CVG: Six years after committing a complex series of global assassinations - and offing a church full of mourners at his own funeral - Agent 47 is back.
With slicker stealth and far more agile, brutal melee attacks, the sociopathic slaphead is deadlier than ever. We caught up with IO Interactive's Christian Elverdam, gameplay director on Absolution, and talked evolution.
Hitman developer IO Interactive was approached by several IP holders, but eventually settled with the James Bond IP.
Interested in seeing how these turn out. An updated Goldeneye style game would be nice if they could take everything good about it but modernise it and expand/make better, without taking away that particular feel it had.
“with their version of Bond being closer to Daniel Craig’s than Roger Moore’s”
This is disappointing to hear, I liked the Craig films but they made Craig more like a tank, Bourne style, I was hoping for someone who looks like what Flemming envisioned for Bond with his sketch, it’s a video game they could literally do the most accurate Bond ever.
Someone who you’d underestimate, relies on gadgets, his environment and his quick thinking to get out of situations, Craig didn’t really have that.
Now, when for years talking with IOI meant talking Hitman, this time around their two other, still under wraps projects were getting closer by the day. And Project Fantasy specifically, which had been linked to Xbox as early as in 2021, saw earlier this summer how the Activision acquisition all but confirmed, or leaked, its future publishing under the Xbox Games Studio logo.
It's been about 20 years since a good James Bond game. Not sure if its the nostalgia but the og Xbox just had banger after banger for the Bond games
I hope Project Fantasy is exclusive to Xbox and more games become exclusive to Xbox in the next few years as it might get Sony to become a 3rd party publisher and release all their 1st party games on Future Xbox consoles.
I’m not excited at all because you’re not going to be able to play it off line and they’re gonna come out with a bunch of different packages that makes the entire game a mess!
Been a very long time since we got a good 007 game, and I don't count the recent barebones ports of Goldeneye either, I hope it's good.
I really hope they design Bond to look like the classic sketch Flemming did of him
Also I really hope this gets a vocal theme song for the game.
Developer IO Interactive, the studio behind Hitman has announced that it has opened a new studio in Brighton, United Kingdom.
I would love a story-driven 007 game with a focus on gadgets and, this is very important, an actually definitive ending to the story and not more 'drag on for five movies/games' thing we've been getting.
I really hope they are not trying to make a SC:Conviction clone. Cover can be useful but if they add in automated take down attacks I will be really upset.
Dev's seem to keep changing the formula that made them so renowned in previous games and it drives me crazy. I just don't understand. Splinter Cell Conviction was such a slap in the face for the fans of Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory. Resident Evil RC is now shaping up to be a run and gun, MW has a billion fricking perks and feels like your playing a slot machine.
I want Rainbow 6 Black Arrow/Vegas back. I want Spy vs. Mercs back. I want to play Resident Evil with 2 bullets that I guard with my life. Please Hitman, stay true to your roots. Please.
Good read!!! Have this one on my preorder list on Amazon. I always like Hitman and I like how open the levels are in the previous games.
I haven't seen a decent improvement in game AI in more than a decade.
I have, however, heard a lot of PR hyperbole.
I'll believe it when I see it.
sure.. need better hardware first..
hope it dosent turn out ANYTHING like kane and lynch