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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The Ultimate Canon World Of Assassination Mission Order (Probably)

This will get a little wordy so I’d like to take the time to inform you that there is a concise list at the bottom that just has the mission order with no extra annotations.

If you’re anything like me then you’re a real sucker for sticking to the canonical routing of games like Hitman, problem being Hitman doesn’t exactly have one to speak of outside of the main campaign. Fortunately, IO have given us many hints as to the true order of thing such as NPC dialogue and background news reports and for the last couple weeks on and off I have been scouring the games and wiki for every last bit of information regarding the canonical goings on of the World of Assassination trilogy. So today I present a detailed look at the best canonical order I can put forth forward of the launch of Hitman III, upon launch I will likely revisit this if anything comes fawned from the new maps the may contradict this order. So without further ado, I present My Canon World Of Assassination Mission Order.

Prologue

All missions in the prologue likely take place over maybe a week or so. Simple stuff here, just don’t forget this after the mission “Training” in Hitman: Codename 47 but before any other mission in the Hitman series if you’re planning on playing everything the series has to offer chronologically at any point.

Arrival

Guided Training

Freeform Training

The Final Test

Pre-Campaign Contracts

Apart from the “The Icon” and “The Landslide” (which canonically take place several years apart in that order and before the main H|1 campaign) these can be shuffled around in any order. I figure that all of these contracts make the most sense on the timeline between Blood Money and Absolution or between Absolution and WOA trilogy. My placement of these bar previous mention are mostly to provide the most interesting and varied gameplay experience before starting the main campaigns as they have no real set position on the timeline. If you wish you could also slot some of these in between “The Showstopper” and “Club 27” and they’d still make relative sense.

The Icon

Illusions of Grandeur

The Pen And The Sword

Embrace of The Serpent

A Silver Tongue

A Bitter Pill

Now for avery long note on “A Silver Tongue” and “A Bitter Pill”

I recommend skipping if you don’t want to indulge yourself in my problems with IO’s bonus level creation.

I have a lot of issues placing these as “A Silver Tongue” takes place at The Global Innovation Race where of course “The Finish Line” does, I had a lot of back and forth on deciding if it made sense for “A Silver Tongue” to come just before “The Finish Line”and “A Bitter Pill” to come just after but it makes very little sense as the house the target of “A Bitter Pill” occupies was until just before “A New Life” occupied by a Providence Herald that was there prior to Cassidy, but was poisoned by Helen West. I really couldn’t find a good place for this despite hours of thinking so I decided thusly;

The Global Innovation Race that “A Silver Tongue” plays out in is not the one featured in “The Finish Line”, but one from years prior and thus the murder of Frank Schmidt haven’t taken place yet and in fact he didn’t even live at the location at the time as the target of “A Bitter Pill” did.

I must apologise but that’s the only explanation I can come up with at this point. I’d like to proceed into a rant about how bonus mission are just resold elusive targets but I with simply leave it as this is the one where I most felt that, the others at least had a reasonable sense of believability but “A Bitter Pill”, and “A Silver Tongue” by extension, just doesn’t.

Now to continue with the placements, sorry for the long explanative rant.

Crime and Punishment

The Landslide

A House Built on Sand

HITMAN I Campaign And Patient Zero

Hitman 1’s campaign has a pretty easy going start but as mentioned you could slide some contracts from the pre-campaign section at your leisure.

The Showstopper

World Of Tomorrow

A Guided Cage

Club 27

The Source

After the death of Jordan cross, what was left of The Class likely left The Himmapan Hotel within 1–2 weeks as in the mission “The Source”, the staff of The Himmapan are still in the process of cleaning up the band’s penthouse and accompanying floor with many The Class branded containers as well as a few members of the band’s security detail and recording crew still strewn about the area so it’s likely they are preparing to leave. The ground floor is also still being fumigated showing not long has passed.

Freedom Fighters

Situs Inversus

These two make most sense back to back as the ICA wouldn’t want to delay the elimination of the traitorous Soders.

The Author

The Vector

Patient Zero

Pretty concise timeline here, 47 flies between these three destinations straight away.

The Last Yardbird

This mission makes the most sense to be here as it’s the second time we see 47 wield his Seiger 300 Ghost. It is also referenced in a news report in “The Nightcall” that Interpol had arrested the former head of The Yardbirds, Aleksander Kovak, in Panama City while he was attempting to convert fifty million dollars into bitcoin and that he's currently the prime suspect in a triple murder at a wedding in Austria.

HITMAN II Campaign There’s not a very specific time frame between Hitman and Hitman 2’s campaign but after “The Nightcall” I feel there’s very little space for anything else to happen, thus I have decided to not have any thing interrupt the main campaign of Hitman 2, this would likely make for a better playing experience too.

The Nightcall

The Finish Line

Three-Headed Serpent

Chasing A Ghost

Another Life

The Ark Society

Golden Handshake

The Last Resort

HITMAN III Campaign

And of course onto Hitman III which directly follows the events of Hitman 2

As mentioned previously if anything major comes to contradict this listing, I’ll be sure to retroactively adjust it when able.

On Top Of The World

Death In The Family

Apex Predator

End Of An Era

The Farewell

Untouchable

And that’s everything featured in the World of Assassination trilogy!

I didn’t include the holiday missions or Elusive Targets as they make less sense than the MLM missions and if you’ve read this thing you know my problems with that.

And now for the people you don’t like to read my rambling, I present the concise TL:DR listing.