Hitman developer IO Interactive has been engaged on a James Bond online game. Project 007 will likely be an unique 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 Venture 007 and mentioned that the studio hopes the Bond sport might be the start of a trilogy.

Work on Venture 007 Going ‘Amazingly Nicely’

In an interview with IGN, IO Interactive CEO and co-owner Hakan Abrak mentioned improvement on Venture 007 was going “amazingly nicely,” however stopped in need of offering new particulars. “I haven’t got an replace in the present day, however consider me, it is itching right here as nicely to be speaking about it quickly,” Abrak advised IGN. “So we’re following our plans. The manufacturing’s going amazingly nicely and we’ll quickly be speaking extra about it. I do know it was somewhat teaser, not a number of info, however there’s a number of cool stuff developing.”

Akrak mentioned that 20 years of creating Hitman video games, the place players get to fulfil their “agent fantasy,” had handed IO the experience required to make a James Bond sport. And whereas Venture 007 is predicated on a well-liked IP, IO Interactive is engaged on a totally unique 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 changing 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’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-about as one of the vital influential video games ever made. Of late, nevertheless, Bond has struggled to keep up his footing in video video games, at the same time as Eon’s movies have continued to do nicely. The final James Bond sport was Activision’s 007 Legends, a Name-of-Responsibility model first-person shooter launched in 2012.

IO, nevertheless, intends to start out a brand new chapter for the martini-sipping spy with regards to video video games. “I do not wish to converse too huge about it, however I simply hope we’ll do a factor that can outline James Bond in gaming for years to return,” Abrak mentioned.

The Danish developer will not be 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.”