Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

In this action game, players control Agent 47, a retired assassin attempting to locate a kidnapped priest. Players use machine guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, and explosives to complete mission objectives and kill human adversaries. Players can also employ stealth tactics (e.g., planting car bombs; slitting throats from behind; strangling characters with fiber wire) to eliminate mission “targets.” Violent encounters are accompanied by realistic gunfire, explosions, screams of pain, and large blood splashes/pooling effects as enemies are injured and killed; dead bodies incur additional damage when shot. Achievements are awarded for specific violent acts (e.g., performing a headshot; killing precisely 47 people during a mission), and non-adversaries can be killed at will. Some sequences include sexual material in the dialogue (e.g., “[Y]our bonus target is indeed a twin playboy, with a passion for cheap women and expensive art,” “So what is this? Drugs? Prostitution? Extortion?”); one such conversation references the sexual history of a prostitute character. Some sequences depict male characters that appear nude, though with no discernible detail (e.g., a man performing a hand gesture to symbolize the act of urination; a naked target with a flattened stump in the pelvic region).