Correction: A viewer has brought to my attention that Hitman 2 behaves erratically with framerates above 60 and makes guard perception oversensitive. I played the entire game with the framerate capped at 144 so my arguments here might not be entirely accurate if you keep the framerate locked at 60.

I've always thought of 47 as a likeable good guy who isn't completely amoral. This might be because Hitman 2 was the first one I played, and the first thing 47 says is "forgive me father I have sinned, I have killed people, many people, for honey" so he seems to me to be very morally aware what he is doing is wrong and he even feels bad about it. He even intentionally got out of the agency because he didn't want to do it any longer, and wanted a life of peace in the monastery. However he's been trained and conditioned to be effective and lethal (unless I'm controlling him) despite how he might feel about the actions.

In silent Assassin's tubeway torpedo level you can put the pager outside the general's door then equip the phone and press left click and the pager starts beeping causing the general to get out of the room to investigate the sound when you can strangle him silently

I can’t even put to words how excited I am to find a new channel that does long game retrospectives!! Yes!!! Wonderful video. Can’t wait to see more.

I started playing this series when I was 7 or 8 years old lol. As a lifelong Hitman fan, you did the series justice by putting out this video. Some of my greatest childhood memories was playing the Hitman 2 demos - the mission in the embassy in Russia is still burned in my memory

Hitman 2016 is not a reboot- its actually a continuation. But its a mechanical reboot where they took Blood Money and ramped it up to 400%

Now that the 2016 trilogy is complete, I'd love to have another 75 minutes of retrospective from your perspective. Great video!

Wow, I'm a bit late to this video but it's honestly surprising that this was an hour long, it was so perfectly made that it only felt like 20 minutes, the video deserves way more views than it currently has. You definitely have a talent for making reviews. Keep up the good work!

Jesper Kyd is the greatest video game composer ever. The early Hitman games, Assassin's Creed 2... this man hits it out of the park every time.

Hitman silent assassin remake would be AMAZING!

This has been one of the best retrospectives of Hitman. You actually went through the games and talked about the missions and the real differences.you even talk about Absolutions ACTUAL positives and cons. Great job! I hope you went over the new Hitman games.

I think you’re oversimplifying the character of 47 in these games, as his ark kind of goes up and down through each game. In codename 47 he’s as you describe where he’s practically a mindless tool that doesn’t care who he kills or for what purpose. Silent assassin shows that 47 actually has some self-awareness and is somewhat troubled at the idea of killing people for money, or at least people that don’t necessarily deserve it. Blood money shows his character regressed a little bit as he’s a bit more remorseless in that game and even kills a few innocent people canonically. However the new trilogy clearly establishes a sense of justice in 47 where he shows a concern that his contracts are “just” and by the end of the newest game he has his own personal mission based in fighting corruption rather than just killing for the right price.

In Hitman 2: SIlent Assassin, you can open the map and close the map really quickly to skip certains animation

Not only a good review of the series as a whole, but a good introduction for newcomers to how Hitman works and compares to other games in the stealth genre.

How the heck does YouTube hide this absolute gem of a video! Great video, really well researched. Keep this up, you'll definitely get the recognition that you deserve!

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin will be the best for me no matter how it is difficult

It’s a small nitpick I know, but in Contracts, it wasn’t a failed mission that resulted in 47 being shot, it was the outcome of the final cutscene on “Curtains Down” in Blood Money where a gunman is seen following 47 through the streets of Paris.

Great video, btw @14:00 you can make the General leave the room by dropping the pager outside and calling it with a cellphone.

I'm one day late because I was busy.
This clip was even better than the Planescape: Torment one. It was really entertaining and you're an extremely well-articulated person. I just have a few gripes, but these don't ruin the video at all, I just wanted to give my two cents:
1. You were too harsh on Contracts, it's definitely way closer to the Blood Money side of games than the Silent Assassin side.
2. The story in Blood Money is definitely not unobtrusive, and one of the main faults of the game is related to it. Because of story-related reasons, you have obligatory lethal segments in a few missions. For example, the two "boss battles" in Dance with the Devil always annoyed me, and the last part of the White House mission even more so.
3. "Death on the Mississippi" is not a good mission because most of the ship looks sam-y as hell. It's a giant, but really boring map.
4. I feel like there's you're biased and favorize BM and the newest Hitman way too much (you went over the fact that BM undermines the stealth of the series like it's nothing, for example). When it comes to approaching the targets, SA and Contracts can't compare, but they make up for it with their unique scenarios, and you failed to mention this. SA is especially filled with these kinds of stages. Sure, some of them are a miss (who thought carrying that giant weapon through the streets in "The Motorcade Interception" was a good idea?), but you have some extremely memorable moments like, for example, disguising yourself as a fireman, staging a fire and infiltrating the target's basement so that you can kill him. There's also stuff like the cardboard cutouts (best not to go into spoiler territory, but you know what I'm talking about). You failed to mention these things, and it's unfair to the game, because if you went into detail when it comes to the flaws of the game, you should do the same about the good things. The scenarios in SA weren't mentioned almost at all.
My first Hitman game was BM, and I was madly in love with it, but after playing the other games in the series, I've taken a big liking to SA and Contracts, especially the latter with its masterful atmosphere. BM has too easy of an AI (Contracts did it best, because the AI isn't as stupid as the one in BM, neither stupidly harsh like the one in SA), I dislike how zoomed-in Agent 47 is (personal gripe, of course) and I dislike the almost complete lack of serious atmosphere.
In the end, I guess it boils down to whether you value one of two things - atmospheric stealth or sandbox experimentation. I love the latter, but I go to games like Deus Ex for it. I value the former way more, and a fact for me is that, for example, BM rarely has moments that can compare to the stuff like "Basement Killing", "The Jacuzzi Job" etc.
I'll take greatly atmospheric and memorable stages over giant sandboxes which don't have an impact on me, but that's just me and I have no problems with people who love Blood Money, and I can see why it's so loved.

The worst about absolution is that the level design was actually great, If we could prepare and setup the missions like we could in all others the game would have been great.