`007 First Light ‘exists thanks to Daniel Craig and’ Hitman ”

Yesterday, Io Interactive revealed his first gameplay of his game James Bond, 007 First light. Although it takes place in his own continuity, he will always have links with films and books – in fact, these links are the way in which Io obtained the reins of Bond in the first place.

The press like IGN was able to visit the studio before the recent unveiling, and that was where the director of the game Hakan Abrak revealed that part of the IO field for the game sculpted Daniel Craig’s face on agent 47, the star of his furtive-action franchise Hitman. This Craig sculpture was “just for demonstration purposes,” said Abrak, “to give an impression on what these living and breathable spaces mean in an IO game.” The demo was set in 2016 Hitman’s Sapienza Level, a fictitious Italian city with a complex in the caves with the villain working on a virus. Among the Hitman Restarting Trilogy is also a favorite of fans that allows players to access certain liaison situations to complete their missions.

With this demo, the Bond MGM and Eon licenses saw “our angle would (trying) provide a 360 experience where … (you can) explore the part of the Bond fantasy where he is in social spaces where he not only uses his cracks,” continued Abrak, “but also his charms and what he wants and gets what he wants. Should not necessarily use violence? »»

THE 007 First light Reveal also presented several avenues for Bond to Infiltret Places, of bluffing getting a path to slide the references and regular leaks. This is the first time by IO with an established IP, Abrak said that the team wanted to “put our creative fingerprints on this subject. So we were therefore not interested in a gamification of a film or perhaps where it is only technical prowess … or simply to take tailor-made scenes from a film and make them in the game.”

007 First light will be released on March 27, 2026 for PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X | S and Nintendo Switch 2.

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