Before Project 007 was greenlit, the Hitman studio had to convince the James Bond rights-holders to give video game adaptations another shot: "They were not looking for a game"
While the James Bond video game from Hitman developer IO Interactive is still a ways out from release, the crew behind the super spy's return to video games have been open about their ambitions for Project 007. It's apparently the "ultimate spycraft fantasy" and a game that aims to set up a new ongoing gaming series for Bond, but it surprisingly took some effort to win over current James Bond owners Eon Productions on the concept.
In the latest issue of Edge Magazine (issue 391) that's on sale now, IO Interactive co-owners Hakan Abrak and Christian Elverdam broke down their vision of a James Bond game series.
While a new James Bond video game seems like a no-brainer, it took some convincing to get the green light as the current rights-holders didn't want just another "action-oriented" shooter for Bond.
"Our impression was clearly that [at the time] they were not looking for a game," said IO Interactive CEO and co-owner Hakan Abrak in the Edge interview. "And I think it's fair that they might not have been super-happy with some of the later games."
The most recent Bond games were 2010's James Bond 007: Blood Stone and 2012's 007 Legends.
For the latter, that game was essentially a Call of Duty-style FPS experience that was also the greatest hits of different Bond films as campaign stages (one stage was set in Goldfinger's Fort Knox climax, and another was a Zero-G shooter level based on Moonraker).
007 Legends came out over a decade ago, and at the time, it was not well received by critics and audiences alike. Much like most recent Bond games, 007 Legends sought to emulate the experience of the fan-favorite Goldeneye 64, which, while a popular Bond game and the defining console FPS game of the 90s, wasn't particularly
