Need to see a proper vertical slice demo of this game because I'm very curious what ioi could have possibly done. I was sceptical about them doing a 007 game, but realized the current style of...
Need to see a proper vertical slice demo of this game because I'm very curious what ioi could have possibly done. I was sceptical about them doing a 007 game, but realized the current style of Hitman's immersive sim sandbox are a good fit for the early acts of a 007 movie.
The big divergence being that A47 enters through complex social engineering, traversal and disguise. 007 shows up with his Aston Martin being air dropped at the the velet with a super model/KGB agent on his arm and Vegas style neon sign floating over his head showing he's name and current address.
But after that, they both fall into their own flavors of espionage and infiltration. Getting where they don't belong, finding evidence, overhearing conversations and putting dots together. Bond is screened by his overt and eccentric charisma, while 47 is protected by his complete lack of any distinction.
And while both characters would prefer a quick and quiet exit, the most interesting scenarios are when things go wrong. But while 47s missions can degenerate into chaos and insanity, 007s has to. Bond needs to get captured. He needs to be dangled over the tank of tigers riding laser sharks. He needs an excuse to use the bomb pen and to fire the Walter PPK and close it out with the daring high speed escape.
So now I'm very excited to see how they plan to deliver. Specifically, how they untangle escalation from players failure but keep it feeling organic. IoI have been on this for a good while and Hitman has been excellent in the value and insane replay scope. Just hoping for another AA success story.
This looks great! Very excited for a new Bond game. Seems like they've based their Bond on Fleming's description with the blue eyes and scar on his cheek. Since it's an original story I wonder if...
This looks great! Very excited for a new Bond game.
Seems like they've based their Bond on Fleming's description with the blue eyes and scar on his cheek. Since it's an original story I wonder if they'll pull from any of the novels (Fleming or continuation authors) for inspiration, there's some great ideas in those books.
Fleming's Bond wasn't exactly a "healthy" strapping young man, IIRC. Didn't he have issues with alcohol and some other character traits that made him vulnerable; yet, he succeeded in spite of...
Fleming's Bond wasn't exactly a "healthy" strapping young man, IIRC. Didn't he have issues with alcohol and some other character traits that made him vulnerable; yet, he succeeded in spite of these vulnerabilities?
In the earlier novels Bond was fresh into the 00-programme and was a pretty young man, very early 30's if I remember right in Casino Royale, with Bond in his early 40's by the time of The Man with...
In the earlier novels Bond was fresh into the 00-programme and was a pretty young man, very early 30's if I remember right in Casino Royale, with Bond in his early 40's by the time of The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond even explains in Moonraker I think, that he'll be forcibly retired from the 00-programme in his mid-40's if he hasn't died by then and given a cushy senior civil service job. Although some of the post-Fleming novels, Colonel Sun, With a Mind to Kill, Devil May Care, and Solo have taken place after Fleming's novels and dealt with an older Bond, with Bond in Devil May Care directly talking about how his body is old, battered, and covered in scars.
The Anthony Horowitz novel Forever and a Day actually deals with am even younger Bond just before Casino Royale where he earns his 00 rank and goes on his very first mission.
He definitely has his vices in Fleming's novels, even using Benzedrine inhalers to give him a kick during missions but these vices become more pronounced during the mid-late Fleming novels as Bond becomes more cynical and jaded that he'll ever see retirement. I'd say Bonds worst trait right from the first novel Casino Royale is his absolutely rampant bigotry, homophobia, misogyny and racism, he's not a particularly nice person, but it's obvious why they won't include these traits in the game.
I enjoyed building silly Rube Goldberg assassination machines in the recent Hitman games. I hope this game will give us similar tools from Q to play around with.
I enjoyed building silly Rube Goldberg assassination machines in the recent Hitman games. I hope this game will give us similar tools from Q to play around with.
I am a huge fan of the recent Hitman games and I hope IOI can keep up their streak of very good stealth sandboxes. What really motivated me to keep playing Hitman was collecting all the suits, and...
I am a huge fan of the recent Hitman games and I hope IOI can keep up their streak of very good stealth sandboxes. What really motivated me to keep playing Hitman was collecting all the suits, and I get great enjoyment from wearing the right suits to fit each location.
Basically, I just played Hitman like a dress up game with optional assassination mechanics. I would love to see a more in depth outfit system than what was in the Hitman games.
If that's not an option, I'll be satisfied if we get a black suit with a red tie as a nod to 47.
Looks promising but I'm getting more of a Mission Impossible vibe right down to Bond's resemblance to Tom Cruise. Maybe that's just me though, as I'm not really a fan of either franchise. Anyway...
Looks promising but I'm getting more of a Mission Impossible vibe right down to Bond's resemblance to Tom Cruise. Maybe that's just me though, as I'm not really a fan of either franchise.
Anyway popcorn action is something the Hitman sandbox format suits well for, so I'm interested to see more.
Bond does look like Tom Cruise. I think it’s the cheekbones and the haircut. My instincts also said Mission Impossible, and I prefer 007 to the Mission Impossible franchise. I don’t think a teaser...
Bond does look like Tom Cruise. I think it’s the cheekbones and the haircut. My instincts also said Mission Impossible, and I prefer 007 to the Mission Impossible franchise.
I don’t think a teaser trailer like the attached says much about the game, though. I’d be a little more on edge if it was a trailer for a movie.
Slight tangeant (?) : I always thought that Mission Impossible was a better James Bond than James Bond. Or rather: I have the feeling that there's considerably more cloak and daggers in Mission...
Slight tangeant (?) : I always thought that Mission Impossible was a better James Bond than James Bond. Or rather: I have the feeling that there's considerably more cloak and daggers in Mission Impossible than in James Bond, who is more a gun blazing, evil lair exoding type of person. And so as a far as spy movies foes, there's more spyness in MI than in JB.
Need to see a proper vertical slice demo of this game because I'm very curious what ioi could have possibly done. I was sceptical about them doing a 007 game, but realized the current style of Hitman's immersive sim sandbox are a good fit for the early acts of a 007 movie.
The big divergence being that A47 enters through complex social engineering, traversal and disguise. 007 shows up with his Aston Martin being air dropped at the the velet with a super model/KGB agent on his arm and Vegas style neon sign floating over his head showing he's name and current address.
But after that, they both fall into their own flavors of espionage and infiltration. Getting where they don't belong, finding evidence, overhearing conversations and putting dots together. Bond is screened by his overt and eccentric charisma, while 47 is protected by his complete lack of any distinction.
And while both characters would prefer a quick and quiet exit, the most interesting scenarios are when things go wrong. But while 47s missions can degenerate into chaos and insanity, 007s has to. Bond needs to get captured. He needs to be dangled over the tank of tigers riding laser sharks. He needs an excuse to use the bomb pen and to fire the Walter PPK and close it out with the daring high speed escape.
So now I'm very excited to see how they plan to deliver. Specifically, how they untangle escalation from players failure but keep it feeling organic. IoI have been on this for a good while and Hitman has been excellent in the value and insane replay scope. Just hoping for another AA success story.
This looks great! Very excited for a new Bond game.
Seems like they've based their Bond on Fleming's description with the blue eyes and scar on his cheek. Since it's an original story I wonder if they'll pull from any of the novels (Fleming or continuation authors) for inspiration, there's some great ideas in those books.
Fleming's Bond wasn't exactly a "healthy" strapping young man, IIRC. Didn't he have issues with alcohol and some other character traits that made him vulnerable; yet, he succeeded in spite of these vulnerabilities?
In the earlier novels Bond was fresh into the 00-programme and was a pretty young man, very early 30's if I remember right in Casino Royale, with Bond in his early 40's by the time of The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond even explains in Moonraker I think, that he'll be forcibly retired from the 00-programme in his mid-40's if he hasn't died by then and given a cushy senior civil service job. Although some of the post-Fleming novels, Colonel Sun, With a Mind to Kill, Devil May Care, and Solo have taken place after Fleming's novels and dealt with an older Bond, with Bond in Devil May Care directly talking about how his body is old, battered, and covered in scars.
The Anthony Horowitz novel Forever and a Day actually deals with am even younger Bond just before Casino Royale where he earns his 00 rank and goes on his very first mission.
He definitely has his vices in Fleming's novels, even using Benzedrine inhalers to give him a kick during missions but these vices become more pronounced during the mid-late Fleming novels as Bond becomes more cynical and jaded that he'll ever see retirement. I'd say Bonds worst trait right from the first novel Casino Royale is his absolutely rampant bigotry, homophobia, misogyny and racism, he's not a particularly nice person, but it's obvious why they won't include these traits in the game.
I enjoyed building silly Rube Goldberg assassination machines in the recent Hitman games. I hope this game will give us similar tools from Q to play around with.
I am a huge fan of the recent Hitman games and I hope IOI can keep up their streak of very good stealth sandboxes. What really motivated me to keep playing Hitman was collecting all the suits, and I get great enjoyment from wearing the right suits to fit each location.
Basically, I just played Hitman like a dress up game with optional assassination mechanics. I would love to see a more in depth outfit system than what was in the Hitman games.
If that's not an option, I'll be satisfied if we get a black suit with a red tie as a nod to 47.
Announcement Trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qY9DYE184
Looks promising but I'm getting more of a Mission Impossible vibe right down to Bond's resemblance to Tom Cruise. Maybe that's just me though, as I'm not really a fan of either franchise.
Anyway popcorn action is something the Hitman sandbox format suits well for, so I'm interested to see more.
Bond actually seems to resemble Fleming's description with the blue eyes, the scar on the cheek and the thin young Hoagie Charmichael face.
The rumor is that the voice actor for Bond in the game is Patrick Gibson and the character model actually does look remarkably similar to him.
Bond does look like Tom Cruise. I think it’s the cheekbones and the haircut. My instincts also said Mission Impossible, and I prefer 007 to the Mission Impossible franchise.
I don’t think a teaser trailer like the attached says much about the game, though. I’d be a little more on edge if it was a trailer for a movie.
Slight tangeant (?) : I always thought that Mission Impossible was a better James Bond than James Bond. Or rather: I have the feeling that there's considerably more cloak and daggers in Mission Impossible than in James Bond, who is more a gun blazing, evil lair exoding type of person. And so as a far as spy movies foes, there's more spyness in MI than in JB.