A new Elusive Target, more Escalation Contracts and a certain festive visit await players in Hitman 2 this December.

Hitman 2 goes a step further with its design. Mission stories make for more intriguing opportunities, peppering any of its magnificent stages with mystery, narrative and deliciously ironic assassination. Here are ten such instances, where Hitman 2 absolutely shines as a MacGuyver box of murder.

Killing your targets in Hitman 2 is only half the game. The rest of it, is walking away from the scene of the crime and looking badass in the process. Or you could just ride a dolphin out of Miami.

Hitman 2 is out, it’s superb and your first Elusive Target currently available to kill is none other than Mr Bean. No, not Rowan Atkinson (Idea to self: Pitch a Johnny English murder to IO Interactive), but actor Sean Bean, who lends his voice and likeness to Mark Faba. In Many ways, Faba feels like a subtle dig at the entire Hitman franchise.

Hitman 2 is celebrating the many murders of British actor Sean Bean this weekend, but be careful about posting that on Twitter lest you want to get banned.

Hitman 2 feels like a macabre collection of dominos falling and eventually toppling one final piece in a gloriously “accidental” death that can best be summed up as an act of god when the dust has settled. A game that’s more about the journey than the destination, Hitman 2 is lengthy, gruesomely charming and still hiding plenty of secrets up its immaculately dressed sleeves.

The first rebooted hitman was sold off as an episodic game. Despite being a brilliant murder simulator that got the episodic formula so, so right, many consumers didn’t take to it just because it was sold piecemeal. They wanted a finished product, a retail game that they could hold in their hands. And that game is here. With developer IO Interactive nearly murdered themselves when Square Enix decided they were done with Hitman, Warner took the developer and the franchise on, The sequel is, admittedly, more of the same – but when that same is a glorious sandbox that lets you kill people in delightfully inventive ways, that’s a good thing.

Two of the finest Hitman games might soon be remastered for the PS4 and Xbox One. Yes, you heard me right, I think Hitman Absolution is awesome.