Holiday Specialtacular: Hitsmas 2018

that ending was much more satisfying!

It's beginning to look a lot like HITSMAS!

Thanks for another year of beautiful entertainment y'all.

Why does the screen go black and white when Entertainer suit is used? Does the game expain this or is it some arbitrary rule that just happens?

Never played the game.

@faridmon:

The suit has a blindfold. It's meant to simulate blindness without completely turning your screen off.

Once again, Vinny saved Hitsmas!

Aw man, I was really hoping for more of the crew to be included in this. Was hoping for more Spectacular content with a large number of crew.

Truly the best ending imaginable.

Vincent pls

WHAT A TWIST. Vinny is simultaneously the best and worst Hitman player.

Merry Hitsmas to everyone!

Hitmas is here!

Ending was truly amazing. Wonderful Hitsmas festivities this year.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Why is Vinny so damn good at Hitmas

Shout out to everyone who are still being giant dongs despite all of the content we got this year because it's not the specific content that they wanted.

VINNY!

What an end ?

If for Whatever reason you haven't seen it, go back and check out Vinny's Extra Life stream from 2016. It's him playing the game for the first time and it's pretty great.

I assume the reason why they didn't just do the Block story mission is because it's the other sister? Because otherwise it gets you into a room with her and the broadsword alone as Block.

At 28:20, an NPC says "Glad it's not me this year, chasing tokens around like a sucker." Not sure exactly to what she is referring, but this has got to be a joke about the NPCs following any coin you throw, right?

Been a while since I played Hitman but can someone explain why they choose to do full subdue then snap neck, instead of snapping the neck during the subdue when the prompt show's up?

@mrbubbles: As someone with over 600 hours between the 2 games, I had to let the screaming go and now simply look away and out loud in monotone say what they’re not getting. It has done wonders for my blood pressure.

@flashflood_29: The controls for those quicktime moments can be a little fidgety, especially the choke out. You have to be on your game and roll your thumb to the snap neck button at just the last moment. I’ve had to snap more than a few necks after I choked them unconscious.

Ahh, sad there's no Rock Band video for year-end like in the past few. This is a good ending though.

Yay Hitsmas. As other on the internet have said, I wish this were longer! It was great. If in future iterations you deign to bring this back and give it more time, I would love to see a system where you can load 1 recent autosave (last 2 or 3) after the first death of any run.

This makes it longer, but means that the unintended or unfortunate mistakes Brad make don't doom a run (it's not fun to see those IMO) and that Dan can double down on his jackassery/refine it to perfection AND, most importantly, that even after Vinny impossibly cheats death 5 times in a run before getting got.. he can still reload right into the middle of the madness and doom himself yet another totally unexpected way.

I'm stuck in YouTube video only again, anybody remember how to get back to the real video?

Business.

Business.

Business.

500% the right call at the end.

This should be an ongoing series.

You made the right choice at the end.

Win or lose, Vinny is Father Hitsmas

Well, at least there was one good run this year. Vinny delivers again.

Surprised they did Sgail instead of Miami.

Brad especially was hampered by lack of map knowledge. He didn't have to run across the dangerous helipad to get the MC costume, he could have just taken a ladder up from where he got the tokens in the catacombs

What an excellent finale. Great video gang!

Also screaming "you can throw things that aren't coins".

I'd love a Hitsmas in July, even if it's recorded around E3. I'm not sure how much more we'll get to see now that Hitman 2's not episodic.

lol "Why Vinny?" at the very end. Why not? It's Hitsmas! Hope you guys do more of these at some point.

It was funnier this way but all he had to do was drop the torch after lighting the money.

As soon as they announced Hitman 2 want going to be episodic I was bummed, because I knew it meant we weren't getting as much Hitman content on the site. This video was so good, but it only left me wanting more. I think I could watch them play Hitman all day.

I've been spotted before when I thought I was safe (playing on PC), but some of the instances of the guys getting spotted in this seemed to be flat out bullshit. Are there some bugs with the PS4 version or something?

Also is it just me or was the gameplay really low in this?

Thanks Giantbomb and Giantbeast crews. That was a great Hitsmas present! Enjoyed that a lot.

Great video. Getting my through this flu, cheers!

As a seasoned HITMAN, I wasn't clear on how/ Vinny got compromised after subduing the guard at the end. He had cleared the body and no one saw the act! Did someone see him from above?

@nolanq: The Constant (pale guy in blue suit) is suspicious of the Raider outfit... bad luck there for Vinny as he was going down the stairs.