History VideoGame / HitmanContracts

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Picture a once-attractive girl, full of life. In fact, you don't have to picture one, she's already in your inventory. [[spoiler:Now picture the same girl, raped, mutilated, drained of blood, and hanging from a meat locker ceiling. A raw arm is the only part of her that can be identified. And an obese Scottish butcher in dirty underwear and an apron is admiring his masterpiece]]. Meanwhile, “Put your head on my shoulder” crackles over a radio in the background.

* DeadManSwitch: Boris goes nuts (as usual) once he's surrounded and arms his nuclear device. Once the SWAT teams mop up the freighter, the voice on the radio will "initiate phase two", at which point Boris will shoot the skipper and make his threat: he's going to blow up the harbor unless he's allowed safe passage off the ship ''and'' a helicopter! The [=SWATs=] won't dare shoot him because they know what a detonator does. There are several ways to spoil his plan.

* DummiedOut: The weapon descriptions in your inventory list their calibers. The demo had the AUG SMG and CZ-2000 pistol share 9MM ammo, but the finished game reverts to the generic ammo categories from previous games. (Pistol, SMG, etc.) So they consume "SMG" and "Pistol" pickups, respectively, despite the menu claiming that they use the same ammo type.

** The Latin chorus and trombones are out; no longer do we hear sweeping music in the background as Hitman mows down a diplomat. It's actually more in line with Kyd's earlier work on ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters'', mixing ambient and industrial techno. We open with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vch8gmVXfdM "Slaughterhouse"]], which slowly builds as Hitman falls deeper into his delirium, and end on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1JBuAkP3H4 "SWAT Team"]], which is a little action-packed for a ''Hitman'' game.

* SequelDifficultySpike: Minor, but since you can only bring weapons into levels after beating the game and Hard and Professional don't start 47 with a silenced Silverballer, the player will have to explore more/take more risks to actually take out targets silently, as the player can't simply shoot them in the head with a silenced pistol most of the time. (at least without having to find it first.)

* BoringYetPractical: The Silverballer finally becomes this after two games of being a situational weapon; ''Codename 47'' had it as an unsilenced backup weapon that wasn't much use for stealth and ''Silent Assassin'' had them as GunsAkimbo that were [[HandCannon stupidly overpowered]], even in their silenced form (which required obtaining a Silent Assassin rating once to unlock). Here, 47's default load out still has a pair of them, but, more importantly, also has a single silenced Silverballer from the getgo, allowing for silenced headshots when using the fibre wire is impractical. Effectively, it replaces the silenced Beretta from the previous two games.

* BoringYetPractical: The Silverballer finally becomes this after two games of being a situational weapon; ''Codename 47'' had it as an unsilenced backup weapon that wasn't much use for stealth and ''Silent Assassin'' had them as GunsAkimbo that were [[HandCannon stupidly overpowered]], even in their silenced form (and required obtaining a Silent Assassin rating once to unlock). Here, 47's default load out still has a pair of them, but, more importantly, also has a single silenced Silverballer from the getgo, allowing for silenced headshots when using the fibre wire is impractical. Effectively, it replaces the silenced Beretta from the previous two games.

* DevelopersForesight: In "The Bjarkov Bomb", it's possible to kill both targets ''and'' sink the submarine at the same time. All you have to do is wait...and wait...and wait...and wait for Fabian to finish his meal, mosey over to the maintenance shaft, ride the slow-moving platform, walk upstairs to the commander's room, meet with Bjarkov, share a pint, walk back downstairs, get in a jeep, and drive all the way to the sub. Still, the fact he even does this shows a greater attention to detail than in previous games. Alternatively, 47 can snipe his targets after they're done joyriding around the base.

* AnachronicOrder: Since 47 gets his flashbacks from various triggers throughout the game, it flashes to different contracts at different times. Notably, the deaths of the four of the Five Fathers is depicted in reverse order.

* DisposableSexWorker: Implied. Among the corpses in the basement in "Rendezvous In Rotterdam" is a dead woman wearing very little. There's also nothing stopping 47 from killing the hooker in "Deadly Cargo" if the player doesn't care about their rating.

* GrayRainOfDepression: Since this world exists in 47's drug-addled skull, and it never rained in ''Codename 47'', the rain must reflect his mood at the moment.

''Hitman: Contracts'' (2004) is the third game in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series by Creator/IOInteractive, though it's really more of a [[{{Interquel}} mini-episode]] set between levels from the (then) upcoming ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money]]''.

-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv9SqyTvLnk Cheru]]''': Now, I don't exactly know what going on here or ''who'' it was going on ''to'', but whatever this surgery was, it was highly important. [[BloodyHandprint And whoever tried to crawl away had very big hands.]]

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* ArtificialStupidity:
** The bartender overlooking the hotel pool has no way of leaving the bar. He cannot notify guards of your presence.
** Fritz won't react to the time bomb if you drop it next to him on the ground.
** The bystanders in Paris don't count as [=NPCs=], even though they respond to your movements and can be shot. They're stuck behind a barricade, so the cops just ignore them. Rien voir içi. Also, if you feel like abusing the AI, keep bumping into the SWAT while in disguise to make them turn around and face a brick wall.