Hitman Contracts Retrospective - Forced Compromise
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2020
- Chapter 3 of my full series retrospective of the hitman game series. Today i'll be covering the history of Hitman Contracts and its development. Rather short this time due to the game being very short
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Contracts has always been my personal favorite entry in the series. It polishes the mechanics of Hitman 2:SA, has great atmosphere and some of the most memorable levels in the series. I actually prefer it over Blood Money, but I'm very much aware that few people agree with me on that.
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the original levels in this game are my favorite behind blood money if only the second half of this game wasn't as meh
I never saw Contracts as the one to polish anything. Looking at the mechanic and especially the UI, It always seemed that Silent Assassin polished Agent 47 and Blood Money Polished Contracts.
@@Cvit excuse me hello again what was that music you used back in the start of4:15??
Xkill Dragon it’s a track from MGS 2 can’t remember the name but it might be the barracks theme
Fun Theory: The re-made levels were switched from day time to a rainy night because it's raining outside while he's having his fever dream.
I heard this somewhere else too and it sounds fitting
@@feszitoonline795 Contract shows you how 47 remembers them while in Codename 47 is how they really happened
@@feszitoonline795 critical nobody said that
I was going to comment that.
Not only this, but metaphorically, rain on a dream usually means bad things are happening (or will).
Every single mission is in rain, except Bjarkhov, which is snow (a fitting substitute)
Small error Franz can be drowned in the pool in codename 47. The animated is trigged by using a fiber wire
In Lee Hong Assassination, you actually can find a poison in the level. It’s on top of the safe in the brothel. It’s not very useful for getting Silent Assassin rank, but it is there for those who like it.
Yeah the useful option is the laxative in the bar.
When I played this game first time I used the poison.
I love the soundtrack from this game, it's dark and ominous and fits the gothic visual style of the game.
I can't really articulate it but it is swift and aggressive, kind of like 47.
You did described pretty well. It is dark; it is ominous. There is a uneasiness on it and it actually goes perfectly well with the whole atmosphere of levels coupled with brilliant sound design (I honestly believe the sound effects of this game wins over any other on the Hitman franchise).
The soundtrack from this games is quite like a "spoken silence".
@@Svraoa spoken silence?
@@spetsnaz4537, I present you a stylistic device known as: oxymoron.
@@Svraoa yes but how is the game's soundtrack akin to "spoken silence"
5:48
I am completely sure that the SWAT team has not been retconned, since Hitman 2 shows that the first SWAT team was called by Ort-Meier while he was still alive, but then several other SWAT teams and police came as reinforcements after Agent 47 killed Ort-Meier. So this SWAT team in Contracts is not the same one from the Codename 47, they are actually the reinforcements for the first SWAT team.
you can find dead bodies of the swatters around the place in contracts if you explore the place
The final mission in contracts is a continuation of the third mission in blood money. In asylum aftermath the swat team that storm the place are actually the second wave as evidenced throughout the mission you can find dead bodies of swat members around the building stating that the dead ones were the ones from the first wave (the ones who swatted in codename 47). In contracts all of the missions (except the last one) are 47's memories, In the mission Deadly cargo 47 only remembers only few things about it maybe because he's mind is fogged because he's having a near death experience (or he just doesn't remember it all too well). Most of the missions show 47 killing his fathers (excluding Pablo Ochoa though I would have loved to see the Columbia mission remade) which is referenced in all of the Hitman games, this is to make the story more understandable for the newer fans. I wish the newer games had missions like contracts, It's atmosphere made it unique which made its name as "The Darkest Hitman Game" ever to be released.
Always felt like a boss getting SA on that one
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@@sergeantleo7669 I read your full comment 3 times over, thank you for enlightening my life ! peace inshallah my brother !
Thank god they didn't include Ochoa's mission , shit gave me nightmares in codename 47
I really wish they’d make a successor to this game in showing the darker, psychological side of the assassin life. I still love this game for its atmosphere, music, and tone. Just about all the following games have a rather romanticized view of Agent 47’s world.
They kinda tried that with absolution and uhhh
But agreed, would be super cool to see a new cold, calculated version of Hitman that explores some dark shit
@@budusbusham3324 I think Absolution was edgy, not dark lol
@@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG I always felt like Absolution's tone was some grindhouse shit, so that sounds about right. I did enjoy aspects of Absolution, that being one, but man is the stealth jank and story confusing and outright not good at times.
Guess I got another game to play while in quarantine.
yay wanna be quarantine roomies?
Already playing it xd
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Same here and were 9 months in. Just not sure if I should start with the Resident Evil series or Hitman.
@@Princeton_James do both. both are legendary. if youve never played a re game start with re4
I actually think the Mansion level in this game is probably my favourite level in the series.
Logic Lunacy yeah all the secret doors in the walls is really cool, underrated level imo
Don't believe you to be in the guest list mate
1000% agree. Its my favourite ever hitman level.
The atompshere there is fantastic... Also the labyrinth, dogs, stables, horses, the chimney/fireplace, shoower room, the wine vault, the secret rooms, then there is also pillow killing... So many great details.
I absolutely love this mission.
@stprm2013 I also really like the Hotel level which I believe was from 1 and remade in contracts. I haven't played 1 but I was aware that all the better levels were remade in contracts.
@@logiclunacy606 yea yea, agree again! I love hotel level. So many great details and things Like the ghost in murder wing, sign 'dont disturb', metal detectors, windows in the bar above pool, the flower shop, the balconies, roof access (small, but still), elevator and other stuff...
Im 3 years late, but it's really cool to see how accurate the police cars and uniforms are in the Rotterdam mission. I still see cars like that everyday. I checked the cutscenes and the characters actually speak with a classic Rotterdam accent and attitude, really cool
3:09 will haunt me forever..
the soundtrack for this game is my favourite soundtrack of all time, jespyr kyd is a genius
Damn right. This ost alone can be the all-time favourite for any medium ever, for me it's all-time favourite score too. Such a good combination of genres. Ambient tracks has great methodical and dreamy vibes to it, reflecting both Agent 47's strategic thinking and the fact that he hallucinating in the past, so to speak. Action themes are some of the most stylish mid 2000's techno with tension cutting strings to force you move forward to the extraction point. And the Slaughter Club theme man, it's the most creative club track i've listened.
Its so dark, the sundtrack is scary, its atmosphere is just phenomenal. love this game
8:18 You can also kill Franz when he's swimming in Hitman Codename 47. Just pull out fiber wire and you will see a quite similar cutscene.
Hitman Contracts still has one of my all time favorite video game trailers.
This is mostly my favorite in the original series, mostly due to it's refined simple mechanics and the serious, dark tone.
Contracts is my personal favorite hitman game, and my very first hitman game. I saw it in GameStop for ps2 when I was choosing a new series to play and found contracts, so glad I made that decision!
This is probably my favorite in the Hitman games. Love the atmosphere of it.
I bought this game on vacation when I was a kid, it was incomprehensible since I couldnt even speak english yet, I should play it again sometime
i love contracts. i don't know if i like it more than blood money, but its definitely a tie. i love the dark foreboding atmosphere and soundtrack. jesper kyd really knocked it out of the park on the soundtrack. great video, ive been keeping up with your channel for a little over a year but this video was timed absolutely perfectly with the day i started playing through contracts again for the first time in over 10 years and i was looking for a retrospective to entertain me while i eat :P anyway awesome retrospective, keep up the amazing work and i hope you'll do one for blood money as well you earned my sub for sure. :)
My favourite mission is defo English castle/home. They did such a brilliant job with atmopshere! Absolutely love this level.
Something about contracts felt so good. It controlled smoothly, good feedback etc.
The music in this game is the darkest in this series
hitman 3 has the best atmosphere, dark and gloomy, music is amazing and it has a real good SA rating system. it's also great to speedrun and the glitches are as bob would say, happy accidents. amazing game, probably my favorite of them all
The best words for the best game
I am playing Hitman series for the first time, i started last year and i complete one by one just to find out you made a video about that exact game couple of months ago. Amazing.
My favorite in the series, Blood Money was better in terms of gameplay but no other Hitman game got the dark atmosphere that contracts had.
Blood money was good smooth and very dramatic but contracts was straight psychopathic murder....
Silent assassin was my first entry to the series. Then I played contracts: the most nasty murderous bloodlust guilty forbidden shell shocked sinful game I ever played. Still feel guilty for liking it because it really felt like killing people because of the intense sneaky timing I forced myself to never getting caught and getting silent assassin on every mission with less than 5 attempts
It definitely was dark and dank for it's time. It was ahead of a lot of games going in this style.
The game looks great for what the developers had to go through plus 9 months wow.
Absolutely love these videos. The writing, editing, capture and sheer polish to it all make these a great retrospective on the franchise. I can only imagine the nostalgia vibes for a Blood Money video and can’t wait to watch it. It’ll instantly make 2020 much better upon release. =)
Man, the mini gun was sooooo good.
My favorite Hitman game of all time.
Jesper Kyd did not hold anything back, the design was closer to early Blood Money than Codename 47 and i appreciated every single experimental choice in this game.
also, 5:03 is very relatable. lol
I've been binging your hitman retrospective videos (out of order) and they're all fantastic! I'm
love this game. oh how i wish hitman would visit this sort of darker atmosphere one day
Loved the first half, didnt mind the second half
This was my first Hitman game and my all time favorite. Creeped me out as a kid but now I appreciate it. Neve played Codename 47 so I appreciate remade levels.
Love this and blood money equally. Incredible games. Endless fun.
My first, and one of the best, Hitman. One of my top 3 favorite games ever, I think.
I can't wait for you to do Blood Money. It was my first Hitman game.
Oh, boi can't wait for Hitman 2016 retrospective.
Thank god someone is talking about this game 👍
I actually low key love Contracts, not my favourite but it is so enjoyable. No other game in the series gives as good an atmosphere and its soundtrack is so amazing. I feel most of the level remakes are pretty good and that the changes need to be forgiven as the style of game changed from Action to Stealth focused.
My suggestion for it though would have been to separate the remakes throughout the game instead of having a line drawn down the middle of new and old. It would have made for a satisfying narrative if they started with the first Lee Hong mission near the beginning and then have the final flashback be assassinating Lee Hong. With that said, the last level needed more work it is such a disappointing end to a strong game.
And as to why they changed the old missions weather and time of day was because it's supposed to be the rain 47 hears in the real world seeping in to his hallucinations so that's why it rains in every mission. That and for tone.
It’s also the hardest
this game is a masterpiece
makes me wish i still had my hitman anthology box to play all of these
You can get all the games on steam.
@@samz8691 i know, and they probably don't have securom
but still
Playing through this a few years ago to 100%, I did not know most of the levels were remasters from the original Hitman.
Sucks the original was never brought to consoles.
The original was very hard and buggy but still one of my fav games
Honestly, it's a blessing in disguise. The OG game really wanted you to play in a single way and if you deviated from that path, you were punished heavily. Plus the mission design is very poor, only exception being the hotel level.
@@hawken796 what about sea food massacre where the restaurant is closed?
Awesome review, can't wait to see Blood Money. Contracts was undoubtedly the best
I’ve been so excited for this video! Great job again! It’s always great to see people in the Hitman community talk positively about Contracts! It is very, very under appreciated and deserves more praise for fixing a lot of Hitman 2’s (the old Hitman 2) flaws and having a combination of good new levels and good remade levels that are pretty much all better than codename 47. Can’t wait to see your thoughts on my favorite game of the series coming up next!
Best cut scenes and disguises
Ah look at that. I just stoped playing Hitman 2016. Loving it so far and plan on playing all the other ones!
My name is there, awesome.
Great video bro
Definitely one of the best games ever made (at least for me) Not only its darkest, but also with unique plot and so on.. and gameplay has been improved greatly from SA very much like you have sedative syringe now and not anesthetics. Graphics are also nicer
Jesper Kyd's soundtrack for this and Blood Money are spectacular
I clicked on this so fast. I love your hitman video
Surprised you didn't talk about the Byarkhov Bomb level, that one was in my opinion pretty tedious and the worst original level
The Manor was very cool though
yeah its by far the most tedious of the new levels. I kept failing to get the guys suit in the bathroom so that bothered me more than the walking in that level
I swear almost every level in 2016/Hitman 2 non-SA give me Byarkhov Flashbacks.
@@Cvit I could never get an SA rank for the life of me!
The manor has to be my favorites level. Loved the atmosphere
@@samz8691 Why Hitman 2016, and 2? And if only 2016, and 2, then why not blood money, or silent assassin?
This will be Always my go 1 hitman game! Aftr Silent Assassin.. good old times.. gosh.. love the hotel level
Can't wait for you to do retrospective of blood money
Hitman is one of those gaming franchises that doesnt get enough credit for being as great as it is. #JakeHunter88
I love Contracts, i just wish it had even more levels, maybe 5 or 6, and remake the jungle levels too !
Contracts is the best in the series by a long shot. Once you really dive into it, learn how to speedrun it, and find out the ins and outs, it’s beyond just a good game. It’s the best Hitman experience a player can Get.
That’s how I feel about blood money. Speed running that game is really fun with all the quirks with how NPCs work in that game
i noticed the use of bricolage by amon tobin as background music. very good choice, classic album!
Here before the thumbnail change.
i loved the dark vibe of contracts
In lee Hong assassin in hitman contracts poisoning Tzun is possible..u can aquire the poison from the brothel..its on top of the safe there..and poisoning Tzun will show the same awesome cut scene in hitman contracts as it's in hitman codename 47.
Contracts was my first Hitman and I liked it because he went to the Netherlands where I live.
I think my favourite bit of this one is that if you bring a sniper rifle whne replaying levels you can have a sniper suit-case in any level so I like to replay the Hong Kong Levels with the R93 rifle that used in Codename 47.
Nice work ☺️
Awesome game. I played the Meat King. I killed everyone in that mission. I left no one alive. Calling it "the Slaughter House!"
I got out of full screen to upvote this
my favourite hitman game
I like your Hitman videos
Thank God! I thought this series was dead.
nah its not dead i just do other videos between making these so i don't get tired of the series and these videos don't get a lot of views so i gotta make stuff that will in between so i make some actual money to pay bills
Fair enough.
The hotel was different in some other ways. For example, the pool was closed off, requiring you to sneak in.
I love this video
It's funny remembering when I was kid buying the trilogy pack for only $20 at that price my mom didn't mind cause 3 games for $20 on ps2, not only that but I got it out of a bin in a Walmart there were trying to get rid of all of them with other games I wouldn't by
I can see having it so you play the original Agent 47 levels first then continuing on to the new levels working. I've seen it done before like with Fire Emblem 3: Mystery of the Emblem having "book 1" which was just the first game redone from 8 bit NES graphics to 16 bit SNES graphics (iirc with some fat from the original trimmed out), and then "book 2", which was an entirely new story that happened some years afterwards.
Remember playing this on the PSP...
0:46 fitting, there names sound almost exactly the same
Caillou in his adulthood.
I never thought he'd become an assassin.
Also didn't hitman have a movie or something?
Yes it did
2 in fact
Yeah two very average action movies that don't live up to the IP. If you really want to watch one I suggest the first one, as it actually had some pretty cool fights and solid choreography iirc. Also I'm a big fan of Timothy Olephont, though he's a bad cast for 47 imo he pulls it off as best he can.
was gona buy this for my xbox backwards compatible 🙂🎮 played it when i was a kid
Finally yugioh gx season 2
Time it right? Sure. If you play it right you can weild that mini gun in the first level.
Also there is poison in the Lee Hong Aasassination mission.
I wouldn't say new missions are after you healed but between the hits in CN47
Honestly it is my favourite Hitman game because it is darkest one in the series.
Blood Money is nothing bright like Vegas , there's only a single level in it in Vegas & it's literally at nighttime!!!! Blood Money has by far the best & most versatile mission levels of all the Hitman games no level is anything alike the other , it's amazing in that aspect & considered by most OG fans to be the masterpiece of all Hitman games
Are you going to make a retrospective on castlevania lords of shadow game's I would like to see your opinion on those
7:26 I’m sure that won’t be catastrophic in a a few minutes at all
The Meat King's Party was/is/probably will be the creepiest mission in any game.
This game needed to happen for them to have the money for Blood Money, and by extension, the later Hitman games.
Lol it’s still hands down my favorite Hitman game I fukin love this game
this the best Hitman game
you could also kill franz in the sauna in the orginal game, still good video but needed to point out that mistake
My favorite hitman due to atmosphere and story….. wish blood money would of followed in its darker footsteps.
Whats the song you used in your persona 5 review when talking about the Akechi boss battle? I don't think it's in the song list.
Heavy day - Guilty Gear Xrd
@@Cvit what's the name of your background music for your netflix death note vid?
I like mgs2 tanker music
Fun fact the hd pack version has some what corrupt cutscenes the top has red and blue just there
Whats the name of the track playing from 0.42 to 1.40
8:18 I think you can kill him into pool in Codename 47 if you use Fiber Wire.
Shout to youtube not showing this in my feed
2:50 what a bunch of fruits.