Lastly, extra 5 years after its first announcement, we’re about to get our first actual take a look at IO Interactive’s new James Bond recreation. Initially teased as Mission 007, the official title is 007 First Gentle, and it is set for a reveal someday this week.
In a post to Twitter/X today, developer IO Interactive confirmed a nonetheless picture of presumably James Bond in silouette lit faintly by a single beam of sunshine, with textual content studying “First Gentle 007” and “Game reveal this week.” It included a hashtag “#EarnTheNumber”, seemingly a reference to a incontrovertible fact that the mission is an origin story centered round Bond “incomes” his 007 quantity.
The put up did not embrace any additional particulars, but it surely appears seemingly we’ll see this recreation at one of many showcases deliberate for the approaching week as a a part of Summer time Game Fest, Summer time of Gaming, or one of many different gaming occasions typical for the primary week of June.
007 First Gentle was first revealed again in 2020 as Mission 007, and since then we have discovered very, little or no about it. We all know it is a James Bond origin story and is a wholly unique piece of labor fairly than retreading the occasions of any explicit movie. Extra just lately, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak stated he hopes this would be the begin of a new trilogy of video games, although sadly the studio’s beloved Hitman franchise is on hiatus whereas IOI works on this recreation. We additionally discovered simply this previous April that along with PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, it is getting a Nintendo Swap 2 launch.
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