Elverdam says that the team is “very good at agent fantasy” thanks to their experience with Hitman, but he continues to say they’re “rediscovering new sides of the agent fantasy with James Bond.” If these franchises are two sides of the same agent fantasy coin, maybe Bond will provide a counterpoint to Hitman’s slow and methodical stealthing. The interview doesn’t reveal any concrete details about the upcoming game, but we can read between the lines. This does make me wonder if IO’s Bond will be played by a famous heavyweight actor, as is tradition for the films by now. "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. Speaking with Eurogamer, IO co-owners Christian Elverdam and Hakan Abrak shed some light on the Bond project, letting us know that it’s an origin story and that it’ll follow a brand-new 007. Since then, the studio have been tight-lipped about their current projects, an “online fantasy RPG” and their mysterious James Bond game - until now. Project 007 is currently in development for “consoles and computer screens,” and a Teaser Trailer has been embedded above.Developer IO Interactive recently put their stealthy Hitman series on hiatus after adding a roguelike mode to the combined World Of Assassination package. Our passionate team is excited to unleash their creativity into the iconic James Bond universe and craft the most ambitious game in the history of our studio.” “It’s true that once in a while, the stars do align in our industry,” said Hakan Abrak, the CEO of IO Interactive, “Creating an original Bond game is a monumental undertaking and I truly believe that IO Interactive, working closely with our creative partners at EON and MGM, can deliver something extremely special for our players and communities. The game is said to be “a wholly original Bond story” that will be told “exclusively” as a video game. Project 007 will serve as a “James Bond origin story,” and it won’t just follow the beats of Daniel Craig’s Casino Royale either. However, IO Interactive isn’t interested in the end of Bond’s career, but rather the beginning. James Bond has a long and (mostly) storied legacy when it comes to game adaptations, but Activision bowed out of the spy game in 2012 after the release of 007 Legends, which resigned the Bond license to a state of semi-retirement (much like the character himself in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, License to Kill, Skyfall, and the upcoming No Time To Die). This morning, the developer announced that they’ve reached an agreement with MGM and Eon Productions to create Project 007, the next video game starring James Bond. IO Interactive, the creative force behind the wildly-successful Hitman franchise, has found a new espionage-adjacent sandbox to play in.
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