News Project 007 - announced by IO Interactive , Bond origin story

[prudis]

IO Interactive - Project 007

Project 007 (working title) is a brand new James Bond video game to be developed and published by IO Interactive. Featuring a wholly original Bond story, players will step into the shoes of the world's favorite Secret Agent to earn their 00 status in the very first James Bond origin story.

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It’s Bond, James Bond.

Project 007 (working title) is a brand new James Bond video game to be developed and published by IO Interactive.

Featuring a wholly original Bond story, players will step into the shoes of the world’s favorite Secret Agent to earn their 00 status in the very first James Bond origin story.

IO Interactive is currently recruiting elite talent from around the world to join the team that will build out this exciting and unique gaming title.

 

[NarohDethan]

I wonder who will they cast as Bond. I like Craig but he's too old now, especially for an origin story.

 

[gabbo]

Was it here or Era arguing that this license wasn't worth holding at this point in time and BAM this new drops.
Wonder if it will be considered canon or not, or if it will toy with 'It's just a moniker passed between agents' theory. Oh so much is possible. IO is a great dev for such a game methinks

 

[Valdien]

Hmm, was hoping for something more original by IOI. But I guess they'll be sticking to what they're good at.

 

[Cacher]

Excited to learn more.

 

[Deku]

I hope this works well for IOI, wouldn't want to see them to go bankrupt if the game fails.

 

[Sygmaelle]

Haven't had a good bond game since Everything or Nothing which legit was INCREDIBLE back then (hail and also rip Visceral Studios), high hopes for this one.

IO are legit fantastic at third person anything, Freedom Fighters is often a game that people forget when it comes down to their output but it also was a gem , excited to see what they can do with this license

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I mean, just a Bond skinned Hitman would be a pretty great use of the licence, so any steps above and beyond that is going to be icing on the cake

 

[Aelphaeis Mangarae]

If it's a Bond origin story, it won't have Daniel Craig. He's too old. I'm just wondering what mechanical template the game will have. I think it should strive to stand apart from Hitman a bit. But the paradox is that Hitman's formula is fairly similar to the GoldenEye formula. Here's a list of objectives, he's a sandbox, complete them using these tools. There's the issue of tone, too. Do you go Connery/Lazenby-style? Gritty Dalton? Post-Cold War/Fake News Brosnan? Or do Craig-style again? After Austin Powers, the Bond franchise become afraid to be cheery, to have cute little jokes, to have Q as an older man with weird gadgets.

IOI's modern Hitman games are full of the kind of jokes that modern Bond overtly avoids, but if they embrace that in their Bond game, the Bond game becomes more and more similar to their Hitman games.