He managed to sneak out to the asylum's grounds, stealing Ort-Meyer's car and smashing through the facility's gates towards freedom.

Agent 47 exits the asylum, which had been overrun by the inmates, encountering one jumping from a catwalk to his death and another opening fire at SWAT officers with an SMG before being killed himself, while making his way out. After the scientist's death, the asylum was raided by Romanian special forces, who had set up a defensive perimeter around its exterior. His first flashback took him back to the events following the assassination of Dr. Wounded, 47 staggered back to his apartment, where he collapsed out of shock and began to have hallucinatory flashbacks to his previous assignments. On his way back to his hotel room in Paris following a hit in an Opera House (which appears in Hitman: Blood Money), 47 gets intercepted by a french police officer, Inspector Albert Fournier and is shot in the liver. This story synopsis concentrates on the main plot thread of the game the player would generally encounter on their first time playing. The game offers several events and methods to targets, along with multiple decisions based on the sandbox gameplay. Note: While the general plot of Contracts follows a distinct path, many elements such as the assassination methods and character interactions are subject to the player's decisions.

The Sniper Rifle case is re-introduced for carrying W2000 sniper rifle.

The Map now clearly distinguishes dead and alive people from each other.

Anesthetic is replaced by a sedative syringe, which affects the victim for a short time only.

Multiple melee weapons are introduced, though they cannot be saved or taken to other missions.

Different Fiber Wire killing animations are introduced, including one where 47 snaps the neck of the victim.

Running speed has been increased, and no longer causes guards to attack the player.

Moving speed in sneak mode is now increased.

The AI also communicates more with each other, meaning that suspicious actions committed by 47 will cause other guards to become alert and make it harder for 47 to escape or navigate the map without attracting attention. Guards and Police) simply trying to find, wear down and eliminate 47 if his cover is blown during a mission, will instead work together in teams to outmaneuver and outgun him, meaning that combat situations are now far more dangerous than they were previously. The AI also received a revamp in Contracts. There also multiple ways to navigate around every of the missions areas, with many containing areas with wide, open spaces and even hidden secret passages. The game attempts to focus on the more stealth-based elements of the Hitman series by accommodating players who wish to sneak about and mostly ignore the use of disguises in order to kill their targets. Notable options include suffocating a sleeping target by using a pillow, spiking tea with a heavy dose of rat poison and locking one target in particular within a dangerously hot sauna. Many of the series' trademark options to assassinate targets - may it be poisoning, sabotaging, and sniping your target - are present in almost every level, with at least three definite ways in which your targets can be killed.

The game features a greater variety of ways to make the perfect kill with an increased arsenal of firearms and close-combat weapons. Instead of attempting to implement new elements into Contracts, IO Interactive instead used the game as a refinement of the concepts introduced in the previous games, Codename 47 and Silent Assassin.

Contracts delivers more suspense-filled and darker, edgy missions, While stealth and subterfuge is encouraged, the game allows the player to take a more violent approach and gunfight their way to their mission goals. An array of weapons can be used, from kitchen knives to belt-fed machine guns.

In Hitman: Contracts, gameplay centers around the exploits of a hitman, Agent 47, as he is sent to various locations to assassinate targets.

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