"It's something that can stand next to the TV and the movies and whatnot,” says Abrak.Įlverdam echoes the sentiment by saying, “we're allowed to build a James Bond for the games, which I think is a profound homage to where our industry is.” He continues to say that it’s time to have a James Bond “who's comfortably just his own game character,” and not a recreation of a film counterpart, like Goldeneye 007’s polygonal Pierce Brosnan. They want to create an iteration of the character that’s unique to the games. “It's the beginning of something new and it's the beginning, hopefully, of something that the gamers can call their own." The subject of ownership comes up often in the interview, as the team doesn’t want a “gamification” of a past Bond like Daniel Craig’s, for example. Still, we’d be lying if we didn’t say that the prospect of an IO Interactive James Bond game doesn’t have us excited - even if that excitement is tempered with the prospect of a long wait.“It's an origin story,” says Abrak. The only downsides to this news are the facts that Project 007, as it’s currently called, will likely take a couple of years at least to see release and since IO Interactive is now committed to this new undertaking, we might not see Agent 47 for the foreseeable future. but a report on The Escapist notes that IO Interactive is planning to double the number of employees involved in the game, so one can’t question its commitment to this project.
This sounds rather ambitious - usually, publishers and developers have to wait to see whether their latest game is a financial success before announcing a sequel. The report goes onto say that IO Interactive is hoping to produce a trilogy of 007 games - much as it did for the superb World Of Assassination Hitman games, which concluded recently with Hitman 3. The new digital Bond will also be far younger in the game than any of his real-life counterparts. Abrak says the game will be “a completely original story,” which means that it won’t be based on any of the cinematic adventures 007 has featured in thus far.
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