The Magnum is an unlockable firearm with a 6-round cylinder and a relatively slow fire rate. The bullets can go through multiple targets (there's no limit to the amount of lined up enemies that can be killed with a single bullet), however the slow rate of fire and single projectile leaves little room for mistakes. It's best utilized by locking onto single targets prior to firing, or killing enemies patrolling in lines.
In Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, it is first seen in Final Cut being dual-wielded by the SWAT Chief, but they cannot be used by the Pig Butcher. Magnums appear during several cutscenes, but are unusable until Release, where they are held by security guards and prisoners. The security guards in Blood Money also use magnums. The magnum is also useable against one boss in Apocalypse.
Manny Pardo is shown to carry a Magnum in his trench coat, which he apparently actively avoids using in all cases outside Death Wish. The Son's hallucinatory sequence replaces his Death Wish Magnum with a fireaxe.
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The Magnum has a 6 round cylinder, slow rate of fire and a unique ability to pierce multiple enemies, which makes it useful against lines of enemies, it is best to try to line up enemies to make the most use out of this ability.
In Hotline Miami, The Magnum has perfect accuracy, although in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number it is no longer perfectly accurate.
In Hotline Miami, The Magnum must be unlocked and can only be found at weapon spawns, making it a fairly rare weapon, in Wrong Number, it is now carried by Guards and Prisoners, making it somewhat more common than in the first game. Like most returning guns from the first game, the Magnum has decreased accuracy, likely to prevent players sniping with it.
Trivia[]
- The Magnum appears to be based on either the .44 Magnum Smith and Wesson Model 29 or the .357 Magnum Smith and Wesson Model 19, with the Colt Python being the basis for the unlock menu sprite's barrel.
- The use of the Colt Python as a basis maybe a reference to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which featured a Colt Python revolver, in a 1980's Miami Setting.
- The Club Owner has a magnum under his desk.
- This weapon is not affected by the Rami Mask's powerup.
- It's possible that every Fan except Mark (although his head wound at the end of Death Wish could be either the club or The Magnum Son was using) was confirmed to be killed by a magnum shot. Four of them are explicitly depicted as being killed with the magnum, but Apocalypse depicts Alex and Ash's death again with a fireaxe.
- In Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, The Magnum is the only one handed weapon that is held the right way up, as all other one handed weapons are held sideways (in the first Hotline Miami the Skorpion and Silenced Pistol are also held the right way up).
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