The direct of the development team IO Interactive claimed that his next title of James Bond (known by the working title Project 007) could be the first chapter of a trilogy. Speaking to the Danish media DR.dk, the director of the study Hakan Abrak he said his team created a "completely original story" for the game and that "a trilogy could come out of it". In addition, the title will boast an unreleased version of James Bond, which therefore will not refer to any of the actors who have played the iconic British spy over the years.
Abrak also revealed how IO Interactive managed to convince those responsible for the James Bond franchise, that is Barbara Broccoli and his half-brother Michael G Wilson, to let him make a character-based game. The Hitman producer says he spent most of the past two years preparing for a meeting with the two, aware that Broccoli specifically wasn't satisfied with previous James Bond video games, saying they weren't "worthy enough. ”Of the IP, as well as being unnecessarily violent. On the latter point it is likely that it is a reference to how the previous video games based on the Bond series turned out to be shooters in which the player was called to take down an infinity of enemies. IO's depiction of violence in the HitmanInstead, it is much slimmer and more elegant and is based primarily on the stealth factor, which no doubt helped the Danish studio get the license.
The IO Interactive development team recently released Hitman 3, third chapter of the denominated World of Assassination trilogy. The title is available from January 20 Hitman 3 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, Windows PC (exclusively on the Epic Games Store), Nintendo Switch and Google Stadia. You can read our review dedicated to the work via the following link.
