Starring John Travolta and Nick Cage...To elaborate on a point I was making in the middle of this episode regarding the online nature of this game.When players launch Hitman (2016), the game will immediately attempt to connect with I/Os servers. If the game fails to connect, then the player can...

Welcome to Colorado, one of the most interesting missions in the game.In hindsight, after taking this footage and playing Colorado many times afterward, the most striking thing about it is just how small the level actually is.I talked a bit in this episode about how the episodic model can, in some...

Today, we finish our discussion on Escalation Contracts and the "stack" of Hitman.Last time, I talked about how Escalations help Hitman players improve their improvisational skills and ability to adapt to new conditions on old missions.Each level of an escalation adds a new condition, which could...

And now, we get to talk a bit about Escalations in Hitman.Continuing from where I left off last time...In his article about the success of Hitman, Kirk Hamilton posits that Escalations help players master small subsections of a given map, and he's not wrong. However, I would add that they add a...

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...