Dev Game Club

In this second series of the Dev Game Club, we talk about the relevance and place in history of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, talk a bit about its stealth contemporaries and its descendants, before diving into the first few missions of the game. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Gontranno Sanctuary Anathema St. Petersburg Stakeout Kirov Park Meeting   Podcast breakdown: 0:33       Intro 2:11       Hitman 2: Silent Assassin relevance, history, context 32:11     Break 1 32:35     The first four missions 1:21:10  Break 2 1:21:32  Story expectations, what we’re playing, next time   Issues covered: Hitman episodic reboot, play style and discovery, stealth genre, handling of action and sandboxes in other stealth games, punishment for failure in genre, lethality and non-lethality, available rankings of playstyle, disguises, the game landscape in 2002, story stage-setting (Hitman: Codename 47 recap), technical stuff, character