History VideoGame / Hitman2

* ContinuityCavalcade: One of the militia members digging the trench on the beach asks about the Shadow Clients' hits and another member recalls the list; those being:

** A woman from Blue Seed Pharmaceuticals (Blue Seed were first introduced in Colorado, and were the main antagonists in the ''ComicBook/Agent47BirthOfTheHitman'' comic; the hit itself is likely in reference to Cheryl Franklin, whose final fate was left ambiguous as the comic never elaborated if [[spoiler:Soders successfully killed Cheryl before rescuing Diana from her EliteMooks]], and who may or not have been killed by Grey here).

* WalkingSwimsuitScene: The vast majority of the vacationers, [[MsFanservice Ljudmila]], as well as [[FanDisservice Tyson]] all wear swimwear throughout the level. 47 is also offered a swimsuit in his quarters consisting of pink trunks and an open shirt[[note]]This allows him to act as "Tobias Rieper" if the player picks a starting location that begins the game in a disguise[[/note]].

* ObviousBeta: Ghost Mode, even a year after release, was in a PerpetualBeta, up until it was suddenly dropped.

* KarmicDeath: One way to kill Ajit is to poison a water bottle he drinks from.
** Alternatively, you can kill him by electrocuting him with an Atlantide water cooler.
* MultilevelMarketingScheme: Atlantide is a pyramid scheme based around selling bottled water with supposedly miraculous medicinal properties.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Killing Alma by poisoning her tea that Orson makes for her counts as this. The player is given the option to either poison the sugar or the honey that sits on the counter in advance - however, the game will make a note of whatever ingredient you chose to poison, and Alma will always pick the one that ''hasn't'' been poisoned by the player (or, if the player has used multiple types, the least-lethal option), making lethally poisoning the sugar or honey before the militia arrives at the house impossible without having two lethal poisons on hand. This was discarded in the level's re-release for ''3'' in favor of random selection, but the player is still going to have to do some save-scumming to get it right.

''Hitman 2'' (stylized ''HITMAN 2'') is the seventh game of the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series by Creator/IOInteractive, and is the second entry into the ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy''. A sequel to 2016's ''VideoGame/{{Hitman|2016}}'', it is also the first game of the franchise to be published by Creator/WarnerBrosInteractiveEntertainment, after Creator/SquareEnix dropped the developer in 2017.

** The targets are three members of the Yardbirds, a [[CaperCrew notorious team of robbers]], of which Kalvin "The Sparrow" Ritter was a member before his death. A mockup of Ritter's murder was the first tutorial of this and [[VideoGame/Hitman2016 previous games]].

** The flag of Singapore being incorrect, though this appears to be intentional to avoid some legal troubles with the respective authorities. However, it may also be a flag of Khandanyang or the Heavenly Guard.

* ShootTheHostage: The priority of Colonel Jin Noo, as he will attempt to kill the hostages with a sword if you go loud.

*** The title of this mission is in reference to the similarly named suburban-themed level: "A New Life", a fan favorite level the developers clearly took inspiration from.

* CutAndPasteSuburb: The houses in Whittleton Creek looks identical to each other on the outside, and all of the houses that you can fully enter have almost their entire layout be near-identical to each other. Often the only differences between the houses are rooms being flipped from right to left, they lack an attic, or just flat-out copy the whole room layout wholesale. This is downplayed, as you can only fully explore five houses (Janus's, Nolan's, The Schmidt's (the house for sale), the West's and the Wilsons, with the rest of the houses not being able to be fully explored (Batty's house, for example.)

** Crashing the stock market while disguised as an investment banker then pushing Savalas out of the window in her office while disguised as the fired employee will unlock a secret exit, in which 47 jumps out of a second floor window. This will net the player the "Defenestration" Steam achievement.

* EvilIsPetty: The investment banker Savalas fires met all his quotas - the primary reason she gives for his termination is ''[[DisproportionateRetribution his dress sense]]'', since this particular employee a knitted sweater to work.

** Holiday Hoarders ''and'' the Hokkaido Snow Festival were time-limited upon their release (despite Holiday Hoarders being permanent in VideoGame/Hitman2016), but were made permanent additions to the game in the December 2019 update.

For the Tutorial, as well as the games' various Paris, Sapienza, Marrakesh, Bangkok, Colorado and Hokkaido missions that were added via the Legacy Pack [=DLCs=], [[VideoGame/Hitman2016 go here]].

** Assuming that the Pale Rider EasterEgg exit described below is not itself non-canon, one of Diana’s possible lines when exiting the level indicates that at some point during The Showstopper, 47 donned the Vampire Magician disguise. Another suggests he wore the Santa 47 suit as a starting outfit when he infiltrated GAMA for the Hokkaido Snow Festival mission.

A sequel to this game, ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' (no, [[VideoGame/HitmanContracts not that one]]), was [[https://www.ioi.dk/announcing-hitman-3/ released on January 20th, 2021,]] which completed the "World of Assassination" Trilogy. Also revealed in the announcement was that, much like before with ''2016'', '''this entire game''' will ''also'' have a Legacy Pack for HITMAN 3, with Progression from this game being able to be transferred over (''Hitman 2'' required returning players to re-unlock the equipment from ''2016'').

This game, alongside ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', was de-listed on all storefronts on January 26th, 2023, as ''VideoGame/{{Hitman 3}}'' was rebranded as "Hitman - World of Assassination", which imports these levels for free[[labelnote:*]]All the base levels from this game are included for free, but not the DLC levels; that requires the more expensive Deluxe Edition of the game[[/labelnote]] regardless of game ownership. The move was done to avoid customer confusion that had plagued the latter two games' life on getting these levels' DLC packs. No word on the servers being shut down, however.

** Killing 100 targets in Ghost Mode got you the Phantom suit; a grey suit, grey tie, and a white shirt combo. It's basically a PaletteSwap of "The Undying Look". It cannot be obtained anymore in this game, but is available as an unlock in VideoGame/Hitman3.

* {{Cosmetic Award}}: The "Phantom Suit", as described above, which was yours for killing 100 targets in this game mode.

* TemporaryOnlineContent: Unfortunately, the servers were shut down on August 31st, 2020, about four months before the release of ''VideoGame/Hitman3'', so anything specifically tied to the game mode, like the challenges, the targets (Ankit, Mark, Terou and Darnell are exclusive to this mode) as well as the unlockable Phantom Suit can no longer be obtained within this game (the suit is returning in ''Hitman 3, however).

** Assuming that the Pale Rider EasterEgg exit described below is not itself non-canon, one of Diana’s possible lines when exiting the level indicates that at some point during The Showstopper, 47 donned the Vampire Magician disguise.

* BondOneLiner: Diana quips for 47 to take a bow after eliminating Basil.

** The ICA Executive Briefcase MKII. It’s a reskin of the regular Executive Briefcase that comes with the Expansion Pass, but with much slower speed when thrown. This is a nod to the "slow homing briefcase" glitch that the game launched with, where due to its low speed, you could see the object tracking much more clearly than with other thrown objects (such as balls or swords). This allowed you to see your briefcase chase people around corners]] among other amusing things. Fans told the developers they wanted the glitch to remain, simply for the comedy value, but it was silently patched out in Update 2.14, until 2.50 added in the aforementioned ICA Executive Briefcase MKII as a compromise.

** The ICA Executive Briefcase MKII. It’s a reskin of the regular Executive Briefcase that comes with the Expansion Pass, but with much slower speed when thrown. This is a nod to the "slow homing briefcase" glitch that the game launched with, where due to its low speed, you could see the object tracking much more clearly than with other thrown objects (such as balls or swords). This allowed you to see your briefcase [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csu0SMpWqOg chase people around corners]] among other amusing things. Fans told the developers they wanted the glitch to remain, simply for the comedy value, but it was silently patched out in Update 2.14, until 2.50 added in the aforementioned ICA Executive Briefcase MKII as a compromise.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Averted. Unlike in the last game, characters and [=NPCs=] have accents that fit their nationalities rather than just having generic American/British accents. The accents still appear from time to time, but it's much less immersion breaking than it was in the previous game.

* AllForNothing: Aleksander Kovak put out the hit on his former cohorts, but according to a TV news report during "Nightcall", Kovak was arrested almost immediately after the hit because he tried converting [[TooDumbToLive all the money at once into]] UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}}, which authorities found suspicious since it matched the total amount the Yardbirds made in their final heist.

* TheBarber: One of 47's possible disguises. There's even an achievement for giving 14 residents a shave (and the Maelstrom) using the disguise. The opportunity is also an excellent source of coins, as each customer pays two coins for a shave. 47 can pocket a tidy profit of 30 coins for serving all the possible customers.

* ChattyHairdresser: TheBarber that 47 can disguise as uses this to gather information for the Crows. Inverted when 47 takes his place, where it's actually the customers who do the majority of talking.

* ContinuityNod:

** Ort-Meyers' version of events of [[spoiler:the Institutes' raid is in reference to ''[[Literature/{{Hitman}} Hitman: Enemy Within]]'', a relatively obscure novel from 2006 which mentions 6 as 47's first kill and childhood bully]].

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The Maelstrom has taken elaborate steps to make himself invisible. However, he has a house on a hill guarded by a literal army of soldiers and doesn't think this might clue people in to the fact that the woman who lives there is important to him.

** The quickest way of eliminating both Dawood and Vanya is by summoning them to the old boathouse and dropping a boat on them when they meet up. This can be done by placing a colored smoke brick in any of the nearby furnace's, and getting rid of the guards overlooking the boathouse.

* TroubledProduction: InUniverse. The film Rangan is working on, ''Mumbai Hero'', is on its final day of filming, yet the lead actor is too sick to attend the final photoshoot, and the lead actress threw the final scene's script down the elevator shaft. Even if the script is obtained, a fight breaks out between her and Rangan due to the actress refusing to kiss him.

** If you had completed any ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' elusive target, you got you the Winter Suit, which is identical to the standard one, [[DistinctionWithoutADifference but with a tiny red badge on the breast pocket.]]

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Killing Alma by poisoning her tea that Orson makes for her counts as this. The player is given the option to either poison the sugar or the honey that sits on the counter in advance -- however, the game will make a note of whatever ingredient you chose to poison, and Alma will always pick the one that ''hasn't'' been poisoned by the player (or, if the player has used multiple types, the least-lethal option), making lethally poisoning the sugar or honey before the militia arrives at the house impossible without having two lethal poisons on hand.

* SaveScumming: Averted. Savimg is disabled, much like Holiday Hoarders.