Hitman: Absolution
46 Achievements
1,000
15-20h
Jack of All Trades
You collected all 20 play styles
30
How to unlock the Jack of All Trades achievement in Hitman: Absolution - Definitive Guide
All of these should unlock after 5 kills, but some may take a few more. Civilians can be used for many of these styles. Note that you cannot make any progress towards achievements, and play styles in the prologue mission - A Personal Contract. Please try not to do anything you don't need to in the Prologue, as you may not unlock the achievement. EDIT: It seems that some people can, but some people still find that they can't unlock styles in this mission.
Two great levels for completing styles are Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year and Welcome to Hope.
All of these styles have been completed on Professional - Hard. You can complete all styles on Easy though, so if you're having any difficulty, feel free to drop the difficulty down a notch.
The game is supposed to give you a notification at the top of the screen, to inform you about completing a play style. Unfortunately, this notification doesn't always appear. If you feel you have completed a play style, drop back to the main menu and check the play styles menu, as it may have unlocked.
A few people would like to see an at-a-glance list of the levels where you can unlock multiple play styles. Of course, you can unlock play styles in different missions, but this is a list of the missions the tips correspond to (missions listed in alphabetical order):
Attack of the Saints - Cornfield
Pitcher, Spook
Birdie's Gift
Gunslinger, Tank
Dexter's Industries - Factory Compound
Jinx, Maestro
Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year
Brutus, Dynamite Harry, Dynasty Warrior, Jinx, Undertaker
King of Chinatown
Bank Robber, Berserker, Brutus, Dynamite Harry, Piano Man
Rosewood - Orphanage Halls
Needle Pumper
Run For Your Life - Shangri-La
Reaper Man
Streets of Hope
Jinx, Maestro, Spook
Terminus - Upper Floors
Piano Man, Sandman
Welcome to Hope
Bartender, Champion, Glass Cannon, Viking
(Note; This is now completed, but I'm open to alternative strategies as I'm only going off of what I found to be the simplest methods in the earlier levels.)
Needle Pumper - Get kills with a syringe. Load up Rosewood - Orphanage Halls, and proceed to the lab (there is a fuse in here). Pick up the syringe on the desk on the far side and start killing enemies with them. I used the X button kill, but you can also unlock it by throwing it. It took me 6 kills to unlock this.
Undertaker - You need to hide bodies, dead or alive. I loaded up Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year to accomplish this task. I took out the guy who is threatening the store owner, the cop who comes to investigate and the store owner himself. I dumped 2 bodies in the bin, and 1 in the hole. I then took out the guy who is buying the information from the police, the cop he is with, and the cop upstairs. I then dumped the 3 of them and the playstyle unlocked.
Piano Man - You need kills with the fibre wire. Load up any level where you have your fibre wire (The King of Chinatown or Terminus are good), and kill as many people as you can silently.
Reaper Man - Kill targets with point-shooting. I couldn't get this to work until I loaded up Run For Your Life - Shangri-La. I stole a gun from an officer, then proceeded to walk through the building, point-shooting every officer I ran into. It took me 7 kills to unlock it. This appears to be quite buggy.
Sandman - You need to subdue enemies. You can accomplish this on any level, though Terminus - Upper Floors is a good one. When you exit the lift (elevator), head left and around the corridors until you find a radio, and a laundry chute next to it. Grab the radio, and place it near the corner (the corner is the one with the guy stood in front of a window). Turn on the radio and move away from it, so the guy will come to investigate. Let him turn it off and then subdue him and drop him down the chute. Keep switching the radio back on and repeat this process 4 more times (you may need to move the radio to the opposite corner).
Dynasty Warrior - Get kills with a katana. Your first experience with a katana is in Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year. It is located next to the tattoo shop. Grab it and start hacking away at the fleshy things that are trying to run away. The tattoo shop is located up the back right of the level from where you start. If you take a left and continue down till you go down the first set stairs (Not including the stairs you have to go down at the start of the level) then take a right, you will find the shop just past one of the food stalls. If you know the alley with the milk float type thing parked (The one you can rig to the electricity) the stall is just at the entrance to there. (Directions from Slaverty.)
Dynamite Harry. You need to blow people up with explosives. Load up The King Of Chinatown and grab the explosives next to the King's car. Drop the explosives near a group of guards, and detonate. Alternatively, load Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year and grab the explosives from the room that the target goes to buy information.
Gunslinger - Another rather buggy one. You need to kill enemies with a revolver. The best place for this is Birdie's Gift. When you start, turn around and walk to the door. On your left is a Mustang Snub. Take this and find somewhere to cover (I went through the vent in the Duck Shooting Range, so that I take out everyone in the shooting range. Now shoot up the place. I had to do this 4 times, with a mixture of head shots and body shots for this to finally unlock mid-battle.
Bartender - You need to hit people in the face with a bottle. Load up Welcome to Hope (you will be using this level for a few styles), and grab a bottle. Start a barfight, and then walk through hitting people with a bottle (don't throw it, just press X next to people).
Champion - Same as bartender, but just press X while you have nothing equipped.
Berserker - You need to kill people with an axe or tomahawk. Load Welcome to Hope, start the fight and make your way up to the bartender. Don't talk to him, just go to the left of the bar and grab the tomahawk from the dartboard. Now go to town on the people in the bar. They will return fire, so you will need to be quick. If you would like a few less bullet-holes in your suit, load up The King of Chinatown and find the axe towards the back of the level (need confirmation of exact location), and start killing civilians.
Brutus - Kill people with knives. Load Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year (or The King of Chinatown) and grab a knife from one of the market stalls (I grabbed the one in front of the tattoo shop (where the target asks the owner to come with him). Now, make like Jason and stab everyone up.
Viking - Kill people with clubs or bats. Load Welcome to Hope, walk into the restroom and grab the baseball bat from the stall on the left. Start the bar fight and smack the crap out of some people with the bat.
Tank - Load up any level on Professional and get yourself in hot water. Birdie's Gift has many gun-toting fools that will gladly rip you apart.
Pitcher - You need to achieve 5 thrown kills without causing any alerts. A good mission to do this is Attack of the Saints - Cornfield.
There is a knife right at the beginning to take, and if you get the scarecrow outfit, you can stand in the corn fields and they will walk right by you as long as you're not moving. This made Pitcher super easy as you can throw the knife at the ones who get spread out far enough so nobody is alerted. (Credit to Gackt.)
Spook - You need to get kills silenty with a silenced pistol. Load up a level where you have your Silverballers (Shaving Lenny - Streets of Hope for instance), and isolate some people. Then go up behind them and press X to Eliminate them with a shot to the back. Slaverty (in the comments) mentioned that he could only unlock it when he had 1 Silverballer equipped, and not the double Silverballers. Another note from CaMmY95 mentions he killed about 7 people and it didn't work, so he went upstairs in the donut shop and then activated the checkpoint, reloaded straight away and it unlocked. Try it if your style won't unlock.
Alternate strategy, from ChubbySweetHead: I found Spook better on the Attack of the Saints - Cornfield level. Just make sure that you get the scarecrow outfit at the start . I picked off the first 3 people in the level (1 by the car the other 2 in the field to the left of the car) and it unlocked, job done.
Jinx - Perform 2 accident kills in one level. You can get a few accident kills in Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year or Shaving Lenny - Streets of Hope. I need to find out if you can reload a checkpoint and get the same accident kill.
Alternate strategy, from Santar0s: Dexter Industries - Factory Compound checkpoint. Walk up the stairs and out the cave and follow the guard you can garrote him when he stops to pee. then sneak over to the bridge and push two guards without being spotted. I was in a guard uniform so I can confirm that you do not need to be in the suit.
Maestro - You need to expend a clip of your sniper rifle, earning only head shots and without reloading your weapon. As I haven't unlocked the last mission, I loaded Shaving Lenny - Streets of Hope. I grabbed a bottle from behind me, opened the door to the doughnut shop and threw the bottle in the doorway. This makes the guard move from the stairs, so you can go up and grab the sniper rifle. Now, find a good vantage point (upstairs of the convenience store or even the alley you start in are good places) looking towards the garage. The will 3 police officers and your target there (if he isn't, wait for him to be). Kill all of those and then the police officer who will run at you from the store. Precision head shots are helpful, as they slow the targets down.
Alternate strategy, from Wreax: Great spot for Maestro. Worked first time for me. Use level select and choose Dexter Industries - Factory Compound. Soon as you start, head in the only direction you can. There's a guard ahead who will walk away. Pick up the sniper rifle next to him and shoot him. The rest can be got from the guards on the bridge who stand still for long enough periods so it's pretty hard to miss. Use the wooden stairs on the right from the rifle for a better vantage point.
Glass Cannon - Shotgun kills. Load up Welcome to Hope, start the fight, walk into the restroom, enter the vent and grab the shotgun from the shelf. Walk out and open fire on some unlucky people. If you are having trouble with it, try getting the kills in a very short space of time.
Alternate strategy, from Slaverty: Also, with glass canon, if you double back through the vent once you have the shotgun, take cover on the right cubicles standing up, aim out over the swing doors and blast as many folk in the head with the first shot, this unlocked it in one shot for me.
Bank Robber - Take Human Shields. Load up The King of Chinatown and walk to an area where there isn't a guard presence, and draw your weapons. Get behind people and press A to take them as a human shield. Press X to then knock them out and repeat on other people.
I edited the notification about the Prologue after reading your comment, as I thought I may not have been entirely clear. Please accept my apologies, if I caused any grief.
Edit: The only one that is not their is undertaker-subdue and hide 5 body's. Which that should come naturally anyway.
Edit 2: Updated link as the previous one does not work anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKagdY9zc4nuI-Jv4KvnW...
Do Not Do The JACK OF ALL TRADES on Prologue !
Make sure to do them where you get a score counter towards the progress you make.
I used the cornfield for the majority of all my challenges and what little was left to clean up.
! Every title must be realized at one time (and on the same level), the conditions do not accrue between every death.
I do not know if it works in easy, I made everything in normal to be sure.
Needle pumper : Use a syringe to kill 5 enemies / civilian, you find 2 syringe in the mission "Rosewwood, Orphenage halls".
Undertaker : Hide 5 bodies , very easy to obtain. "The king of Chinatown" is a good level.
Piano man : Use the piano wire, a cable or other to strangulate 5 enemies / civilian, can be obtained in all the levels.
Reaper man : Use a single shooting reflex to kill 8 enemies / civilian at the same time, it was easier than i thought. In "The king of Chinatown", after the big door, go on the first alley to the left, kill 8 civilians is pretty easy and nobody can see you.
Sandman : Subdue 5 enemies/civilians, can be obtained in all the levels.
Dynasty warriors : Use Katana to kill 9 enemies / civilian, my first try was in the level "Hunter and hunted,Chinese new year", the katana is not far from the place where one of your targets urinates (and dies );but you'll find a katana in "Blackwater Park, The penthouse".
Dynamite Harry : Kill 5 enemies / civilian with explosives, in "The king of Chinatown", you'll find explosives near the king's car.
Gunslinger : Use a revolver to kill 15 enemies / civilian , very easy too, go in the level "Hunter and hunted, Chinese new year", and enjoy
Bartender : Use a bottle against 5 enemies / civilian, don't throw it, a very good level is "Welcome to Hope".
Champion : Beat 5 enemies / civilian with your hands."Welcome to Hope".
Berseker : Use an axe to kill 5 enemies / civilian, you have two axe in the mission "Rosewood, Orphenage halls".
Brutus : Use a knife to kill 5 enemies / civilian, there are many levels with knife, my favorite is "Attacks of the saints, Cornfields".
Viking : Use a baseball bat to kill 5 enemies / civilian , you find a bat in the WC in "Welcome to hope".
Tank : Receive damages 20 times. I'm perplexed about how to do this, but i suppose that it is necessary to get knocked and of take bullets.
Attention don't do this in the prologue mission
Pitcher : You must to do 5 thrown kills on 5 enemies / civilian without being detected . You can easily make that in "Rosewood", but the best mission is "Attack of the Saints, Cornfield" , there is a knife near a car at the start, and don't forget to take the scarecrow disguise to the right from the beginning.
Spook : Use a silent pistol to kill 3 enemies / civilian without being detected. "Attack of the Saints, Cornfield", take the sacecrow disguise, and kill the three fisrt enemies, 1 behind a car, and two in the field.But for more security, kill 1 or two enemies more.
Jinx : Perform 2 accident kills in one level. "Hunter and hunted, Chinese new year" is a good mission.
Maestro : Use a rifle sniper to make 5 shootings in the head without reloading your weapon. "Dexter industries, Factory compound" , you find a sniper rifle to the right at the start next to the enemy who leaves when you approach and fifteen bullets on the point of observation to the right.
I made the trophy "The Russian Hare" in the same time, just reload the checkpoint again and again, it taken me 3 times.
Glass canon : Use a shotgun to kill 3 enemies / civilian without receiving any damages. Some mission in "Hunter and hunted" are good for this, or "Welcome to hope".
Bank robber : Use 3 human shields without killing them. "The king of Chinatown", doing this on civilians, press X and then knock them.
Some titles did not unlocked when i make the conditions, but they are unlocked when i've looked in my stats.Check your progression in the main menu, unlocks, playstyles.
Hope this help.Be indulgent, and excuse my poor english.
All of these should unlock after 5 kills, but some may take a few more. Civilians can be used for many of these styles. Note that you cannot make any progress towards achievements, and play styles in the prologue mission - A Personal Contract. Please try not to do anything you don't need to in the Prologue, as you may not unlock the achievement. EDIT: It seems that some people can, but some people still find that they can't unlock styles in this mission.
Two great levels for completing styles are Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year and Welcome to Hope.
All of these styles have been completed on Professional - Hard. You can complete all styles on Easy though, so if you're having any difficulty, feel free to drop the difficulty down a notch.
The game is supposed to give you a notification at the top of the screen, to inform you about completing a play style. Unfortunately, this notification doesn't always appear. If you feel you have completed a play style, drop back to the main menu and check the play styles menu, as it may have unlocked.
A few people would like to see an at-a-glance list of the levels where you can unlock multiple play styles. Of course, you can unlock play styles in different missions, but this is a list of the missions the tips correspond to (missions listed in alphabetical order):
Attack of the Saints - Cornfield
Pitcher, Spook
Birdie's Gift
Gunslinger, Tank
Dexter's Industries - Factory Compound
Jinx, Maestro
Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year
Brutus, Dynamite Harry, Dynasty Warrior, Jinx, Undertaker
King of Chinatown
Bank Robber, Berserker, Brutus, Dynamite Harry, Piano Man
Rosewood - Orphanage Halls
Needle Pumper
Run For Your Life - Shangri-La
Reaper Man
Streets of Hope
Jinx, Maestro, Spook
Terminus - Upper Floors
Piano Man, Sandman
Welcome to Hope
Bartender, Champion, Glass Cannon, Viking
(Note; This is now completed, but I'm open to alternative strategies as I'm only going off of what I found to be the simplest methods in the earlier levels.)
Needle Pumper - Get kills with a syringe. Load up Rosewood - Orphanage Halls, and proceed to the lab (there is a fuse in here). Pick up the syringe on the desk on the far side and start killing enemies with them. I used the Square button kill, but you can also unlock it by throwing it. It took me 6 kills to unlock this.
Undertaker - You need to hide bodies, dead or alive. I loaded up Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year to accomplish this task. I took out the guy who is threatening the store owner, the cop who comes to investigate and the store owner himself. I dumped 2 bodies in the bin, and 1 in the hole. I then took out the guy who is buying the information from the police, the cop he is with, and the cop upstairs. I then dumped the 3 of them and the playstyle unlocked.
Piano Man - You need kills with the fibre wire. Load up any level where you have your fibre wire (The King of Chinatown or Terminus are good), and kill as many people as you can silently.
Reaper Man - Kill targets with point-shooting. I couldn't get this to work until I loaded up Run For Your Life - Shangri-La. I stole a gun from an officer, then proceeded to walk through the building, point-shooting every officer I ran into. It took me 7 kills to unlock it. This appears to be quite buggy.
Sandman - You need to subdue enemies. You can accomplish this on any level, though Terminus - Upper Floors is a good one. When you exit the lift (elevator), head left and around the corridors until you find a radio, and a laundry chute next to it. Grab the radio, and place it near the corner (the corner is the one with the guy stood in front of a window). Turn on the radio and move away from it, so the guy will come to investigate. Let him turn it off and then subdue him and drop him down the chute. Keep switching the radio back on and repeat this process 4 more times (you may need to move the radio to the opposite corner).
Dynasty Warrior - Get kills with a katana. Your first experience with a katana is in Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year. It is located next to the tattoo shop. Grab it and start hacking away at the fleshy things that are trying to run away. The tattoo shop is located up the back right of the level from where you start. If you take a left and continue down till you go down the first set stairs (Not including the stairs you have to go down at the start of the level) then take a right, you will find the shop just past one of the food stalls. If you know the alley with the milk float type thing parked (The one you can rig to the electricity) the stall is just at the entrance to there. (Directions from Slaverty.)
Dynamite Harry. You need to blow people up with explosives. Load up The King Of Chinatown and grab the explosives next to the King's car. Drop the explosives near a group of guards, and detonate. Alternatively, load Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year and grab the explosives from the room that the target goes to buy information.
Gunslinger - Another rather buggy one. You need to kill enemies with a revolver. The best place for this is Birdie's Gift. When you start, turn around and walk to the door. On your left is a Mustang Snub. Take this and find somewhere to cover (I went through the vent in the Duck Shooting Range, so that I take out everyone in the shooting range. Now shoot up the place. I had to do this 4 times, with a mixture of head shots and body shots for this to finally unlock mid-battle.
Bartender - You need to hit people in the face with a bottle. Load up Welcome to Hope (you will be using this level for a few styles), and grab a bottle. Start a barfight, and then walk through hitting people with a bottle (don't throw it, just press Square next to people).
Champion - Same as bartender, but just press Square while you have nothing equipped.
Berserker - You need to kill people with an axe or tomahawk. Load Welcome to Hope, start the fight and make your way up to the bartender. Don't talk to him, just go to the left of the bar and grab the tomahawk from the dartboard. Now go to town on the people in the bar. They will return fire, so you will need to be quick. If you would like a few less bullet-holes in your suit, load up The King of Chinatown and find the axe towards the back of the level (need confirmation of exact location), and start killing civilians.
Brutus - Kill people with knives. Load Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year (or The King of Chinatown) and grab a knife from one of the market stalls (I grabbed the one in front of the tattoo shop (where the target asks the owner to come with him). Now, make like Jason and stab everyone up.
Viking - Kill people with clubs or bats. Load Welcome to Hope, walk into the restroom and grab the baseball bat from the stall on the left. Start the bar fight and smack the crap out of some people with the bat.
Tank - Load up any level on Professional and get yourself in hot water. Birdie's Gift has many gun-toting fools that will gladly rip you apart.
Pitcher - You need to achieve 5 thrown kills without causing any alerts. A good mission to do this is Attack of the Saints - Cornfield.
There is a knife right at the beginning to take, and if you get the scarecrow outfit, you can stand in the corn fields and they will walk right by you as long as you're not moving. This made Pitcher super easy as you can throw the knife at the ones who get spread out far enough so nobody is alerted. (Credit to Gackt.)
Spook - You need to get kills silenty with a silenced pistol. Load up a level where you have your Silverballers (Shaving Lenny - Streets of Hope for instance), and isolate some people. Then go up behind them and press Square to Eliminate them with a shot to the back. Slaverty (in the comments) mentioned that he could only unlock it when he had 1 Silverballer equipped, and not the double Silverballers. Another note from CaMmY95 mentions he killed about 7 people and it didn't work, so he went upstairs in the donut shop and then activated the checkpoint, reloaded straight away and it unlocked. Try it if your style won't unlock.
Alternate strategy, from ChubbySweetHead: I found Spook better on the Attack of the Saints - Cornfield level. Just make sure that you get the scarecrow outfit at the start . I picked off the first 3 people in the level (1 by the car the other 2 in the field to the left of the car) and it unlocked, job done.
Jinx - Perform 2 accident kills in one level. You can get a few accident kills in Hunter and Hunted - Chinese New Year or Shaving Lenny - Streets of Hope. I need to find out if you can reload a checkpoint and get the same accident kill.
Alternate strategy, from Santar0s: Dexter Industries - Factory Compound checkpoint. Walk up the stairs and out the cave and follow the guard you can garrote him when he stops to pee. then sneak over to the bridge and push two guards without being spotted. I was in a guard uniform so I can confirm that you do not need to be in the suit.
Maestro - You need to expend a clip of your sniper rifle, earning only head shots and without reloading your weapon. As I haven't unlocked the last mission, I loaded Shaving Lenny - Streets of Hope. I grabbed a bottle from behind me, opened the door to the doughnut shop and threw the bottle in the doorway. This makes the guard move from the stairs, so you can go up and grab the sniper rifle. Now, find a good vantage point (upstairs of the convenience store or even the alley you start in are good places) looking towards the garage. The will 3 police officers and your target there (if he isn't, wait for him to be). Kill all of those and then the police officer who will run at you from the store. Precision head shots are helpful, as they slow the targets down.
Alternate strategy, from Wreax: Great spot for Maestro. Worked first time for me. Use level select and choose Dexter Industries - Factory Compound. Soon as you start, head in the only direction you can. There's a guard ahead who will walk away. Pick up the sniper rifle next to him and shoot him. The rest can be got from the guards on the bridge who stand still for long enough periods so it's pretty hard to miss. Use the wooden stairs on the right from the rifle for a better vantage point.
Glass Cannon - Shotgun kills. Load up Welcome to Hope, start the fight, walk into the restroom, enter the vent and grab the shotgun from the shelf. Walk out and open fire on some unlucky people. If you are having trouble with it, try getting the kills in a very short space of time.
Alternate strategy, from Slaverty: Also, with glass canon, if you double back through the vent once you have the shotgun, take cover on the right cubicles standing up, aim out over the swing doors and blast as many folk in the head with the first shot, this unlocked it in one shot for me.
Bank Robber - Take Human Shields. Load up The King of Chinatown and walk to an area where there isn't a guard presence, and draw your weapons. Get behind people and press A to take them as a human shield. Press Square to then knock them out and repeat on other people.
There are a total of 20 different play styles that you earn. They can be viewed in the Unlocks section from the main menu. There is a hidden amount you must complete for each, so just keep doing the task to gain them. A lot of them can be done on civilians in crowded areas such as Chinatown, so don't make them harder than they have to be. They unlock and show you a notification when you meet the requirements while in the mission.
- Needle Pumper: Stealth Kill with Syringes 5 times. You can technically be spotted and hide somewhere, then stealth kill people as they are hunting you. There is a syringe in the mission "Rosewood" right by the first fuse you must collect as part of an obejective.
- Undertaker: Hide 5 bodies. As you kill enemies, just remember to hide them.
- Piano Man: Kill 5 people with the garrot (your wire) via steath.
- Reaper Man: Use Point Shooting to kill 8 enemies. This seems tough at first but it's not. Civilians count and shotguns can actually be used for Point Shooting. In Chinatown this works very well if you have a shotgun and full instinct.
- Sandman: Subdue 3 people. This should come naturally as you play.
- Dynasty Warrior: Get 9 kills with Katana.
- Dynamite Harry: Get 5 kills with remote explosives.Extremely easy in Chinatown. In the first Chinatown you come across on the second level, there are explosives in an alley on the left near a yellow car (go up the stairs). Grab the remote detonator and throw the explosives into a crowd and detonate it.
- Gunslinger: Get 15 kills with revolver.A revolver is any gun with a revolving barrel (the circular middle piece). Start up Birdie's Gift which starts you in a gun shop. The back wall has a Mustang Snub. Grab it and run around trying to find ammo for it (stock it at 60). Now Kill some people and run up the stairs past the employee only swinging door. Hold off and kill people when they come up.
- Bartender: Get 5 kills with bottles.Easiest to do on the mission Welcome To Hope. The area you start in is a bar and has tons of bottles. Go into the bathroom and flip the lever to cause a bar fight. No go and grab bottles attack people with them.
- Champion: 5 hand based combat kills. An extremely easy way to get this is to walk into a crowded location like Chinatown and just keep pressing as you move around, killing everyone with your hands.
- Beserker: Get 5 kills with fire axe.
- Brutus: 5 stealth kills with knives.
- Viking: Get 5 kills with blunt weapon. A good spot is in Hunter and the Hunted. When you get to Chinatown, stick to your left until you get to stairs leading down. By a trash can you will find a sledgehammer. Go kill people in the crowds or police with it. Try to make sure it is swinging and hitting them, not choking them.
- Tank: Take damage 20 times. Should come naturally.
- Pitcher: Kill 5 people with thrown objects undetected (knife, axe, screwdriver, etc).A good area to get this is the last area of Rosewood. You start by a knife and there are 2 enemies to kill with it. Then the next area has 2 enemies and another knife. Then after that you can get your last.
- Spook: Get 3 kills with silenced gun undetected.These must be stealth kills (as in pressing while behind an enemy).
- Jinx: Get 2 kills via accidents. Many levels have "accidents" waiting to happen. There are a few which will kill multiple people.
- Maestro: Get 5 sniper rifle kills via headshots in a row.
- Glass Cannon: Get 3 shotgun kills while remaining undamaged.Works pretty well in crowds, as you can get 3 kills in one shot (crowds with lots of civilians).
- Bank Robber: Use 3 human shields without killing them. This works best on civilians in a crowded area. Just grab the person using when prompted to use as a human shield. Now quickly press to knock them out (so that they do not die from people shooting at you). Do so a few more times and you should see it unlock.
There is 20 play styles in the game that unlock after you complete a certain task within the game or do a certain action many times in a row. You can check your progress by looking at play styles in the statistics section of the main menu. Here's a list of all 20 and the best place to get them:
- Needle Pumper - 5 kills in a row with the syringe.
You first encounter the syringe in the medicine area downstairs during the mission Rosewood, the syringe is on a desk. Pick it up and walk up behind or in front enemies and press , repeat 5 times.
- Undertaker - Kill somebody, hide body in container etc. Repeat 5 times.
You can get this in pretty much any mission. All you need to do is subdue or kill enemies and dump them somewhere hidden. I got this during the cornfield part during the mission Attack of the Saints.
- Piano Man - 3 kills in a row with the fibre wire.
I got this on the mission Dexter's industries, factory compound. You have to cross a bridge and there's multiple enemies on the bridge. The first one is by the sniper rifle, kill him with the wire. Next, go onto the bridge and look at the two guys standing there. Wait for the far one to walk off then kill the one who stayed put. Now kill the one that walked off. If you didn't get spotted at all, the playstyle will unlock.
- Reaper Man - Instinct point shooting kills.
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. You start off with your instinct bar half full. Go up to the pagoda and initiate point shooting on the 3 police officers and the king. They should all die in one shot if you aimed correctly. If you still have instinct left just go around and kill each police officer and other civilians with point shooting. You can refill your instinct bar by picking up the evidence on the table in the pagoda.
- Sandman - Silently subdue 3 enemies in a row.
To subdue an enemy go up behind them while unarmed and press , then mash (Don't snap neck). There is plenty of chances to get this and I personally got this during the mission Attack of the Saints, cornfield. Subdue the guy kneeling by the car and the two in the cornfield to the right, hit the car first before you go in so the two split.
- Dynasty Warrior - 5 kills in a row with the katana.
The first time you encounter the katana is during the Chinese New Year part of the Hunter and Hunted mission. As soon as you enter the area go towards where the sports car was during the 2nd mission. On a stand next to a chef who is standing still is the sword.
- Dynamite Harry - Multi-Kill will Explosive
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. Go down the alleyway on the left hand side with the sports car, kill the cop here silently. Now go up the small stairs and pick up the explosives. Bring it to the pagoda, what you want to do is throw it into the center of the pagoda and detonate it straight away. I got 5 kills I think and the play style unlocked.
- Gunslinger - Kills with the revolver
I got this during the mission Birdie's gift. What you want to do is pick up the mustang magnum that is by the entrance. Now all you have to do is keep killing the people in the gun shop with this gun only, eventually it will unlock. It's random when it unlocks, but it should take 5-10 kills to get it.
- Bartender - 5 Kills with bottles in a mission
During the mission Welcome to hope you want to start a bar fight. Once you start the fight all you have to do is pick up bottles and smash them over peoples heads with . It took me 5 kills in a row with the bottle to unlock the play style.
- Champion - Kills with hand-to-hand combat
During the mission Welcome to hope you have to start a bar fight in order to advance. Once you start the fight just start fighting with the people in the bar until it pops. There is loads of people to fight with and many will initiate a fight with you.
- Berserker - 5 Kills in a row with an axe.
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. Go to the right hand side of the map where the drug dealers apartment is. You will notice boxes to the left of the entrance to the alleyway, stuck in the far box is an axe. You now want to kill 5 enemies in a row with it. I killed the police man down the alleyway, the drug dealer, a random police officer that approached the dead cop and two more police officers near the pagoda.
- Brutus - 5 kills in a row with a knife
I got this during The King of Chinatown mission. Pick up the knife by the fugu fish poison. All you have to do now is go on a knifing spree, civilians count towards the total. Don't throw the knife, just walk up to people and press .
- Viking - 5 kills in a row with a baseball bat.
During the mission Welcome to hope you want to start a bar fight. Where you turn the electric off to start the fight there is a cubicle with a baseball bat in. Pick it up and go into the bar and just keep hitting people until it unlocks.
- Tank - Take a lot of damage.
Load up any mission and just keep getting shot until it unlocks. I personally loaded up Birdie's gift as everybody is armed and it's easy to get them to shoot you. Just keep getting shot until the play style unlocks, you may get this by general gameplay.
- Pitcher - 5 stealth kills with thrown sharp objects in a row
I got this in the cornfield during the mission Attack of the Saints, which is by far the easiest way to get the play style. You start off near one of the saints and some enemies, hide behind the car until they leave saying sweep the cornfield in a 2x2 formation. One of them will stop and kneel behind a car, there's an agency knife right by him. Pick the knife up and throw it at his head, kill number 1. Now look to your right and you'll see two enemies in the cornfield itself, creep in and from afar throw the knife at the guy at the back, kill number 2. The other guy will notice his dead friend and will either walk to the right or directly forwards looking for a culprit, as he's walking away get behind him and throw the knife at his head, kill number 3. You now want to creep to the dirt path where an enemy should be walking up and down, kill him when he is about midway from the start of the path and the house so the saint doesn't see, kill number 4. For the final kill throw it at either guard that is guarding the path, play style unlocks.
- Spook - 3 silent animated kills with a silenced hand gun, don't get spotted.
I got this on the mission Dexter's industries, factory compound. You have to cross a bridge and there's multiple enemies on the bridge. The first one is by the sniper, go up behind him with your pistol out and press . Next, go onto the bridge and look at the two guys standing there. Wait for the far one to walk off then kill the one who stayed the same way you did the first guy. Now kill the one that walked off the same way. If you didn't get spotted at all, the play style challenge will unlock.
- Jinx - kills via accidental means, using environment.
I got this during the Chinese New Year part of Hunter and Hunted. I killed one of the targets with the gas pump (Located near where the exit was on the 2nd mission). I then went where the sports car was in the 2nd mission and waited until the next target walks down the alleyway with a chef. When they are under the 500lb hoisted weight suspended in the air, shoot the metal chain. It should kill both and the play style will unlock.
- Maestro - 5 head shots in a row with a sniper, without reloading.
I got this during Absolution, cemetery entrance. What you want to do is aim at the at guys at the back, make sure you get headshots. You need to fire your entire 5 clip round into 5 enemy heads, you can't miss any shots or reload. To help aim, hold down halfway then release it fully to shoot. The trophy will unlock after the 5th headshot.
- Glass Cannon - Kills with the police shotgun
During the mission Welcome to hope go into the toilets and wait for the police officer to leave, then climb through the vent. On the other side of the vent is a shotgun, near the evidence collectible. Pick it up and return to the bar. now just keep shooting people until it unlocks, the bar is filled with people so it shouldn't take long to unlock.
- Bank Robber - Knock out 3 human shields in a row
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. All I did was grab civilians and knock them out, that's it. To make a human shield, get your pistol out and go up behind somebody and press . Once you have a hold of them press to knock them out.
There is 20 play styles in the game that unlock after you complete a certain task within the game or do a certain action many times in a row. You can check your progress by looking at play styles in the statistics section of the main menu. Here's a list of all 20 and the best place to get them:
- Needle Pumper - 5 kills in a row with the syringe.
You first encounter the syringe in the medicine area downstairs during the mission Rosewood, the syringe is on a desk. Pick it up and walk up behind or in front enemies and press , repeat 5 times.
- Undertaker - Kill somebody, hide body in container etc. Repeat 5 times.
You can get this in pretty much any mission. All you need to do is subdue or kill enemies and dump them somewhere hidden. I got this during the cornfield part during the mission Attack of the Saints.
- Piano Man - 3 kills in a row with the fibre wire.
I got this on the mission Dexter's industries, factory compound. You have to cross a bridge and there's multiple enemies on the bridge. The first one is by the sniper rifle, kill him with the wire. Next, go onto the bridge and look at the two guys standing there. Wait for the far one to walk off then kill the one who stayed put. Now kill the one that walked off. If you didn't get spotted at all, the playstyle will unlock.
- Reaper Man - Instinct point shooting kills.
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. You start off with your instinct bar half full. Go up to the pagoda and initiate point shooting on the 3 police officers and the king. They should all die in one shot if you aimed correctly. If you still have instinct left just go around and kill each police officer and other civilians with point shooting. You can refill your instinct bar by picking up the evidence on the table in the pagoda.
- Sandman - Silently subdue 3 enemies in a row.
To subdue an enemy go up behind them while unarmed and press , then mash (Don't snap neck). There is plenty of chances to get this and I personally got this during the mission Attack of the Saints, cornfield. Subdue the guy kneeling by the car and the two in the cornfield to the right, hit the car first before you go in so the two split.
- Dynasty Warrior - 5 kills in a row with the katana.
The first time you encounter the katana is during the Chinese New Year part of the Hunter and Hunted mission. As soon as you enter the area go towards where the sports car was during the 2nd mission. On a stand next to a chef who is standing still is the sword.
- Dynamite Harry - Multi-Kill will Explosive
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. Go down the alleyway on the left hand side with the sports car, kill the cop here silently. Now go up the small stairs and pick up the explosives. Bring it to the pagoda, what you want to do is throw it into the center of the pagoda and detonate it straight away. I got 5 kills I think and the play style unlocked.
- Gunslinger - Kills with the revolver
I got this during the mission Birdie's gift. What you want to do is pick up the mustang magnum that is by the entrance. Now all you have to do is keep killing the people in the gun shop with this gun only, eventually it will unlock. It's random when it unlocks, but it should take 5-10 kills to get it.
- Bartender - 5 Kills with bottles in a mission
During the mission Welcome to hope you want to start a bar fight. Once you start the fight all you have to do is pick up bottles and smash them over peoples heads with . It took me 5 kills in a row with the bottle to unlock the play style.
- Champion - Kills with hand-to-hand combat
During the mission Welcome to hope you have to start a bar fight in order to advance. Once you start the fight just start fighting with the people in the bar until it pops. There is loads of people to fight with and many will initiate a fight with you.
- Berserker - 5 Kills in a row with an axe.
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. Go to the right hand side of the map where the drug dealers apartment is. You will notice boxes to the left of the entrance to the alleyway, stuck in the far box is an axe. You now want to kill 5 enemies in a row with it. I killed the police man down the alleyway, the drug dealer, a random police officer that approached the dead cop and two more police officers near the pagoda.
- Brutus - 5 kills in a row with a knife
I got this during The King of Chinatown mission. Pick up the knife by the fugu fish poison. All you have to do now is go on a knifing spree, civilians count towards the total. Don't throw the knife, just walk up to people and press .
- Viking - 5 kills in a row with a baseball bat.
During the mission Welcome to hope you want to start a bar fight. Where you turn the electric off to start the fight there is a cubicle with a baseball bat in. Pick it up and go into the bar and just keep hitting people until it unlocks.
- Tank - Take a lot of damage.
Load up any mission and just keep getting shot until it unlocks. I personally loaded up Birdie's gift as everybody is armed and it's easy to get them to shoot you. Just keep getting shot until the play style unlocks, you may get this by general gameplay.
- Pitcher - 5 stealth kills with thrown sharp objects in a row
I got this in the cornfield during the mission Attack of the Saints, which is by far the easiest way to get the play style. You start off near one of the saints and some enemies, hide behind the car until they leave saying sweep the cornfield in a 2x2 formation. One of them will stop and kneel behind a car, there's an agency knife right by him. Pick the knife up and throw it at his head, kill number 1. Now look to your right and you'll see two enemies in the cornfield itself, creep in and from afar throw the knife at the guy at the back, kill number 2. The other guy will notice his dead friend and will either walk to the right or directly forwards looking for a culprit, as he's walking away get behind him and throw the knife at his head, kill number 3. You now want to creep to the dirt path where an enemy should be walking up and down, kill him when he is about midway from the start of the path and the house so the saint doesn't see, kill number 4. For the final kill throw it at either guard that is guarding the path, play style unlocks.
- Spook - 3 silent animated kills with a silenced hand gun, don't get spotted.
I got this on the mission Dexter's industries, factory compound. You have to cross a bridge and there's multiple enemies on the bridge. The first one is by the sniper, go up behind him with your pistol out and press . Next, go onto the bridge and look at the two guys standing there. Wait for the far one to walk off then kill the one who stayed the same way you did the first guy. Now kill the one that walked off the same way. If you didn't get spotted at all, the play style challenge will unlock.
- Jinx - kills via accidental means, using environment.
I got this during the Chinese New Year part of Hunter and Hunted. I killed one of the targets with the gas pump (Located near where the exit was on the 2nd mission). I then went where the sports car was in the 2nd mission and waited until the next target walks down the alleyway with a chef. When they are under the 500lb hoisted weight suspended in the air, shoot the metal chain. It should kill both and the play style will unlock.
- Maestro - 5 head shots in a row with a sniper, without reloading.
I got this during Absolution, cemetery entrance. What you want to do is aim at the at guys at the back, make sure you get headshots. You need to fire your entire 5 clip round into 5 enemy heads, you can't miss any shots or reload. To help aim, hold down halfway then release it fully to shoot. The trophy will unlock after the 5th headshot.
- Glass Cannon - Kills with the police shotgun
During the mission Welcome to hope go into the toilets and wait for the police officer to leave, then climb through the vent. On the other side of the vent is a shotgun, near the evidence collectible. Pick it up and return to the bar. now just keep shooting people until it unlocks, the bar is filled with people so it shouldn't take long to unlock.
- Bank Robber - Knock out 3 human shields in a row
I got this on the mission The King of Chinatown. All I did was grab civilians and knock them out, that's it. To make a human shield, get your pistol out and go up behind somebody and press . Once you have a hold of them press to knock them out.
1. Needle Pumper - you need to kill 5 people with a syringe. On the Rosewood level in the shelter on the 2nd floor.
2. Undertaker - hide 5 bodies in a row (in drawers, cabinets, throw them off a cliff).
3. Piano Man - you need to kill with a string, 3 in a row seems to be enough.
4. Reaper Man - you need to kill 7-10 people in quick shooting, no matter civilian or enemy.
5. Sandman - put 3 or more people to sleep in a row (after being captured through don't break your neck but reap )
6. Dynasty Warrior - Kill a certain number of people with a katana, no matter civilian or not. The Katana can be found in the Chinese New Year level, next to the Tatoos store.
7. Dynamite Harry - you need to blow people up with explosives.
8. Gunslinger - you need to kill 15 non-civilians with a revolver in one mission, you can take it at the Gun Shop level.
9. Bartender - you need to break bottles on 5 people, no matter civilian or not, easy on the Fireballs level.
10. Champion - you need to beat 5 people, it’s also easy to take in Fireballs.
11. Berserker - you need to kill people with axes, as is the case with a katana.
12. Brutus - the same thing, only with a knife.
13. Viking - the same thing, only with the help of a painless bat or other club.
14. Tank - start the level on Professional or start a fight with weapons and try to survive by shooting left and right.
15. Pitcher - you need to kill 5 times in a row by throwing a knife, screwdriver, etc. without raising any alarm. The easiest way to do it is in the corn fields, dress up as a scarecrow and go to the nearest hut with a screwdriver in it, and quietly throw it out of the bushes, then pick up the screwdriver and do it again.
16. Spook - you need to quietly kill 3 people in a row with a pistol with a silencer. Approach with the gun at the ready from the back and press .
17. Jinx - you need to make an accident.
18. Maestro - kill 5 times in a row with a sniper shot to the head without raising the alarm. At the level Operation Sledgehammer - Fair, you start on the second floor there is a sniper, at this level there is also the Surgical Precision Test, after completing part 2 of the test you will be given a rating.
19. Glass Cannon - you need to kill 5 people with a shotgun, it doesn’t matter whether they are civilian or not.
20. Bank Robber - you need to take a civilian 3 times as a shield. At the Karol level of Chinatown, run up to the officer, take out your weapon, light yourself up and someone will start following you, people will start running away, run up to anyone and press and so on 3 times.
That's it, I hope it helped. Thanks to Big1962 and gear_ru for their help.
1.Acupuncture - kill 5 people with a syringe.
2. Undertaker - hide 5 bodies in a row (in boxes, cabinets, throw off a cliff)
16.Ghost - just kill 3 in a row.
18.Maestro - kill 5 in a row with a sniper shot to the head.
2: Undertaker – Hide 5 corpses in a row. Easily done in any episode.
3: Piano Man (Pianist) - Strangle several people in a row with a fiber optic string. Easily done in any episode.
4: Reaper Man (Grim Reaper) - Kill 8 people at the same time. Easy to do in a corn field.
5: Sandman - Neutralize three people in a row without breaking your neck. Easily done in any episode.
6: Dynasty Warrior (Way of the Samurai) - Kill 5-8 people in a row with a samurai sword. Easily done at the "Chinese New Year" or "Penthouse" level.
7: Dynamite Harry - Blow up several people with explosives or fuel at a gas station. Easily done on par with a marijuana plantation.
8: Gunslinger (Free shooter) – Kill 12-15 people in a row with a revolver. Easily done in the Weapon Shop level.
9: Bartender (Bartender) - Hit 5 people in a row with a bottle. Easily done on the Fireballs level.
10: Champion - Beat up 5 people in a row with your fists. Easily done on the Fireballs level.
11: Berserker – Kill 5-7 people in a row with an axe. Easily done on the Rosewood level in the orphanage.
12: Brutus (Brutus) - Kill several people in a row with a knife without being detected. Easily done in a corn field.
13: Viking - Kill several people with a baseball bat.
14: Tank - Create massive chaos with explosions and gunfire and survive.
15: Pitcher - Kill 5 people in a row without raising an alarm, by throwing a knife at them, for example. Easily done in a corn field.
16: Spook (Ghost) - Kill 3 people in a row with a pistol with a silencer while sneaking up from behind. Easily done in any episode.
17: Jinx (Evil Eye) - Set up an accident.
18: Maestro (Maestro) - Without raising an alarm, kill 5 people in the head with a sniper rifle. Easily done at the Factory Territory level.
19: Glass Cannon - Kill 5 people at once with a shotgun.
20: Bank Robber - Use a civilian as a human shield 3 times.