The James Bond films may have produced nothing over the last few years except arguments, passive aggressive comments in the press, and one extremely large “Here’s a huge amount of money, now never talk to us again” check, but that doesn’t mean the franchise is entirely moribund. After several years of development, the creators of the (extremely good) Hitman video games finally rolled out their long-awaited Bond game today, and, yep, that looks pretty cool.
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IO Interactive deployed the trailer for 007: First Light at Sony’s State Of Play event this afternoon, with the showcase pretty easily becoming the highlight of the whole trailer-focused show. (At least, among those of us not hardwired to lose our minds every single time a Final Fantasy Tactics re-release gets announced.) As the title implies, the game is a prequel, showing a young Bond (played by an as-yet unrevealed actor) getting recruited into MI6, sent on early missions, and, in one last bit, apparently getting dangled over big reptiles alongside The Walking Dead‘s Lennie James. The tease is heavy on story and cutscenes, light on gameplay, but the glimpses we get do suggest that the game will play at least a bit like IO’s Hitman games, which have been celebrated for dropping players into highly detailed environments and letting them create mayhem.
Honestly, though, it’s just nice to have Bond back, even if it is in a younger, more interactive form. It’s now been four years since Daniel Craig’s final 007 flick, No Time To Die, with no word on where new curators Amazon is going to take the series; seeing a studio that clearly has a ton of reverence for the character (and all the fun his action-heavy lifestyle carries) take him for a spin is genuinely a relief to see.
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