HITMAN 2 STEALS CROWN FROM MARIO BROS

[ 15 October 2002 ]

Eidos Interactive has stolen the crown from Nintendo's Super Mario by escalating its Hitman 2: Silent Assassin to numero uno in the all-formats ELSPA charts compiled by ChartTrack, the watchdog responsible for monitoring and reporting on sales of music, video and software via retailers' EPOS systems.

Created by Io Interactive, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin - the follow-up to the BAFTA award nominated Hitman: Codename 47 - begins with Hitman's arrival in a Sicilian monastery. His attempt to distance himself from his violent past is detoured as he is discovered by a Russian crime lord and tricked into returning to his trade. Caught in the middle of a ring of deception, Hitman soon discovers that he has been manipulated and is now a target himself - of a highly trained ex-Spetsnaz assassin.