Hitman builders IO Interactive are at the moment engaged on a James Bond recreation at the moment dubbed Undertaking 007, and a extra excellent match hasn’t come alongside since chocolate and peanut butter.
Regardless that each Hitman fan might see why this can be a match made in heaven from the beginning, that’s not solely how Eon Productions, the corporate which owns the rights to James Bond, noticed issues at first.
Based on a latest interview in Edge Journal, co-owners of IO Interactive Hakan Abrak and Christian Elverdam mentioned how they needed to persuade Eon Productions to allow them to create this recreation.
“Our impression was clearly that they weren’t on the lookout for a recreation, and I feel it’s honest that they won’t have been super-happy with a number of the later video games.” stated Abrak, referring to the James Bond-based video games which had most just lately launched, neither of which put style in Eon Manufacturing’s mouth in terms of a James Bond recreation.
What helped clinch Undertaking 007 getting the inexperienced mild, in accordance with Elverdam, was their deal with this new recreation being vastly completely different from different entries, and as an alternative being a stealth-focused spy recreation, the place violence is your final resort exterior of your targets.
“That helped us persuade the Eon Group that there’s a sophistication in how we deal with the agent fantasy” stated Elverdam.
There’s nonetheless little or no we find out about Undertaking 007, however this emphasis on stealth and “agent fantasy” already really feel like IO Interactive is greater than on the suitable path right here.
When the workforce is lastly able to reveal extra, it’ll be very thrilling to see what IO Interactive, arguably the very best stealth recreation builders working right this moment, have created.
Supply – [GamesRadar]
