It’s been about 4 years since Hitman studio IO Interactive introduced that it had began improvement on Challenge 007, and although particulars on the James Bond title have been subsequent to nonexistent since then, it looks as if the corporate is edging nearer to lastly talking concerning the title, with improvement apparently coming alongside properly.
That’s as per IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak, who mentioned in an interview with IGN that although the studio continues to be not fairly prepared to speak about Challenge 007 simply but, improvement on the sport is nonetheless going “amazingly properly”, earlier than assuring that extra data shall be shared “quickly”- although he didn’t elaborate on precisely how quickly “quickly” shall be.
“I don’t have an replace at present, however imagine me, it’s itching right here as properly to be speaking about it quickly,” he mentioned. “So we’re following our plans. The manufacturing’s going amazingly properly and we are going to quickly be speaking extra about it. I do know it was slightly teaser, not numerous data, however there’s numerous cool stuff arising. We’re additionally very excited and after we are prepared with that, we’ll be opening up.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Abrak reiterated a number of tidbits that IO Interactive has shared on Challenge 007 over the las handful of years, speaking about how the studio is seeking to create “a Bond for gaming” with a brand new origin story– which, curiously sufficient, could possibly be the beginning of a brand new trilogy.
Final yr, Abrak described Challenge 007 as “the last word spycraft fantasy”, and said that it will be “a extra scripted expertise” in comparison with the sandbox gameplay of the Hitman sequence.
Job listings have urged that the sport may function sandbox storytelling much like the Hitman sequence, and that it’s going to function a combination of first- and third-person gameplay.