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After almost four years , we still do n’t cognize much aboutProject 007 , the mysterious James Bond project from Hitman developer IO Interactive . But a new audience reveals that , yes , the game is still in the works , is proceed “ amazingly well , ” and that it features an original take on Bond .
IGNspoke with IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak about the labor , and while he still could n’t announce anything , he said that the team is hoping for a trilogy starring this novel Bond , who wo n’t be link to any previous story .
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“ What ’s exciting about that projection is that we in reality got to do an original story . So it ’s not a gamification of a movie . It ’s completely commence and becoming a tale , hopefully for a giving trilogy out there in the future , ” Abrak pronounce . “ And as important and exciting , it ’s a new Bond . It ’s a Bond we build from ground up for gamers . It ’s extremely exciting with all the tradition and all the history there is there together to work on this together with the family line of produce a young Bond for gamers ; a James Bond that the gamers can call their own and farm with . ”
IO Interactive previously worked on the Hitman serial , which has given them X of experience making game about a clandestine agent . They have n’t said if the Bond game will have the stealth gameplay the series is known for , but Abrak mentions that the studio will have more to partake shortly … or rather “ in due time . ”
This is the first new selective information we ’ve come aboutProject 007sinceIO free a short mystifier trailerin 2020 . The team expose then that it was a “ wholly original … James Bond origin story ” and that they would be in mission of development and publishing . And that ’s about all we have sex .
This will be the first James Bond game since Activision’s007 Legendsin 2012 , which made playable versions of missions from the films . Of course , the standout James Bond adjustment is the Nintendo multiplayer shooterGoldenEye007 , which you could still act viaXbox or Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack .
IO Interactive also announcedWednesday that it would be partnering with Build a Rocket Boy , the studio base by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies , to publish its first secret plan , MindEye . However , IO clarifies that it has no design of being a publishing house unless the game is “ special . ”
“ It require to be something that we see ourselves in , not only logically but also emotionally . So I can not rule out that we do n’t do something else , ” Abrak said .
