Coming off rave reviews for “Hitman III,” the last of their current ‘World of Assassination’ trilogy that began in 2016, game developer IO Interactive looks like they may be repeating the process for their shift into the world of 007.
Speaking with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (via IGN), IO Interactive’s director Hakan Abrak says that the currently titled Project 007 game is based on a “completely original story, and you could easily imagine that a trilogy could come out of it.”
The new games will be based on the Ian Fleming property itself, not any of the existing films. So the company “have been allowed to make our own digital Bond, which will not lean on a Bond actor.”T he company is also scaling up and planning to effectively double their staff to deliver on its ambitions.
Abrak also says it took some convincing of license owners Barbara Broccoli and EON Productions to approve this original take on the material. But their background with the Hitman universe and the vision they have for the 007 games spoke right to Broccoli who greenlit the project.
As previously reported, the company intends to use the same in-house Glacier game engine they’ve been using for the “Hitman” trilogy which allows for large, open-ended sandboxes to freely explore along with various and often unconventional approaches to completing a mission.
Source: IGN