Awesome / Hitman 3

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Universal

• This game also has several targets who instead of begging for their lives or trying to bribe 47 will remain Defiant to the End when held at gunpoint.
  Carl Ingram: Do what you have to. Just tell Edwards I'll be waiting for him in Hell.
  Alexa Carlisle: Go on then, get it over with. You spineless shit!
  Imogen Royce: Go ahead. At least I can admit when I've lost.
  Tamara Vidal: You live for this, don't you, 47?

Dubai

• 47 and Lucas Grey making a Halo jump in as Bash Brothers. They have only a short time together but they make the most of it.
• Setting up a Karmic Death where Lucas Grey can explain exactly why both men are being targeted so they understand they are getting killed by their own creations.
• Gaining Stuyvesant's trust with throwing knives. While mechanically it's easy to do in game, in real life knife throwing at such a high altitude, with very high wind, is very difficult.
• Electrocuting Stuyvesant in the Sun exhibit. As 47 cranks the power up, Stuyvesant is shocked to death as the lights flicker and go off, a dramatic and somewhat terrifying end.

Dartmoor

• 47 can serve as a Agatha Christie-esque detective and solve not only a recent murder but a decades-old one as well.
• 47 can help Emma achieve her Best Served Cold revenge on Alexa and Zachary for killing her father, by repairing the conservatory's laboratory and allowing her to brew a fresh bit of poison and poison Alexa's drink.
• In a very dark way, 47 can drive a member of The Illuminati to suicide by revealing she killed her beloved older brother for nothing. This is additionally one for Alexa herself, as she handles the news with incredible dignity.
  Alexa: You see, I believe life is a fair fight - and I lost spectacularly, in every way imaginable. It is time for me to leave the pit.
  • In a less dark but equally satisfying way, you can impersonate Alexa's lawyer and reveal that Arthur Edwards (The Constant) has completely wiped out her family fortune. He even owns her family estate. Alexa will get in front of a window and it becomes very easy to fake a suicide.
• 47 does a Refuge in Audacity moment unmatched in the series by simply asking Alexa for the file on the Constant after solving her brother's murder. It causes her to realize who he is and then figuring that if he was going to kill her, he already would have. So she gives it to him and then 47 kills her when she sets out to the balcony. Either that or she let him considering all she's lost.
• Though he never gets around to actually solving the murder mystery, Phineas Whitmer, the real detective hired to solve the case of Zachary's death, comes close to doing so. He takes note of the odd resemblance that Emma possesses to Montgomery, and is able to deduce that Mr. Fernsby had previously burned something (in this case Zachary's diary), something which catches the normally unflappable butler off-guard. Furthermore, judging by NPC conversations in Mendoza, Whitmer actually does manage to solve the mystery, although what conclusion he reached is left deliberately vague.
• Lucas Grey performing a Heroic Sacrifice to make sure 47 escapes Dartmoor and continue taking down Providence. 47 has already infiltrated the group, but there's too many of them to fight and it would be suicide to have him reveal himself. It's also not a Senseless Sacrifice either because 47 is one of the rare video game protagonists who is not a One-Man Army, not in the gung-ho action movie hero sense (not without proper preparation at least).

Berlin

• The very premise of the mission, 47 up against a small army of ICA agents hunting him. It's happened before but it's an even more deadly game of cat and mouse as these bother with stealth this time and it's a more subtle affair.
• 47 can pose as the night club owner, which the ICA agents see through, and then they go after him in force. This can be used so 47 can get a large number of them in his presence to be killed.
  • Some well-placed explosives can effectively kill most of the group in one shot, leaving only Agent Montgomery to be dealt with by other means.
  • Killing all of the agents with accidents, up to and including during the meeting.
• Setting up the light show to electrocute multiple ICA agents on the railing.
• The entire purpose of the mission is for 47 to send a message to the ICA about what happens if they come after him. Sure enough, after 47 kills 5 agents, their Handler, Jiao, will immediately order them to evacuate since she refuses to lose anyone else. Safe to say; Message received.
• Under normal circumstances, 47 will kill half the active agents and panic the rest into an evacuation. But with multiple knockouts, strategic concealment of bodies, and a lot of patience and strategy, every single agent can be disposed of — eleven in one night is something even a master assassin can take pride in. There's even special dialogue from the handler for doing it:
  Jiao: (fighting back tears) Expertly done, 47. Expertly fucking done.
• In Hitman (2016), Diana told 47 that an ICA assassin is always the most dangerous person in the room. Here, 47 proves that, as the one assassin in the room this time is very specifically him even when it's chock-full of assassins that have infiltrated the nightclub, and 47 expertly takes them out. The mission isn't called "Apex Predator" for nothing.

Chongqing

• This mission is a sniper's wet dream. It requires 47 to shoot several constantly moving drones in the rain, sneak around and prevent getting spotted, and then killing the targets as they argue on a bridge. If you position yourself properly, you can do it with one bullet.
• Through firing ICA employees in a certain order, 47 can burn Imogen Royce to death in the data room.
• 47 resisting Hush’s mind experiment and frying the bastard’s brain for all the havok he's caused the homeless population of Chongqing.
• The contents of the ICA files 47 and Olivia leaks to the public in itself is some awesome Continuity Porn, starring almost every target he's killed in the course of the WoA trilogy; Alma Reynard, Robert Knox, Dawood Rangan, Ken Morgan, Silvio Caruso, almost everyone is accounted for...and then the screen starts listing the 2016 Elusive Targets too, which before this point, were merely implied to be canonical in the games' timeline.
• A undisguised 47 is perfectly capable of walking through the secure ICA facility's front door and leak the ICA files undetected while engaging in a delicate dance of stealth with the roaming guards that will shoot on sight. As a reward for pulling off the heist undisguised, 47 can escape by the front door while freely mingle with the crowd of ICA employees gathering there in the ensuing security lockdown since everyone are too stunned by the data breach to even recognize him.

Mendoza

• 47 can impersonate Don Yates's fixer and help Diana take out Tamara Vidal in several gruesome ways. Diana will get the message as you plan, setting things up to help you pull off the kill.
• Valentina Yates is a former diplomat who lost her career. If you provide evidence that Don destroyed her career with nary a thought, she will confront him, and shove him off the balcony.
• After Don Yates kills Vidal and captures Diana during the Providence meeting, he will return to her to gloat. Diana, not usually an Action Girl, stabs Yates, and 47, who snuck in, can off the rest of the guards. As Diana boasts on how she will take down Providence to a helpless Yates, she will order 47 to finish the job.
  • To Yates’ credit, he will remain Defiant to the End, mocking 47 for his subservience as 47 stabs him in the throat.
    • Not to mention that he came closer to killing Diana than any other character in the series and could succeed if 47 failed to arrive in time. Excluding 47 himself, Yates is the only one who, even momentarily, outwitted Diana.
• One extended path to taking out Vidal involves making small talk as "Tobias Rieper", with Vidal eventually leading their conversation into a private cinema. Once there, Vidal decides to cut the BS and tells him she knows exactly who he is, and it immediately becomes clear that her surrounding bodyguards are ready to pop him if he doesn't give her what she wants. Fortunately, it's only 5 against 47.
  47: If I am who you say I am, do you really think this was your best course of action?
  Vidal: It's five against one.
  47: Yes. See your mistake?
• Diana's gambit at tricking 47 was brilliant, using a touch based neurotoxin delivered as they danced.
• The Heartbreaker Elusive Target has a Serial Killer, Philo Newcombe, out to kill half of an engaged lesbian couple so he can try to seduce the other. 47 can steal Newcombe's Creepy Souvenir scrapbook and give it to the couple, causing them to make a run for it and leaving Newcombe utterly crushed before 47 takes him out.

Romania

• The final level, where Agent 47 overcomes the toxins and sneaks all the way to Arthur Edwards's location while on a moving train out in the cold.
• This level also allows you to pick off any and all Providence members that are on the train as you want without much of a penalty (as everyone you kill further destroys Providence), meaning, if you know what you're doing, you can kill everyone that's between you and Edwards. Even better? You get Silent Assassin for doing this too!
• Alternative to the above, you can use tricks and careful weapons shots to sneak past everyone that are in the train cars, and disconnect the cars once you reach Arthur's cabin.
• Just Edwards' reaction to 47 catching up with him:
  Arthur: I don't suppose there's any point in calling for help.
  47: No.
• And then there's dealing with Edwards. He tries to bargain with 47 by giving him the memory erasure serum, telling him to embrace his old self again. 47 refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want to be a slave to anyone anymore, and Edwards accepts his coming death, saying he'll die knowing who he is. You could just kill him (there is a fiber wire nearby...). Or you can inject Edwards with the same memory erasure serum he tried to give you as a form of Cruel Mercy:
  47: This is what it means to lose everything.
  Arthur: You're making a mistake!
  47: It's mine to make.
• This is one of the few levels in the entire game where you can choose not to kill anyone.