Whereas IO Interactive has been laborious at work on quite a few tasks, together with creating 007: First Mild and publishing the upcoming MindsEye, CEO Hakan Abrak has insisted that the studio is “undoubtedly not completed” with the Hitman franchise. In an interview with IGN, Abrak stated that, whereas the studio’s sources and time have been taken up by different tasks, we will certainly see extra Hitman sooner or later.
“The Hitman collection is certainly not completed,” Abrak stated. “We’re not completed with Hitman. IO has been synonymous with Hitman, regardless of the opposite IPs we have now completed. We completely are proud, grateful, and proud of Hitman. However clearly doing one other new IP, Mission Fantasy, and doing Bond, it takes plenty of our sources and time. However as you noticed, we introduced the Hitman co-op, which is an enormous dream of mine. And they are going to be possibly in several shapes, however they’ll undoubtedly be extra Hitman sooner or later.”
Within the meantime, nonetheless, the studio’s precedence has been on creating 007: First Mild. When requested in regards to the variations between the upcoming James Bond recreation and Hitman, Abrak talked about that the upcoming title will nonetheless preserve among the comedy that may be present in Agent 47’s adventures. He did point out, nonetheless, that Bond’s sense of humour can be extra British when in comparison with what we usually see within the Hitman video games.
“It is vitally, crucial to get the humor proper,” explaiend Abrak. “In Denmark, we love darkish humor and the silliness as a result of it takes away from the seriousness of being an murderer. Bond is completely different. Bond, the humor is to begin with very British. And the humor there may be to help the vitality and his character, which is way more entrance and middle. So I’d say much less foolish. It’s not flamingo disguises, as you stated, however nonetheless entertaining.”
Abrak additionally spoke about among the gameplay variations we’ll see in 007: First Mild when coming from Hitman. He talked about that there can be extra motion, for example, moderately than the social stealth we get to see when put into the sneakers of Agent 47. Nevertheless, whereas there may be emphasis on motion, we’ll nonetheless see the extra systems-based gameplay that IO Interactive is understood for.
“And it’s a recreation that performs otherwise,” he stated. “It’s emphasizing extra motion, for certain. And the construction of Bond is extra prefer it’s respiratory extra. Like there are extra linear components the place you could have the spectacle moments and unique automobiles. After which we additionally give area in Bond to open up a bit and breathe a bit. So you could have undoubtedly glimpses of IO Interactive, as you’d know from Hitman video games as effectively, nevertheless it’s extra entrance foot. It’s much less of an analytical thoughts, chess play, the place you sit and meticulously plan. All of the clockwork issues in Hitman the place in the event you do that or do that, the place Bond is extra impulsive, extra reckless generally. It’s extra like he’s simply taking issues and appearing and dealing with it extra as they come up.”
“So it’s a unique dynamism, as a result of we need to make one thing that feels true for a Bond fantasy. So it’s undoubtedly not a re-skin of a Hitman form of factor, however I really feel that folks will see IO Interactive, that could be a recreation made by Interactive, however they may also see that this recreation is one thing else. It’s one thing that’s true to what we’re hopefully going to ship 360, an final Bond expertise.”
007: First Mild lately received a brand new trailer showcasing a few of its gameplay. It’s being developed for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, and can be out in 2026.
