Speed Demos Archive - Hitman: Blood Money

Blood Money is the fourth game in the Hitman series, released in 2006 on PC, X-Box, X-Box 360 and Playstation 2. Like the first three games, levels typically require the player to assassinate one or more targets using a mixture of force, stealth, disguise, and puzzle-like manipulation of objects in the level.

Timing note: The time is calculated by manually timing the first and last stages and using the in-game times for the other stages.

Best time, Rookie difficulty: single-segment 0:24:07 by Mark 'ExplodingCabbage' Amery on 2009-04-20.

This is my single segment run of Hitman: Blood Money on Rookie difficulty. Timing is done using the in-game timer for all levels except Death Of A Showman and Requiem; there is no in-game timer on these levels so they're timed manually. Total time for the run is 24 minutes, 7 seconds. I think a runner determined to polish this could shave 15 seconds off that without too much hardship but replaying the start of the game over and over is just too demotivating for me to attempt to perfect this run, especially since it was a side project for me. The individual level times are broken down below:

Death Of A Showman: 3:05
A Vintage Year: 1:15
Curtains Down: 0:29
Flatline: 4:03
A New Life: 0:41
The Murder Of Crows: 0:42
You Better Watch Out: 1:22
Death On The Mississippi: 1:12
Till Death Do Us Part: 0:43
A House Of Cards: 5:59
A Dance With The Devil: 2:16
Amendment XXV: 1:54
Requiem: 0:26

The run only took a week to make because most levels have little opportunity to fail and the route planning was relatively simple for me (there aren't many different paths through most of the levels plus I already had Siyko's run which I'd just seen as a verifier, so I stole many of his routes). The only things you need to know to fully understand the run if you aren't too familiar with the game are:

Time spent in the inventory menu doesn't count towards the in-game timer.
On Flatline, the level is effectively on a timer after leaving the medical wing until the agent is delivered to the morgue.
The positioning of the first target I kill on The Murder Of Crows is random, and the odds of him being in the right place are 1 in 3. Furthermore, the mine throws on that level are very hard and unforgiving, and I probably played up to this level and failed on it about 15 times before producing this run, and barely ever failed anywhere else.
On You Better Watch Out, shooting Lorne's balcony makes him run away and puts him closer to the elevator I come up later.
On A House Of Cards, the level is effectively on a timer until the third target arrives.

Credit also needs to go to TI2ophy, who invented the escape trick on Death On The Mississippi. Scaring Lorne to make him move on You Better Watch Out was a tactic first used by shap47, though he used a bomb and I shoot at the balcony because that worked more reliably for me. Bombing the targets on The Murder Of Crows and killing the father through the wall with a bomb on Till Death Do Us Part were both tricks I came up with myself for this run, though I discovered after producing it that Kotti and HitGod47 respectively had invented them at the same time as me and posted them on youtube while I was working on this run. I don't know who discovered that you can lure the medical staff through the locked doors with a bomb on Flatline, or that it's possible to bomb Parchezzi from outside the Oval Office on Ammendment XXV, so unfortunately I can't give them credit here.