HITMAN
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Firearms, strangulation, and staged accidents kill human targets and guards; blood appears on victims and bodies remain, but there is no dismemberment or lingering gore.
Alcohol is served and consumed at parties, and the player can spike drinks or food with sedatives and poison to incapacitate or kill.
The premise is contract killing for money, with murder planned and carried out on screen as the core activity.
The player is a professional assassin who commits murder as the core objective of every mission, alongside trespassing, disguise theft, and evading guards.
NPC dialogue includes moderate profanity during conversations and combat.
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What it is
HITMAN is a third-person stealth game in which the player controls Agent 47, a contract assassin who travels to large sandbox locations to eliminate assigned targets. Play centers on studying an environment, disguising as staff, and choosing how to reach and kill a target—by firearm, strangulation, poison, or engineered 'accidents.' Killing occurs on screen with blood on victims and bodies that remain, though without gore or dismemberment. Alcohol appears at social events and can be poisoned, dialogue carries moderate profanity, and the subject matter throughout is planned murder for hire. The game is single-player with no chat or purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames assassination as a craft: targets are typically presented as criminals, and the scoring rewards discreet, precise elimination while penalizing the killing of non-target civilians, encouraging restraint rather than indiscriminate violence.
Details
- Developer
- IO Interactive A/S
- Publisher
- IO Interactive A/S
- Released
- Mar 11, 2016
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