Hitman

Christian Elverdam, Michael Vogt, and IO Interactive's brilliant, darkly comedic, and clockwork stealth-puzzle sandbox tour de force across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox (Hitman: The Complete First Season / *World of Assassination*), released episodically throughout 2016 by Square Enix and IO Interactive on the Glacier 2 Engine, crowned Game of the Year by Giant Bomb while holding an 85% GameRankings and 85/100 on Metacritic and selling millions of copies, serving as the glorious foundational cornerstone of the celebrated *World of Assassination* trilogy ahead of *Hitman 2 & 3*, putting players into the immaculate custom-tailored suit of genetically engineered ICA master assassin Agent 47 (David Bateson) guided by his handler Diana Burnwood (Jane Perry), travelling across six hyper-dense, living international sandbox destinations to execute high-profile targets with total creative freedom, single-handedly pioneering the legendary "Social Camouflage Disguises, Clockwork NPC AI Routines & 'Opportunity (Mission Stories)'" engine (infiltrating high-society fashion shows in Paris, sunlit coastal villas in Sapienza, crowded bazaars in Marrakesh, luxury resorts in Bangkok, military militia compounds in Colorado, and high-tech clifftop medical facilities in Hokkaido), hundreds of macabre assassination methods (exploding golf balls, poisoned fugu fish, sabotaged runway lighting rigs, suffocating with birthday cakes), live time-limited Elusive Targets, and Niels Bye Nielsen's sleek, tension-building espionage electronic and orchestral score.