the fact that Square dropped IO to another publisher just so they can focus on the Avengers game is honestly hilarious to me

i can defend the "blend in" with the fact that its less suspicious because you're at a post where you are expected to do a certain thing so enforcers/targets are less likely to pay attention to who you are instead of when you are moving around or are standing at random/important spots.

Now that the trilogy is wrapped up I hope IOI does away with the always online concept and adds all the elusive targets permanently. This would make it one of the best single player games of all time.

Hitman 1: 70 GBs Hitman 2: 165 GBs (by itself, without 1) Hitman 3: 80 GBs (WITH 1 AND 2 COMBINED) Miracles of technology

I honestly think that Hitman (2016), and Hitman 2 (2018) have to be my favorites of the entire series, Hitman 2 refined and fixed almost all the issues of 2016.

I love your content Cvit. Pls stay inspired brother, im in the hospital recovering from a nasty accident and these have been a real treat.

The Hitman reboot is so perfect that I find it difficult to go back to the older games. So many options, so much replay value have put this is my top five most played Xbone games of all time.

Hitman's levels are maybe even too amazing, honestly. Like, I killed around 15 hours on Paris alone and kinda never got to do the rest of it.

I'm seriously worried what might happen when server support ends for these games

The new Hitman trilogy is AMAZING!!!! BUT, I will say that the always online requirement NEEDS to die. The fact that progression isn't awarded when you're offline is a damn shame and shouldn't be a thing that exists in games.

My idea for elusive targets that I would like to see is to go with a cycle system with two maybe three targets at a time and give one shot at at each target per cycle but give the player another shot when the target pops up again in another cycle.

Literally shouted "YES" and punched the air when I got this notification. Your retrospectives are top notch my guy!

personally theres enough context clues in each map to tell you if its restricted. ●paris - rooms labeled off limits and higher floors being more tightly guarded ●sapienza - mansion/lab being gaurded, specific rooms being disguise specific (gaurd rooms) ● Morocco - in general the school and office ●colorado - disguise specific ● Bangkok - rooms that arent your own are off limits ● japan - disguise specific (literally)

Not sure if intentional or not, but this shows as public from the Hitman playlist on your channel. Love your Hitman content.

Please upload a “Definitive Edition” of your Hitman series. Just every video in one long video. I’d watch it more the individual videos at that point

I also waited on this game, after absolution I kinda forgot that hitman existed, but holy shit it became my favorite game so quick. It really triggered that childlike joy of exploring levels and messing with mechanics that I haven't gotten from a new game in a long time. Extremely hyped for Hitman 3, I'm getting a PS5 and PSVR pretty much exclusively for this game lol.

Hi Cvit, love your videos and you got me to picking up all the hitman game’s up to this one on the recent sale. Thank you for introducing to the series, and hope to have a great time

17:45 I have only played Hitman 2, so I can't talk about Hitman 2016, but for Hitman 2 since every level is technically DLC you can uninstall every level except for the one you're currently playing which makes the size much more manageable

Ngl this is one ambitious and risky Hitman game...IO Could easily Screwed up with this one but managed to pull through. Like it's Equally Perfect and Flawed at the same time...Something you don't usually combine together

This is one of my favorite games in the franchise! Sapienza is my favorite level in the franchise with how much stuff there is to do and how much detail was put into the map. Also I just love Italy. I think that the levels were even better in the Hitman 2 Legacy Pack and I think they will be even better in Hitman III! I really hope we can get some remakes of the Blood Money and Cotnracts levels in this style eventually as well

Recently found you're channel, going through your backlog and enjoying every moment of it so far. I only enjoyed the Hitman series recently, borrowed Hitman 2 from a friend on ps4 ran threw all the missions paying no attention and gave it back. A few months ago, Hitman 1 was free on the Epic PC Store, I downloaded. And oh boy did I enjoy it, sunk more hours into that game in one week than any in ages.

Amazing depiction of a journey through the franchise, props to you

When it comes to the restricted areas I usually test it, jump in and if there are yellow markers appearing I leave quickly, but not before I try to take a peak at those inside the room first

I was really enjoying watching this video series that you’ve worked so hard on, but this is the video that actually makes me want to play the series. This game looks amazing

The best and most complete analysis of this game: awesome work!

I think you're missing the point when it comes to the sale model of Hitman (2016). The reason the full season package sold so well was because of the hype generated by people over time from playing the game on the original release schedule. As you say, people were burned from Hitman: Absolution, and this was a way for people to mitigate the blow by doing what was essentially a slow roll out.

On point with the upload schedule Cvit always excited to see one of your new videos pop up

Just picked up the trilogy on Stadia, and this video was elegantly made! Can't wait to see you do a Hitman 3 review

I've been waiting for this. I love your hitman videos.

Would Iove a retrospective on HITMAN 2, HITMAN and HITMAN 2 are my all time favourite games

As much as I love this trilogy, nothing is more immersion-breaking than Kenny from Telltale's Walking Dead being the voice for every other guard in whichever map you're on

I remember 2016. What a ride that was. Hitman was back.

I don't remember Jaden being an international assassin set on wiping out all other duelist competition, but I guess it has been a while since I've seen Season 3.

Bro, for a video with only 43k views the quality of this video is easily better than so many other documentaries on youtube!

Never played Hitman, but I have been loving this retrospective.

World of Assassination trilogy is the best hitman experience. It's perfect!

I’ve played this game for 8 years and had no idea agent smith is in Hokkaido.

It took several years but we finally have the Safehouse for 47 to unwind at in between missions now that Freelancer is out.

My god, you work HARD!

Still on the racing level on Hitman 2, haven't touched the others. So much fun.

Any chance this channel will cover 2003's Freedom Fighters? Made by IOI on the same game engine as Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Freedom Fighters got a recent surprise digital release on Steam. A remake or sequel would be awesome on the current Hitman game engine.

Waiting for Hitman 2! :) Great video. Subbed!

15:17 It looks like Hitman 3 - Year 2 will finally bring this great feature back!

I don't know if it was different in Hitman 1 but in my experience, all I have to do when disconnected from the game is hit Retry. It doesn't retry the level, it retries the connection to the server, and if it reconnects you continue from where you left off like nothing happened. No having to lose progress or go offline. The text certainly makes that vague, though.

I gotta thank you for making these Hitman videos, seriously. I used to play Hitman as a kid but just didn't get it and just thought of it as boring. And even with Absolution I thought that game was awful. I found your channel on the release of your first Everything Wrong with Yu-gi-oh and only a month ago I started watching the Hitman ones, because since I thought it was boring, I thought it wouldn't be worth my time. Was I wrong. Your videos are great, and greatly inspired me to play Hitman again. I bought Blood Money on Steam (Since it was my favourite as a kid) and started playing Hitman 2016 recently and I've fallen in love with a series I underestimated so badly. I'm really excited for whats next of your channel!

Great stuff thx for vid

7:20 As a PS4 user, the Sarajevo Six was a big meh, you’re not losing out on much

ive been waiting for this since the first video

I'm just finishing most of the challenges in Paris...😂 Love the series. Can't wait to see what else is in store.

I skipped on this one due to the always online(My internet was pretty bad at the time) and the Elusive Targets making me feel like I was truly missing content. This video is making me reconsider tho', and i hope my internet is stable enough to make the game worth it. Great video, btw, really love your content.

I like the main menu music and also the different ways to end your missions. It wasn't blood money or Hitman 2 good but it was up there.

Gonna have to pick this up now. havent played a hitman game since blood money

This video's a bit old but there's a couple little things. Poison kills don't ruin silent assassin, so you don't have to hide the body, that's why syringes are useful. The load outs being restricted allows for even more variation on playstyle and run variety. You're meant to play the levels multiple times, so making each run more specialized allows for more expression and choice

i loved hitman so much that i was able to fanboy my way through absolution. after all the longest gap between 2 hitman games was blood money and absolution, 6 years is long to wait as a hardcore fan.

I think I can kind of piece together what makes a good Hitman game against what makes a bad one, from watching these videos. Stealth is very hit or miss genre and it comes down to two fundamentals: variety in ways to complete the objectives and a clear indication of being in hiding/disguise or evidently visible and thus, vulnerable. A lot of the praised mechanics are having access to items like *The Coin* to engage with the environment or the ability to use odd items or tactics on things to get a good result. A range of items which aren't easily grouped together, so that you can either strike the target when no one is looking or set up some kind of Rube Goldberg machine or something inbetween. The larger range of options which are organically intertwined with the level; the better. Being able to poison food or cut a power line's wires or to break glass for some form of crazy genius kill makes the player engage. When there is no option for this kind of stuff or if it become entirely contextual with a button prompt or an indicator, it ruins the fun. A player trying to get passed a locked door should have options. You could: pick the lock, find the key, blast it off with a firearm, axe the door open, take off the screws, get someone else to open it or go around it. That is ideal for every puzzle, in the game. As for the stealth mechanics, there should be a clear set of indications of whether you are in hiding, in the open or have been caught. Again, Variety is king and having more complexity to the later levels can be a great challenge. There should be some level of indication about which disguises will work where; i.e a chef's outfit works in the kitchen/dinning area and basic hallways but going into the underground power generator rooms with that outfit should cause an alert, if seen by a guard. Also doing things out of the ordinary or in the ordinary should increase/reduce suspicion, respectively. Not that stupid fedora tip/crotch walk thing. There should also be a way to scout ahead of going into a room then releasing its maximum restriction and will trigger an alert with 9 guards. Any challenge the player comes across should be understood by them to see what it is that they can and can't do, with some logic and basic understanding. There should be no cheep traps, which a player can fall into. The onus should be entirely on the player to figure things out. If there is a point in which the player looses because they triggered an alert phase, they couldn't have seen coming, then its back to the drawing board.

Hit man 2016 basically became my comfort game for a few months. I liked just walking around sometimes and taking in the sights when I wasn't braining some dude

So glad I got to play this as part of Hitman 2.

I loved the episodic format, gave the player a month to learn the ins and outs of the maps and the devs extra time to make the next levels better

Fantastic game. Came late to the party (only got it early this year), but enjoyed every minute so far 35hours put in so far.

Doing the lords work!

Doing great with the upload schedule bb

Worth noting that you can experience the extra campaign in H3 on PC via mods. That's not an excuse for their official exclusivity, but it does allow you to play them if you so wish

Love the work you have put into all these Hitman retrospectives! I've been a Hitman fan since the Silent Assassin days but I'm only now playing the WoA trilogy having been so let down by Absolution. Currently halfway thru 2 and having the best time. Sidebar - Is the background music from the Tanker in MGS2?

The MGS music is really making me wish you cover those games at some point.

Lol the fucking MGS 2 soundtrack in your video is a nice touch ♥️

Hitman 2016 was the start of one of the greatest trilogy of games. Honestly no other stealth games can compete with Hitman 2016- Hitman 3 🐐

Ooh here's some nostalgia from HITMAN 2: Remember when the Silverballer was black in the inventory icon for a week?

On the real, it's great what HITMAN 3 did in allowing us to have the full trilogy on one game. There were some problems with progress carryover, particularly in my case but I eventually got it resolved. It allows us to not have the 2 previous games taking up storage space on our systems, and still being able to play them all we want. I quit GTA V because of the patch to the Solo Public Lobby glitch in online mode, and I came back to HITMAN 3 because of it after not playing HITMAN 3 for a few months (I had it since launch day because I pre=ordered the Deluxe Edition) and I remembered just how much fun it can be.

I dunno why you started these new Hitman Videos as I got back into Hitman around end of September. Pretty sexy game. Hitman 2 pretty sexy too.

I'm glad the elusive target arcade was recently added to hitman 3 so you can play I think all of them

this is my second favorite game of all time

I liked that point you made comparing the limited voice acting to that of Oblivion. The real Irony to the statement is that both games felt the need to bring in big acting names like Sean Bean, Jason Isaacs, Patrick Stewart, and... Sean Bean again funnily enough. Yet, neither could bother to hire more than about 10 voice actors beyond them

I remember launch day of the game. I was confused why there was only Paris and was kind of disappointed. After my 3rd attempt, I just understood that I had just did the tip of the tip of the iceberg for that level alone and knew that the whole season would be great.

Recently grew to love the new Hitman games, now that I have bought three of them during a sale(well technically just Hitman 3, and the first 2 as "DLCs" which I was surprised that it was 60GB in total, when I was expecting and fearing it would be 300GB instead given how I heard the first two were that big in space). Although the online-only thing I barely notice much, maybe since now that internet is more stable, I absolutely love it, having levels really big but also easy to read(though sometimes needing a map to look), locations that are unique, and gunplay working slightly differently to still be good for combat, but also with a cool way to disarm enemies without killing them by aiming at their legs to make them trip, so you can punch them... with the bonus of ragdoll being really satisfying. Opportunities and Intel are a pretty neat way to encourage exploration along with stuffing everything in your pockets. Sometimes it can be at weird spots when trying to accomplish certain tasks, some that is easy to spot like finding fugu fish, and other times where to put it in which sushi(I figured I had to stand at a table with the sushi construction table to perform the poisoning business by briefly turning opportunities to full from minimal, but yea), which at one point had me walk into Yuki's table on accident, but at least saved by the returned "trespassing" mechanic where I'm not penalized for walking into a restricted space(I think, unless that's a thing reimplemented in 2 or 3, idk. Just that I'm being escorted out without guards immediately lighting me up... unless it's at Colorado). Oh and also with the way instinct works now, maybe just a I had lots of fun with it so far, and just already finished Hitman 1... 24 hours of content and barely scraping 10%-20% in each of the chapters. Now with the thing being online-only, it being that while being a singleplayer game is very questionable, while having it also be connected to the internet to use half of the unlocked content. Although I don't have any internet problems as of now, though maybe due in part to the internet stablizing to the covid era, but the idea of losing progress, along with mastery rewards and even event/bonus maps when servers are shut down is not a pleasant prospect to think of, especially for a game so content rich like this.

I personally bought the Game of the Year Edition for Hitman 2016 - As a Hitman fan since Codename 47, I'm happy we getting Hitman 3 next year !!

I'm really happy to see that u still upload hitman related content although it doesn't get a whole lot of views. Appreciate the effort put into the videos, keep it up.

bro you're underrated

I love how yuri lowenthal voices half the npcs here and also in fallout new vegas

The one thing I wish was in the newest Hitman trilogy is gun customization. As well as the loadout size he mentioned.

I literally loved the Italian level so damn much that i literally played it for half a year before trying out the next level 😂❤ I also loved that they but exclusive special targets that u can't play or kill after the time runs out , i killed two of them & Gary Busey was one of them lolz

I played a few months ago I swear I remember you could carry a sniper in a breif case. Pick the case in the loadout and you can put somthing in it like a sniper or anything else.

You can turn off instinct and also sometimes there will be signs saying "no trespassing"

I do not always agree with you (example Hitman Absolution) but the content you create is good quality and worth watching. To you and to all people - Have a nice time gaming!

Wayforward did episodic content with Shantae & The Seven Sirens, but that was also Apple Arcade

Good video btw!

wake up honey new cvit video

“Wouldn’t have to crunch.” ahh that’s hot

very cool video about a very cool game

I just finished this game yesterday lmao

Yuri Lowenthal is in everything!! 😂😂 Gotta love him

You are not alone with the analysis that the quality of a former game in a series has a huge impact on the follow up. I read a Capcom statement, that said exactly this. The quality of a game has a huge impact on the successor. This is very noticeable with the Resident Evil series. RE4 was so good, that RE5 was an auto-success. RE5 was good enough to get RE6 to certain numbers.* The reception of RE6 not only made them reconsider the Resident Evil series, but they managed their own expectations of success. They knew RE7 had to carry itself and RE6. You showed DMC, which is another example from Capcom. I guess they have very good experience with long-running series. [...] * The growing video game market (from mid GC/PS2/Xbox to end of PS4/Xbox360) itself made higher sales numbers easier.

AGENT 47 is such a badass and icon that when passes away, God will still let him through the Heavenly Gates! I can see God telling Agent 47 , “I made a mistake, could you send the mistakes to hell please? Thank you!

From what I can tell being found trespassing doesnt negate Silent Assassin as long as you immediately leave But that might be with the currebt version of Hitman 2, SA rules change a lot in patches

IO was able to right the ship with the new trilogy

Watching Hitman content with mgs2 background music hahahha

You are a great KZfaqr. I love your content. Please can you make retrospective on splinter cell.

the target at 15:45 looks like Hans Gretel lmao

Waiting for the Hitman 2016 version of Paper Mario (going back to it’s roots)

Still wish they closed some absolution Cliff hangers. Birdie is at large and Victorias safety/health is in question. The detective "cosmo faulkner" knows too much still. Maybe they can be elusive targets

There's no Hitman without David Bateson and Jesper Kyd.