Today, we explore the contracts mode in Hitman.I got the idea for making both this and the Escalation contract episodes (yes, plural) after reading an opinion piece from Kirk Hamilton on Kotaku. In the piece, he talks about the what I have come to call the "stack" of Hitman, which I also eluded to...

And today, we finish what we started with our Elusive Target.Finding the target in an Elusive Contract isn't always easy. Because players don't have the benefit of seeing the target with Instinct, they need to rely on the details given in the briefing in order to search for them. Or, if they're...

Today, we give one of the Elusive Targets a shot.On occasion, re-watching these videos in order to do the post-commentary is a lot like watching someone play Dark Souls. I can see all the mistakes being made with so much more clarity than I'd even have been able to in the moment. Things that look...

Happy 27th birthday to Jordan Cross, may it be his last....So the reason I opted not to use lethal poison in this episode is an interesting one. In order to get Silent Assassin, the following conditions need to be fulfilled:The targets need to be eliminate and all objectives complete.Only the...

Welcome to Bangkok,Hotel missions have always had their place in the Hitman games. As far as I can remember, every single Hitman game has had a mission in a hotel. And it's not hard to see why something so innocuous would become a bit of a staple in IO Interactive's repertoire.As levels, hotels...

And our time in Marrakesh comes to an end...It's been strange playing Hitman for an audience, but not in the way that you'd think. After spending so much time playing games for YouTube, both with Sam on Interactive Friction, and solo with my Blood Money LP, I've gotten much more used to talking...

Welcome to Marrakesh, where we stop a government coup just because someone would lose money if it went through.Marrakesh is roughly the same size of Sapienza, but it never gives off that the impression that it's as big. There's a good reason for that.In Sapienza, there was a fairly large and...

Our time in Sapienza comes to an end...The episodic nature of this game is pretty unique. Until this game came out, the only time the episodic model was seen was in the likes of Telltale's adventure games and others like them. Developers didn't try to use that model in other products. Alan Wake had...

After our fabulous performance in Paris, we head to Italy for some much a needed vacation... and murder.After this episode, I looked up the use of the Modern Lethal Syringe, just in case I had missed a good, or at least an interesting, use for it.Unfortunately, my conclusion seems to be the...

And now, for a funny little diversion.Though this episode does show off a little bit of what I was talking about last episode, in truth this was just an excuse to have a little bit of fun.In case anyone thinks that Hitman is a serious game for serious people, show them this episode. Trust me, it'll...