Trivia / Hitman: Blood Money

• Dummied Out:
  • Rex Stanton from "A Vintage Year" was most likely intended to be a target, judging by him being mentioned in the mission briefing, his agent being involved with the Delgados, and how there's a few wine casks around that can be poisoned, but nobody ever seems to drink from them.
  • There are many things you can poison, but only a few are of any use; whether they are related to content that was dummied out or not is unknown. You can poison certain playing cards in "Death on the Mississippi" and even shoes in "A House of Cards".
  • The "Murderous Manicurist" is an interesting rating. You'd get it if you killed a lot of people with a nail file, but the nail file cannot be obtained in regular gameplay. It is only used by the female assassin in "You Better Watch Out", where it cannot be picked up after killing her.
  • A surprisingly large and completely unused section of the "Requiem" church basement (around the crematory) is modeled. At some point during development, the mission was likely planned to have 47 wake up in the basement before being cremated, and then sneak back upstairs to the unsuspecting funeral crowd. There are also unused audio files for both Cayne and the journalist where they scream in terror as they are forced into the incinerator.
  • The Mark III rifle which, while fully functional and having a space in the Hideout in the SD versions, cannot be obtained without the give all cheat or by modding the game. It was probably going to be obtainable in "Curtains Down", as the actors wield prop versions of the same rifle, and you can carry it openly without suspicion if you are in-costume. It must have been cut late in development.
  • Technically; the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game run on powerful enough systems that the loading screens that show the targets of each level don't have time to show up (comes with the territory of running a game originally made for 2004 hardware).
  • The game has an unobtainable bowie knife that only appears under certain circumstances during A Murder of Crows, in which one of the targets will use it to try to assassinate the mission's VIP. However, similar to the nail file mentioned above, it has an unique rating for killing a lot of people with it ("King of the Jungle").
• Technology Marches On: If 47 is caught on camera, he has to steal the VHS footage from the security system. VHS was already falling out of use in 2006 and was supplanted by DVD in 2006-7 (something that's been around since 1994 in some capacity). Hitman: Absolution and the World of Assassination Trilogy simply require deleting the footage from the security system's computer, and the latter actually has security footage boxes that have what are presumably hard drives jutting out of them.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Early previews talked of a more in-depth Notoriety system that included more uses for money, including paying cleaners to remove evidence and blood stains, planting weapons and disguises before a mission, and paying off witnesses. These ended up removed or simplified in the final game.
  • A number of cut weapons still exist in the game code. These include a Pick Axe, a Bowie Knife, a live-firing version of the prop Mark III rifles seen in "Curtains Down", a .22 pistol, and the Nail File used by the female assassin in "You Better Watch Out" (along with a corresponding rating "Murderous Manicurist", which can't be obtained in the final game).
  • The mission files in the PC version suggest at least one mission was cut from the game, as the order skips mission 07 for 08.