http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/11/actors-resume-lists-rocksteady-developed-hitman5/

"According to the resume of actor Mark Sloan, Rocksteady Studios – the London-based developer behind Batman: Arkham Asylum – is bringing its British sensibilities to the next Hitman game, titled, well, Hitman5. Sloan's resume indicates that he performed motion capture work for the game.

Both of Rocksteady's other games, Urban Chaos: Riot Response and Batman: Arkham Asylum, have been for publisher (and partial owner) Eidos, so it isn't much of a stretch to believe that the developer would get a crack at a major Eidos property like Hitman. Presumably, series developer IO Interactive has its hands full with the Kane & Lynch sequel and Mini Ninjas.

What's harder to believe is that the same Mark Sloan is responsible for the "Soft Mark," "Pushy Mark," "Chatty Mark," and "Menacing Mark" audio performances in the resume. Such range!"

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Seems very reasonable, having played the Batman demo, I'm certain Rocksteady are the right people to pull it off, seeing as IO are busy, and I also think that getting some fresh people into will be a good thing.

Another multiplat with no graphical differences between the versions!

Hitman, although it's unique and has many positives suffers from a few problems, mainly bad AI. I've never played anything before Blood Money, but I actually liked the Operatic missions and settings.

Although I won't mind some reality settings (like being in a really bright florescent lit office or something), I like to play, instead of going for 100%, for style in my killings.

Replacing the WWI gun is stylish in its own, but why not also time your sniper shot with the actor's motions? (If I was actually making a movie, I'll show the audience 47 standing at the control panel, his figure outlined by the bright spotlight, and just when you think he's about to shoot the actor, boom! You see a gun chamber and smoke, but as the camera zooms out, you see the other actor in shock. And as the senator runs down, with the opera music continuing, and ironically following the script of the original opera, 47 prepares to shoot for real this time, and as he cooly walks out you can see the 2 lovers, almost like they were in an embrace, surrounded by blood.

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They need:

Better AI and social stealth

Less restriction and more open ranking system (does an agency care about the repair cost of the hotel, if you blow up an bomb in the target's suitcase?)

More open environment that allows for all types of assassination techniques.