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Rotterdam
- Why, at the beginning of the "Rendezvous in Rotterdam" mission, 47 says that his weapons haven't arrived yet? After all, he DOES have his trademark Silverballers and fiber wire with himself, so what other weapons might he be referring to?
- I think he might have been planning to snipe the boss of the biker gang, or plant a bomb in the place... in essence, anything that meant he didn't have to actually enter the headquarters of a ruthless biker gang who were at that very moment enthusiastically torturing the last guy who entered those very same headquarters.
- This seems almost like a lampshade of Gameplay and Story Segregation, in that the gameplay would allow a sniper loadout (explicitly contradicting the fact that 47 is annoyed his weapons haven't arrived yet), but on this occasion they won't give you that easy of an out.
- I'm guessing that in the events that originally occurred, this was a No-Gear Level, but every mission in the dream sequence equips 47 with the Silverballers by default. And, of course, replaying the level with all your unlocked equipment breaks this line even further if you tool yourself up to the nines with the game's bigger guns.
Malcolm Sturrock
- I'm surprised no one's mentioned Malcom Sturrock the Meat King's Brother. How cold-hearted and apathetic do you have to be to find a girl mutilated beyond all recognition with her arm cut off by a power saw and hung upside by a meat hook and not want to do anything to the sick bastard who did this to her? It bugs me that he doesn't become an objective or AT LEAST a freebie kill Doesn't help that that scene has given me nightmares to this day.
- You're playing a game called Hitman, where you play as a genetically modified killer for hire with no soul who kills anyone for the right price and prides himself on professionalism and only killing his intended target.
- If 47 had been offered a bonus for killing the murderer of the girl (whose death, up until that point, was completely unknown), he would have immediately killed him. He's not paid to feel, he's paid to kill. And he wouldn't have been paid for the death of Malcolm so he wouldn't really care. He KILLS people for a living; another corpse, however mutilated, isn't going to bother him that much.
- I can understand the logic as to why he didn't, just saying it makes him a bit TOO cold and indifferent. He does have a heart, as seen when he saves the Asian girl (I know that was for a code, but still I'm sure there's a way he could have gotten it from her without too much hassle), might just be a missed "human" moment for 47, but still left a bad taste in my mouth. Oh and also psychological scars too.
- 47 might go out of his way to avoid killing where it isn't necessary, but that doesn't mean he's going to go killing for revenge on behalf of people he doesn't even know. Killing the Meat King's brother wouldn't bring the dead girl back to life, and leaving another body lying around would have been unprofessional. Besides, who's to say 47 told anyone? The girl's father would've thought her killer got what he deserved regardless.
- Look at it from his creator's POV: 47 was originally designed to be the perfect assassin - anonymous (albeit, bald), lethally skilled, and most importantly, controllable by his handlers. His creators had no need for a compassionate human being, they wanted a stone-cold killer. That 47 has pangs of conscience was a big show of how his creators couldn't completely stamp humanity out of him, despite his origins.
- Too bad that side of him disappeared in Blood Money. In any case, Hitman isn't exactly the kind of game you should play if you want to be a hero.
- He does still have shades of it in Blood Money. He does show a brief look of sadness at having to kill his bird. But at the end of the day he's still been conditioned to be indifferent to death.
- On another note, why did the girl die? No seriously. The most we know about her is that her father (The client) is an ICA affiliate who is also wealthy. Clearly Malcolm killed her because he had a worship sacrifice mentality toward her or just pretty young blonde girls in general. Plus she was kidnapped. If this could be compared to real life cases then maybe she saw somehtng she shouldn't have? The Meat King wasn't involved in any other crime (That was worth mentioning anyway. Stick to the mission and don't question the details is what 47 does best apart from killing.)
- Technically, you can actually kill him and still get SA if it's all zeroes anywhere else since SA is slightly more forgiving in Contracts. (Allowing for one non-target kill.)
- Well you the player control 47 so if you really want to you can absolutely kill him the only thing preventing you from killing him is how much you care about silent assassin
- When 47 discovers the girl's remains and that Malcolm is the killer, he does at least check with Diana to confirm that his mission objectives remain the same. Remember, he's still being paid to do a job and a change of target would likely require consultation with the client, which would likely take time 47 doesn't have to be waiting around.
