47 shalt be the number of ways thou shalt kill, and the number of those killed shall be 47. 48 shalt thou not kill, nor either kill thou 46, excepting that thou then proceed to 47. 48 is right out.
Hmm. Disguising yourself as a delivery man with flowers to sneak into the mansion of a rich bloke who enjoys playing golf....I swear we've done this before.
Yep, and Sapienza itself could be considered a re-imagining of A Vintage Year - you have a Villa, a secret lab in the basement, a ski-plane in the cavern, and i'm sure there are more similarities than that. Sometimes a good idea gets brought back up because they can do more with it as their game engine is improved.
And "my coworker looked at me for a second too long. I must now sound the alarm and empty my nine millimeter handgun clip into his forehead and only then tell him he is not allowed to be here" 😂😂
I still remember playing this game as a young child, not speaking English and not understanding anything that happened and just randomly doing things untill I completly killed every living being .Good times
I did that way back when I played the first Hitman, specifically the mission in the Chinese restaurant. I couldn't find a way to do it silently, so I strangled and killed my way towards the target - then the ranking screen told me I made too much of a mess and failed the mission. And it took me a long time to do that too. Quite a different stealth game to what I was used to at the time.
I misunderstood the limited save concept, and didn't save many missions at a time. So I didn't get far... Almost, beat Russia but i wish I completed more.
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Getting rid of throwables and containers would just limit options, and one of the best things about hitman is the choice of how to pull off the hint, that said, if you toss a body in the dumpster people should occasionally throw trash in there and see the body. And if people hear a bottle brake, they shouldn't head directly to it they should instead cautiously look around them checking their back as they move to invest. And for something I want in all stealth games, any trained guards would report to each other via radio and would notice if another guard wasn't there when patrols meet up, so after a bit of time after a kill or knock out the whole premises should be on alert and guards should investigate where the missing guard should be. And if the guards are supposed to be carrying shotguns and your caught carrying a sniper that should also cause issues. I also feel depending on where you are, and how many innocents you killed in previous levels, some civilians should be secretly armed.
Cameron Smith Actually some "civilians" are armed in Hitman.The barman in the restaurant in Codename 47 and the waiter in Tracking Hayamoto in Hitman 2 for exemple
Cameron Smith Also the thing that suck in new Hitman is that the targets are never armed.. which is pretty ridiculous when you see Colorado's map.EVERYONE is armed even the cooker,but not the targets ._.
Joshua Ortmeyer that's true but i mean i feel if hundreds of civilians are being killed in a bloodbath from a lone assassin that more people would want to be armed.
See, as much as I like Hitman 2 (this one) I always felt that the newer games were just plain more INTERESTING. Plus, I hear a lot of the whole "Harder=Better" thing here. Don't get me wrong, I know you like hard games, I watched you play fallout 3 on one health bar for atom's sake, but still.
Yea this is the game that made me love the series back in the day but uh, not being able to run and guards being super sensitive sucked. Contracts worked a lot better in most ways. Also, opportunities being an exclamation point on the map is just as much of a sign post as them being part of the HUD (not that its a bad thing to give the player some direction anyways)
I find it interesting to watch these videos then some of the ones on the most recent Hitman. The whole way through this series he keeps talking about all the ways being harder makes this better, but in those videos he keeps seeing things that make him go "Oh, that's nice, it makes things so much less obtuse than the old games."
Eh, they should've just done more variety on the difficulty levels and had the higher difficulties on the newer ones match this one's core gameplay. Then everybody would get what they wanted out of it.
@silverfoxeater the older hitman games are a janky fucking mess that are more frequently just really fucking frustrating to play. Yeah, they were harder, that doesn’t make them better. Modern Hitman is smoother to play, prettier, more polished, and has more varied toolsets than any previous one. Don’t like mission stories or intel? Turn them off and play on master difficulty instead of being a cringe gatekeeper
... Alright Jon, you've convinced me that the new game should be named something not Hitman 2. Mostly cause I saw the title and thought "Wow, is that game- *sees the Silent Assassin subtitle* Oh, it's the old one. That makes more sense"
So Jon keeps talking about how he wishes the new Hitman games could be just as difficult and finicky as this one, but I have to disagree. Having the new ones be as difficult as Silent Assassin would turn off a lot of new people to the series. I could understand having it operate under these rules as an extra challenge mode, but the default/easier options should probably stay close to how they are now.
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Silent Assassin wasn't NEARLY as hardcore as Codename 47. You couldn't save during missions at all, no matter what the difficulty. And some of the missions were LONG, heck, some of them were so long they had to be broken up. You only had one target in Colombia, but you had to go through two (small) levels just to find the target's drug compound. And let's not forget the last level, where you're suddenly thrown up against an army of 47s. Codename 47 was so hardcore they remade half of the levels in Hitman: Contracts just so people could actually finish them.
Not only that, but most of the later levels after the Hong Kong section are almost impossible to complete completely silently. Be it guard awareness or placement, there is just no way. I am just happy I was able to FINISH Codename 47. Made me appreciate the newer games more.
Well, Codename 47 was never really about being a perfect assassin. It was intended to be an action game, like Absolution. Silent Assassin was the first in the series to actually let you try to be a silent assassin.
- Xävier - - Xävier -. The difficulty of the first game made me love the series. The lack of saving mid game was to cry for. Which Hitman game was your first?
Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin are the only games in this franchise I have played and beaten multiple times. While the first one is an absolute classis and really revolutionized stealth games, by introducing a cold blooded assassin as the protagonist, the second one made huge improvements in just about every aspect: gameplay, plot, combat, stealth, athmosphere, level design and so on. My only gribe was the limited saves, since many levels featured some really difficult parts and failure and total disaster was often one small mistake away - someone seeing you making a kill, someone finding a corpse, a bad timing etc. Also the way you could collect weapons into your "shack" and then take what ever you wanted when entering a level meant you could choose which evens weapons best suited your intended playstyle - SMGs and Assault Rifles for aggressive, silenced pistols and fiber wires for stealthy etc.
I've played a lot of Hitman 2 and Blood Money growing up, and always remembered the first level in Hitman 2, mixing it up thinking it was in Blood Money, and revisiting Blood Money I was confused why that level wasn't in the game. Great series. Can't wait to see more!
Great surprise series! Love watching Jon play Hitman, for me it’s his second best franchise on the channel behind Fallout. You can tell he just gets these games and what makes them special.
Believe it or not, there IS a way to get a perfect Silent Assassin on this level. Jon was in the perfect position when the guard takes a piss. You don't strangle him or use the anaesthetic, you simply creep up to the door, open it and walk inside. If you walk slowly but purposefully towards the stairs on the outside of the house that lead to the cellar, you don't arouse suspicion. Then you go to the kitchen and wait for the right moment, using the map, to creep past the cook and walk up the stairs. There is then a room which has a door leading to a very narrow ledge on the outside of the house. You can creep around this ledge to a roof which then leads to the balcony of the Boss's office. Using the map to make sure you are not in the line of sight of any of the guards by the swimming pool (takes ages) you can creep around the balcony, open the door to the office and strangle the boss. The boss has the key to the room in the cellar on him. You then creep around the ledge back to the cellar, drop down, open the door to discover the priest is not there, then creep out and walk out the way you came. Silent Assassin. BOOM! PS. I had a demo disk of this game I got with an XBox magazine which only had this level on it, so I played it again and again while I saved up for the actual game. There are many ways to complete this level and that is what make this the best Hitman game IMHO. It was up to the player to work it out and solve problems; it wasn't signposted like in the later games. I loved this game!
Your Hitman videos are what made me buy Hitman 2016 and then Absolution, Blood Money and the older titles shortly after. Been playing them since so thank you for turning me onto them!
The Blood Money killing/knocking out ballance seems to me the perfect option in retrospect. The target is down for good, but you have a very limited ammount of sedative.
Full play-through please! I enjoy your content far more when you're able to express in detail your expertise with regards to subtleties in game/level design of the game you're playing, because your frustrating-to-watch lack of perception doesn't surface anywhere near as often in those moments!
I don't exactly agree with what you've said, mate, sure it's nicer that you need to use anasthetic but to be honest it's kind of more tedious, this isn't a simulator after all.
Well I never used the anesthetics anyway. You could kill one guard and still get silent assasin. So that is what i did. I always killed only one guard and used their uniform for the restof the level. Really feels more like being a silent assasin. RUnning around and strangling dozens of people like in the newer games just seems so goofy to me and really breaks the immersion for me
One of the cool things in Hitman 2 was that stationary guards would turn and face the other way if they heard footsteps. So if you had a guard that you had to sneak past but he was facing you, if you went into another room next to him and ran around a little, the guard would face in that direction, then you woul SNEAK back out the room and when you got back to where the guard was, he would now be facing away from you in the direction of where the footsteps were, allowing you to sneak past unseen.
A fantastic game.....It is tough as nails, but that is partially why I love it. I have fond memories of trying to correctly identify who to snipe in that first Russia mission. So much tension
In St. Pete levels, the soldier uniforms are compatible with the Dragunov sniper rifle, so if you first get one (uniform), you can then walk freely holding the rifle. It is possible to sneak the rifle without the civs seeing it, sneak past the guard, and from another location, get a free uniform to go with the rifle. In general (no pun intended), disguises in this game have a number of weapons, which are "compatible" - i.e. they do not cause in suspicion on others, such as AK for a Russian soldier or 9mm for a mafioso. If you are carrying atypical weapon for the disguise, it will very quickly blow your cover, which makes, since, for intance, a someone dressed as a doctor should not walk around with a sniper rifle.
i am ridiculously happy about a miniseries of silent assassin. My borther and i got it for christmas one year and spent pretty much until the next christmas trying to get every gun in the game back to the sanctuary and silent assassin every level
Ah... the nostalgia. I wouldn't mind if unconscious people woke up after a while in future Hitman games, but I'm not going back to the uselessness of anaesthetic.
I agree that I liked how you couldn't knock everyone out in the old games. One thing I don't like about in the latest games is how you can just throw objects to lure guards one by one and knock them all out. It makes so many of the cool gadgets unnecessary. However, having to rush a mission because they wake up is no fun either. A good compromise might be for the non-lethal options knock people out for the level, but those had very limited uses. Not being able to run though, I'm glad they got rid of.
These ways of adding difficulty are very well and cool but I would never okay this game. It's an exercise in frustration. It would be great if you wanted them but they should be checkboxes for the hardcore player. Not the only way to play it.
In the 2nd mission, you *can* run if you're far enough from the others, even if they see you, they don't care - and nothing is preventing you from taking the Dragunov with you.
In the original version, I found an incredibly easy way to SA level 3. Place the car bomb under the car parked over the sewer. Run back to the surface then walk to the wall just north of the pier. Back touching the wall, snipe the other general and just walk away. The two guards will never see you, and the other general just goes and gets blown up. It worked 100% of the time for me.
I have fond memories of this game. It was one of the first games I had ever played. The difficulty, along with the satisfying violence, all topped off with Jesper Kyd's amazing music work makes this one of the best entries into the series. Perhaps it hasn't aged all that well in some respects, and a few missions are either filler or linear in their solution, but those are really the only faults it has.
You not about that difficult af Hitman OG days! I remember taking turns playing this with my dad as a kid, i need to get him back into it or find a way to make us suffer though the struggle bus days.
Wow! This is actually the only Hitman game I've played. I went through it last fall since I only had my potato laptop at the time and it couldn't handle Blood Money. I really liked this game. I only got the "Silent Assassin" ranking in like two levels. The game is brutally hard.
Interesting...didn't know this was the hardest Hitman...this was actually the first Hitman game I ever played...and one of the few games ever that I actually finished and beat. Younger me was hardcore...
"Car bombs! Everyone loves car bombs!" Methinks the ending of the new Hitman 2 gives us a pretty good look at a person who isn't particularly fond of them....
In my mind, Blood Money had the best compromise in regards to knockouts: Limited use with the syringe and risky to pull off with guns, but when you did it, the unconsciousness was a permanent state. I liked that the most, where as in 2 + Contracts I never wanted to use knockouts, since you can get SA with one non-target kill, and in Absolution onwards, it's too easy.
One of the most fun nights I've ever had was playing this with my brother, purposely trying to do things terribly but still get the job done. May or may not have been some alcohol involved.
Anathema: Kill the Don in his bedroom, nobody else goes there, hide the body on other side of his bed if you get paranoid, though not necessary. Postman disguise could work for that with it being close front door, delivery guy is better because you can hide guns in the grocery box, but requires more patience since you're on the other side of the house. Glitchless suit-only is an option, but you have to very patient, enter when guard goes to urinate and sneak through basement entrance. Guard in front of the bedroom can be gotten past while he stands there (sneak past behind him so he doesn't see you), or you can wait until he moves into a more favorable position. Sniper rifle by the car is an option for SA as well, but you have to be careful where his body falls while he's driving golf balls off the balcony, there are a couple blind spots nobody will find him but they are very specific (having him fall off IS NOT one of them, unless you wait for the Postman to leave beforehand). Also, take your shot outside of the compound near where you start the level and drop your weapon after you fire, else guards might swarm you for sniping. Saint Petersburg: The way you showed is the easiest way to get SA. A bit trickier is getting inside the meeting building, which is best for a glitchless suit-only, but guard timing for a SOSA is nightmare, you need patience like no other. Kirov Park: Easiest SA is sneak, get sniper rifle, go back across the street in front of the eastern entrance to the park- view of guards is minimal at the start, so don't cross the street and they won't see bald guy with rifle. Line up shot, wait for both targets to hug at start of meeting, pop both with one shot, drop rifle, run straight for boat before guards show up- you're close enough to hop on before too many warnings fire off. Easiest SOSA in the game.
I love how you made everything into a positive... It's an old game and nowhere near perfect but it's so nice to hear your love for this game coming out through how you describe each and every aspect of the game!
Wow. I remember having this game on my ps2 when I was young. I wasn't very good at it nor did I actually understand the story very well but I found cheat codes online for it so I still had fun.
Even though, as a postman you cannot take guns into the manor, you can hide your guns to the boxes a delivery boy is carrying and have them sent to the kitchen.
Maybe it could be implemented with a difficulty setting. Like, the highest difficulty removes all containers from the map. Now, the Agency sniper rifle without a case is just stupid. It almost like they want you to be spotted and shot.
That'd be a neat plot twist, having the Agency out to get you. Of course, they already did that once (in Blood Money, I think? Or was it Absolution? I've never played a Hitman game myself...), but if they hadn't.
blarg2429 i think the only games where the agency doesn't want you dead in some way is Hitman 1 and 2 (contracts being an addition since it's a remake of 1)
Oh, using flaws in the game to do things that weren't intended to be possible can make it easier? Who'd have ever guessed? Thanks for the info, Captain Obvious. Not that I disapprove of such exploits, but using glitches _is_ just cheating, and it seems pretty self-evident that games tend to get easier if you cheat at them.
I don't remember the game much other than the Japan missions, which were a nightmare. Even though all the guards were wearing ski masks and goggles (heavy snow), they instantly saw through your guard disguise.
I do agree that I wish the newer games kept some stuff but other things I’m glad are different. For example I fully agree that knocked out shouldn’t be mechanically identical to dead. Too many games do this and it feels cheap that stealthy takedowns are pretty much lethal takedowns just with a different name and animation. On the other hand I like not having to walk everywhere. Sure it’s not necessarily realistic and it would be nice if there was a bit more suspicion when your character behaves in a manner thats inherently out of place but to me itfalls under the category of fun over realism. Maybe they could find a nice middle ground. I also like hiding spots where you can tuck bodies away. Maybe they could not have them fool proof with aspects like as mentioned before the unconscious person waking up or maybe guards will search nearby boxes/closets if alerted in location but it’s nice having more options to play with when trying to hide bodies from view than just dragging them into a corner. Plus honestly it’s a bit more realistic than what happens here where people just memorize the level and drag the body into the spot the AI doesn’t happen to cover. I do also agree though on the hints. I like being able to get clues and hints by listening in on conversations but they could be a little more subtle about it at times. It would be cool if it wasn’t entirely clear and there was more need for the player to piece things together instead of having it borderline spelled out for them. Basically for me it comes down to I appreciate more options/tools to utilize and playability over realism but I wouldn’t mind more nuance and depth alongside it to make the player really need to think and plan. I don’t necessarily need it to be super difficult with guards being on a hair trigger and constant game overs because your character took a breath in a way a guard didn’t like but there should be a nice middle ground between the modern games and the older ones.
Oooffff.... you make some serious good points there. I had forgotten H2, but you reminded me of how much I enjoyed it. Very immersive indeed. Slow, hardcore. The suspicion meter and the walking. The weapon collection system. The modern pacifying system cheapened hitman. The excessive hints. The importance of the map. I wish they reintroduced some of those features in future editions. Why dont they resuscitate some of these maps too? Anyway, thanks.
47 shalt be the number of ways thou shalt kill, and the number of those killed shall be 47. 48 shalt thou not kill, nor either kill thou 46, excepting that thou then proceed to 47. 48 is right out.
Amen.
Jon : Right, one, two... Forty-eight!
47 : Fourty-seven, Jon.
Jon : Fourty-seven.
Minsc And Boo the holy hitman
r/unexpectedmontypython leaking to TH-cam.
Go for the eyes, Boo!
Hmm. Disguising yourself as a delivery man with flowers to sneak into the mansion of a rich bloke who enjoys playing golf....I swear we've done this before.
The entire hitman series is full to the brim with throwbacks and rehashes of previous missions. Usually they put a new spin on it (i.e. killer virus).
You mean we've done this after?
Hey yea!
Camp Golf from Fallout: New Vegas!
Yep, and Sapienza itself could be considered a re-imagining of A Vintage Year - you have a Villa, a secret lab in the basement, a ski-plane in the cavern, and i'm sure there are more similarities than that.
Sometimes a good idea gets brought back up because they can do more with it as their game engine is improved.
Carnage Racing
2 targets, secret lab, sea plane in cavern.. Yup I think that covers it.
naw that's not an angel position that is the don's family asserting their dominance.
Hitman suspicion logic:
Guard 1: "I have diharea, I must go to the toilet quickly" *starts running*
Guard 2: It's the spy! Kill him!
And "my coworker looked at me for a second too long. I must now sound the alarm and empty my nine millimeter handgun clip into his forehead and only then tell him he is not allowed to be here" 😂😂
I still remember playing this game as a young child, not speaking English and not understanding anything that happened and just randomly doing things untill I completly killed every living being .Good times
I did that way back when I played the first Hitman, specifically the mission in the Chinese restaurant. I couldn't find a way to do it silently, so I strangled and killed my way towards the target - then the ranking screen told me I made too much of a mess and failed the mission. And it took me a long time to do that too. Quite a different stealth game to what I was used to at the time.
As God intended.
I remember playing so many games with only a very basic understanding of english and getting through it by pure dumb luck and determination
I misunderstood the limited save concept, and didn't save many missions at a time. So I didn't get far... Almost, beat Russia but i wish I completed more.
Angel Postition???
you mean *_T-POSE_*
Cloudyyy does Jon not know the infamous T-pose?!
I think Jon uses his own version of the English language
I'm guessing he's referring to A-posing which is an alternative to T-posing.
I was thinking the same thing
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Getting rid of throwables and containers would just limit options, and one of the best things about hitman is the choice of how to pull off the hint, that said, if you toss a body in the dumpster people should occasionally throw trash in there and see the body. And if people hear a bottle brake, they shouldn't head directly to it they should instead cautiously look around them checking their back as they move to invest.
And for something I want in all stealth games, any trained guards would report to each other via radio and would notice if another guard wasn't there when patrols meet up, so after a bit of time after a kill or knock out the whole premises should be on alert and guards should investigate where the missing guard should be.
And if the guards are supposed to be carrying shotguns and your caught carrying a sniper that should also cause issues.
I also feel depending on where you are, and how many innocents you killed in previous levels, some civilians should be secretly armed.
Cameron Smith yup
Cameron Smith Actually some "civilians" are armed in Hitman.The barman in the restaurant in Codename 47 and the waiter in Tracking Hayamoto in Hitman 2 for exemple
Cameron Smith Also the thing that suck in new Hitman is that the targets are never armed.. which is pretty ridiculous when you see Colorado's map.EVERYONE is armed even the cooker,but not the targets ._.
Joshua Ortmeyer that's true but i mean i feel if hundreds of civilians are being killed in a bloodbath from a lone assassin that more people would want to be armed.
Cameron Smith Also,in Blood Money I never seen civilians armed,but they can actually pick up guard's weapons for exemple to shooting you
Oi! You got a license to be running around like that!?!
Many A True Nerd hmm, that delivery boy is running to the gate, let's shoot him just to be safe
He does for this one
See, as much as I like Hitman 2 (this one) I always felt that the newer games were just plain more INTERESTING. Plus, I hear a lot of the whole "Harder=Better" thing here. Don't get me wrong, I know you like hard games, I watched you play fallout 3 on one health bar for atom's sake, but still.
Yea this is the game that made me love the series back in the day but uh, not being able to run and guards being super sensitive sucked. Contracts worked a lot better in most ways. Also, opportunities being an exclamation point on the map is just as much of a sign post as them being part of the HUD (not that its a bad thing to give the player some direction anyways)
I find it interesting to watch these videos then some of the ones on the most recent Hitman. The whole way through this series he keeps talking about all the ways being harder makes this better, but in those videos he keeps seeing things that make him go "Oh, that's nice, it makes things so much less obtuse than the old games."
I love this game. The music is so epic!! Jesper Kyd - what a legend!
Everytime Jon goes in his belittle-ing voice, it hightlights a good reason why they changed things to balance audience and core gameplay.
Eh, they should've just done more variety on the difficulty levels and had the higher difficulties on the newer ones match this one's core gameplay. Then everybody would get what they wanted out of it.
@silverfoxeater the older hitman games are a janky fucking mess that are more frequently just really fucking frustrating to play. Yeah, they were harder, that doesn’t make them better. Modern Hitman is smoother to play, prettier, more polished, and has more varied toolsets than any previous one. Don’t like mission stories or intel? Turn them off and play on master difficulty instead of being a cringe gatekeeper
@@silverfoxeater the bugs and glitches are the difficulty
Other guards can wake unconscious people up in newer hitman games if I’m not mistaken.
Looks like a minute in game is around 47 seconds.
The little semi run you can do to avoid suspicion is exactly like the fast walk you see people do in movies to "casually" get away from someone.
... Alright Jon, you've convinced me that the new game should be named something not Hitman 2. Mostly cause I saw the title and thought "Wow, is that game- *sees the Silent Assassin subtitle* Oh, it's the old one. That makes more sense"
So Jon keeps talking about how he wishes the new Hitman games could be just as difficult and finicky as this one, but I have to disagree. Having the new ones be as difficult as Silent Assassin would turn off a lot of new people to the series. I could understand having it operate under these rules as an extra challenge mode, but the default/easier options should probably stay close to how they are now.
This game seems to be Hitman, but the default difficulty is "Get off my lawn, you damn casual Hitman players"
crescentmethod dark souls of hitman
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Silent Assassin wasn't NEARLY as hardcore as Codename 47. You couldn't save during missions at all, no matter what the difficulty. And some of the missions were LONG, heck, some of them were so long they had to be broken up. You only had one target in Colombia, but you had to go through two (small) levels just to find the target's drug compound. And let's not forget the last level, where you're suddenly thrown up against an army of 47s. Codename 47 was so hardcore they remade half of the levels in Hitman: Contracts just so people could actually finish them.
Brian Fowler i thought those missions in Contracts were just a throwback.
Not only that, but most of the later levels after the Hong Kong section are almost impossible to complete completely silently. Be it guard awareness or placement, there is just no way.
I am just happy I was able to FINISH Codename 47. Made me appreciate the newer games more.
Well, Codename 47 was never really about being a perfect assassin. It was intended to be an action game, like Absolution. Silent Assassin was the first in the series to actually let you try to be a silent assassin.
Brian Fowler If that was the case, the plot and the first few missions leave a false impression.
- Xävier - - Xävier -. The difficulty of the first game made me love the series. The lack of saving mid game was to cry for. Which Hitman game was your first?
Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin are the only games in this franchise I have played and beaten multiple times. While the first one is an absolute classis and really revolutionized stealth games, by introducing a cold blooded assassin as the protagonist, the second one made huge improvements in just about every aspect: gameplay, plot, combat, stealth, athmosphere, level design and so on. My only gribe was the limited saves, since many levels featured some really difficult parts and failure and total disaster was often one small mistake away - someone seeing you making a kill, someone finding a corpse, a bad timing etc. Also the way you could collect weapons into your "shack" and then take what ever you wanted when entering a level meant you could choose which evens weapons best suited your intended playstyle - SMGs and Assault Rifles for aggressive, silenced pistols and fiber wires for stealthy etc.
I would absolutely love it if you made this a full series.
I've played a lot of Hitman 2 and Blood Money growing up, and always remembered the first level in Hitman 2, mixing it up thinking it was in Blood Money, and revisiting Blood Money I was confused why that level wasn't in the game.
Great series. Can't wait to see more!
Great surprise series! Love watching Jon play Hitman, for me it’s his second best franchise on the channel behind Fallout. You can tell he just gets these games and what makes them special.
Couldn't agree more, this is my go-to channel for hitman and fallout
Series?
Say its a series.
Oh yes.
Many A True Hitman (MATH) is always a treat. Thanks, Jon!
Nobody You Know thank YOU for getting the confirmation! 😁
Many A True Nerd Yesssssss. Love your videos. So funny and informative. Really shows how hardcore you are (in terms of knowledge)
"Why so series?"
Jon I think you’re confusing quality of life changes for making a game weaker
Believe it or not, there IS a way to get a perfect Silent Assassin on this level. Jon was in the perfect position when the guard takes a piss. You don't strangle him or use the anaesthetic, you simply creep up to the door, open it and walk inside. If you walk slowly but purposefully towards the stairs on the outside of the house that lead to the cellar, you don't arouse suspicion. Then you go to the kitchen and wait for the right moment, using the map, to creep past the cook and walk up the stairs. There is then a room which has a door leading to a very narrow ledge on the outside of the house. You can creep around this ledge to a roof which then leads to the balcony of the Boss's office. Using the map to make sure you are not in the line of sight of any of the guards by the swimming pool (takes ages) you can creep around the balcony, open the door to the office and strangle the boss. The boss has the key to the room in the cellar on him. You then creep around the ledge back to the cellar, drop down, open the door to discover the priest is not there, then creep out and walk out the way you came. Silent Assassin. BOOM!
PS. I had a demo disk of this game I got with an XBox magazine which only had this level on it, so I played it again and again while I saved up for the actual game. There are many ways to complete this level and that is what make this the best Hitman game IMHO. It was up to the player to work it out and solve problems; it wasn't signposted like in the later games. I loved this game!
Your Hitman videos are what made me buy Hitman 2016 and then Absolution, Blood Money and the older titles shortly after. Been playing them since so thank you for turning me onto them!
The Blood Money killing/knocking out ballance seems to me the perfect option in retrospect. The target is down for good, but you have a very limited ammount of sedative.
Thank you for this, Jon. This was my first Silent Assassin game, and it brings back some wonderful memories!
Full play-through please! I enjoy your content far more when you're able to express in detail your expertise with regards to subtleties in game/level design of the game you're playing, because your frustrating-to-watch lack of perception doesn't surface anywhere near as often in those moments!
The only thing that bothers me about this game is 47's crooked head.
Hey now, that's not fair, he was born that way. Cloned that way?
It's the same in Codename 47, I wonder why.
The double silverballer ragdoll was ABSURD in this game. And I loved it. This game introduced me to fun with physics.
I don't exactly agree with what you've said, mate, sure it's nicer that you need to use anasthetic but to be honest it's kind of more tedious, this isn't a simulator after all.
Well I never used the anesthetics anyway. You could kill one guard and still get silent assasin. So that is what i did. I always killed only one guard and used their uniform for the restof the level. Really feels more like being a silent assasin. RUnning around and strangling dozens of people like in the newer games just seems so goofy to me and really breaks the immersion for me
I remember this being my first stealth game and I've never been more stressed in a stealth game
Same
Can I say, I totally love the context menu more then every action on a different button? Way more intuitive.
One of the cool things in Hitman 2 was that stationary guards would turn and face the other way if they heard footsteps. So if you had a guard that you had to sneak past but he was facing you, if you went into another room next to him and ran around a little, the guard would face in that direction, then you woul SNEAK back out the room and when you got back to where the guard was, he would now be facing away from you in the direction of where the footsteps were, allowing you to sneak past unseen.
A fantastic game.....It is tough as nails, but that is partially why I love it. I have fond memories of trying to correctly identify who to snipe in that first Russia mission. So much tension
In St. Pete levels, the soldier uniforms are compatible with the Dragunov sniper rifle, so if you first get one (uniform), you can then walk freely holding the rifle. It is possible to sneak the rifle without the civs seeing it, sneak past the guard, and from another location, get a free uniform to go with the rifle. In general (no pun intended), disguises in this game have a number of weapons, which are "compatible" - i.e. they do not cause in suspicion on others, such as AK for a Russian soldier or 9mm for a mafioso. If you are carrying atypical weapon for the disguise, it will very quickly blow your cover, which makes, since, for intance, a someone dressed as a doctor should not walk around with a sniper rifle.
I loved chasing the office workers in the Petronas Towers with the fire axe
One of my favourite games. Bought it for 2 pound at a car boot sale and have been in love with hitman since
Original HIT MAN 2 AMAZING!!!! What is the difference?
This was my first Hitman game when I played it on PC over 10 years ago - I had an absolute blast with it. I've been a fan of the series ever since.
Looks like he crapped his pants when he sneaks.
Jon's sense of humor is soo perfect :)
i am ridiculously happy about a miniseries of silent assassin. My borther and i got it for christmas one year and spent pretty much until the next christmas trying to get every gun in the game back to the sanctuary and silent assassin every level
YES! please make this a series...
LOL! Jon: "And what's more... They shoot through doors!" Someone in a background window streaming with perfect timing, "What the flip!?!"
Ah... the nostalgia.
I wouldn't mind if unconscious people woke up after a while in future Hitman games, but I'm not going back to the uselessness of anaesthetic.
Full playthrough yeeeeeessssssssssssss this was my first and favourite Hitman thank you so much for covering it.
Thanks for all the entertainment, good Sir. You are a legend.
I agree that I liked how you couldn't knock everyone out in the old games. One thing I don't like about in the latest games is how you can just throw objects to lure guards one by one and knock them all out. It makes so many of the cool gadgets unnecessary. However, having to rush a mission because they wake up is no fun either. A good compromise might be for the non-lethal options knock people out for the level, but those had very limited uses.
Not being able to run though, I'm glad they got rid of.
I loved the nail gun stapling people to near by furniture was bloody hilarious
These ways of adding difficulty are very well and cool but I would never okay this game. It's an exercise in frustration. It would be great if you wanted them but they should be checkboxes for the hardcore player. Not the only way to play it.
In the 2nd mission, you *can* run if you're far enough from the others, even if they see you, they don't care - and nothing is preventing you from taking the Dragunov with you.
In the original version, I found an incredibly easy way to SA level 3. Place the car bomb under the car parked over the sewer. Run back to the surface then walk to the wall just north of the pier. Back touching the wall, snipe the other general and just walk away. The two guards will never see you, and the other general just goes and gets blown up. It worked 100% of the time for me.
Wow, this series was certainly hardcore back in the day.
Thanks for the video!
I have fond memories of this game. It was one of the first games I had ever played. The difficulty, along with the satisfying violence, all topped off with Jesper Kyd's amazing music work makes this one of the best entries into the series. Perhaps it hasn't aged all that well in some respects, and a few missions are either filler or linear in their solution, but those are really the only faults it has.
I really like your recent take on showing games, as in fallout 3 vid that you made and this one, keep up showing us why we love those games.
You not about that difficult af Hitman OG days!
I remember taking turns playing this with my dad as a kid, i need to get him back into it or find a way to make us suffer though the struggle bus days.
Jon, you’re the best pitchman for games tbh, I really wanna get this now
Marty ScorchedEarthse this game is extremely difficult. Especially if your used to blood money or the newer Hitman games
I remember this game so fondly. The 2nd Russia mission you showed today and the one in the middle eastern military camp are my two favourites
Wow! This is actually the only Hitman game I've played. I went through it last fall since I only had my potato laptop at the time and it couldn't handle Blood Money. I really liked this game.
I only got the "Silent Assassin" ranking in like two levels. The game is brutally hard.
Thank you for this amazing lookback. Would love to see you do Contracts when you're done
Why I fell in love with the series. Loved this game so much
34:20 funnily enough if you fire and stay still the guard doesn’t attack you at least that’s what happens to me every time
They're not angel posing they are ASSERTING DOMINANCE
Silent Assassin is the reason I just never gave a crap about the series. I decided to give the new series a shot and it's not bad.
Interesting...didn't know this was the hardest Hitman...this was actually the first Hitman game I ever played...and one of the few games ever that I actually finished and beat. Younger me was hardcore...
"Car bombs! Everyone loves car bombs!" Methinks the ending of the new Hitman 2 gives us a pretty good look at a person who isn't particularly fond of them....
In my mind, Blood Money had the best compromise in regards to knockouts: Limited use with the syringe and risky to pull off with guns, but when you did it, the unconsciousness was a permanent state. I liked that the most, where as in 2 + Contracts I never wanted to use knockouts, since you can get SA with one non-target kill, and in Absolution onwards, it's too easy.
One of the most fun nights I've ever had was playing this with my brother, purposely trying to do things terribly but still get the job done. May or may not have been some alcohol involved.
I wish I could forget everything about hitman series so I could replay them again
I feel like I’ve seen this video before. A while ago, but I swear I’ve seen it.
I know right at first I thought it was a repost
I think Jon played the first level of this game on the channel before, feels like that was released about 6 or more months ago?
Yea he played through it when the new hitman was announced
Anathema: Kill the Don in his bedroom, nobody else goes there, hide the body on other side of his bed if you get paranoid, though not necessary. Postman disguise could work for that with it being close front door, delivery guy is better because you can hide guns in the grocery box, but requires more patience since you're on the other side of the house. Glitchless suit-only is an option, but you have to very patient, enter when guard goes to urinate and sneak through basement entrance. Guard in front of the bedroom can be gotten past while he stands there (sneak past behind him so he doesn't see you), or you can wait until he moves into a more favorable position. Sniper rifle by the car is an option for SA as well, but you have to be careful where his body falls while he's driving golf balls off the balcony, there are a couple blind spots nobody will find him but they are very specific (having him fall off IS NOT one of them, unless you wait for the Postman to leave beforehand). Also, take your shot outside of the compound near where you start the level and drop your weapon after you fire, else guards might swarm you for sniping.
Saint Petersburg: The way you showed is the easiest way to get SA. A bit trickier is getting inside the meeting building, which is best for a glitchless suit-only, but guard timing for a SOSA is nightmare, you need patience like no other.
Kirov Park: Easiest SA is sneak, get sniper rifle, go back across the street in front of the eastern entrance to the park- view of guards is minimal at the start, so don't cross the street and they won't see bald guy with rifle. Line up shot, wait for both targets to hug at start of meeting, pop both with one shot, drop rifle, run straight for boat before guards show up- you're close enough to hop on before too many warnings fire off. Easiest SOSA in the game.
I love how you made everything into a positive...
It's an old game and nowhere near perfect but it's so nice to hear your love for this game coming out through how you describe each and every aspect of the game!
Wow. I remember having this game on my ps2 when I was young. I wasn't very good at it nor did I actually understand the story very well but I found cheat codes online for it so I still had fun.
I'm excited for this! This was the first hitman game I ever played
My favourite game in the series. played it all the time, even got it on my ps3.
Even though, as a postman you cannot take guns into the manor, you can hide your guns to the boxes a delivery boy is carrying and have them sent to the kitchen.
PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS I LOVE THIS GAME!!!
I remember playing Hitman 2 and forgot how brutal that game was(both in violence and the difficulty level).
Maybe it could be implemented with a difficulty setting. Like, the highest difficulty removes all containers from the map.
Now, the Agency sniper rifle without a case is just stupid. It almost like they want you to be spotted and shot.
That'd be a neat plot twist, having the Agency out to get you. Of course, they already did that once (in Blood Money, I think? Or was it Absolution? I've never played a Hitman game myself...), but if they hadn't.
blarg2429 i think the only games where the agency doesn't want you dead in some way is Hitman 1 and 2 (contracts being an addition since it's a remake of 1)
Glad to see Jon saw my comment :D will you be making a series on this, Contracts or codename 47?
You could stealth in this game? Never knew.... well then again all I did was grab the nearest weapon and start dealing out the lead.
yes but very hard
The point of hitman is stealth. Run and gun is considered an alternative approach. Though very fun in some of the games.
Quite Indeed Haha when you know all the glitches in this game,I can tell you that this game is way easier...
Oh, using flaws in the game to do things that weren't intended to be possible can make it easier? Who'd have ever guessed? Thanks for the info, Captain Obvious.
Not that I disapprove of such exploits, but using glitches _is_ just cheating, and it seems pretty self-evident that games tend to get easier if you cheat at them.
Try and hit me. try and hit me. YOU CAN NOT.
I watched most of these videos on my holidaytrip. Good memories
I don't remember the game much other than the Japan missions, which were a nightmare. Even though all the guards were wearing ski masks and goggles (heavy snow), they instantly saw through your guard disguise.
Leave no witnesses Jon
Jon, no witnesses
Jon
no witnesses
My first and favorite hitman got it off eBay for like 7 bucks like 14 years ago not really sure what it was, was a great surprise of an amazing game
I do agree that I wish the newer games kept some stuff but other things I’m glad are different.
For example I fully agree that knocked out shouldn’t be mechanically identical to dead. Too many games do this and it feels cheap that stealthy takedowns are pretty much lethal takedowns just with a different name and animation.
On the other hand I like not having to walk everywhere. Sure it’s not necessarily realistic and it would be nice if there was a bit more suspicion when your character behaves in a manner thats inherently out of place but to me itfalls under the category of fun over realism. Maybe they could find a nice middle ground.
I also like hiding spots where you can tuck bodies away. Maybe they could not have them fool proof with aspects like as mentioned before the unconscious person waking up or maybe guards will search nearby boxes/closets if alerted in location but it’s nice having more options to play with when trying to hide bodies from view than just dragging them into a corner. Plus honestly it’s a bit more realistic than what happens here where people just memorize the level and drag the body into the spot the AI doesn’t happen to cover.
I do also agree though on the hints. I like being able to get clues and hints by listening in on conversations but they could be a little more subtle about it at times. It would be cool if it wasn’t entirely clear and there was more need for the player to piece things together instead of having it borderline spelled out for them.
Basically for me it comes down to I appreciate more options/tools to utilize and playability over realism but I wouldn’t mind more nuance and depth alongside it to make the player really need to think and plan. I don’t necessarily need it to be super difficult with guards being on a hair trigger and constant game overs because your character took a breath in a way a guard didn’t like but there should be a nice middle ground between the modern games and the older ones.
I remember playing this on the GameCube back in the day. Oh the awful memories I've had. Good times.
Is there a colorblind mode? I'm having some trouble with telling the difference in character markers on the map.
Close encounter = the moment when a guard points a gun at you
"Ах, да, я избавился от убийцы" sounds like "Ah, da, ya izbavilsya ot ubiici" and translates as "Oh, yeah, I got rid of the assassin".
Such a brutal and satisfying game! :D
There wasn't a Canada Day special. I am displeased.
Oooffff.... you make some serious good points there. I had forgotten H2, but you reminded me of how much I enjoyed it. Very immersive indeed. Slow, hardcore. The suspicion meter and the walking. The weapon collection system. The modern pacifying system cheapened hitman. The excessive hints. The importance of the map. I wish they reintroduced some of those features in future editions. Why dont they resuscitate some of these maps too? Anyway, thanks.
Damnit Jon, this is why I think you'd love MGS's stealth!
Deagle was such a sattisfying to shot gun in this game for me