Hitman Contracts Retrospective - Forced Compromise

Chapter 3 of my full series retrospective of the hitman game series. Today i'll be covering the history of Hitman Contracts and its development. Rather short this time due to the game being very short
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[@robertphillip6528]

Fun Theory: The re-made levels were switched from day time to a rainy night because it's raining outside while he's having his fever dream.

[@feszitoonline795]

I heard this somewhere else too and it sounds fitting

[@tareklegrand7747]

@@feszitoonline795 Contract shows you how 47 remembers them while in Codename 47 is how they really happened

[@britknee3019]

@@feszitoonline795 critical nobody said that

[@Svraoa]

I was going to comment that. Not only this, but metaphorically, rain on a dream usually means bad things are happening (or will).

[@penoiseballs563]

Every single mission is in rain, except Bjarkhov, which is snow (a fitting substitute)

[@CriticalNobody]

Contracts has always been my personal favorite entry in the series. It polishes the mechanics of Hitman 2:SA, has great atmosphere and some of the most memorable levels in the series. I actually prefer it over Blood Money, but I'm very much aware that few people agree with me on that.

[@memeweirdguyn.0019]

YOU!!!!

[@Cvit]

the original levels in this game are my favorite behind blood money if only the second half of this game wasn't as meh

[@ns6438]

I never saw Contracts as the one to polish anything. Looking at the mechanic and especially the UI, It always seemed that Silent Assassin polished Agent 47 and Blood Money Polished Contracts.

[@VileVeilt]

@@Cvit excuse me hello again what was that music you used back in the start of4:15??

[@Cvit]

Xkill Dragon it’s a track from MGS 2 can’t remember the name but it might be the barracks theme

[@joeytunney5476]

In Lee Hong Assassination, you actually can find a poison in the level. It’s on top of the safe in the brothel. It’s not very useful for getting Silent Assassin rank, but it is there for those who like it.

[@laurabranigan7761]

Yeah the useful option is the laxative in the bar.

[@Breddouson]

When I played this game first time I used the poison.

[@sergeantleo7669]

The final mission in contracts is a continuation of the third mission in blood money. In asylum aftermath the swat team that storm the place are actually the second wave as evidenced throughout the mission you can find dead bodies of swat members around the building stating that the dead ones were the ones from the first wave (the ones who swatted in codename 47). In contracts all of the missions (except the last one) are 47's memories, In the mission Deadly cargo 47 only remembers only few things about it maybe because he's mind is fogged because he's having a near death experience (or he just doesn't remember it all too well). Most of the missions show 47 killing his fathers (excluding Pablo Ochoa though I would have loved to see the Columbia mission remade) which is referenced in all of the Hitman games, this is to make the story more understandable for the newer fans. I wish the newer games had missions like contracts, It's atmosphere made it unique which made its name as "The Darkest Hitman Game" ever to be released.

[@hcaz5818]

Always felt like a boss getting SA on that one

[@notdeclan6739]

HITMAN

[@sergeantleo7669]

Cringe vids bro, I love magnum opus

[@notdeclan6739]

@@sergeantleo7669 I read your full comment 3 times over, thank you for enlightening my life ! peace inshallah my brother !

[@mazenmohamed3655]

Thank god they didn't include Ochoa's mission , shit gave me nightmares in codename 47

[@bradjarvis4963]

Small error Franz can be drowned in the pool in codename 47. The animated is trigged by using a fiber wire

[@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG]

I really wish they’d make a successor to this game in showing the darker, psychological side of the assassin life. I still love this game for its atmosphere, music, and tone. Just about all the following games have a rather romanticized view of Agent 47’s world.

[@budusbusham3324]

They kinda tried that with absolution and uhhh

[@budusbusham3324]

But agreed, would be super cool to see a new cold, calculated version of Hitman that explores some dark shit

[@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG]

@@budusbusham3324 I think Absolution was edgy, not dark lol

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

@@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG I always felt like Absolution's tone was some grindhouse shit, so that sounds about right. I did enjoy aspects of Absolution, that being one, but man is the stealth jank and story confusing and outright not good at times.

[@oldylad]

@@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaGand WoA is almost the same as absolution but has a spy movie ass tone

[@Hudebniosvezovac]

Its so dark, the sundtrack is scary, its atmosphere is just phenomenal. love this game

[@BeccaMidnite]

3:09 will haunt me forever..

[@tedthecommenter5364]

the soundtrack for this game is my favourite soundtrack of all time, jespyr kyd is a genius

[@sinenomine8739]

Damn right. This ost alone can be the all-time favourite for any medium ever, for me it's all-time favourite score too. Such a good combination of genres. Ambient tracks has great methodical and dreamy vibes to it, reflecting both Agent 47's strategic thinking and the fact that he hallucinating in the past, so to speak. Action themes are some of the most stylish mid 2000's techno with tension cutting strings to force you move forward to the extraction point. And the Slaughter Club theme man, it's the most creative club track i've listened.

[@HRANCH]

Contracts is my personal favorite hitman game, and my very first hitman game. I saw it in GameStop for ps2 when I was choosing a new series to play and found contracts, so glad I made that decision!

[@mk3728]

8:18 You can also kill Franz when he's swimming in Hitman Codename 47. Just pull out fiber wire and you will see a quite similar cutscene.

[@shadowfang1034]

I bought this game on vacation when I was a kid, it was incomprehensible since I couldnt even speak english yet, I should play it again sometime

[@KurstKensei]

Hitman Contracts still has one of my all time favorite video game trailers.

[@BeccaMidnite]

i love contracts. i don't know if i like it more than blood money, but its definitely a tie. i love the dark foreboding atmosphere and soundtrack. jesper kyd really knocked it out of the park on the soundtrack. great video, ive been keeping up with your channel for a little over a year but this video was timed absolutely perfectly with the day i started playing through contracts again for the first time in over 10 years and i was looking for a retrospective to entertain me while i eat :P anyway awesome retrospective, keep up the amazing work and i hope you'll do one for blood money as well you earned my sub for sure. :)

[@HamanKarn567]

This is probably my favorite in the Hitman games. Love the atmosphere of it.

[@seaque.]

I am playing Hitman series for the first time, i started last year and i complete one by one just to find out you made a video about that exact game couple of months ago. Amazing.

[@rusudan9631]

hitman 3 has the best atmosphere, dark and gloomy, music is amazing and it has a real good SA rating system. it's also great to speedrun and the glitches are as bob would say, happy accidents. amazing game, probably my favorite of them all

[@Jack-Eugen]

The best words for the best game

[@ryuuwyvern90]

Something about contracts felt so good. It controlled smoothly, good feedback etc.

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

huge improvement over 2

[@stprm2013]

My favourite mission is defo English castle/home. They did such a brilliant job with atmopshere! Absolutely love this level.

[@Powerdriver777]

Silent assassin was my first entry to the series. Then I played contracts: the most nasty murderous bloodlust guilty forbidden shell shocked sinful game I ever played. Still feel guilty for liking it because it really felt like killing people because of the intense sneaky timing I forced myself to never getting caught and getting silent assassin on every mission with less than 5 attempts

[@lastsonofktn]

It definitely was dark and dank for it's time. It was ahead of a lot of games going in this style.

The music in this game is the darkest in this series

[@dustylefou]

My favorite in the series, Blood Money was better in terms of gameplay but no other Hitman game got the dark atmosphere that contracts had.

[@leejones8582]

The game looks great for what the developers had to go through plus 9 months wow.

[@M1SF0RTUNE]

Absolutely love these videos. The writing, editing, capture and sheer polish to it all make these a great retrospective on the franchise. I can only imagine the nostalgia vibes for a Blood Money video and can’t wait to watch it. It’ll instantly make 2020 much better upon release. =)

[@Powerdriver777]

Blood money was good smooth and very dramatic but contracts was straight psychopathic murder....

[@ArcAngelus6]

love this game. oh how i wish hitman would visit this sort of darker atmosphere one day

[@acetrigger1337]

My favorite Hitman game of all time. Jesper Kyd did not hold anything back, the design was closer to early Blood Money than Codename 47 and i appreciated every single experimental choice in this game. also, 5:03 is very relatable. lol

[@Gruntvc]

Playing through this a few years ago to 100%, I did not know most of the levels were remasters from the original Hitman. Sucks the original was never brought to consoles.

[@karnoire]

The original was very hard and buggy but still one of my fav games

[@hawken796]

Honestly, it's a blessing in disguise. The OG game really wanted you to play in a single way and if you deviated from that path, you were punished heavily. Plus the mission design is very poor, only exception being the hotel level.

[@morkgin2459]

@@hawken796 what about sea food massacre where the restaurant is closed?

[@holidayinn4293]

One thing that was nice is the difficulties are more than simple slider value adjustments. They actually do change the gameplay making it where some disguises no longer work and npc's actually reacting to suspicious behavior. like if you're running around like a maniac in a place where it's not normal to do that or wandered into an off limit area and spotted.

[@father042]

Surprised you didn't talk about the Byarkhov Bomb level, that one was in my opinion pretty tedious and the worst original level The Manor was very cool though

[@Cvit]

yeah its by far the most tedious of the new levels. I kept failing to get the guys suit in the bathroom so that bothered me more than the walking in that level

[@samz8691]

I swear almost every level in 2016/Hitman 2 non-SA give me Byarkhov Flashbacks.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@Cvit I could never get an SA rank for the life of me!

[@nunyanunya733]

The manor has to be my favorites level. Loved the atmosphere

[@nerdineverythingnerdinnoth4984]

@@samz8691 Why Hitman 2016, and 2? And if only 2016, and 2, then why not blood money, or silent assassin?

[@TeleporterDown]

I've been binging your hitman retrospective videos (out of order) and they're all fantastic! I'm

[@tedpilledtonysoprano5512]

My first, and one of the best, Hitman. One of my top 3 favorite games ever, I think.

[@WanderingyNephilim]

I can see having it so you play the original Agent 47 levels first then continuing on to the new levels working. I've seen it done before like with Fire Emblem 3: Mystery of the Emblem having "book 1" which was just the first game redone from 8 bit NES graphics to 16 bit SNES graphics (iirc with some fat from the original trimmed out), and then "book 2", which was an entirely new story that happened some years afterwards.

[@jakubmichniewicz343]

Definitely one of the best games ever made (at least for me) Not only its darkest, but also with unique plot and so on.. and gameplay has been improved greatly from SA very much like you have sedative syringe now and not anesthetics. Graphics are also nicer

[@Likon]

Oh, boi can't wait for Hitman 2016 retrospective.

[@SaucisseMerguez]

I love Contracts, i just wish it had even more levels, maybe 5 or 6, and remake the jungle levels too !

[@The_Buff_Guy]

Contracts is the best in the series by a long shot. Once you really dive into it, learn how to speedrun it, and find out the ins and outs, it’s beyond just a good game. It’s the best Hitman experience a player can Get.

[@Cvit]

That’s how I feel about blood money. Speed running that game is really fun with all the quirks with how NPCs work in that game

[@Spatil319]

In lee Hong assassin in hitman contracts poisoning Tzun is possible..u can aquire the poison from the brothel..its on top of the safe there..and poisoning Tzun will show the same awesome cut scene in hitman contracts as it's in hitman codename 47.

[@shrimpythebeefalo]

Jesper Kyd's soundtrack for this and Blood Money are spectacular

[@Cheatcoe]

Thank god someone is talking about this game 👍

[@j656]

Best cut scenes and disguises

[@AH-is5yg]

Awesome game. I played the Meat King. I killed everyone in that mission. I left no one alive. Calling it "the Slaughter House!"

[@somethinorother64]

Here before the thumbnail change.

[@legendarynikoproyou4569]

Can't wait for you to do retrospective of blood money

[@edgelord8337]

Caillou in his adulthood. I never thought he'd become an assassin. Also didn't hitman have a movie or something?

[@coolkagethe4th]

Yes it did

[@MrThedorkknight]

2 in fact

[@RolandTheJabberwocky]

Yeah two very average action movies that don't live up to the IP. If you really want to watch one I suggest the first one, as it actually had some pretty cool fights and solid choreography iirc. Also I'm a big fan of Timothy Olephont, though he's a bad cast for 47 imo he pulls it off as best he can.

[@andreworders7305]

0:46 fitting, there names sound almost exactly the same

[@gunaselanseggran4536]

This will be Always my go 1 hitman game! Aftr Silent Assassin.. good old times.. gosh.. love the hotel level

[@LazyTitan212]

My name is there, awesome. Great video bro

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Thank God! I thought this series was dead.

[@Cvit]

nah its not dead i just do other videos between making these so i don't get tired of the series and these videos don't get a lot of views so i gotta make stuff that will in between so i make some actual money to pay bills

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Fair enough.

[@stupid90able]

I clicked on this so fast. I love your hitman video

[@gregoryberrycone]

i noticed the use of bricolage by amon tobin as background music. very good choice, classic album!

[@lloydlaudiwana9236]

Ah Hitman Contracts the most disturbing Hitman games I've ever played

[@chrisb9179]

Time it right? Sure. If you play it right you can weild that mini gun in the first level. Also there is poison in the Lee Hong Aasassination mission.

[@Bryan-mv8kg]

Finally yugioh gx season 2

[@pigeondude2468]

Honestly it is my favourite Hitman game because it is darkest one in the series.

[@andreworders7305]

7:26 I’m sure that won’t be catastrophic in a a few minutes at all

[@staryoshi06]

The hotel was different in some other ways. For example, the pool was closed off, requiring you to sneak in.

[@celiagiordano1821]

My favorite hitman due to atmosphere and story….. wish blood money would of followed in its darker footsteps.

[@ketrub]

makes me wish i still had my hitman anthology box to play all of these

[@samz8691]

You can get all the games on steam.

[@ketrub]

@@samz8691 i know, and they probably don't have securom but still

[@iruleatgames]

This game needed to happen for them to have the money for Blood Money, and by extension, the later Hitman games.

[@jenastaso884]

i loved the dark vibe of contracts

[@luka.renoir]

I got out of full screen to upvote this

[@bojanarezina2352]

my favourite hitman game

[@suchayandas6136]

Are you going to make a retrospective on castlevania lords of shadow game's I would like to see your opinion on those

[@naughtiusmaximus]

The Meat King's Party was/is/probably will be the creepiest mission in any game.

[@whackman47]

2:50 what a bunch of fruits.

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

you could also kill franz in the sauna in the orginal game, still good video but needed to point out that mistake

[@palaghiaandrei]

I really hoped for a turorial on how to fix the game since when I play it any blood or red effects tear and go crazy on the screen and there is no audio when streaming on discord.

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

huge improvement over hitman 2 , a stealth game is actually you know….stealth

[@brandondegraw6945]

I wouldn't say new missions are after you healed but between the hits in CN47

[@pyrolee17]

getting real sick of this KZbin!! How dare they make me miss one!

[@tmas47]

8:18 I think you can kill him into pool in Codename 47 if you use Fiber Wire.

[@jawnjawnson525]

I’m about to play this guys, quick question. Should I get this on steam or pcxs2? Which one runs better?

[@xxafthabxx9346]

HITMAN 2 CONTRACTS AND BLOOD MONEY are the best

[@sullivanpadfield]

Fun fact the hd pack version has some what corrupt cutscenes the top has red and blue just there

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

never noticed this

[@bluegrim4252]

Lol it’s still hands down my favorite Hitman game I fukin love this game

[@InnocentEel-kt8qs]

Just so you know you can kill frantz in the pool in codename 47

[@andreworders7305]

They had a building that opened skylights automatically in the middle of the night? Why!?

[@kevindeluna2040]

I like your Hitman videos

[@andreworders7305]

Trying to turn it into a yearly series wasn’t a great idea

[@abdulrahmanalbraiki9842]

9:35 on lee hong you can find the postion Where is the girl place go to the left room you we see postion and safe

[@JohnDoe-kn7ex]

I honestly think that other than the Rotterdam mission the remakes in this game were worse than the originals.

[@Cvit]

I think the hotel mission is good but I do agree the Hong Kong missions were more enjoyable in C47

[@Kongaslam]

I was disappointed that you couldn’t go to the dinning area, the kitchen, the stairs to the second floor, and the exit through there was blocked off.

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

anything is better than that trash first game

[@leejones8582]

This is the darkest game the Meat King's party being so grim and icky.

[@snowconesyrup2698]

Shout to youtube not showing this in my feed

[@kyntraz7018]

Nice work ☺️

[@johnnyfs1988]

All these years I've been pronouncing it as Aye-dos.....(Eidos)

[@vishnukamihin1910]

🎨 Specially The Sharp Details and Informations waS Very Crazysly Explained!!! ❤️‍🔥✌️❤️ THANK U Again Loving IT....... (The Way of Hitman. 😚💯🥵🤟) I'Ll Give Five Stars to Your Channel! 😮🤝🤩 😵DamM, GooD Luck 4 Ur Future maN Keep IT Up Maa friend!!! 😮❤😀👍 Thank U 4 A Great Experience Again .

[@njdutoit]

If it were not for the fact that you cannot pick your gear at the beginning of each level, Contracts would be the best Hitman game. It's the only one I got Silent Assassin on on each level (even the final one, where you have to flee the French Police AND assassinate their corrupt commander while they storm your motel room).

[@Cvit]

You can pick once you beat the game and replay levels

[@KaptajnKaffe]

Just want a hitman 1 remake

[@PeanutButterAndJellyBros]

I think the hong kong missions weren't that bad. The only bad mission in this game is really bjarkhov bomb. That mission was unnecessarily long. I personally am one of the minority who has Contracts as the best hitman game on gameplay level due to the reason that I think the disguise system works best and fairly in Contracts; do something suspicious or run by too close to the guards or enemies will result in cover blown, which I find it fair to the players in my opinion. I personally think Contracts is the best when it comes to speed running or completing the missions as quickly as possible. Contracts is fun especially if you like completing the missions quickly.

[@morkgin2459]

Traditions of the trade is boring as well

[@ihavecojones]

Ha, using HL2 music on a Hitman review... and it works... smart man, smart man

[@andreworders7305]

4:39 I see no HUD

[@Belophen]

Hurry up i want my absolution documentary

[@andreworders7305]

2:02 Canin Lynch? What is that?

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

kayne and lynch

[@dave7886]

Imagine if we got a hitman game on the psp

[@spouwnerring]

BTW, is 47 multylingal and translates the npc's say back into english for players sake or are all the npc's just speak english when 47 is around? I'm asking because I have no clue why the police in Rotterdam speak english and yet their uniforms say "politie" instead of "police".

[@yaksha6214]

Keep up the good content and convince konami not copystrike gx sesion 2

[@coteobscur.]

Best original hitman game in terms of atmosphere and gameplay. By the way, play “twilight sniping” from MGS 2 during showing moments of Hitman contacts is the worst choice you did in your career. So inappropriate.

[@wolfshield2499]

Fuck this game. It even isn't a puzzle game like the developer said. Puzzle isn't changing shape when you're solving the problem by silently crouching (Its really slow like a SNAIL) behind somebody back but somehow they can realize your presence behind their back (Like WTF..!🤣)

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

it’s way faster than 2

[@iverson5164]

Blood money is it