007 First Light: Hitman developer IO on new James Bond game, first since 2012
Players can expect social manipulation, refined gunplay, driving and action set pieces, and more in the first Bond game in over a decade
Developing the first James Bond video game in over a decade has felt like returning “back home” for IO Interactive, the Danish studio known for its own globe-trotting agent fantasy series Hitman.
Scheduled for release next year, 007 First Light takes the long-honed stealth infiltration formula IO developed for Hitman and throws in a healthy dose of Bond’s over-the-top car chases, gunplay and sex appeal.
“While doing [Hitman] earlier, I was bathing in 007 cool,” said the new game’s art director Rasmus Poulsen at the Gamescom trade fair in Cologne, Germany.
“Now we’re back home [in] this elevated world with a sense of wonder and a sense of ominous ‘what now’.”
The most recent movies starring Daniel Craig are favourites at IO, making it no surprise that the game depicts a younger Bond earning his licence to kill.