The scene of the crime in Hitman 2's Miami level.
The scene of the crime in Hitman 2's Miami level.
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Hitman 2 interview: How you’ll knock out targets in giant crowds

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hitman 2 will thrive on larger crowd sizes when the assassination game starring Agent 47 debuts later this year. That will both please and vex players, as they can hide in crowds more easily, but it will also be harder to pick off your target with so many people watching.

I played through the new Miami level of Hitman 2 at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles last week, and I interviewed Markus Friedl, executive producer of Hitman 2 at developer IO Interactive.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.