Hitman developer IO Interactive has been engaged on a James Bond online game. Project 007 will likely be an authentic Bond origin story, permitting gamers to step into the sneakers 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 Undertaking 007 and mentioned that the studio hopes the Bond recreation could possibly be the start of a trilogy.

Work on Undertaking 007 Going ‘Amazingly Nicely’

In an interview with IGN, IO Interactive CEO and co-owner Hakan Abrak mentioned improvement on Undertaking 007 was going “amazingly properly,” however stopped wanting offering new particulars. “I haven’t got an replace at this time, however consider me, it is itching right here as properly to be speaking about it quickly,” Abrak advised IGN. “So we’re following our plans. The manufacturing’s going amazingly properly and we are going to quickly be speaking extra about it. I do know it was just a little teaser, not a variety of data, however there’s a variety of cool stuff developing.”

Akrak mentioned 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 Undertaking 007 is predicated on a preferred 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 previously.

“So it isn’t a gamification of a film. It is utterly starting and turning into a narrative, hopefully for a giant trilogy on the market sooner or later,” Abrak mentioned.

“And equally necessary 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 may be 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 Undertaking 007. Ian Fleming’s iconic British MI6 agent has had a storied historical past within the medium, with 1997’s GoldenEye broadly thought-about as one of the 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-Responsibility type 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 large about it, however I simply hope we’ll do a factor that may outline James Bond in gaming for years to come back,” Abrak mentioned.

The Danish developer isn’t but prepared to completely reveal the sport and supply particulars on its launch window, Abrak mentioned the studio would share extra updates in “due time.”