I can sing the same praises I sung for Hitman 2: Silent Assassin to this game. It's a bit on the short-side compared to Silent Assassin, but whatever IS present is very solid. With a good portion of the levels being remakes of Codename 47, this feels like a bit of a side project to go back and correct whatever they could of the first game. There's some solid quality of life stuff like the sleeker inventory, being able to run without alerting everyone, sneaking up to people not being impossible, hints, etc etc. Really fun game that improved on the systems of the first and paves the way to Blood Money.

Something that sticks out to me about this game even today is the tone. For many of the levels, Jespery Kyd's soundtrack provides an excellently eerie, filthy tone to the game. Many of the later Hong Kong levels are dark and dingy, it really feels like you're doing dirty work. Part of me wishes they looked back at this game when drafting the tone for the modern 2016 entry,