ILLUSTRIOUS TARGETS

The 2016 Hitman enjoyed a prolonged lifespan after release thanks to Elusive Targets, and the time-sensitive missions return here. The first of the bunch, The Undying, stars Sean Bean as the target, representing a strategic shift in marketing between the two games and a reassuringly straight trajectory to Bean’s stock-in-trade role as the man who gets killed. The similarity to Hitman 2016 runs deeper than Elusive Targets, though: all the missions and levels from that release are available in this game, ready to be re-replayed. It reinforces Hitman 2’ s status as a quasisequel, the kind of release that might have been called a mission back in the olden days, albeit with a modern pricing strategy: give the old game away for free with the new.