Hitman 2’s vacation replace lets us homicide Home Alone’s Wet Bandits once more

Home Alone’s fool burglars – or at the least a pair of very related bumbling thieves with legally distinct surnames – are on Santa’s naughty checklist, and so they’re Agent 47’s goal in Hitman 2‘s first Christmas update. While largely a repeat of the previous game’s Holiday Hoarders mission, set in a remixed Paris map, it’s been polished up and remastered to Hitman 2 spec together with a bundle of challenges to completely unlock a Santa costume. Also included is a bundle of recent profession-themed Featured Contracts, and a slew of bugfixes.  There’s a trailer underneath the tree under.

For those who missed out on Hitman 1’s Christmas contract, the Holiday Hoarders mission is a deal with. For the remainder of us, it’s only a good excuse to homicide Harry and Marv a couple of extra occasions. While bumping off the hapless villains is comparatively simple, the challenges encourage you to channel Macaulay Culkin. Bonus factors are awarded for repeatedly knocking the thieves out with bricks, preemptively stealing all of the objects they’re hoping to pilfer, after which blowing them up with good comedic timing simply as they throw within the towel. Do all of it, and also you get to be Santa all yr spherical.

The replace additionally features a set of recent user-made Featured Contracts, all based mostly across the idea of ‘ccupational hazards’. Lots of dressing up as blue-collar staff and bumping off your colleagues in these missions. Io plan to focus on one other 5 contracts each month, and those that full a lot of them will likely be granted some everlasting new bits of kit. After 5 profitable featured missions you’ll get the measuring tape (for when piano wire is just too elegant), and the following unlock is the Handyman Wrench at 15 contracts down.

This replace additionally bulks up the PC graphics choices menu lots, including extra choices and extra granularity for these desirous to tweak and tune for optimum efficiency. They’ve additional refined the multiplayer Ghost Mode too, giving your opponent an additional twenty seconds when you killed somebody in a less-than-stealthy approach, encouraging folks to play it cool. They additionally point out that the physics-defying homing briefcase has not been fastened, and that folks shouldn’t fear. Given how good it’s, I hope they by no means do.

The Holiday Hoarders replace for Hitman 2 is now dwell. You can see the total patch notes here.