completing the contract, the shadow client breaches a Providence vault in and steals the information on Providence's assets and operatives. As Providence investigates the incident, they soon realises that a coordinated attack has been launched against it.The shadow client sets up an ICA contract to draw another Providence member, the Thomas Cross, into the open.

Cross had ordered a coverup that exonerated his son, famed singer Jordan, for the murder of Jordan's girlfriend, Hannah Highmoore; the shadow client reveals the truth to her family. The Highmoores hire 47 to kill Jordan Cross and Ken Morgan, the lawyer who conducted the coverup, while both are staying at the Himmapan luxury hotel in, Thailand. Deploying forces from a under his control, the shadow client kidnaps Thomas Cross from Jordan's funeral, then kills Cross and steals billions from his offshore bank accounts. The ICA, realising that an unknown party has benefited from the Cross contract, re-examines 47's previous contracts and discovers the shadow client's role in anonymously leaking intelligence to the clients.The ICA tracks these transmissions to a training camp for the shadow client's militia. Seeking to eliminate the shadow client for his manipulations, the ICA orders an operation prematurely due to Soders's intervention. The ICA sends 47 to the camp in, USA, to eliminate and bombmaker Sean Rose and his fellow commanders.

At the camp, 47 and Diana find the shadow client's research revealing the connections of the previous contracts to Providence. They learn for the first time that Providence is not a myth but a real organisation.

Though they find evidence that the shadow client knows 47's identity, the pursuit of the shadow client is sidetracked when they also discover that Soders is secretly a Providence agent. The shadow client uses this opportunity to go into hiding.47 assassinates Soders before he is able to trade a list of ICA operatives to Providence and his Providence liaison and former lawyer, Yuki Yamazaki, at the GAMA private hospital in, Japan, where Soders is being treated for a heart condition. Subsequently, Providence uncovers the shadow client's role in the attacks as well. An unnamed Providence member approaches Diana, seeking to hire the ICA to target the shadow client. Upon her refusal, he offers to reveal information about 47's unknown past, leading her to reconsider.Bonus episodes. In 'The Icon', 47 visits Sapienza for the first time. 47 assassinates actor-director Dino Bosco, to save the client, L'Avventura Pictures, from Bosco's financially ruinous budget demands while filming a for the studio.

In 'A House Built on Sand', 47 visits Marrakesh for the first time. 47 thwarts a planned sale of client Hamilton-Lowe's from Hamilton-Lowe chief architect Matthieu Mendola to rival construction magnate Kong Tuo-Kwang, assassinating both men and intercepting the documents.

In 'Holiday Hoarders', 47 visits Paris for the first time. 47 assassinates professional thieves Harry Bagnato and Marv Gonif as they attempt to burglarise the Palais De Walewska on Christmas. The targets are a nod to and characters from the holiday film.

In 'Landslide', 47 visits Sapienza again. 47 is hired by Silvio Caruso to assassinate Marco Abiatti, a snake-tongued wealthy businessman-turned-politician, who has returned to his hometown to run for mayor, with the intention of turning it into holiday resorts for the rich.The Sarajevo Six47 receives contracts to assassinate the six former members of the Sigma deniable operations unit of the CICADA, who were collectively responsible for war crimes committed during the, but evaded prosecution by the. In this alternate storyline, 47 tracks each Sigma member to one of the Season 1 mission settings, with the events and characters of Season 1 serving as backdrop.For the final contract, 47 is sent to the GAMA hospital in Hokkaido to both eliminate Taheiji Koyama and retrieve a set of files documenting Sigma's operations.

If 47 approaches the target, Koyama, deducing 47's identity, confesses that he himself ordered all six assassinations to bring the Sigma members to justice for their crimes. Koyama instructs 47 to publicise the Sigma files before freely submitting himself to death at 47's hands. After completing his objectives, 47 remarks to Diana that despite the release of the files, public indifference would nevertheless relegate Sigma's long-past atrocities to obscurity.Patient ZeroA named 'Liberation' masquerades itself as a self-help group and is organising an exhibition in the Himmapan hotel in, planning to release a attack in the city. 47 receives contract from a reclusive billionaire codenamed 'Locksley' to eliminate Oybek Nabazov, leader of the cult, and Sister Yulduz, his second-in-command. As 47 leaves the hotel, Diana spots a series of self-dispatched messages from the hotel's network, which later is revealed to be a signal to activate the cult's following Nabazov's death.ICA identifies two cult members meeting in Sapienza to exchange a viral weapon, which was retrieves by 47 after he eliminated the targets. ICA intel then confirms the exact coordinates of the U.S.-bound signal from Nabazov's, which indicates a medical doctor who carries a live sample of the Nabazov virus is testing the virus in Colorado.

47 uses a sniper rifle to eliminate Bradley Paine, the doctor who has the virus, and four mercenaries who have been infected.ICA intercepts a memo indicating that Japanese authorities detained a man who showed signs of infection and was sent to the GAMA medical facility. 47 infiltrates the medical facility to eliminate Owen Cage, the virus researcher associated with the weaponisation of the Nabazov virus who infected himself with the intention to become Patient Zero. The second target is Klaus Liebleid, an Ether scientist, who is trying to extract information about the virus so that Ether can the weaponised virus and profit from it. However, despite Cage being kept in the isolation ward, the virus spreads and 47 needs to kill all individuals infected as the virus will only die after the host's death. After 47 completes the contract, the spread of the Nabazov virus is contained, the virus itself destroyed as well.

ReleaseHitman was originally set to be released on 8 December 2015 for, and, but was later delayed to 11 March 2016 so as to allow additional development time for IO Interactive to include more content into the base game. The PlayStation 4 version of the game features six exclusive missions known as The Sarajevo Six. Players who pre-ordered the game gained access to the game's, which was released for PlayStation 4 on 12 February 2016 and Microsoft Windows on 19 February 2016. No was available at launch, as the company considered the addition of paid-content a 'wrong approach'.Originally, the game was to be released in an 'intro pack' that included all the base content, including Paris, Sapienza and locations, six story missions, three sandboxes, forty 'signature kills', a contracts mode with 800 different targets, and regular events held by the developer. New missions and locations set in Thailand, the United States, and Japan were to be released after the game's launch, and a full-priced version was to be released following the release of this post-release content. No was to be released for the game and no were to be offered, and new missions, locations and targets were to be added to the game regularly as free updates after the game's release. This format of release was inspired by modern TV shows, and two more seasons are set to follow after the completion of the first season.

According to the game's lead writer, Michael Vogt, Season 1 only serves to introduce the game's characters, whereas the game's story would become increasingly important in later seasons. IO Interactive intentionally avoided adding lots of story content in the first half of Season 1 to ensure that players can relate themselves to Agent 47, a merciless assassin who travels around the world to kill targets assigned to him.On 14 January 2016, it was announced that Hitman would instead be released in an manner; on-launch, the game would consist of the prologue and Paris missions. New content will be released on a monthly basis, including the remaining two cities of the main game (Sapienza and Marrakesh) in April and May 2016 respectively, followed by the previously planned Thailand, U.S. And Japan expansions by the end of the 'season' in late 2016, as well as weekly events and additional planned content between the monthly updates. These expansions will be available at no cost to those who purchase a full-priced digital copy of the game, but those who purchase the 'Intro Pack' must purchase them.

IO Interactive head Hannes Seifert explained that the move was designed to provide the team time to develop the game's levels, and to allow them to 'create a living game that will expand and evolve over time and establish a foundation for the future — this is the first game in a storyline which will continue and expand with future Hitman games.' After the release of Marrakesh, IO Interactive announced a 'Summer Bonus Episode'. It was released on 19 July 2016 and features a remake of the Sapienza and Marrakesh levels, which 'will also present a range of new in-game Challenges and Opportunities and an entirely new setting for Escalation Contracts and Elusive Targets.' Episodes and post-release contentHitman is separated into seven episodes, released in consecutive calendar months, starting in March 2016. ContentRelease date'Paris'11 March 2016'Sapienza'26 April 2016'Marrakesh'31 May 2016'Bonus Episode'19 July 2016(only available to Full Experience and Upgrade Pack owners)31 January 2017(also includes a third, previously unreleased, mission)'Bangkok'16 August 2016'Colorado'27 September 2016'Hokkaido'31 October 2016'Holiday Hoarders'13 December 2016(free content update for Paris)'Patient Zero'7 November 2017Re-releasesHitman: Game of the Year Edition was released in November 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

It includes The Complete First Season, alongside the Patient Zero mission set and a cosmetics pack, both exclusive to this edition. Hitman: Definitive Edition was released in May 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It includes all the previously released content alongside additional -themed costumes. It was published by.Hitman: Legacy Pack was released on 9 November 2018 as a DLC for with the missions from the complete first season of the game were made available in the new game with improved game mechanics used in Hitman 2.

Reception Aggregate review scoresGameThe Complete First Season(PC) 83/100(PS4) 84/100(XONE) 85/100Intro Pack(PC) 75/100(PS4) 77/100(XONE) 75/100Sapienza(PC) 84/100(PS4) 84/100(XONE) 79/100Marrakesh(PC) 79/100(PS4) 75/100Bonus Episode(PS4) 79/100Bangkok(PC) 78/100(PS4) 71/100Colorado(PC) 74/100(PS4) 70/100Hokkaido(PC) 83/100(PS4) 81/100Hitman received 'generally favorable' reviews, according to.Online game progress and unlocks will not carry over to offline mode if players lose connectivity; IO Interactive has confirmed that this is part of the live component experience and not part of the. This issue was partially rectified with a patch on 28 November 2016.Hitman was chosen as Best Game of 2016 by, summarising their decision for their Best Game of 2016 by saying, '2016 was filled with huge debuts, finales, and resurrections, but the surprise success of Hitman had us talking, sweating, cursing, and laughing more than any other game this year.' Intro PackIntro Pack received positive reviews.

Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 75/100 based on 17 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 77/100 based on 69 reviews, and the Xbox One version 75/100 based on 11 reviews. Arthur Gies of awarded it a 7.5/10, praising it as a 'promising start to the game' but felt it was more unfinished than episodic.

Expressed a similar sentiment that, ' Hitman feels unrefined and unfinished in lots of small but important ways.' SapienzaSapienza received positive reviews. Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 84/100 based on 7 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 84/100 based on 37 reviews, and the Xbox One version 79/100 based on 7 reviews.

MarrakeshMarrakesh received positive reviews. Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 79/100 based on 7 reviews, and the PlayStation 4 version 75/100 based on 26 reviews. BangkokBangkok received positive reviews. Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 78/100 based on 6 reviews, and the PlayStation 4 version 71/100 based on 22 reviews. ColoradoColorado received positive reviews. Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 74/100 based on 6 reviews, and the PlayStation 4 version 70/100 based on 18 reviews.

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