As we speak’s PlayStation State of Play broadcast has supplied our first correct take a look at 007 First Light, the upcoming James Bond recreation from Hitman studio IO Interactive that is due to launch in 2026.
A cinematic trailer for the sport showcased a fresh-faced James Bond at the start of his profession as an agent, who joins MI6 and meets new variations of traditional characters M, Q and Moneypenny.
The trailer additionally revealed the involvement of The Walking Dead’s Lennie James, who will painting Bond’s mentor John Greenway within the recreation.
007 First Light’s trailer reveals this incarnation of James Bond was concerned in a childhood tragedy that left him as an orphan aged 11, after which he spent the remainder of his childhood in varied British boarding faculties. We later see Bond as a younger recruit within the Royal Navy, from which he’s recruited by MI6.
It is right here that gamers decide up Bond’s story as he turns into an agent, picks up an Omega watch, and begins annoying Q by attempting out his devices within the lab.
A press launch issued alongside the sport’s State of Play look lists Bond’s age in 007 First Light as “a younger 26-year-old”. Gamers might be traverse the globe in what’s described as “a story-driven action-adventure recreation” the place you may select how to navigate varied challenges — both with brute pressure or 007’s trademark allure.
What seems like gameplay footage reveals James Bond on a mission, stealthing round, utilizing devices — and his fists — to subdue enemies, because the hero is distributed off to goal a rogue agent. “009 is a grasp manipulator,” Greenway says at one level. “Regardless of the endgame is, we cannot see it coming.” Oh, and sure you may costume up in disguises, as you’d anticipate from the Hitman studio.
IO Interactive’s James Bond recreation was first introduced again in 2020 as Undertaking 007, and since then we have realized little or no about it. Nonetheless, from the off, IO stated that it was growing a contemporary James Bond origin story and an entirely unique piece of labor, moderately than something that adopted the occasions of any explicit movie.
Extra just lately, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak has stated he hoped 007 First Light can be the beginning of a brand new trilogy of video games, although sadly the studio’s beloved Hitman franchise is on hiatus whereas IO works on this recreation. We additionally realized simply this previous April that as well as to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X/S, 007 First Light is getting a Nintendo Change 2 launch.
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