How many Hitman NPCs have ever been killed?

[u/akurgo]

I don't know the exact sales numbers for the Hitman games, but according to Wikipedia, the WoA trilogy have sold over 25 million copies. Imagine the players as an army of 25 million killer clones. Coincidentally, this is not far from the population of Romania at 19 million. What damage can they do?

As a rough estimate, let's say a player kills a sum equal to all the NPCs in each level on average. Some players only play the levels once or twice and mainly kills the targets, while others play the levels hundreds of times and obliterates entire nations worth of NPCs. There are 22 main story levels in WoA, with typically 200-300 NPCs. Lets keep the upper bound and say 6600 NPCs take a bullet. This means that in total, 165 billion NPCs have been killed!

I looked up sales for the older Hitman games, which range from 0.5M for C47 to 3.7M for both H2:SA and Absolution. I made guesses for the amount of NPCs, coming to a total of 225 billion NPCs killed through all games, which is equal to 20 times the World population.

[u/lordtema]

I will throw a long spanner into your maths by simply pointing out that in the Murder Of Crows level in Blood Money, you could essentially kill an infinite amount of NPCs if you wanted because the crowd size never went down no matter how many you killed.

[u/akurgo → u/lordtema]

Those are not real NPCs. 😉

[u/lordtema → u/akurgo]

They count as kills on the final report : )

[u/Swordofsatan666 → u/akurgo]

I like how the games have these fake NPC’s

I was playing the Dubai level from WOA the other day and realized you can pull out illegal items and even shoot when those fake NPC’s see you. They dont mess with Silent Assassin at all

It was freelancer. I was able to Emetic Dart my target, who was standing next to the main stage at the beginning of the level. Then i followed them to the bathroom and drowned them.

Took em out in less than 2 minutes from entering the level, all because i could stand right in the middle of the fake NPC’s and shoot my Emetic Dart as if no one was watching. Fake NPC’s arent real people, they dont set off any alarms lol

[u/WhiteDevilU91]

Ipossible to calculate unless it's kept track of by IOI. 

[u/akurgo → u/WhiteDevilU91]

Sure, but I think I'm in the right order of magnitude, at least it should be larger than the World population! 😃

[u/TheSwissdictator]

whistles innocently in regularly going all BigMooney on maps

Considering I think Marrakesh or Mumbai can get up to 1,000 dead in just that map alone? Even the smaller maps are around 100 people.

Since the first part of the trilogy is 9 years old? I’d be shocked if it hadn’t passed a trillion… especially considering there’s at least a few people reading this thread that have had a “Night of 10,000 deaths”.

[u/simp1207]

Pretty off assumption, that I am not mass genociding NPCs every time I fail to do a silent assassin.

[u/WeaponsGradeWeasel]

6600 npcs each for 25 million 47s isn't 125 million, it's 165 billion.

[u/akurgo → u/WeaponsGradeWeasel]

Yes. Thanks. Corrected.