It's been five long years since IO Interactive first announced that it would be taking on Project 007, now known as 007 First Light . It's a pairing that goes together seamlessly, as IO has been making Hitman games for almost 25 years now. But even with all that practice, it was still a huge undertaking.

"Understanding the IP, the hardcore nucleus of the IP, has been very important for us," Hakan Abrak, CEO of IO Interactive, told me at Gamescom. "This is the first time that IO Interactive, in our 25-plus years of existence, is working on another IP, not our own original creative IP."

"There's always a care and meticulousness that we put into our worlds," Abrak says. "But we want to do that more here out of respect for the legacy of this fantastic IP, that's been going from strength to s

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