The assassinations are meticulously crafted puzzles and it's your job to solve them using stealth and occasionally action. You'll visit dense jungle, overpopulated city streets, quiet suburbs, and lavish parties, each offering their own unique risks and opportunities. The contracts all take place in separate, fairly sizeable sandboxes. She'll give you the low down on a target or two that somebody is willing to pay good money to have bumped off, and then it's up to you to figure out the best way to do it. You play as Agent 47 – a remorseless contract killer who has no memory of his childhood – and you're given a job to do by your quintessentially English handler, Diana.

Murder has rarely been this amusing.Įach of the half a dozen missions starts out pretty much the same way.

Rather than settling for being a po-faced techno thriller, Hitman 2 – mercifully – knows exactly how ludicrous it is, embraces the absurdity, and at times, goes full tilt into black comedy territory. In a game that takes itself seriously, an amnesiac killer hunting down members of a cabal secretly pulling the strings on world politics from behind the scenes would be even more eye-roll inducing than the last season of Prison Break. Kicked down a trap door by a pink flamingo. And then out of nowhere an assassin dressed like a pink flamingo kicked her down an open trap door to her death. She had it all: fame, money, power, and a name that made her sound a bit like a baddie from a Bond film. She lived her life as a successful racing car driver, and along with her father was a powerful figure within Kronstadt Industries, a tech firm making waves in the robotics field. Republished on Wednesday 1st September 2021: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of September's PlayStation Plus lineup.