HITMAN 2
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic assassination of human targets by gunfire, strangulation with a fiber wire, and staged 'accidents'; blood is shown but the game avoids gore or dismemberment.
Alcohol is served at parties and social events, and a Colombian cartel storyline features a cocaine-processing operation the player moves through.
The whole game is built around premeditated murder-for-hire, with cold, methodical planning of assassinations as the core activity.
The player, as a professional assassin, plans and carries out murder as the core objective and is rewarded for eliminating targets cleanly.
Scattered moderate profanity in NPC dialogue and target conversations.
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What it is
HITMAN 2 is a third-person stealth game in which you play Agent 47, a professional assassin, working through six large, open sandbox locations around the world to eliminate assigned targets. The core loop is observation and planning: you scout an area, steal disguises by knocking out or hiding NPCs, and find a way to kill your mark—by gunfire, strangulation, poison, or engineered 'accidents'—then slip away unseen. Violence is realistic and central but not especially gory; there is blood on hits without dismemberment. Alcohol and poisons appear as tools, one mission revolves around a cocaine cartel, and eavesdropped dialogue contains occasional profanity. There are no in-app purchases. Online co-op and competitive modes existed at launch but their servers have since been shut down, leaving the experience effectively single-player.
How it's framed
The game frames assassination as a professional craft and a puzzle to be solved cleanly, rewarding patience, stealth, and non-detection over indiscriminate killing. Targets are generally portrayed as powerful criminals, and the tone mixes cold professionalism with dark, dry humor; the game does not moralize about the killing itself.
Details
- Developer
- IO Interactive A/S
- Publisher
- IO Interactive A/S
- Released
- Nov 13, 2018
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