Hitman: Contracts
The hunter has become the hunted, as 47 is seriously wounded by one of his own targets, who seems to have been expecting him. Bleeding to death and taking refuge in a hotel room somewhere in Paris, France, 47 drifts in and out of consciousness as an army of heavily armed National Police units converge around the hotel. The newest game Hitman: Blood Money, has a level (Curtains Down) in which 47 is hired to kill an actor and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican at the Opera house in Paris. At the end of the level a French policeman on the other side of the street notices him getting away from the crime scene and cocks his gun. It is also noteworthy that the gun he cocks appears to be a M1911, the pistol used by members of the Franchise, the main antagonists in the sequel. This could possilbly allude to the fact that the Chief of Police could be involved with the Franchise, for there is no other plausible explanation (at this time) that could explain how he knew who 47 was. The scene ends here but it's possible to conclude that 47 gets badly wounded afterwards. The very first mission of Hitman: Blood Money is a flashback mission in a funfair in which Diana welcomes 47 to the US. Between Curtains Down and this mission is when Hitman: Contracts occurs.It should be noted, however, that Contracts and Blood Money arguably contradict each other at points. The ending of Contracts shows that Diana is aware that the Agency is being targeted and she knows who is coming after them. It's implied that 47 will be going after their attackers immediately. However in Blood Money, 47 isn't informed that he's being hunted until near the end of the game. Besides this arguable continuity error, the briefing for "Curtain's Down", is different that the briefing 47 got in Contracts, in the appearances of the two targets from "Curtain's Down" and one of their names (Phillipe Berceuse as opposed to Alvaro d'Alvade). Also the Inspector 47 must kill in Contracts isn't even mentioned in "Curtain's Down". However, it could be argued that 47 was intended to kill the inspector after the events of "Curtain's Down", as the Inspector did not attend the opera house. 47's monologue at the beginning of Hunter and Hunted, however, could imply that 47 was taking the personal decision to assassinate the inspector on the basis that he knew too much about 47.Hitman: Contracts' story centers on 47's flashbacks to earlier assignments. Many of the game's missions are re-imaginings of previous ones in the series. Almost all of the major missions from Hitman: Codename 47 have been re-made and included in Contracts; the exceptions being the Colombia levels, which were scheduled to be included but were dropped, and the final two levels (the first level of Contracts begins with the conclusion of the first game and the escape from the asylum in Romania where 47 was created). The locations visited include Budapest, Hong Kong, Paris, Romania, Rotterdam, Siberia and the United Kingdom.As is the case with the overlapping of Hitman: Blood Money, there are also some contradictions between the recollected missions and their counterparts in Hitman: Codename 47; for example, in the two incarnations of the mission "Traditions Of The Trade", the first demonstrated Hitman checking into the Hotel Galar under the alias Tobias Rieper, which was used multiple times during the game; in the latter, he anaesthetized a representative of one of the countries attending the UF (a fictional UN) peace conference being held at the hotel, and checked in under his name, Mr. Metzger (German for butcher). Also in the first mission, the bodies of 18 48 series clones can be seen littered all over the asylum even though 47 only killed 10 clones in the first game. Though this is true, this could merely be how 47 reimagines it in the flashbacks he has, so the developers may not have been attempting to be true to the game canon.
violence, flashback