Hitman: Contracts - 05 - Rendezvous in Rotterdam

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Published on April 24, 2011 9:41:42 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdt6kBuc5Ks

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Hitman: Contracts (2004)

Duration: 11:06

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As the doctor digs out the bullet from 47's gut, a police car pulls over outside. This seemingly scares the doctor who promptly skedaddles out of there. The sounds of a couple arguing outside triggers another dream, or two to be accurate, of Rotterdam.

A chief of police currently running for mayor has been photographed "entertaining" a young lady friend naked in the back seat of his car, and Rutgert Van Leuven, the leader of the biker gang Flaming Rotterdam is selling these photographs to a journalist coming to buy them tonight. The police chief has previously hired a private investigator named Klaas Teller to enter the gang undercover and retrieve the photographs but has not been heard of in a while, meaning he may have either double-crossed the client or has been caught by the gang. In either case the investigator is a liability and must be dealt with before he spills the beans.
47's mission this evening is to kill both Klaas Teller and Rutgert Van Leuven and get the indiscriminating photographs before the journalist does.

Funny thing: if you mug the reporter early on in the level and only take the money he intends to use to get the photos, he will still go and try to buy the photos. As you can guess, Van Leuven doesn't take kindly of him wasting his time when he can't find the envelope and the journalist will be promptly shot.

You can often spot stuff in Contracts that obviously paved the way for the more refined mechanics in Blood Money. This level has what I think is an early example of Blood Money's accident system: you can tamper with the electricity and turn off the power from the garage, killing a biker when the car he's working on drops on him. This is a way to remove the guard/s from the entrance to the basement where Klaas is as they go to check on their friend, but is ultimately useless as entering the basement is ridiculously easy even without the distraction. It's interesting regardless.

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