Hitman 2: Silent Assassin features twenty-one missions, including the prologue/tutorial, making this the franchise entry with the most missions total. Players who just go on a mad gun-crazed frenzy are often branded as "Mass Murderer". Players who mastered this were given the honorable title "Silent Assassin", unlocking hidden weapons and tools to take on future missions. The challenge comes in approaching the main target without having any hoodlums seeing Agent 47 come in or out. In Silent Assassin, players are rated after each mission according to how they've performed - the lesser kills and detections, the higher the rating. In the first game, there weren't any real incentives to get players to take a stealthy approach during the missions, which basically went against the design philosophy. IO Interactive also added an optional first-person perspective and a visual meter in order to give the player a basic outlook on the enemies' suspicion level, a feature that was further enhanced in later releases of the Hitman franchise.Īnother major addition in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is the new rating system.
The first obvious change is the control scheme, which has been fine-tuned for the third-person shooter perspective. Gameplay-wise, there are many refinements in this sequel to the original game.
However, it doesn't take long until troublemakers stir things up and kidnap Agent 47's priest and mentor, Father Vittorio, which forces Agent 47 to return to his past. Agent 47 has quit the assassin trade to work as a gardener in a Sicilian church. This game kicks off a while after the final showdown in Hitman: Codename 47. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is the second game in the Hitman franchise, in which players take the role of Agent 47 - a genetically engineered killing machine gone rogue.