Hitman Video Game Series

In addition to the main installments, over the years the series Hitman has lived to see a number of spin-offs. In 2012, a simple game saw the light of day Hitman: The Sniper's Challenge. The year 2014, however, brought the release of the game Hitman GO, which combined the theme of contract killings with mechanics combining elements of turn-based strategy and puzzle games. In 2015, the game was released on mobile devices Hitman: Sniper, based on the scheme developed for the first of the aforementioned spin-offs. In 2022, it lived to see a sequel under the title Hitman Sniper: The Shadows.

In addition, the series received various omnibus editions, and its older installments received remasters over time.

The main character of the series Hitman is Agent 47, a paid assassin at the service of the fictional ICA (International Contract Agency). In the course of the gameplay, players discover the true origin of the protagonist, who is the product of an experiment to breed the perfect assassin.

Gameplay in games under the banner of Hitman combines elements of shooters and stealth. The player's task is to carry out missions involving the elimination of designated characters. At the same time he has a lot of freedom both in terms of the choice of weapons and ways of carrying out missions; individual targets can be both shot and poisoned or even fall victims to fake accidents.

Released in 2016, the game Hitman introduced a breath of fresh air in the form of more open-ended gameplay - each mission in it was structured as a separate entity - and a distribution model reminiscent of episodic adventures. At launch, only the first of several elaborate quests was offered, with more being made available over time as paid DLCs. The title also introduced timed challenges, which could only be completed for a certain period of time after they were made available, as well as Elusive Target-type challenges, where we could only make one attempt to complete a task.

Hitman 2 from 2018, on the other hand, was the first installment in the series to feature an online competitive mode, called Phantom Mode. In it, two people competed on a single map, trying to make the highest-scoring kill. It also featured, for the first time, a cooperative multiplayer mode, in which, working together with other players, we eliminated targets with a rifle.

The popularity of the game found its way into mass culture. In 2007, a movie was released in theaters Hitman directed by Xavier Gens (Agent 47 was played by Timothy Olyphant). In 2015, the game received another adaptation, this time called Hitman: Agent 47. The lead role was played by Rupert Friend, previously known mainly for the series Homeland. In 2012 there was also a series titled Hitman 101, consisting of twelve 25-minute episodes. The publishing house Del Rey Books also published two novels written by William C. Dietz novels - Hitman: Enemy Within and Hitman: Damnation.