The James Bond rights holders weren’t taken with making one other online game till Hitman developer IO Interactive pitched Mission 007.
As reported by GamesRadar, IO Interactive co-owners Hakan Abrak and Christian Elverdam instructed Edge Journal they’d a tough time convincing the James Bond homeowners to allow them to make a sport in that universe, with poorly acquired latest releases maybe placing them off.
“Our impression was clearly that [at the time] they weren’t in search of a sport,” mentioned Abrak. “And I feel it is truthful that they won’t have been tremendous proud of a number of the later video games.”
There hasn’t been a James Bond launch shortly, however the newest two had been 2010’s 007: Blood Stone (which IGN mentioned was mediocre) and 2012’s 007 Legends (which IGN mentioned was unhealthy).
In comparison with these extra conventional shooter experiences, Elverdam mentioned IO interactive as an alternative proposed an entry much less centered on countless violence and extra on being a spy that solely took down crucial targets, which sounds so much just like the Hitman video games.
Mission 007 was introduced in 2020 however IO interactive nonetheless hasn’t mentioned tons about it. We do know it would have an unique story, nonetheless, and Elverdam has beforehand known as it an “agent fantasy”. The developer can also be placing Hitman on hiatus whereas it really works on the James Bond sport.
It is going to nonetheless have a lot to maintain busy with, after all, as IO Interactive introduced in February that a web-based fantasy RPG can also be in improvement on the studio. “We’re embarking on a brand new journey. One which expands our creativity, our capabilities, and in some sense our identification. We’re constructing a brand new world, a brand new IP: a web-based fantasy RPG,” it mentioned on the time.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.