Guide to action: Himan Codename 47 [Part 1]

Despite the past 15 years since the release of the first part of this series, the 47th still attracts players with its “social stealth”, colorful goals and great style.
Recent Hitman: Absolution (although more than 2 years have already passed) collected different reviews. The new part has changed and altered a lot, but the classic spirit of the game is still felt.

However, even the obvious disadvantages of the last episode about the adventures of a bald killer hide a very significant plus. The desire to remember the past achievements of the series. To do this, I chose the first part of this legendary series, called Codename 47.

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The post itself will be devoted to a guide to "clean" passage, as well as tactics and tips on certain aspects of the game, but first I would like to say a few words about the game itself.

To begin with, I would like to note that I do not recommend starting your acquaintance with the series with this part. The fact is that despite the huge number of advantages and breakthrough ideas (for that time, of course), today the game can easily scare off an unprepared player.

This part was published in the harsh year 2000. At a time when games did not lead the player by the hand, but took him by the heel and threw him off a cliff into the abyss. Therefore, we need to figure out most aspects of the game with our own minds… or by reading guides on the Internet, fortunately now this is not a problem. But then, at the time "dial-up" that was another problem.

You can’t get past the controls. Today, most games have identical controls with only a few keys being different, but back then it was common to come up with completely hellish control configurations. Therefore, we got a separate key for running, turning the body, strafe, as well as assigning reloading and crouching to the number keys. However, after fiddling around with the settings, everyone assembled their own configuration.

You can also mention the stubborn system of “checkpoints” (which it is better not to count on at all and assume that it does not exist), the insane ragdoll of corpses (because of which it was very difficult to hide the body in the sewer) and much more. BUT! But we won’t.

After all, the game brought a lot of new things to the gaming industry. For example "social stealth". On which almost the entire series is now built Assassins Creed. After all, before 1947, no one tried to hide in the crowd and dress up as security.

We’ll stop here, otherwise the guide will turn into a review, and we’ll start looking at the game itself.

0. Preparation
A few words about preparing the game:
1) If you are not going to remove the game, then it is better not to install widescreen resolution, T.To. at the same time you can only see the bald head of the 47th.
2) If you want to listen to Russian speech, then I advise you to install the Russifier from 7Wolf. Although amateurish, it’s still a very high-quality translation.
3) Launching the game on new operating systems can be problematic, but if anyone wants to know about a way to launch the game on win7\8, then write in the comments.

1. Training

There’s no need to say much about this training mission. A certain person talking to us through speakers helps us escape from a certain clinic and tells us about some of the mechanics of the game. For training, we will be taught to change clothes, interact with objects and the environment, jump on balconies (which will be useful to us only ONE once per game) and shooting from a variety of weapons.

It’s simple. Listen to the hints and master the controls. After passing the sniper rifle shooting range, we go into the elevator and go up to the hall, where a security guard wanders around. We should kill him in any way convenient for you and take his clothes.

Having changed into an orderly, we go through the door and wait for another orderly to let us through the bars. All.

I would especially like to advise you to do the following for this mission:
1) Understand the controls and customize them for yourself.

Immediately change the squat from “4” to a key that is convenient for you (for example, “C”).
Running can be removed by shift, but personally I was getting used to the local control SZXC+AD. In addition, it will be faster to switch to running after dragging the corpse into a corner to run and leave the crime scene.
You can also change the keys for throwing an item and reloading

2) Try shooting with a sniper rifle, t.To. soon we will have to shoot it at a distant target.
3) Practice choking using a garrote/string in motion and quickly choking when taking it out of the “pocket”. If you have problems with this, then practice with a knife. It has more speed than a string.
4) You can also listen to the “announcer”’s remarks when picking up various types of weapons. He won’t say anything important for gameplay, but it will be useful for general development.
5) If you are confident in your abilities and are in a hurry to start a career as a killer, you can skip the shooting ranges by simply walking past to the elevator.

If anyone has problems completing this mission, then I laugh in your face you can watch a video walkthrough of this task.

2. Triad War

We received an order for the influential head of the triad – Lee Honga. But it won’t be easy to get close to him, so we are tasked with starting a war between the triads. In this task we must eliminate the ambassador "Red Dragon".

Recommended Weapon: Sniper rifle. www.drueckglueck-casino.co.uk No need to take extra ammo.

After loading is completed, we move to the elevator (check that 47 has a suitcase in his hands!). After pressing the elevator button, we immediately begin to assemble the rifle. Try to keep the rifle case as close to the call button as possible.

Then we take a comfortable position so that we can observe the space to the left of the pedestal in the center of the square. This is where we will eliminate the target when he arrives. We are waiting for him to reach the representative "Blue Lotus" and starts talking to him. Now we remove it from our sniper rifle. Better in the head, t.To. a shot to the torso may not kill the target.

ATTENTION! Don’t get confused! Representatives will arrive first "Blue Lotus", and then our target will arrive in the 2nd car. She’s dressed in red.

After a successful shot (no need to rush; aim better, you only have one try) we immediately go to the elevator and go down. While the elevator is going down, we assemble the rifle. Then we run away to the extraction point (from where we started the mission). Although they will show us a cutscene with a helicopter and an evil man with a machine gun, they won’t do anything to us if we act quickly.

The red dotted line indicates the path to the position
The green dotted line indicates the detour path
The yellow dotted line indicates the target path
Red circle indicates elevator
Red cross and red line show target location and firing line

If anyone has problems completing this mission, you can watch a video walkthrough of this task.

3. Ambush in a restaurant

In this task we will need to substitute "Red Dragon". To do this we will have to kill ALL (!) members "Blue Lotus".

Recommended Weapon: String and bomb.

We go to the restaurant and wait for the car to arrive. After that, we retreat into the alley and wait there for the driver.

ATTENTION! When the driver starts to relieve himself, there is no need to rush to kill him. A civilian will pass by us. And it’s better to get the string from the “stealth” position

We strangle him and dump him in the sewer. There we change into his suit and go to the car. We approach the driver’s door and mine it (if this function is not in the context menu, then carefully remove the bomb from your inventory). After that, we go to the exit (you can change into your suit along the way). We’re waiting for now "Lotus" gets back into the car and drives back. We wait for the car to turn towards the guard, who is standing at the turn, and detonate it (don’t forget to get the detonator in advance). All. Let’s leave calmly.

The red dotted line shows our path
The red bold dot marks the place where you can wait for the car
The green dotted line shows the path of the machine
The green rectangle… hmm… the bold thing next to the red dot shows where the car stopped
The green cross shows the location of the car explosion

If anyone has problems completing this mission, you can watch a video walkthrough of this task.

4. Restaurant massacre

Quite a difficult mission due to the need to act quickly and accurately. In this task we need to eliminate the police chief and also frame "Red Dragon".

Recommended Weapon: String, pistol with silencer and cartridges for it.

After loading, we immediately run to the restaurant and talk to the bartender there. He will give us the key to the toilet. We go there and drop the gun on the floor.

We leave the cafe and go to the meeting "To the Red Dragon". There are several options here.
1. We strangle him (or kill him with a pistol, if you didn’t leave him in the restaurant) BEFORE turning the corner and don’t hide the body anywhere. It’s 50/50 here. They may notice the corpse, or they may not.
2. We wait until he turns the corner and walks 2/3 to the next corner. We strangle him and drag him into the sewer (pray to all the gods that ragdoll will allow you to throw him there!). There we change clothes and pick up the amulet from the body.

Let’s go back to the restaurant. We talk to the boss and go to the toilet. Here we drop the amulet on the floor and pick up the pistol. And here again there are 2 ways.
1. Open the door. We shoot the boss in the head, and then destroy the window with a couple of shots. After this, we run to the evacuation point as quickly as possible.
2. Open the door and fire 3 shots. In the chef, in the representative of the "blues" and the bartender. After that, we calmly leave (if everything worked out for you, of course). Even if the corpses are found after you leave the restaurant, there will be no complaints against you.

The red dotted line shows our path
A large red circle indicates the beginning of sneaking up on the victim
A small red circle indicates a hatch where the body should be dropped

If anyone has problems completing this mission, you can watch a video walkthrough of this task.

5. Murder of Lee Hong

And here is the long-awaited task! Now our goal is self Lee Hong and he’s not going anywhere anymore.
A very difficult mission, but really memorable. And the delight after completing it is worth all the wasted nerves.

Recommended Weapon: String, pistol with silencer and cartridges for it.

We appear in a familiar place. A couple of missions ago we blew up a limousine here. But there’s no time to give in to nostalgia. Let’s go to the restaurant itself.

In the hall we move straight and go behind the guard standing with his back to the utility room. When the female guard passes us and enters the next room, we strangle the guard and drag him into the room. We quickly change clothes and go out, not forgetting to close the door behind us. If everything is done correctly, then at this time the guard should walk back past us. We go into the room where she came from.

This is a bar. We talk to the bartender and take a pass to the brothel from the counter. Let’s go to the restaurant. There are 2 waiters in this room(yellow And green). If we see that one of them is going to the toilet, and the second one is going in the other direction from the toilet, then we quickly run after the waiter to the toilet and immediately choke him. Then we pull him into the outermost booth (if you look from the entrance, then to the very right). We try to place him there so that nothing sticks out from under the booth, however, if his leg is barely visible, then it’s okay. This is one of the most dangerous moments in this task.

If the waiters don’t go anywhere yet, or go to the toilet together, then we go to the kiosk and talk to the old salesman (if you look from the doors to the kitchen, then these are the doors on the right at the end of the restaurant hall). He will hint to us that he needs to bring something. This is "something" Mushu figurine from the safe that we will need to find.

To do this, we go through the doors to the right of the kitchen and go into the right door (to the left of the door to the kitchen and toilets). There should be a guard there, but he will let us through. Then we go to the fat Chinese, or rather to the door behind him. Climbing the stairs we find ourselves in a brothel. There we talk with the old woman and follow the girl into the room. Here you can immediately kill her after talking to the room (you can do it before the conversation, but the game may be bugged and the code will not appear) or help her escape. All we need to do is run after her and help her climb the ladder. When we get to the gate, she will give us the code to the safe.

Now it’s time to find out where the safe itself is located. We go through the courtyard to the kitchen, but do not go out into the restaurant, but take the stairs down from the kitchen. At first, the basement may seem confusing to you, but after running around it a little (our clothes allow you to do this), everything will become more clear. Here we have 3 goals.

The first one stands near the room with a sniper rifle. Or rather, sometimes he stands there when he’s not patrolling the basement. First we strangle him and drag him into the room with the sniper.
Then we go back and pass by the guard standing near the door, which is where we need to go. Around the corner there will be another guard who is looking somewhere in the corridor. We quietly strangle him and drag him into the corridor where he was staring so closely.

We return to the guard with the door. Here it is important to take good aim at his head with the cursor and, quickly taking out the pistol, shoot right in the head. You can go into a niche a little to the left of him and shoot from there. We grab him and drag him into the room that he guarded so much.

So we found "American". We talk to him and listen to where the safe is (he will mention this in the dialogue). There are 3 places in total where the safe can be and each time the place is chosen randomly. Therefore, having learned where he is, we go for the figurine. The map will help us a lot with this and will show us where to go.
1) If the figurine is in pimp’s room, then everything is quite simple. We return to where we talked to her and go into the corridor as we followed the girl earlier, but we do not go into her room, but turn a little earlier. Here we will need to strangle/shoot the first guard and the figurine is ours.
2) If the figurine is in storage, then we should not go up the stairs to the brothel, but go through the small door a little to the left and we will end up in the storage room. There is one guard there. We go behind his back (he will swear a couple of times, but we don’t pay attention) and strangle him. Our figurine.
3) VIP room. There may be problems here,.To. there are two guards and one of them is walking. We carefully strangle a security guard who is walking away from his colleague during his stop. If the other one didn’t notice anything, then we jump behind him and strangle him, and if he starts to panic, then we quickly shoot him in the head. Our figurine.
4) There is a myth that there is a safe in barracks, but in my many playthroughs this has never happened to me.

We take the figurine to the old man and get poison. In a few seconds it will appear Lee Hong with his bodyguard Tsunom.

We immediately run to the toilet if we have already strangled the waiter, or we wait for the opportunity to do this. Having changed into a waiter’s clothes, we go to the kitchen and poison the soup, which we take Lee Hong, who just came to dinner. Unfortunately, his bodyguard tries the soup and dies, and Lee Hong runs away. Immediately after the cutscene, we hide the pistol and run to change back into the guard’s costume.

Let’s go back to the basement and put on clothes "Red Dragon" from one of the corpses that was left there.
Using the map as a guide, we go to the secret passage to the mansion, passing 2 elevators. So we arrived at the mansion Lee Honga.

We go up to the second floor and hide in the office Lee Honga. We wait for the right moment and strangle him. From the corpse you can take a letter (to understand the plot, I advise you to read all the pieces of paper that we find) and a sword (sometimes it does not appear). We go down to the first floor and take the elevator to the pier.
We’re sailing off into the sunset. All! Missions in China are over.

There will be no map, t.To. It’s quite difficult to mark EVERYTHING on it. Yes, and a lot needs to be done depending on the situation. Therefore, I advise you to carefully study the map and listen to what it tells you American. I recommend watching the video below.

If anyone has problems completing this mission, you can watch a video walkthrough of this task.

Instead of a conclusion
This ends the first part of the guide. If anyone is interested, I’ll write part 2 soon.
This is my first experience of writing such a detailed guide, t.h. I hope for constructive criticism.
P.S. If you have any questions about completing these or subsequent missions, write them in the comments and I will add the answers to them in a special block at the end of this post.