Hitman's Holiday Hoarders mission lets you murder the thugs from Home Alone

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Yesterday our Ian Higton played through Hitman's seasonal Holiday Hoarders mission, which features a nod to a holiday classic that you may have missed. For its two targets, Harry "Smokey" Bognato and Marv "Slick" Gonif , are based on the robbers tortured by Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.
In fact, the Hitman mission acts as a sequel of sorts to the films as the mission briefing notes that the pair are "American nationals now living in Paris after a series of botched break-ins and related violent crimes forced them to leave their home country."
Astute viewers may recall that the robbers' surnames have been changed - they were known as Harry Lime and Marv Merchants in the films - but that makes sense for people on the run from the unholy wrath of Culkin's Kevin McCallister.
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