10 Best Stealth Video Game Missions (According To The Internet)

Score breakdown: 7 appearances in 16 critic lists (18 series appearances), and 3 appearances in 6 fan lists. Best mission decided by fan poll with 60.4% out of 374 votes.

Say the word ‘Hitman’ and for most gamers what comes to mind is a sun drenched sea and a stunning Italian coastal town right out of a postcard, a place where you can forget all about assassination and just bask in the gorgeous scenery. Indeed, that very beauty is the go to reason for its popularity.

We are, of course, talking about Sapienza.

And yet all of Hitman’s signature open-ended gameplay is here: there are no fewer than thirteen creative ways to assassinate but one of your targets, and a further seven to deal with the other. There are no fewer than twenty disguises you can don and with them people you can impersonate.

The sheer variety is joyously bewildering.

But in creating a near flawless representation of the elegance and glamour of the legendary Amalfi coast, a place synonymous with glory days of the jet-set, Sapienza is a textbook example of how a compelling setting can elevate even the best game play to the truly sublime.

Hokkaido and Marrakesh were nominated in terms of pure gameplay, but Sapienza is the perfect melding of challenge and visuals, and why it ranks among the greatest stealth levels of all time.