Eurogamer Denmark talked to IO Interactives Studio PR & Communications officer about the internal fellings about the quite honestly very varying critical reception of the game in the media.
Google translation From Danish to English. Should be OK to understand.
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.
how can you be satisfied?just shows how lazy/uncreative devs are now days
just goes to show that PR & Communications officers have to say the right stuff. can't imagine that they're actually happy considering Karsten Lund said that K&L2 reviews would “be a lot better”. doing worse does not count as "a lot better". anyone to blame? probably not one individual, but the whole lot (not being too harsh, but it is a substandard game for the development time and resources put into it).
This game was sub-par as hell how could they be satisfied
Sh*tty game...
The game was one of the worst this generation.
Really low quality.
How can they be satisified?
Probably satisfied with the money they made from gamers, nothing more. Pft.