The M4 is a very powerful automatic assault rifle belonging to the AR-15 rifle family. It appears in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Blood Money. A similar version appears in Fusil G1-4 and the G2 in World of Assassination. The M4 Carbine replaces this weapon in Hitman: Contracts.
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin[]
The M4 has the highest rate of fire in this game and comes as a scoped version. It is fairly accurate, and has a decent rate of fire. A burst of fire can be enough to take down enemies, but can suffer with accuracy at range when fired from the hip.
- The Motorcade Interception: Found on certain UN soldiers.
- Obtained from consequitively achieving the Silent Assassin rating in any set of missions in a particular country. For example - 4 missions in Russia or 3 missions in Malasia with the Silent Assassin rating in a row.
- It is additionally seen being used by an Indian assassin in a cutscene.
Hitman: Contracts[]
See M4 Carbine.
Hitman: Blood Money[]
This weapon is one of the five 'personal' weapons in the game. The player automatically receives it after the training mission, Death of a Showman.
It starts off as a regular M4 but can be extensively upgraded. For a list of customizable upgrades, see M4 upgrades.
An easter egg is associated with this weapon; when examined at the pre-mission menu, a heart symbol can be seen at the end of the barrel. This cannot be seen if a silencer is attached.
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- In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, the rifle can be obtained by killing a UN soldier with the fiber wire, but finishing the level with it can cause the game to freeze on certain versions, it does work on the latest Steam and PS3 versions.
- The M4 variant used in the Hitman series is actually the M4A1, the full-auto variant of the M4 carbine.
- A similar weapon, HX AP-15, makes an appearance in Absolution.
- This is one of the weapons which, should it be used to kill a target, will not be named in the end-of-level newspapers. If you use it, in newspaper report it will be described as "Custom Assault Rifle", probably wanting to avoid trademark issues.