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==Weapons==


Pistols
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*Custom Silverballer('''[[Colt M1911]]''' or '''[[AMT Hardballer]]''')
*Custom Silverballer ('''[[Colt M1911]]''' or '''[[AMT Hardballer]]''')
*SLP .40('''[[HK USP]]''')
*SLP .40 ('''[[HK USP]]''')
*Bull .480('''[[Taurus Raging Bull]]''')
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*'''[[Desert Eagle]]'''
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*Real WWI Gun ('''[[C96]]''')


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*'''[[Heckler & Koch MP7|MP7]]'''
*'''[[Heckler & Koch MP7|MP7]]'''
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*SAF SMG ('''[[FAMAE SAF|FAMAE MT-40]]''')
*SAF SMG ('''[[FAMAE SAF|FAMAE MT-40]]''')
*'''[[Steyr TMP|TMP]]'''
*'''[[Steyr TMP|TMP]]'''
*Custom SMG Tactical('''[[MP5]]''')
*Custom SMG Tactical ('''[[MP5]]''')




Rifles
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*Custom M4('''[[M4 Carbine|M4]]''')
*Custom M4 ('''[[M4 Carbine|M4]]''')
*F2000('''[[FN F2000]]''')
*F2000('''[[FN F2000]]''')
*'''[[M14]]'''
*'''[[M14]]'''
*SG552('''[[Sig 552]]''')
*SG552 ('''[[Sig 552]]''')
*'''[[Air gun|Air rifle]]'''
*'''[[Air gun|Air rifle]]'''


Shotguns
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*SP12 ('''[[SPAS 12]]''')
*SP12 ('''[[SPAS 12]]''')
*'''[[Shotgun]]'''
*'''[[Shotgun]]'''


Sniper Rifles
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*'''[[Dragunov Sniper Rifle|Dragunov]]'''
*'''[[Dragunov Sniper Rifle|Dragunov]]'''
*Elephant Rifle ('''[[Browning Automatic Rifle|Browning BAR Mk. II Safari]]''')
*Elephant Rifle ('''[[Browning Automatic Rifle|Browning BAR Mk. II Safari]]''')
*Kazo TRG ('''[[Sako TRG]]''')
*Kazo TRG ('''[[Sako TRG]]''')
*Custom W2000('''[[Walther WA 2000]]''')
*Custom W2000 ('''[[Walther WA 2000]]''')


Misc/Melee
;Misc/Melee:
*'''[[Garrote|Fibre Wire]]'''
*'''[[Garrote|Fibre Wire]]'''
*'''[[Nailgun]]'''
*'''[[Nailgun]]'''

Revision as of 20:25, 25 June 2006

Hitman: Blood Money
Hitman: Blood Money
Developer(s)IO Interactive
Publisher(s)Eidos Interactive
Platform(s)PC Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360
ReleaseMay 30, 2006 - US
May 26, 2006 - EU
Genre(s)Stealth
Mode(s)Single-Player

Hitman: Blood Money is the fourth game of the Hitman video game series. The PC demo was released on May 22, 2006. The game was released on May 26th, 2006 in Europe and on May 30th in the US.

Theme

Template:Spoiler Hitman: Blood Money centres around assassinations carried out by Agent 47, as narrated in cutscenes by the former director of the FBI to a journalist invited to his home as they discuss 47. The wheelchair-bound ex-director recounts how his organization tracked 47 by observing his operations, each of which is played as and when it's mentioned in his story.

Features

Many new features were introduced to Hitman: Blood Money. These include the capability to climb through more obstacles, improved character animations, a new game engine and the ability to upgrade weapons (as well as equipment), however only 5 of the featured weapons in the game can be upgraded. Almost all the levels contain some sort of method to make your target's death look like an accident, i.e. tampering with someone's grill to make it explode when they turn it on, or the target 'accidentally' falling off a balcony.

A brand new gameplay feature to the Hitman series was also added, the 'Notoriety' system. If the player, during a mission, kills innocents or civilians, gets caught on CCTV or witnesses see a murder, Agent 47's notoriety will be negatively affected. Conversely, if the player executes the mission perfectly with none of the aforementioned events occurring, his notoriety will be minimal. The higher Agent 47's notoriety is, the easier it will be for NPCs to identify Agent 47. Additionally, bribing is possible to reduce the notoriety that the player has procured from missions.

When each mission has been completed, a newspaper article is displayed regarding the hit, in which the content varies depending on the investigation results and the player's notoriety. Sketch drawings are also sometimes visible of Agent 47's face, albeit very obscure if the notoriety level is minimal. The article's title relates to the player's mission rating, whether it is (not in any specific order)"The Eraser", "Gangster", "Terrorist", "Murderer" "Mass Butcher", "Mass Murderer," "Hoodlum" "Hired Killer," "Contract Killer," "Specialist," "Professional," "The Cleaner," "Hitman," "the Ghost," "Silent Assassin," or "The Russian Hare."

Missions and their Locations

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A father wants payback for his son's death in an amusement park accident. Agent 47 is sent to kill the manager Joseph Clarance a.k.a "Swing King," and to make sure that the last thing he sees before his death is a photo of the dead son. The player learns the basics of the game here.
Agent 47 is ordered to assassinate a Chilean druglord posing as a vintner and his cocaine-addicted son.
Agent 47 is sent to an Opera house in which a play is being rehearsed to assassinate two targets that are associated with child prostitution rings. This is the mission that leads up to the previous game, Hitman: Contracts.
Agent 47 must fake the death of blundering CIA Agent Smith (who has appeared in every Hitman game to date) to rescue him, as well as assassinate a mob boss-turned-state's witness, and may additionally assassinate two optional targets.
Agent 47 has to kill a criminal who is living under the witness protection program, and steal a microfilm, all under the watchful eyes of the FBI during a birthday party.
Agent 47 is sent to assassinate three assassins and protect a political candidate during the Mardi Gras parade, then retrieve a payment suitcase containing diamonds.
An old porn-king is hosting a Christmas Eve party at his private estate in the Rocky Mountains, and a Senator's violent misogynist son is there as well. Agent 47 has to kill both, and retrieve an incriminating videotape that may end the Senator's political career.
  • Death on the Mississippi (the steamboat Emily) - Mississippi
Agent 47 has to take out a drug boss, Skip Muldoon, and a six-member drug smuggling gang called the Gators who are operating from a riverboat.
Agent 47 has to take out the son of Skip Muldoon as well as his father in-law during a wedding ceremony, while protecting the life of the bride.
Agent 47 has to assassinate a Saudi Sheik, his top scientist, and a South African white supremacist during an exchange of DNA samples, and optionally retrieve the payment.
Agent 47 has to kill a CIA operative and his arms smuggling lover, as well as retrieve information on who's targeting the ICA in two parties with Heaven and Hell themes.
In order to prevent the assassination of the President of the United States, Agent 47 must take out an albino assassin called Mark Parchezzi III and Vice President Daniel Morris.
As the credits appear the player sees Agent 47 lying on a funeral altar seemingly dead at a beautifully elaborate ceremony, surrounded by Franchise members in black suits. However, Diana revives Agent 47 from his hibernetic state, allowing a secret mission to be accomplished by killing everyone at the funeral and travelling to the gates at the area's entrance in order to initiate the game's final cutscene.

Weapons

Pistols
SMGs


Rifles
Shotguns
Sniper Rifles
Misc/Melee

Plot

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The game begins at an amusement park in Baltimore, where a Ferris wheel collapses, killing dozens. The man responsible, Joseph Clarence, is cleared of all charges pertaining to the accident. A father of one of the victims calls the Agency and orders a hit on Clarence. Mr. 47 is called into action, and, after the successful hit on Clarence, receives a string of contracts.

The bulk of the game takes place prior to the present day, but the main cutscenes involving a reporter and the former Director of the FBI, Alexander Leland Cayne (paralyzed from the waist down due to a "work accident"), take place in the current time. Cayne has invited a reporter to his home for an interview, but then draws the reporter into hearing about the "urban legend" of 47. The cutscenes with Cayne and the reporter have Cayne talking about 47's recent hits (the missions that are in the game), and how Cayne's task force was tracking him down. As the game progresses, we learn that Mr. 47 had been killed and the two are heading to his funeral. Throughout the game itself, Agency hitmen are being eliminated by an albino clone named Mark Parchezzi III, leader of a rival agency referred to as "The Franchise". As a result, 47 himself must face several enemy assassins in addition to dealing with security and other obstacles throughout the game. In one of the later missions, 47 is informed by Diana that the two of them are the only people left at the agency. Diana closes down the agency with one final contract: kill the assassins coming after the two. 47 completes the assignment (in Las Vegas at a Heaven and Hell party), but is approached by a man he saved earlier, a CIA agent named Smith. He comes with several million dollars worth of diamonds, and says 47 can have them, but first he needs to save the President. It turns out that Parchezzi and the Vice-President, Daniel Morris, have been conspiring to kill the President because of his staunch belief in the legalization of cloning. Daniel Morris was not the president's first choice for acting V.P. when the current V.P. Spaulding died. Congress apparently rushed him into office with the "assistance" of a shadow government/black-ops division code-named Alpha Zerox, which controls The Franchise. Alpha Zerox believed that if the current President legalized human cloning, they would lose their military edge with their clones as other rivals would develop their own clones and ramp up the competition. 47 infiltrates the White House, kills the V.P. and eliminates Parchezzi in a gun duel after an encounter in the Oval Office.

After he completes the contract, Diana visits him at his hideout and says she has come up with an idea on how to shake off the rest of the Franchise. Just as 47 is mulling over the mission folder, Diana stabs him in the shoulder with a poison syringe. 47 collapses, as Diana says "I needed you to buy me some time." SWAT Team members storm the building afterwards and remove 47's body. As she leaves the building, she is confronted by Cayne, who says "Welcome to the Franchise." This all culminates to the present time as Diana, Jack, Rick (the reporter) and a dozen other Franchise agents attend 47's funeral. Cayne has come to see 47 be cremated so that his bone marrow can never be retrieved, thus insuring that he cannot be cloned ever again. Diana drapes 47's custom Silverballers over his chest and kisses him after applying lipstick. It turns out that she had in fact only sedated him with a special drug that slowed his heart (as 47 used on Agent Smith to sneak him out of the Pine Cone Rehab Centre in the Flatline mission), enabling him to confront Cayne. The lipstick she put on herself was coated with the antidote 47 used in the aforementioned mission. 47 awakens and slaughters Cayne's security detail in what the developers of the game call a "guns blazing extravaganza." 47 tails the survivors back to their cars, but they cannot escape, because the gates are locked. In his efforts to eliminate all witnesses and finally sink into anonymity, 47 kills all the Franchise agents present, as well as Cayne, the Reporter, and even the Priest conducting the funeral. Diana is nowhere to be found.

A cut scene begins, set a while after the massacre at the funeral, showing that Diana has reopened the Agency. She receives a call from someone she refers to as "Your Majesty". The voice on the telephone cannot be heard, but Diana replies with, "they can't find a trace of him." Note that the back of Diana's head can be seen in this scene (she has black hair tied in a bun), and her face can be seen in the reflection of a window she's facing, albeit without any detail. The background of the cutscene shows a view of the Copenhagen harbor area from the perspective of IOI's (the game 's developers) new corporate headquaters on Kalvebod Brygge in Copenhagen. One presumes that the "Majesty" Diana is speaking on the telephone to is none other than Denmark's Queen Margrethe. Meanwhile, in what appears to be China, 47 is seen speaking with a man with a thick Chinese accent who is dressed in a tradional Chinese silk robe, in a hallway with red walls. He is carrying a briefcase and expresses interest about what he has heard is "in the back".

Targets

Template:Spoiler Joseph "The Swing King" Clarance - Once a recognised celebrity and owner of a popular amusement park. After the Ferris Wheel ride collapsed, killing several people, the Swing King was ruined for good. Now, he is broke, his wife is divorcing him, and he is at the mercy of drug pushers and gangbangers, who now run the park as their own. One grieving parent, who is unable to let go of the past, has asked that Clarance be taken out, ensuring that the photograph of his young son is the last thing Clarance ever sees.

The Delgados - Fernando Xalvador Delgado, a retired Colonel of Pinochet intelligence service, enjoys old age by running a Chile-based vineyard, fronting a cocaine laboratory, and playing the cello. His partner and son, Manuel, spends much of his time testing his products in the wine cellar. The reviews of Fernando's wine are, to say the least, mixed, but a pensioners club from Santiago is expected, making 47's penetration of the villa that much easier.

Alvaro D'Alvade and Richard Delahunt - An Italian opera singer who is currently performing at the Paris Opera House. D'Alvade, although a celebrated singer, has a blemished reputation, including accusations of sexual antics with minors, that has caused some singers to refuse to perform with him. Richard Delahunt is the United States ambassador to the Vatican, who is currently watching his friend at the open rehersals. However, their's is more than a fan-singer relationship as a security guard confides in 47 that their relationship is likely to be of a more intimate nature. Delahunt works with D'Alvade on a despicable prostitution ring that traffics youths of both sexes from the south into Europe. These two characters featured in the overlapping final mission of Hitman: Contracts (Hunter and Hunted), when in the mission objectives it is shown that both of them have already been killed and the final target is the Parisian Chief of Police, who was somehow involved.

Lorenzo Lombardo, Rudy Menzana, and Carmine Desalvo - Three mobsters in rehab at a rehabilitation center in North California. One of the (It switches randomly between each person) is the main target. The target plans to become a federal witness once released from the institute. The other two are optional targets for $50,000 each. Each are easily seen by their robes, which are different than the usual white robes of the facility. Lombardo wears a blue robe, Menzana wears a pink robe, and Desalvo wears a green robe.

Vinnie "Slugger" Sinistra - A Cuban drug trafficking gangster turned federal witness of United States Federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC). He is somewhat jittery and keeps protection close by at all times, in the forms of both FBI agents and a loaded magnum. The client would rather keep some information Vinnie possesses, in the form of a microfilm, undisclosed, and for this purpose he must be taken out. The microfilm is concealed within his wife's necklace. Mrs. Sinistra appears bored with her anxious husband and sexless marriage and shows a considerable interest in the young poolboy. Preparations for his youngest child's birthday party should provide useful cover for 47. However, Vinnie's suburban home is crawling with FBI to ensure he makes it to court next week.

The Crows - A group of assassins who have been assigned to take out a candidate for the upcoming presidential election. The leader, an albino clone named Mark Purayah II, is awaiting his payment in the form of a briefcase of diamonds. His subordinates, Anglina Mason and Raymond Kulinski, are romantically attached and mentally unstable. They keep in close contact with one another via walkie-talkie. The three crows can be easily distinguished from their yellow costumed guards. However, the crowded streets of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festival make them very difficult to single out for a killing.

Lorne de Havilland - A 71-year-old porn tycoon and born-again Christian. He founded the magazine "Popqurn," among other pornographic endeavours. He owns a handful of strip-joints, where he has fallen into the habit of recording the many sexual antics in the backrooms of the clubs. Blackmailing politicians and VIPs with these videotapes provide a sizable income. On Christmas Eve, he will be hosting a party at his Rocky Mountains estate, complete with beautiful girls, bachelors and a drunken Santa Claus. He prefers to retire to the studio floor of his mansion with his small, yet vicious, white dog, viewing a few secret recordings and checking up on the "actresses" on set. His character is apparently an amalgamation of Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt

Chad Bingham Jr. - The youngest son of Senator Bingham and the unpleasant smudge on his father's pristine political reputation. With quite a potent sexual drive, Chad has been said to have assaulted a number of strippers and prostitutes. He managed to kill a girl in the back of one of de Havilland's clubs, with the entire thing caught on tape. Chad accepts an invitation to de Havilland's Christmas party, unaware that someone with a strong interest in his father's career has ordered his and Havilland's death. The retrieval of the illicit videotape is top priority.

Skip Muldoon - Skip is the Captain of The Emily, a Mississippi riverboat, which has been cruising up and down the Mississippi River for 20 years. He is also the head of a crime syndicate known as the Gators. Skip Muldoon enjoys showing off his shooting skills and has a weakness for fried food and cream-filled pastries. His appetite for fatty desserts is only matched by his appetite for his young and fit crew. An apparent pederast, the safe in his office aboard the boat contains homemade pornography depicting a (presumably) forceful encounter with his niece, Margeaux LeBlanc.

Buddy Muldoon - The successor of the now-extinct "Gators", run by Skip Muldoon's equally dim-witted son Buddy. He has recently, much to his childish glee, married into a family of descendants for the French Colonies of the US. The official ceremony has already taken place but Buddy and his new bride Margeux LeBlanc are having a reception for their slack-jawed family and friends on an island on the Mississippi River. The client wishes the death of both Buddy Muldoon and his father-in-law, John "Pappy" LeBlanc, a prominent crimelord. The client stresses that Margeux should be left alone. The client is most likely Margeux herself, hence why the client stressed that Margeux be unharmed. The newspaper following the mission claims she inherited hundreds of millions of dollars after her late father and husband passed away. Since then, she has been enjoying her inheritance in Las Vegas.

The Sheik - His full title is Sheik Muhammad Bin Faisal Al-Khalifa. He is the CEO of Arabian Pharmaceutical Exports (APEX), which has been rumored to be involved in illegal research, possibly cloning and biological weaponry. A deal has been struck with a South African named Henrix Schmutz who possesses certain DNA samples the Sheik is eager to get his hands on. The two will be meeting at the Arabian Knights-themed casino, The Shamal Hotel, in Las Vegas. As well as a troop of armed bodyguards, the Sheik has invited his personal scientist, Tariq Abdul Lateef, to make the exchange of a briefcase of blood diamonds and to check the authenticity of the DNA samples. You must kill Al-Khalifa, Schmutz, and Lateef and escape with the payment case.

Agent Martinez - An undercover CIA agent who has gone rogue and joined the arms smugglers he was supposed to be spying on. He spends the entire mission, which occurs at a pair of costume parties, wearing a yellow demon mask. He is eliminated by 47 rather unceremoniously in the men's restroom at the Heaven party.

Vaana Ketlyn - The arms dealer whom Agent Martinez has aligned himself. Somewhat goth in appearance, she is the host of the Heaven and Hell parties where Martinez is organizing an arms deal, and acts as the master of ceremonies at the Hell party, presiding over the room from a steel railed stage suspended over a pit of sharks and giant flamethrowers. Can be eliminated by 47 either in her office when he's disguised as Agent Martinez or her platform can be rigged to drop her in the shark tank.

Eve - A young and sexy hitwoman for The Franchise. She has been killing 47's fellow hitmen. Along with fellow Franchise agent Maynard John, she has assigned to kill 47 himself at the Heaven and Hell parties near the end of the game, acting as the undercover operative at the Heaven party. She fancies herself a singer but is very poor at it. She appears to have a sexual, rather than purely financial, motive for killing. A cut-scene demonstrates her mounting a victim before killing him by repeatedly stabbing him with a switchblade knife. 47 eliminates her in order to find out who's been killing Agency personnel.

Maynard John - A hitman with a flair for the dramatic who is working for the Franchise who has been killing 47's fellow hitmen and is tasked, along with Eve, with killing 47 at the Heaven and Hell parties; he is the undercover operative in the Hell party. He spends the entire level dressed as Satan and pretending to be the bartender, though his drink concoctions cause those who consume them to become violently ill. Rather than attempt to assassinate 47, as he has been assigned to do, Maynard challenges 47 to a duel in a soundproofed basement and is subsequently eliminated.

Vice President Daniel Morris Interim V.P. and conspirator in a plot to kill the President. He was supported by The Franchise to help with the plan to ban cloning. His wife has been sneaking around with one of the Secret Service agents behind his back. He is killed along with Mark Parchezzi III.

Mark Parchezzi III - More well known as "The Albino". A rival assassin who's assigned to kill the President so the Vice President can take over. A master of disguise and possessing many of the same skills 47 has, he is the head of The Crows - a notorious band of assassins. The Albino is at the top of the FBI most wanted list and is referenced by several NPCs and radio broadcasts throughout the game. After a confrontation in the Oval Office, Parchezzi is eliminated by 47 in a gun battle on the White House roof.

Trivia

  • As was also the case with its prequels, Blood Money features a lot of in-jokes by the developer, IO Interactive, that will only make sense to a Dane. For example, a cutout of Dolph's eyes appear alongside a text in French, proclaiming that: "The blue hippopotamus is invisible. He sneaks secretly like a Japanese ninja! You are all 100% assholes!". This is told to be in the newspaper after the "Curtains Down" level [1]. The baseball bat featured in the game has "Dolph" written on it; Dolph's favourite weapon being a baseball bat [2]. There are also references to danish C64 music band "Press Play On Tape" of which IOI developer Theo Engell-Nielsen is a member.
  • Jesper Kyd composed Blood Money's soundtrack, continuing his work with the franchise.
  • The main theme, used in the menu sequences, is "Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert.
  • Following the completion of the Delgado mission, the Chilean newspaper that is shown has a UPC which begins with the number zero. Following UPC guidelines, this zero would indicate that the newspaper originated in the United States. Additionally, the full UPC code matches that of the American newspaper The Washington Post. At the bottom of the same newspaper near the UPC code and copyright is written, "No tengo ninguna pista que estoy escribiendo", which translates to, "I have no clue what I am writing".
  • The newspapers which appear at the end of each mission also tell you about next targets or places where the next missions take place, and in some cases tell you what happens after certain targets have been eliminated as in the Wedding mission. What happens to the widow (Margeux LeBlanc) is mentioned in the newspaper of a later mission. She is mentioned as the Bayou beauty, a beautiful and talented high-roller, more than indicating that she ordered her husband-to-be's death.
  • The said high-roller (Margeux LeBlanc) can also be found in the Heaven/Hell mission as one of the two only females attending the Heaven party dressed in red.
  • The female singer in "A Dance With The Devil" sings the song "Tomorrow Never Dies" by Danish Swan Lee, albeit rather poorly.
  • During the Opera house Mission in Paris, there is a room in the basement that you find three rats in. If you kill them a card will appear on a near by table called "Rat Club". If you go upstairs, at the back of the opera house (where you find the light room key card) you can use it on a door nearby. Inside the room are rats boxing (with the gloves on) and rats playing poker.
  • 47'w has been remodelled slightly since Hitman 2 and Hitman Contracts. Also Agent Smith seems to be going bald in this game.
  • The waterfront in the final cutscene with Diana is that of Copenhagen harbor. Additionally, the posters on the walls of Diana's office display Copenhagen landmarks such as Christiansborg and Børsen.
  • According to the newspaper which appears at the end of the mission Death on the Mississippi, the mission took place in the month of "Smarch", a Simpsons reference. Another newspaper mentions a police chief named Wiggum.
  • The main menu of the game shows the funeral which is the last mission in the game. The "guests" are each of 47's targets. As you progress through the game, the "guests" disappear one-by-one as you eliminate them.
  • The small cutscene which occurs when you strangle someone from above (e.g. from an elevator shaft), seems to be an homage to a the opening assassination in Luc Besson's "The Professional".
  • In Amendment XXV mission the target's name Daniel Morris when shortened into Dan Morris is similar with the name of PC GAMER magazine ex-EIC Dan Morris. Dan Morris acknowledging this asking his co-worker about how did they kill him in Hitman: Blood Money. Dan Morris also claims that his face is somewhat similar with the target's face.
  • The face used for Agent 47 is that of David Bateson, the same man who provides the voice for Agent 47.
  • The game's second-to-last mission, Ammendment XXV, in which 47 must kill the vice president to prevent him from having the president murdered, is a reference to the 25th Ammendment of the United States Constitution, which stipulates that, in the event of the president's death, the vice president shall take office.
  • There is a weapon silhouette in the Hideout that cannot be filled (by normal means). It belongs to a rifle called the Mark III, the same type of gun that the actors in Curtains Down carry, albeit fake. The gun should presumably be located in this mission, but for reasons unknown is not, and is not located in any other level as well. However, the gun still exists in the game's coding, and can be obtained via hacking or a cheat device (its spot in the Hideout will even be filled). A video can be seen online of the gun in action, which reveals the Mark III is basically the same as the M14, but must be reloaded after every shot.
  • Many people have noticed tears in 47's eyes after he snaps the neck of his pet bird, that he sometimes pets in cutscenes, when he sees that that the intruder in his hideout is only his boss Diana. This supports the claim that 47 is becoming more and more human with every game.
  • In the Requiem mission, a small white recording device is being held by the reporter, which can lead to the assumption that this will be used as a plot point in the next game in the series.

Controversy

Despite the varying levels of violence found in the game itself, the most controversy was stirred up by a number of ads for the game distributed to various magazines. The one that drew the attention and protests was one of a woman lying on the bed in lingerie, seemingly asleep... except for a bullet hole in her forehead. The caption above the picture reads: "Beautifully Executed" a pun regarding the woman's appearance and her fate. Other ads were "Classically Executed", featuring a cellist with a slit throat; "Coldly Executed", showing a body in a freezer; and "Shockingly Executed", depicting a naked woman in a bath who was killed when someone plugged in an electric toaster and threw it into the water.

Complaints were raised on the "Beautifully Executed" ad, claiming that the ad condoned sexual violence against women.

Reviews

External links

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