Hitman 3 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

The same strategy from Hitman 1 still works. From the Main Menu select “Campaigns” > “Prologue” > “The Final Test”.

Step 1: From the start sneak through the area on the left side and you will see a pipe at the end of the building.

Step 2: Wait until the two mechanics pass by the pipe or else they will see you. Climb the pipe as soon as they walk into the building. Enter the room on the upper floor through the window.

Step 3: Place your pistol on the floor by the door (press  in the inventory to drop it). This will distract the guard.

Step 4: Now the guard goes away with the weapon and the target will be alone in the room with you. Take him out and hide the body in the bathroom box.

Step 5: Go back the way you came, throw coin to distract the guard underneath the pipe.

Escalations have 5 levels total. It starts at level 1 and goes up one level each time you beat it. This also adds a new completion requirement each time.

Below is the solution for the Level 5 Escalation, which also works for all lower level escalations (but you can skip some steps on lower levels).

Step 1: From the start head to the right, pick up the crowbar in the starting area and climb over the fence on the right. Sneak through the grass and climb over the next fence on the far right. Then climb through the first window on the left. Take a right turn and go through 2 doors to the locker room. Equip the Airplane Mechanic disguise that’s sitting on the bench on the left side of locker room (Note: you shouldn’t have killed any enemies so far, can sneak past everyone with your starting outfit).

Step 2: Head upstairs to the room with the safe. Moses Butusov should be in this room with another guy (if he’s not there just wait). Shoot both of them quickly (shoot Moses in the head first, then quickly shoot the other unarmed man).

Step 3: Equip the Soviet Soldier uniform from Moses (you need this for Step 5). Store both corpses in the box in the bathroom.

Step 4: Use crowbar on the safe and loot it.

Step 5: Pick up the rifle Moses dropped. Go find Cilas Netzke and place the rifle on his path so he picks it up (if he’s standing on balcony, place it outside balcony door. If he’s headed towards the office that has the safe, place it inside this room). But don’t place it where other soldiers can see it, you want only Netzke to see it. When Netzke sees the gun on the floor he will pick it up and brings it down to the armory. Walk after him. In the armory you shoot him in the head with your silenced pistol (must be wearing Soldier uniform which you got from Moses). It will just be him in the armory, nobody else ever goes there. Now drag his body over to the locker room where you got the Mechanic disguise and place the body in the locker. Sometimes the two enemies in here will see you, sometimes they don’t. If they see you, quickly pick up Netzke’s disguise before putting him in the locker and escape the same way you came (through the grass, over the fences).

Remember in this Level 5 Escalation you must hide all bodies within 120 seconds and can’t knock out any enemies (but killing enemies is fine). The above combines all requirements efficiently.

From the Main Menu select “Game Modes” > “Contracts” > “Create Contract” > select a map, for example “The Final Test”. Now mark a single target right at the start of the map ( + to mark). Kill the target and exfiltrate. Give you contract a name.

Now replay your contract to set any score. Try to be a bit slow or mess around to get a score that you can easily beat. Replay your contract yet again to beat your previous score and the trophy will unlock.

No need to play someone else’s contract. So in total you’ll play your own contract 3 times: Once when you create it, once to set a score, once to beat your score.

Contracts are just different variations of the main maps where you need to kill a specific NPC (scan for that NPC by holding to see them in red). There may be some other side requirements which will be shown in the top left corner of the screen.

Firearm takedowns means using your pistol or other weapons to take down a mission target. Accidents you get frequently by following the Mission Stories (which you need for other trophies anyway). Explosive kill you get automatically during the contract creation tutorial by marking some enemies as targets and placing gas canisters and/or mines near them. You could quickly do all these in contract creation because this mode lets you choose which NPC you want to be the target.

Alternatively, you can also view your best Playstyle ratings on the Leaderboards. It counts to replay the same mission(s) multiple times with different playstyle rankings.

Some common examples of Playstyle Names (there are more than these, just to give you an idea what they are):

• Silent Assassin
• Trapsmith
• Clean ICA Assassin
• Phantom ICA Assassin
• Gravity Manipulator
• Master Trap Assassin
• Grim Reaper
• Accident-Prone Assassin
• Headhunting Assassin
• Hired Gun
• Melon Man
• Shadow ICA Assassin
• Nutcracker
• Necksnapper
• Neckbreaking Assassin
• Allround Shooter
• Skillful ICA Assassin
• Versatile Hands-On Assassion
• Pistoleer

There are far more than 10 Playstyles. This should come automatically over time while working on other trophies, so don’t even worry about this and just focus on the Masteries in each level.

• Kill Ingram with his oil-rig model (Challenge: Black Gold Eye): Follow the Bird of Prey storyline to the end. At the end when you are in a room with Ingram and he stands in front of a desk, you can push him from behind to impale his head on a small golden oil rig statue. There’s a guard in the room who will notice, but you can quickly knock him out afterward.
  
• Push Stuyvesant over a rail (Challenge: Vertical Approach): Follow the (In)Security storyline to the end. At the very end, after you finish the knife-throwing demonstration, Stuyvesant will send his bodyguard away and stands at the ledge of the roof. Push him from behind. Alternatively, you can wait for him to meet with a business partner at the Black Gold Bar (map area name) on Floor 01. After his meeting he leans on the railing and can be pushed over, but the guards will be alarmed with this method.
  
• Kill them in the air (Challenge: Mile High Drop): Follow the steps for Keep Your Eyes Peeled. At the end the two targets will jump off a roof and glide away with parachutes. Shoot the top of their parachutes while they are gliding in the air, which will destroy the parachute and makes them fall to their deaths. They are easy to hit, any weapon will do. For example, pick up one of the assault rifles from the guards. The only slight trouble is the guards who are with them, but you can take them all out. Stand on the roof where they want to jump off, and kill all guards before they go through the door to the roof. The targets may “freeze” for a little while, but if you run away they will continue their scripted path to the jump-off point.
  

Mission: On Top of the World (United Arab Emirates, Dubai)

First you need at least one banana. Having more bananas will make it slightly easier – in the steps outlined here we’ll come across 2 bananas. It’s recommended that you pick “Meeting Room” as the starting location (if you have sufficient Mastery Level for it). This will spawn you in the Meeting Room on Floor Level 0. A banana is on the table where you spawn. This is optional, we’ll find a second banana in Step 2.

Step 1: Get the Evacuation Keycard from the Security Room on Floor Level 3. There’s a wall safe in this room, the combination is 6927. In the safe is the Evacuation Keycard. An easy way to get there is to aim your camera at the windows in the “Staff Area” (Maintenance Room) on Floor Level 0. This opens the windows and you can hang on the ledge outside and climb up. When you reach Floor 3 with this route, you will run into a lone Penthouse Guard in the corridor. You should subdue him to get his disguise. It allows you to move around the upper levels freely. Then enter the Security Room and open the safe (6927) for the Evacuation Keycard.

Step 2: In the same Security Room is a banana, on the table next to the sleeping guard. Pick it up and keep it in your inventory.

Step 3: Head upstairs to the Penthouse, Floor Level 4 & 5. Each floor has a card reader (both are connected by a white wire when you hold ). You must use the Evacuation keycard on both card readers in quick succession. Don’t let too much time pass in between. This will initiate the evacuation sequence.

Step 4: Wait for your targets to put on the skydiving suits for their escape. They will first go to the helipad but this doesn’t matter because they can’t leave this way. They will backtrack and put on their skydiving suits automatically – just stay out of their way and don’t get spotted. You should make a Manual Save when the voice tells you “They’ve Left the Helipad”.

Step 5: Now the targets are wearing the required skydiving suit and are on their way to jump off the roof. They will always jump off the exact same point. It’s best you follow them all the way to the end the first time to see the exact point where they jump off (edge of the roof). Remember this exact spot where their feet leave the ground for the jump. This is where you’ll want to place the banana. Reload your Manual Save and plant the banana on the floor at the jump-off point. You do this by equipping the banana in your hands and holding +  > press to place the banana when it has a green outline (just aim at the floor). If done correctly it places the banana peels to make the floor slippery. Throwing the banana does NOT work! You have to place it with +  . Now just wait for one of the targets to run into it. You may want to make another Manual Save just before placing the banana so you can reload and readjust if necessary. Having multiple bananas makes it easier because you can cover more ground in banana peels (but one banana works fine if you place it correctly). Remember to place the peels on the very edge of the rooftop where the targets jump down. If you place it too far away from the ledge, some of their guards might step into them instead which destroys your banana peel trap (they are one use only).

The trophy will unlock immediately when the target slips on the banana peels (before finishing the mission).

• (In)Security
• Bird of Prey
• How the Mighty Fall

• Eliminate Alexa in her private room (Challenge: Sweet Dreams): The private room (named map area) is on Floor 02. You enter it from Alexa’s Office. It looks like a soundproof room with red padding on the walls. Requires a Bodyguard Disguise to get there unnoticed. Alexa spawns in this room early in the mission. If you get there very quickly she will usually be there in the first 2 minutes of the mission. She also walks around from one room to the next over time. Or the easiest method: simply knock her out, drag her body in there and then do the kill.
  
• Shoot her from the roof (Challenge: Keep Calm and Aim): First you need to bring a Sniper Rifle (unlocked from high Mastery levels). Before the mission equip “ICA Briefcase MK III” in your gear and put the Sniper in there. Select the Briefcase from your inventory and press to pull the Sniper from it. Now you must shoot the 3 crow nests in the trees of the Graveyard behind the manor. It’s the first step of storyline Her Final Resting Place. Do NOT harm the Undertaker and do not alert him! After shooting the 3 crow nests, the Undertaker will automatically call for Alexa (your target). Now head up to the rooftop. You enter it from the 3rd Floor in Alexa’s Office. There’s an open window at the staircase, you can climb up the ledge and shimmy to the window. See the first image below with the red arrows. From there you’ll need to wait for Alexa to meet with the Undertaker at the Graveyard and shoot her with the Sniper Rifle.
  
• Put her to rest (Challenge: Grave Mistake): Complete storyline Her Final Resting Place. At the end she will stand in front of a grave. Push her in and use the shovel to fill up the grave with dirt.
  

Mission: Death In The Family (England, Dartmoor)

Step 1: Complete the Mission Story “A Day to Remember”. You can track it from the Menu to see the objectives in the top left corner. Here’s a summary – first you must head to the garden area and eavesdrop on the photographer by the fountain (if you have high enough Mastery, choose Garden as starting area to save time). Follow the photographer. Just a few seconds after he starts walking you can throw a coin behind some bushes to lure him. Take him out (unseen) and use his disguise. Get a crowbar from behind the greenhouse and use it on the electricity box to remove a fuse (waypoint), then use it on the fusebox connected to the camera (waypoint). Take a test picture of the maid and she will call the rest of the family.

Step 2: While you’re waiting for the family to arrive, grab the wrench from the fountain and use the crowbar to open the greenhouse door. In the greenhouse you can combine flowers with Distillation Lab Equipment to make poison (important). Now return to the fountain and wait for the family to arrive. Do NOT shortcircuit the fountain, you can’t have Alexa die yet!

Step 3: Take photos of the family. Then rush to the Trophy Room (named on map, ground floor, top left corner of manor). Take out the single bodyguard in here and get his disguise to blend in (any other Bodyguard disguise is fine too, doesn’t have to be this specific one). Now that you have the correct disguise, go to the Sitting Room (named on map, ground floor). There’s a single glass in the Sitting Room. Put the poison into the glass (this is the most important step for the trophy). It’s okay if other Bodyguards see you putting the poison in. They will get suspicious and run after you, but you can run a lap around the manor to lose them.

Step 4: Alexa and her family will gather in the Sitting Room. Alexa will hold a speech. Now simply wait for 6 minutes (can stay in the Sitting Room or follow Alexa, doesn’t matter). It’s scripted where Alexa will go next. She’ll stand in the Foyer for a while, then she goes to the Library to make a phone call. Then she comes back to talk to the family again and drinks the poison. It will kill her instantly. Wait a few seconds until Emma inspects the poisoned glass. This will unlock the trophy.

To summarize; the important part is that you put the poison in Alexa’s drink, but she will only go to drink it if you did the photoshoot first.

• Means, Motive and Opportunity
• Her Final Resting Place
• A Day to Remember

• Tremain has a rifle accident (Challenge: The 47th Trick in the Book): Agent Tremaine is on Level 2 of the Biker Clubhouse and has a Sniper Rifle mounted next to him. Take it and shoot him with it.
• Thames is hit by a crane (Challenge: Crane Trauma): Thames is walking outside in the area called “Back Entrance” (Floor 00). After your first playthrough of the mission, you can see all targets marked with a red crosshairs icon on the map (including their names when scrolling over them). There is a crane where Thames walks. Put a fuse in the console under the crane (one is found in a yellow dumpster next to two guards very closeby between the Back Entrance and the Biker Hangout). Then climb up the ladder behind the crane and you can control its movement. Wait until Thames walks straight in front of the crane, then release the cargo. The spot where the crane light is shining is the “kill” area of the impact.
   
• Montgomery & Banner light up the club (Challenge: How the Turntables): In the middle of the Club at Level -1, there is a walkway (with one of our targets on it). Next to it, you can use a screwdriver to short-circuit the Light Tree Installation. Once you have, go down to Level -2 and get a DJ-Disguise from the spare DJ near the stage-booth. Go in the booth and dismiss your colleague to take over. Every few minutes, the Agent on the Walkway will be joined by another Agent on his usual patrol-route. This is when you want to overload the system and fry both of them at once.

Mission: Apex Predator (Germany, Berlin)

This requires you to solve the Feat “Concrete Ornithology”. There are 7 graffiti of yellow chicken around Berlin. They are all close together. Use your camera to photograph them. After a few seconds it should update your challenge counter in the top right corner how many you have found. Only move on to the next after it updated the counter. The trophy only pops after exfiltrating the mission.

#1

#2 & #3

#4 & #5

#6

#7

Mission: Apex Predator (Germany, Berlin)

Step 1: Reach Hirschmüller’s Office without killing his guards. The office is on Level -2 (bottom floor of night club, top right corner). Below is a map image where you can see the area name. You can enter the office through the open door on the right (no need to use the locked keycard door).

Step 2: In the corner of the office is a record player. Turn it on to lure the club owner (Hirschmüller) to you. You can lean against the box and subdue him when he’s around the corner.

Step 3: Take his disguise and pick up the phonebook he dropped. Hide his body. Then interact with the phone on the bar counter. If you didn’t kill his important guards, then Montgomery will answer your call. As a rule of thumb; if you didn’t knock out / kill anyone other than Hirschmüller it should always work. If the phone beeps and nobody picks up, you need to replay the mission and get here without taking anyone else down (it’s fine to run past people guarding restricted areas and have them become suspicious of you, they are easy to shake off in the long stairway leading down).

Step 4: Wait for the ICA Agent to arrive. Then interact with the chair at the desk to sit down. Some more ICA Agents will arrive. Personally, I waited until at least one of them had a red crosshairs icon fill up above their head. Then I kicked over the table and shot everyone right away (didn’t let the dialogue play out). Kill 5 ICA Agents here including Montgomery to fulfill the mission requirement.

Step 5: Exfiltrate. The trophy unlocks after the mission is over.

• Kill Hush in his “relaxing chair” (Challenge: Deprivation): The device in the Therapy Room (Level 5, Door Code 2552) has a missing fuse, which can be picked up two floors below in the same building. It will be in plain sight when going down, but is behind a chain-link-fence, so you need to walk around a little bit. Once it is entered, Hush will sit down in the chair, the next time he checks the maintenance progress. When he sits down, shoot him or throw a lethal object at him. Alternatively, you can simply drag Hush’s unconscious body onto the chair and then shoot him. The chair should start greeting Mr. Hush when you drag his body close enough.
• Electrocute Royce (Challenge: A Shock to the System): Easiest method is to knock out Imogen Royce. Then drag her unconscious body to the Break Room (Floor -02, inside ICA Facility). There’s a water tank there and a socket under it. Put Royce’s body there, shoot the water tank to create a leak, then shoot the socket to electrocute Royce.
• Shoot both with one bullet (Challenge: Bullet Points): Finish the storyline All-Seeing Eyes. At the end Royce and Hush will meet up in the Lotus Passage, to which you have free aim from the vantage point where you shot the drones in that storyline. Wait until Royce moves behind Hush and kill both in one shot. Alternatively, as soon as their meeting starts you can rush over to the Lotus Passage and shoot them from up close. Or you could knock them out and try to drag their bodies in a way that lets you shoot both while they are unconscious.
  

Mission: End of an Era (China, Chongqing)

Step 1: Play through Mission Story Certainty Principle. At the end Royce will lead you to a computer terminal where you can fire 3 people from their jobs.

Step 2: Fire the 3 people in this order: Fire Alicia Reynolds (top right) > Fire Jeremy Bolt (bottom left) > Fire Sharon Reed (top left) AFTER Alicia turned off the safety mechanism inside the core & AFTER Royce has entered the core.

Alicia will deactivate the safety lock in the core before she leaves her job (must quickly fire Jeremy so he doesn’t stop her).
Jeremy (security guard) will leave his post so Alicia can enter the core with nobody there to stop her. On the bottom right screen you can then see Alicia flip a switch inside the core (important).
Sharon will cleanse the core before leaving her post. Because Alicia turned off the safety mechanism, the cleansing fire will kill Royce.

Only fire Sharon after Royce has entered the core (as seen on the bottom right screen). Then Sharon activates the cleansing fire and it burns Royce. This also counts as an accident kill.

• Certainty Principle
• Impulse Control
• All-Seeing Eyes

• Eliminate Vidal with the grape crusher (Challenge: Pulp Friction): The grape crusher is in the Fermentation Room (Floor 00). You can either follow The Tour storyline and Vidal will automatically stand under the grape crusher. Make sure you manipulate it beforehand and activate it when she stands underneath. Another easier alternative is to knock her out and drag her under the crusher, then manipulate it and activate.
  
• Yates with poisoned Grand Paladin (Challenge: To Loyalty): First you must have unlocked lethal poison and equip it in the mission loadout. Now your first priority must be to put the poison in the glass Yates will drink from. It’s at the front of the table (not the glasses on side of table), found in the Villa Basement on Floor 03. After placing the poison you must complete the Mission Story “Closing Statement” (track from menu). It requires you to disguise as the Sommelier and bring the bottle of 1945 Grand Paladin Wine to the meeting in the Villa Basement. Let the meeting play out till the end and Yates will drink the poisoned wine. It won’t work with non-lethal poisons or rat poison (green). It has to be a lethal poison (red).
• Both with gas (Challenge / Feat: Secondary Fermentation): This takes a bit of preparation. Pick up the lethal poison from the Villa Bathroom (Floor 05) or equip it in your mission loadout (unlocked from Berlin Mastery Level 10). Now get rid of the two persons in the Tech Room (Floor 01). Familiarize yourself with the way from the ventilation system to the Security Office above, as you need to be rather quick a bit later on. Follow The Tour Storyline to the end, which is when the Don will enter the Barrel Room, while Tamara is still there. You want to throw something as a distraction so Tamara doesn’t follow you around. When both targets are in the Barrel Room, you quickly need to head back to the Tech Room (Floor 01), poison the ventilation system and turn it on and run upstairs to the console in the Security Room (Floor 02) to reroute the airflow into the Barrel Room.

You get this for completing the Mission Stories “The Tour” > “Closing Statement”. See trophy Rich Harvest. When “Closing Statement” finishes the trophy will pop (it ends with Diana stabbing Don, then you must ram the knife deeper into him and pick up the Agent 47 Suit on the coat rack in the same room).

• The Tour
• Closing Statement
• Eyes on Target
• Over the Top

Mission: Untouchable (Romania, Carpathian Mountains)

Take out one guard with a silenced pistol, one with a shotgun, one with an SMG.

• Silenced Pistol: There’s only one way to get this. Halfway through the train you will find a crafting table, interacting with it crafts a normal pistol into a silenced pistol (it’s also displayed in the Challenge Feat “The Gun Muffler”).
• Shotgun: Dropped by enemies near the end, also found in the first shortcut.
• SMG: Dropped by enemies near the end, also found in the first shortcut.

Mission: Untouchable (Romania, Carpathian Mountains)

At the very end of the train where you meet your target “Arthur Edwards” there will be a Serum on a table. Pick up the Serum and keep it in your hands for 1 Minute (do not inject Arthur with it!). After a minute, Arthur will say something and you can inject yourself with it ( ). Do this to get this trophy. It also unlocks a secret game ending and the redacted Feat Challenge “A New Father”.