Mission six: You Better Watch Out. Set during Christmas time in a secluded mansion in the Rocky Mountains the mission is to eliminate Lorne de Havilland, a local porn tycoon, and Chad Bingham Jr., son of a well-respected American politician. As well as taking out the targets you have to retrieve a compromising video tape and avoid another assassin who has been sent to take 47 out.
Hitman Blood Money is classified as “18″ in the UK and “Mature” in the US which means that it is unsuitable for minors; fairly warned be thee.
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Notes
The reason I keep referring to Lorne de Havilland as the “Porn King” is primarily because I couldn’t remember his name and also because his name isn’t the quickest or easiest to say, so Porn King he shall remain. I also alternately refer to the bikini-clad women of the level as strippers or models, I have no idea which they are and I’m making an assumption based upon the “Porn King” status of one of the targets. Words which sound the same during the narration: “abhor” and “adore”, I abhor animal cruelty and adore the level, not the other way around.
Details
Play time: 11:10
Rating: Silent Assassin
Retrieved suit: Yes
Accidents: 5
Close Combat Kills: 0
Bullets fired: 1
The reason I’ve always stipulated that this run through of Blood Money is to use “as few bullets as possible” is because I always try and find a bullet-less method of doing the game and I’ve managed to do that in Contracts and I’ve also done it on Hitman Two except where it stipulates “use the sniper rifle” on a couple of levels; I tried for ages to try and do Blood Money without using bullets but one level in particular (“A House of Cards”) pretty much forces you to use the rifle to obtain silent assassin. So with that in mind, this became a “minimum” bullet run through rather than a no bullet run through. I don’t need to use the rifle on this level but it speeds things up and makes for a more interesting video than sitting about waiting for Chad to get his mojo working.
As I mention, this is my favourite level of Hitman Blood Money due to the snow and the mission itself: there are a lot of different ways of getting Silent Assassin here from using your rifle exclusively to sedating a photographer and heading to the photo-shoot and more. This is one of the levels where each target can be taken out in isolation of the other, so unlike “Curtains Down” (the opera level) where one target’s death triggers the other, you can take out Lorne de Havilland one way then take out Chad Bingham a completely different way.
