OPM: Hitman: Absolution director Tore Blystad has shed a little light on the next installment for the franchise. Talking about how 47′s next adventure is being developed by Square Enix Montreal instead of IO, Blystad said, “It’s the first time you could say Hitman has gone out of the house”.
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.
So itll be worser than Absolution then
Absolutions alright, not as good as the older titles, by a long shot
Wow, Absolution has just released and now they are talking about a new Hitman already. Do I smell a new COD here???
Milk milk milking the cow....
Don't understand me wrong, I'm a big fan of the Hitman series, Bloodmoney in particular. I haven't played Absolution yet because I have no time for now but i'm a bit skeptical about It. The new inventory system, Level structure, etc. I wonder if it's still a old fashioned brutal sneak game like previos games in the series were.
I hate it when he picks the guns out of thin air they should show the guns on him