No matter what IO Interactive say, the rumours of Hitman 5 keep on popping up. This time it’s our old friend and source of many leaks, LinkedIn.
Theo Engell-Nielsen now works for Saxo-Bank but used to work for IO Interactive. Lets take a look at his CV:
Mini Ninjas lead for PC sku, tech & rendering group, games programmer, level scripter, level coder, AI coder, GUI design/coding, PC/PS2/XBOX360.
Finished titles:
“Hitman 4: Blood Money” (released 2006)
“Kane & Lynch: Dead Men” (released 2007)
“Mini Ninjas” (released 2009)
“Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days” (2010)
“Hitman 5” (2011)
Also on LinkedIn we have Damien Simper who worked for IO between 2006 and 2009 where he was a “Cut Scene Animator for over 20 fully finished game cut scenes,” and also lists his work as lead animator on – yep – Hitman 5.
Finally we have Rasmus Hoejengaard who worked on ‘Hitman #47’, ‘Hitman 2: Silent Assassin’, ‘Freedom Fighters’, ‘Hitman: Contracts’, ‘Hitman: Blood Money’ and a not yet released title.’
Anyone like to bet the “not yet released title” had ‘Hitman’ in the name?
Add this evidence to the OPSM Podcast saying ‘I’ve seen things, I know it’s coming,’, Eurogamer reporting the game is out in 2011 and an actor saying he has worked on the game, and we can safely assume that Hitman 5 does exist – rather handy when it’s number 78 in our top 100 games of 2011.
shields_t
Mini Ninjas is a bit of a curveball in there seems a little out of place among Kand and Lynch and Hitman titles.