It’s been about 4 years since Hitman studio IO Interactive introduced that it had began improvement on Mission 007, and although particulars on the James Bond title have been subsequent to nonexistent since then, it looks as if the corporate is edging nearer to lastly talking in regards to the title, with improvement apparently coming alongside nicely.
That’s as per IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak, who mentioned in an interview with IGN that although the studio remains to be not fairly prepared to speak about Mission 007 simply but, improvement on the sport is nonetheless going “amazingly nicely”, earlier than assuring that extra info might be shared “quickly”- although he didn’t elaborate on precisely how quickly “quickly” might be.
“I don’t have an replace at the moment, however imagine me, it’s itching right here as nicely to be speaking about it quickly,” he mentioned. “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 a little bit teaser, not quite a lot of info, however there’s quite a lot of cool stuff arising. We’re additionally very excited and after we are prepared with that, we’ll be opening up.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Abrak reiterated a number of tidbits that IO Interactive has shared on Mission 007 over the las handful of years, speaking about how the studio is trying to create “a Bond for gaming” with a brand new origin story– which, curiously sufficient, could possibly be the beginning of a brand new trilogy.
Final 12 months, Abrak described Mission 007 as “the final word spycraft fantasy”, and acknowledged that it might be “a extra scripted expertise” in comparison with the sandbox gameplay of the Hitman collection.
Job listings have recommended that the sport might characteristic sandbox storytelling just like the Hitman collection, and that it’ll characteristic a mix of first- and third-person gameplay.
