If you’re not, a world of possibilities await. If you’re familiar with the Hitman series you’re probably already recalling how you worked you way through them. Think of it like 40 different aquariums where you’re always the shark. Each of the 40 levels across the three games is a self-contained ecosystem. With few exceptions, this is how it unfolds across all three games. Listen to your briefing, choose your gear, enter a level, kill your target or targets, and leave. The case here, in Silent Assassin, Contracts and Blood Money, is very simple.

That’s not the case here in these titles. The nature of Absolution’s story mode, with 47 on the run, also meant he didn’t have the luxury of selecting his weapons and gear before each mission.

No-one will mistake these games as anything but products of a previous era – even Blood Money, which straddled the previous and current generations, is almost seven years old – but the end result is a compendium of confident stealth classics that hold up better than one might imagine.Ībsolution massaged the Hitman formula somewhat by dividing levels into discrete stages and including sections that didn’t feature a target to kill. HD compilations of last generation’s biggest franchises certainly aren’t uncommon these days, but the Hitman series is no less worthy of the same treatment. The PC-only original is absent from the bundle but it’s worth remembering the best parts of it were actually re-imagined for consoles in Contracts. To sate said fans, and perhaps muster up a few more, Square Enix and Hitman dev IO Interactive have seen fit to stitch together Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money in one convenient package. The kind that relish tough, intelligent gameplay. Less popular than Carlsberg but cooler than Lars Ulrich? That’s just a guess.Įither way the Hitman series, which has moved more than eight million units around the world at last count, certainly has plenty of fans. Somewhere beneath Vikings, LEGO and pork products, probably. We don’t know where the Hitman series sits on the list of famous Danish exports.

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