Here you have a wide variety of weapons and tools to choose from. You will choose your weapons according to how you have decided to go about the hit. You must take into consideration the cost, noise level, and size of a weapon when selecting it. You have different weapons at your disposal depending on your mission. Through the game you will use everything from Japanese Dyabun knives and piano wire to M-16s and AK-47s. You must beware of how much you can carry however, as you may be able to conceal a couple Uzis but you'll have problems trying to walk around carrying an AK-47. There are 17 weapons in Hitman, all of them with different tactics of use aquatinted with them. While you may use a silenced pistol for a stealth mission you'd be better off having used a knife to slit the throats of your enemies with out others' notice. 

The graphics in Hitman are absolutely gorgeous. Supporting textures of up to one megabyte each the Glacier engine is breath taking. Cloth moves realistically and guns cock back when shot. And I'm not talking like "slight bounce backwards" cocking, I mean full blown Matrix style shooting. You fire your Beretta to see the top cock back as the bullet is ejected from a cone of fire coming from the barrel of the gun. A small cloud of smoke makes it way up dissipating in the air. Bullet holes appear in the exact spot of where you shoot, even on your enemies. Bullets ricochet, smoke curls, vases shatter into dozens of pieces, and all with out a drop in frame rate. The Glacier engine also does great real-time lighting, with the light from near misses zipping over your bald head making your shiny dome lit for a second. Water from pools reflects on the walls just like in real life. The character models are very high poly with there usually being an average of 2 to 5 dozen enemies per mission. The sound is just as exceptional with bullets making different sounds as they ricochet off different objects. Although the speech of your character sounds cheesy most of the time others' speech is extremely well done with highly believable, if not sometimes overly accentuated accents.