Just yesterday, IO Interactive revealed its first gameplay from its James Bond game, 007 First Light . While it’s set in its own continuity, it’ll still have some ties to the films and books —in fact, those ties are how IO got the reins of Bond in the first place.
Press like IGN got to visit the studio prior to the recent unveiling, and it was there game director Hakan Abrak revealed part of IO’s pitch for the game was sculpting Daniel Craig’s face onto Agent 47, the star of its stealth-action franchise Hitman . This Craig sculpt was “just for demo purposes,” said Abrak, “to give an impression of what these living, breathing spaces mean in an IO game.” The demo was set in the 2016 Hitman’s Sapienza level, a fictional Italian town with a compound in the caverns with the level