Original article in Danish, so I'll summarize for you all.
White IOI's Bond game is still years in the the future, DR, the national Danish broadcasting network got an interview with IO Interactive's Hans Abrak.
First of all, the James Bond in this game is a completely new Bond made for the game. They've essentially been told to do what makes sense for them, and the word "Trilogy" is already on everyone's minds. But how do you even get that kind of freedom with someone like Bond? Well that's where the Fateful Meeting comes into play.
It's no secret that that Bond is not readily available to anyone who asks. You need to blessings of MGM and EON Productions. And the latter is in the hands of the Broccoli family, currently headed by Barbara Broccoli and her step brother Michael G. Wilson. and considering they're the reason that Bond has essentially been banned from video games for a decade, due to them disliking the excessive violence of those games, this was not going to be an easy pitch. At all. Especially with the entire Broccoli family on one side of the table sporting neutral faces for the first several hours of the pitch. But in the end, they managed to pull it off. Hakan Abrak thinks it's classic Scandinavian down to earth talk that got them in the door, and their pedigree with the Hitman games enough proof that they knew what they were talking about. And if you got the Broccoli family's blessing, MGM is no obstacle anymore.
Of course, if you're asking if IO Interactive is ready for this? They're honest enough about it to say not yet. They're looking at doubling their staff from 200 to roughly 400 and opening a sister studio in Sweden to be able to handle Bond. It is, after all, years away, still, but they're quite adamant on one thing: They're going to get Bond right.
Obviously, there's more to the article, but those are the highlights. I really hope they can walk the walk with this game.
White IOI's Bond game is still years in the the future, DR, the national Danish broadcasting network got an interview with IO Interactive's Hans Abrak.
First of all, the James Bond in this game is a completely new Bond made for the game. They've essentially been told to do what makes sense for them, and the word "Trilogy" is already on everyone's minds. But how do you even get that kind of freedom with someone like Bond? Well that's where the Fateful Meeting comes into play.
It's no secret that that Bond is not readily available to anyone who asks. You need to blessings of MGM and EON Productions. And the latter is in the hands of the Broccoli family, currently headed by Barbara Broccoli and her step brother Michael G. Wilson. and considering they're the reason that Bond has essentially been banned from video games for a decade, due to them disliking the excessive violence of those games, this was not going to be an easy pitch. At all. Especially with the entire Broccoli family on one side of the table sporting neutral faces for the first several hours of the pitch. But in the end, they managed to pull it off. Hakan Abrak thinks it's classic Scandinavian down to earth talk that got them in the door, and their pedigree with the Hitman games enough proof that they knew what they were talking about. And if you got the Broccoli family's blessing, MGM is no obstacle anymore.
Of course, if you're asking if IO Interactive is ready for this? They're honest enough about it to say not yet. They're looking at doubling their staff from 200 to roughly 400 and opening a sister studio in Sweden to be able to handle Bond. It is, after all, years away, still, but they're quite adamant on one thing: They're going to get Bond right.
Obviously, there's more to the article, but those are the highlights. I really hope they can walk the walk with this game.
