Hitman (World of Assassination Trilogy)

• A surprising amount of assassinations can be pulled off with patience and choking/neck breaking at the right time. This is often boring but sometimes the opportunity will fall into your lap.

• Patience is a virtue, if you're going for a high score at least

• Experimentation is good, doing levels over again and completing more challenges unlocks more tools, weapons, starting points, etc

• Contracts mode is user created stuff, it can be pretty fun, you can also make your own fairly easily

• Escalation is just the same short mission over and over with it upping the ante each time like with additional targets, conditions (no non-target kills, hide bodies within a time limit, etc), or obstacles.

• There's a mode called the Sarajevo Six that's basically an additional target in each level, the game recommends doing them after playing through and in order but I'm not sure if that's really necessary.

• Elusive Targets are mildly bullshit since sometimes you can get screwed for dumb reasons and you only have one shot at it once one target is dead, you can restart before that though I think. A decent challenge though.

• There's a gadget that's a phone bomb, you drop it, someone picks it up, you dial it, and when they answer it explodes, has a small range but can take out like anyone standing next to the person with the phone, but the important part is you have to take into account that it takes like 3~5 seconds for them to answer the phone once you trigger it...yes this fucked me over on an Elusive target once, why do you ask?

• If you have instinct mode on there will be a dot over people's heads that will see through your disguise...actually this is in the tutorial, the tutorial is fairly decent come to think of it, it even suggests doing the mission a few different ways

• The game autosaves frequently and that can be a life saver but as was mentioned it's a good idea to make a manual save before you try something that seems risky.

• Steal every tool, knife, can, soda, fruit, etc that you can, not only are they helpful but it's sorta funny to imagine Agent 47 killing a bunch of people then leaving the area with a dozen fresh apricots in his coat.