Awesome / Hitman: Blood Money

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• Any level when you can pull off a Silent Assassin rating and live up to 47's mythic reputation. No-one even knew you were there, there were no witnesses, not a shred of evidence and most of the time the hit looked like an accident. The rest of the time, you're the living embodiment of Paranoia Fuel: no amount of bodyguards, guns, walls, bars, alarms or distance can save the mark once 47 has taken the contract.
• The tutorial level has 47 break his usual Silent Assassin ways in order to single-handedly eliminate an entire gang of crack dealers working out of an old amusement park before eliminating his target.
  • But special mention goes to his exchange with the Gate Guard, where he casually drops what has come to be seen as one of the most, if not the most iconic line of his:
    Gate Guard: What the fuck they call you?
    47: Names are for friends, so I don't need one.
• Infiltrating the Heaven and Hell party and rigging the pyros to set one of your targets on fire, only for her to dive into the shark tank to be eaten. The crowd think it's All Part of the Show.
• Delivering an ironic death to statutory rapist and suspected child prostitution trafficker Alvaro D'Alvade in the "Curtains Down" level of Blood Money. Seeing how well it relates to Tosca has to be seen to be believed. There are several options, of course, but the most memorable is swapping out a prop World War 1 era pistol for the real thing and having his costar kill him.
  • Dropping the chandelier on Delahunt immediately afterwards puts the icing on the cake.
• Also, the premise of the "Amendment XXV" level. Infiltrating the White House to prevent the assassination of the US President is nothing short of sweet, especially if you get a Silent Assassin rating in the end.
  • And the mission is capped off with finally putting down Mark Parchezzi III, and in true Hitman franchise fashion, there's several ways of doing it if you're clever enough. But the greatest thematically is, with forethought and very quick reflexes and timing, it is possible to end it in a way that solidifies 47 as the superior to Parchezzi by being the faster and smarter of the two clones. By going into the oval office in first-person mode, and simply shooting Mark Parchezzi in the head and killing him instantly right as he sets off the bomb after confronting him; adding sweet poeticism to their final exchange together:
    Mark Parchezzi: We're practically brothers...you can't shoot me.
    47: I can do...whatever I'm paid to.
• The ending has one objective. Leave no witnesses. More precisely, 47 has managed to fake his death with Diana's help and lure the entirety of the Franchise's leaders into one location as well as all of the people who know his identity. While an innocent man (or two, depending on whether the priest was a Franchise member) is killed, 47 successfully ends the Original Trilogy in complete victory, as well as restores his status as an unknown killer. All to the tune of "Ave Maria".

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