Hitman developer IO Interactive has been engaged on a James Bond online game. Venture 007 will probably be an authentic Bond origin story, permitting gamers to step into the footwear of fabled spy and earn his double-O standing. The sport, which does not but have an official title or a launch window, was first introduced in 2020. Now, IO Interactive chief has offered an replace on Venture 007 and stated that the studio hopes the Bond recreation could possibly be the start of a trilogy.
Work on Venture 007 Going ‘Amazingly Effectively’
In an interview with IGN, IO Interactive CEO and co-owner Hakan Abrak stated growth on Venture 007 was going “amazingly properly,” however stopped wanting offering new particulars. “I haven’t got an replace right now, however imagine me, it is itching right here as properly to be speaking about it quickly,” Abrak instructed IGN. “So we’re following our plans. The manufacturing’s going amazingly properly and we’ll quickly be speaking extra about it. I do know it was slightly teaser, not numerous info, however there’s numerous cool stuff arising.”
Akrak stated that 20 years of constructing Hitman video games, the place players get to fulfil their “agent fantasy,” had handed IO the experience required to make a James Bond recreation. And whereas Venture 007 relies on a well-liked IP, IO Interactive is engaged on a totally authentic story with a brand new James Bond, with out utilising the likeness of any actor who has taken up the 007 mantle up to now.
“So it is not a gamification of a film. It is fully starting and turning into a narrative, hopefully for a giant trilogy on the market sooner or later,” Abrak stated.
“And equally essential and thrilling, it is a new Bond. It is a Bond we constructed from floor up for players. It is extraordinarily thrilling with all of the custom and all of the historical past there’s there collectively to work on this along with the household of making a younger Bond for players; a Bond that the players can name their very own and develop with.”
A New Bond Story
IO Interactive is working with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Bond movies producer Eon Productions as a developer and writer on Venture 007. Ian Fleming’s iconic British MI6 agent has had a storied historical past within the medium, with 1997’s GoldenEye extensively thought of as one of the vital influential video games ever made. Of late, nonetheless, Bond has struggled to keep up his footing in video video games, at the same time as Eon’s movies have continued to do properly. The final James Bond recreation was Activision’s 007 Legends, a Name-of-Obligation fashion first-person shooter launched in 2012.
IO, nonetheless, intends to start out a brand new chapter for the martini-sipping spy with regards to video video games. “I do not wish to communicate too huge about it, however I simply hope we’ll do a factor that can outline James Bond in gaming for years to come back,” Abrak stated.
The Danish developer shouldn’t be but prepared to completely reveal the sport and supply particulars on its launch window, Abrak stated the studio would share extra updates in “due time.”
