History VideoGame / Hitman2

* StepfordSuburbia: Whittleton Creek looks like the perfect all-American suburb but contains a seedy underbelly underneat: Cassidy's crew of undercover bodyguards for Janus are everywhere and slowly taking over the town, one house has a marijuana grow-op clearly above legal limits, another house is for sale due to [[spoiler:the previous owner having been murdered there and contains a mysterious explosive-rigged vault which said owner was likely using for some unknown sinister purpose]], and the local sweet, muffin-baking granny [[spoiler:is a serial killer with a "Murder Basement", and sleeps with a pink handgun under her pillow]]. While some people are suspicious of the newest residents due to their secrecy and expensive furniture, they turn out to be the most normal people in the neighborhood.

** The female jogger in the seaside area of the map is named Kate Switzer, likely a nod to Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon.

* PlayingPossum: 47 can pretend to be Janus in order to lure Zoe Washington close in and alone for her to SpeakIllOfTheDead, and get a dagger to the chest from the supposedly-dead body.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: 47 can take the place of the body of Janus whose wake is being held during the meeting, as the event calls for dressing him in a full-body attire and a ceremonial dagger. This allows 47 an opportunity to kill Zoe Washington as each attendee to Janus' wake will approach "Janus" and say a few parting words, with Zoe last adter dismissing the guards to [[SpeakIllOfTheDead tell her true feelings about her predecessor in private]] -- 47 can stab her in the chest for a quiet, unnoticed kill since the nearest potential witness is the blind harp player.

* DeadGuyImpersonation: 47 can take the place of the body of Janus whose wake is being held during the meeting, as the event calls for dressing him in a full-body attire and a ceremonial dagger. This allows 47 an opportunity to kill Zoe Washington as each attendee to Janus' wake will approach "Janus" and say a few parting words, with Zoe last adter dismissing the guards to [[SpeakIllOfTheDead tell her true feelings about her predecessor in private]] -- 47 can stab her in the chest for a quiet, unnoticed kill since the nearest potential witness is the blind harp player.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Zoe talks poorly to Janus (or [[DeadGuyImpersonation "Janus"]]) about his pedigree when she (thinks is) alone as her personal parting words to her predecessor at Janus' wake.

* DeadGuyImpersonatiin: 47 can take the place of the body of Janus whose wake is being held during the meeting, as the event calls for dressing him in a full-body attire and a ceremonial dagger. This allows 47 an opportunity to kill Zoe Washington as each attendee to Janus' wake will approach "Janus" and say a few parting words, with Zoe last adter dismissing the guards to [[SpeakIllOfTheDead tell her true feelings about her predecessor in private]] -- 47 can stab her in the chest for a quiet, unnoticed kill since the nearest potential witness is the blind harp player.

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* IslandOfMystery: The Isle of Sgàil described as being one of the most secretive places in the world. A custodian near the helipad says that the castle was used by the British Crown to store taxes, before being used as a prison for aristocrats. MI6 briefly used it as a black site for Russian spies, with Janus being held there for a week in 1976.

** "The MacMillan Surreptition" (Surreptition means to be sneaky, and this escalation involves using bushes and a machete to kill people)

* AloneWithThePsycho: The psycho being you, of course. Like ''2016'', this game lets you have extended conversations with your target or a notable [=NPC=], so now 47 can disguise himself as someone else (such as the target's accomplice, a tattoo artist, or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a former Kronstadt employee dressed as a Flamingo]]), and lure the unsuspecting target into an isolated room or area for a little chat before killing them. This can even be a DeadPersonImpersonation, if 47 killed the ''real'' person to get their clothes.

** Neatly shave people's beards and hair without harming them

''Hitman 2'' had six locations at launch, but unlike its predecessor's [[EpisodicGame episodic]] release schedule that released them over a period of months, they were all available when the game was released. Said locations are a luxurious beach mansion in Hawke's Bay, UsefulNotes/NewZealand; a racing circuit in UsefulNotes/{{Miami}}, USA; a village in the rainforests of UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}; the slums of UsefulNotes/{{Mumbai}}, India; a quiet suburb in Vermont, USA; and the Isle of Sgàil; a mysterious island in the North Atlantic. Some of these locations are [[SerialEscalation even larger]] than ones featured in past ''Hitman'' games. An expansion pass added two more missions: A large bank in UsefulNotes/{{New York}}, and an island resort in [[UsefulNotes/{{Maldives}} the Maldives]], with both continuing the story from the base game's missions.