Cold, methodical, and demanding in ways that few games had been before. Hitman: Codename 47 introduces Agent 47, a genetically engineered assassin grown for contract killing, as he takes his first assignments across Hong Kong, Colombia, and Budapest. The game rewards patience and observation: you study target patterns, adopt disguises, plant traps, or find the single angle where a shot goes unwitnessed. Brute force is possible but costly. The approach that looks impossible on first inspection usually resolves into something elegant once you have watched long enough.