Fun Theory: The re-made levels were switched from day time to a rainy night because it's raining outside while he's having his fever dream.

Contracts has always been my personal favorite entry in the series. It polishes the mechanics of Hitman 2:SA, has great atmosphere and some of the most memorable levels in the series. I actually prefer it over Blood Money, but I'm very much aware that few people agree with me on that.

In Lee Hong Assassination, you actually can find a poison in the level. It’s on top of the safe in the brothel. It’s not very useful for getting Silent Assassin rank, but it is there for those who like it.

Small error Franz can be drowned in the pool in codename 47. The animated is trigged by using a fiber wire

5:48 I am completely sure that the SWAT team has not been retconned, since Hitman 2 shows that the first SWAT team was called by Ort-Meier while he was still alive, but then several other SWAT teams and police came as reinforcements after Agent 47 killed Ort-Meier. So this SWAT team in Contracts is not the same one from the Codename 47, they are actually the reinforcements for the first SWAT team.

I love the soundtrack from this game, it's dark and ominous and fits the gothic visual style of the game.

The final mission in contracts is a continuation of the third mission in blood money. In asylum aftermath the swat team that storm the place are actually the second wave as evidenced throughout the mission you can find dead bodies of swat members around the building stating that the dead ones were the ones from the first wave (the ones who swatted in codename 47). In contracts all of the missions (except the last one) are 47's memories, In the mission Deadly cargo 47 only remembers only few things about it maybe because he's mind is fogged because he's having a near death experience (or he just doesn't remember it all too well). Most of the missions show 47 killing his fathers (excluding Pablo Ochoa though I would have loved to see the Columbia mission remade) which is referenced in all of the Hitman games, this is to make the story more understandable for the newer fans. I wish the newer games had missions like contracts, It's atmosphere made it unique which made its name as "The Darkest Hitman Game" ever to be released.

I really wish they’d make a successor to this game in showing the darker, psychological side of the assassin life. I still love this game for its atmosphere, music, and tone. Just about all the following games have a rather romanticized view of Agent 47’s world.

Guess I got another game to play while in quarantine.

I actually think the Mansion level in this game is probably my favourite level in the series.

Im 3 years late, but it's really cool to see how accurate the police cars and uniforms are in the Rotterdam mission. I still see cars like that everyday. I checked the cutscenes and the characters actually speak with a classic Rotterdam accent and attitude, really cool

Its so dark, the sundtrack is scary, its atmosphere is just phenomenal. love this game

3:09 will haunt me forever..

the soundtrack for this game is my favourite soundtrack of all time, jespyr kyd is a genius

i love contracts. i don't know if i like it more than blood money, but its definitely a tie. i love the dark foreboding atmosphere and soundtrack. jesper kyd really knocked it out of the park on the soundtrack. great video, ive been keeping up with your channel for a little over a year but this video was timed absolutely perfectly with the day i started playing through contracts again for the first time in over 10 years and i was looking for a retrospective to entertain me while i eat :P anyway awesome retrospective, keep up the amazing work and i hope you'll do one for blood money as well you earned my sub for sure. :)

Contracts is my personal favorite hitman game, and my very first hitman game. I saw it in GameStop for ps2 when I was choosing a new series to play and found contracts, so glad I made that decision!

8:18 You can also kill Franz when he's swimming in Hitman Codename 47. Just pull out fiber wire and you will see a quite similar cutscene.

Hitman Contracts still has one of my all time favorite video game trailers.

This is mostly my favorite in the original series, mostly due to it's refined simple mechanics and the serious, dark tone.

This is probably my favorite in the Hitman games. Love the atmosphere of it.

I bought this game on vacation when I was a kid, it was incomprehensible since I couldnt even speak english yet, I should play it again sometime

I am playing Hitman series for the first time, i started last year and i complete one by one just to find out you made a video about that exact game couple of months ago. Amazing.

My favourite mission is defo English castle/home. They did such a brilliant job with atmopshere! Absolutely love this level.

The music in this game is the darkest in this series

Something about contracts felt so good. It controlled smoothly, good feedback etc.

hitman 3 has the best atmosphere, dark and gloomy, music is amazing and it has a real good SA rating system. it's also great to speedrun and the glitches are as bob would say, happy accidents. amazing game, probably my favorite of them all

Silent assassin was my first entry to the series. Then I played contracts: the most nasty murderous bloodlust guilty forbidden shell shocked sinful game I ever played. Still feel guilty for liking it because it really felt like killing people because of the intense sneaky timing I forced myself to never getting caught and getting silent assassin on every mission with less than 5 attempts

The game looks great for what the developers had to go through plus 9 months wow.

Absolutely love these videos. The writing, editing, capture and sheer polish to it all make these a great retrospective on the franchise. I can only imagine the nostalgia vibes for a Blood Money video and can’t wait to watch it. It’ll instantly make 2020 much better upon release. =)

My favorite in the series, Blood Money was better in terms of gameplay but no other Hitman game got the dark atmosphere that contracts had.

Man, the mini gun was sooooo good.

Blood money was good smooth and very dramatic but contracts was straight psychopathic murder....

makes me wish i still had my hitman anthology box to play all of these

love this game. oh how i wish hitman would visit this sort of darker atmosphere one day

I've been binging your hitman retrospective videos (out of order) and they're all fantastic! I'm

Loved the first half, didnt mind the second half

My favorite Hitman game of all time. Jesper Kyd did not hold anything back, the design was closer to early Blood Money than Codename 47 and i appreciated every single experimental choice in this game. also, 5:03 is very relatable. lol

Playing through this a few years ago to 100%, I did not know most of the levels were remasters from the original Hitman. Sucks the original was never brought to consoles.

Love this and blood money equally. Incredible games. Endless fun.

One thing that was nice is the difficulties are more than simple slider value adjustments. They actually do change the gameplay making it where some disguises no longer work and npc's actually reacting to suspicious behavior. like if you're running around like a maniac in a place where it's not normal to do that or wandered into an off limit area and spotted.

This was my first Hitman game and my all time favorite. Creeped me out as a kid but now I appreciate it. Neve played Codename 47 so I appreciate remade levels.

I can't wait for you to do Blood Money. It was my first Hitman game.

I actually low key love Contracts, not my favourite but it is so enjoyable. No other game in the series gives as good an atmosphere and its soundtrack is so amazing. I feel most of the level remakes are pretty good and that the changes need to be forgiven as the style of game changed from Action to Stealth focused. My suggestion for it though would have been to separate the remakes throughout the game instead of having a line drawn down the middle of new and old. It would have made for a satisfying narrative if they started with the first Lee Hong mission near the beginning and then have the final flashback be assassinating Lee Hong. With that said, the last level needed more work it is such a disappointing end to a strong game. And as to why they changed the old missions weather and time of day was because it's supposed to be the rain 47 hears in the real world seeping in to his hallucinations so that's why it rains in every mission. That and for tone.

I’ve been so excited for this video! Great job again! It’s always great to see people in the Hitman community talk positively about Contracts! It is very, very under appreciated and deserves more praise for fixing a lot of Hitman 2’s (the old Hitman 2) flaws and having a combination of good new levels and good remade levels that are pretty much all better than codename 47. Can’t wait to see your thoughts on my favorite game of the series coming up next!

Surprised you didn't talk about the Byarkhov Bomb level, that one was in my opinion pretty tedious and the worst original level The Manor was very cool though

My first, and one of the best, Hitman. One of my top 3 favorite games ever, I think.

My name is there, awesome. Great video bro

Definitely one of the best games ever made (at least for me) Not only its darkest, but also with unique plot and so on.. and gameplay has been improved greatly from SA very much like you have sedative syringe now and not anesthetics. Graphics are also nicer

this game is a masterpiece

I love Contracts, i just wish it had even more levels, maybe 5 or 6, and remake the jungle levels too !

Oh, boi can't wait for Hitman 2016 retrospective.

Ah look at that. I just stoped playing Hitman 2016. Loving it so far and plan on playing all the other ones!

I clicked on this so fast. I love your hitman video

Thank god someone is talking about this game 👍

Awesome review, can't wait to see Blood Money. Contracts was undoubtedly the best

Contracts is the best in the series by a long shot. Once you really dive into it, learn how to speedrun it, and find out the ins and outs, it’s beyond just a good game. It’s the best Hitman experience a player can Get.

Hitman is one of those gaming franchises that doesnt get enough credit for being as great as it is. #JakeHunter88

Can't wait for you to do retrospective of blood money

Best cut scenes and disguises

i noticed the use of bricolage by amon tobin as background music. very good choice, classic album!

Nice work ☺️

In lee Hong assassin in hitman contracts poisoning Tzun is possible..u can aquire the poison from the brothel..its on top of the safe there..and poisoning Tzun will show the same awesome cut scene in hitman contracts as it's in hitman codename 47.

Contracts was my first Hitman and I liked it because he went to the Netherlands where I live.

Here before the thumbnail change.

Awesome game. I played the Meat King. I killed everyone in that mission. I left no one alive. Calling it "the Slaughter House!"

Jesper Kyd's soundtrack for this and Blood Money are spectacular

i loved the dark vibe of contracts

I think my favourite bit of this one is that if you bring a sniper rifle whne replaying levels you can have a sniper suit-case in any level so I like to replay the Hong Kong Levels with the R93 rifle that used in Codename 47.

This will be Always my go 1 hitman game! Aftr Silent Assassin.. good old times.. gosh.. love the hotel level

Caillou in his adulthood. I never thought he'd become an assassin. Also didn't hitman have a movie or something?

I can see having it so you play the original Agent 47 levels first then continuing on to the new levels working. I've seen it done before like with Fire Emblem 3: Mystery of the Emblem having "book 1" which was just the first game redone from 8 bit NES graphics to 16 bit SNES graphics (iirc with some fat from the original trimmed out), and then "book 2", which was an entirely new story that happened some years afterwards.

I love this video

I got out of full screen to upvote this

I like your Hitman videos

Thank God! I thought this series was dead.

Remember playing this on the PSP...

0:46 fitting, there names sound almost exactly the same

my favourite hitman game

Finally yugioh gx season 2

Time it right? Sure. If you play it right you can weild that mini gun in the first level. Also there is poison in the Lee Hong Aasassination mission.

The hotel was different in some other ways. For example, the pool was closed off, requiring you to sneak in.

It's funny remembering when I was kid buying the trilogy pack for only $20 at that price my mom didn't mind cause 3 games for $20 on ps2, not only that but I got it out of a bin in a Walmart there were trying to get rid of all of them with other games I wouldn't by

7:26 I’m sure that won’t be catastrophic in a a few minutes at all

Whats the name of the track playing from 0.42 to 1.40

was gona buy this for my xbox backwards compatible 🙂🎮 played it when i was a kid

Honestly it is my favourite Hitman game because it is darkest one in the series.

This game needed to happen for them to have the money for Blood Money, and by extension, the later Hitman games.

The Meat King's Party was/is/probably will be the creepiest mission in any game.

My favorite hitman due to atmosphere and story….. wish blood money would of followed in its darker footsteps.

I wouldn't say new missions are after you healed but between the hits in CN47

Are you going to make a retrospective on castlevania lords of shadow game's I would like to see your opinion on those

this the best Hitman game

Contracts was my favorite, that and silent assassin need rereleases

you could also kill franz in the sauna in the orginal game, still good video but needed to point out that mistake

Shout to youtube not showing this in my feed

Lol it’s still hands down my favorite Hitman game I fukin love this game

Wait, you can ask a cortisan to distract the guy while you install the bomb? I never had to do that in the first game.

I really hoped for a turorial on how to fix the game since when I play it any blood or red effects tear and go crazy on the screen and there is no audio when streaming on discord.

2:50 what a bunch of fruits.

Fun fact the hd pack version has some what corrupt cutscenes the top has red and blue just there