Now that HITMAN 3 is out and we’ve had a chance to play through it, what have been your favourite kills on any official target in the WoA trilogy? Not necessarily your favourite target (otherwise we’re just getting a bunch of Dawood posts!), but your favourite target-specific kills.
Let’s restrict it to your top 5 as there are so many to choose from - name your target and the specific kill that you love doing to them. Here’s mine:
Zoe Washington - burning alive in Phoenix effigy
Don Archibald Yates - Diana stabs him, 47 finishes the job with a letter opener
Eric Soders - 47 throws the right-sided heart in the trash
Jordan Cross - 47 shoots him whilst sat down, a contract is a contract
Francesca de Santis - poison while blending in as the Golf Coach (just for Franny’s, “Roberto, how COULD you?!”)
Sierra Knox - Getting Robert to blow her up via remote explosive
Viktor Novikov - The Showstopper. The kill that got me REALLY wanting to play Hitman after a lukewarm first experience with Absolution.
Banner/Montgomery - Electrocution via sloppy light rig.
Jordan Cross - Electrocution via Branson MD-2. I played Hitman 2016 ages before I went back to college for music production/engineering but oh my god everything about this opportunity is spot on when it comes to peoples’ insistence on using specific gear.
Eric Soders - Trashed Heart
Jordan Cross - Cake Face
Viktor & Dalia Double Kill - Premature Fireworks
Yuki Yamazaki - Sauna Staredown
Zoe Washington - Flight of the Phoenix
My 5 for now (giving them all stupid names lol) in no order.
Shah and Kale with the runaway train
Zoe with the sabotaged effigy
Pushing Robert Knox onto Sierra
Making Alexa Carlisle kill herself
Obliterating The Constant’s personality
Sean Rose going crazy because of drugs
Tamara Vidal killed by Archibald Yates
Dropping Dalia on Viktor
Stabbing Soders with the machine
Make the Constant forget everything
5: Rangan - Fan kill (I love sending anyone flying with the fan)
4: Yates - Stabbed by Diana (his guard executing Vidal is a great moment too)
3: Caruso - Plane shot down
2: Banner/Montgomery - Light show
1: Shah/Kale - Train kill
Subject to change as I play more of 3, especially need to explore Chongqing more. I thought about putting in the Kashmirian kills but felt that might be too much Mumbai. I love Mumbai a lot.
Abiatti - impaled on the church spike
Cross - “a contract is a contract”
Rangan - sniped by Kashmirian when disguised as the artist
Soders - heart attack by a mere sight of 47
Zoe - electrocuted when disguised as the Initiate
Honorable mention: Zeydan - neck snapped when disguised as the prisoner
My favorite kills and ‘kills’, in no particular order.
Jordan Cross - pushing him onto that glass platform, cracking under his weight, and then falling to his demise.
Adalrico Candelaria - subduing his guards and/or distracting them, and then crushing Candelaria with the church bell.
Arthur Edwards - where he forgets everything, a fate that’s arguably worse than death.
Wazir Kale and Vanya Shah - running a train through the both of them, and then proceeding to escape on that very same train.
Don Archibald Yates - incapacitated by Diana, and then finished off by 47 with a stab to the chest.
I would also love to put pretty much every story kill from Mendoza on the list, in particular, the ones where Yates’s guard executes Vidal, or where the sniper team shoots Vidal, or even the one where Yates’s wife shoves him over the balcony.
What I love about the Hitman games is even the weakest scripted kill is still brilliant. People who are worried about the impact violent video games have on society should just play these games. There’s no reason to hurt people in boring ways IRL when you can load up Hitman and easily drop a big ol’ lighting rig on some jerk or literally throw someone’s heart in the garbage.