Hitman 3 speedrun: How I beat the Dubai stage in 24 seconds

I consider my first time through a Hitman stage to be the canonical run. That’s the real thing. Discovering a location and all of its mysteries and possibilities is a great way to spend a couple of hours. But if you replay a destination enough times in a game like Hitman 3, you can discover a few shortcuts. So while it took me more than 2 hours to beat the Dubai stage the first time, I’ve since whittled that down to under 30 seconds.

In the clip above, you can see my attempts to do this speedrun. Credit to Frote7 on YouTube (with a hat tip to Philip Boyle on Twitter) for discovering the route. It only took me three tries to get to 24 seconds, which is well behind the 17-second world record. So the skill hurdle here isn’t huge — except that I’m still only No. 35 in the world.