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A pure stealth game featuring 007 would be intriguing
Stealth games are pretty much dead in this day and age. Only stealth game that's being worked on is Hitman and I heard Hitman 3 is the last Hitman game which makes sense so they an start this new 007 game. The early to mid 2000 was the best time for stealth games.
Its not the last Hitman game, its the end of this specific trilogy. After this, they are giving Hitman a bit of a break to work on other projects like Bond. Hitman, at the end of the day, is still IOI's baby, so its not going away. Plus, these 3 Hitman games were incredibly popular for a niche series.
The second has killer fun sniper missions. IOI is definitely the right developer to tackle Bond.
Certainly bodes well for our man Bond.
I'm way more excited for this upcoming Bond project than Hitman 3, sadly. They're already lying about the length of the game in hopes of selling more copies, I imagine, and for that, I'll gladly avoid picking it up day one at full price.
i think we all are ;)
Perhaps the entire experience might not be worth full price to many people, which is fair, but with how often these games go on sale it shouldn't pose much of an issue.
Their own marketing said there would be six FULL levels, which we didn't get in Hitman 2, but it's clear that, sans spoilers, one of the levels is almost entirely narrative-driven and is more akin to some quick mission from CoD than it is a fully realized, sandbox mission. Thus, there are only five actual levels available. Hell, I've even heard how the narrative seems to take over and make some of the levels not terribly replayable, which really is the grand essence of the series.
This rubbed me the wrong way with Hitman 2 (Hawke's Bay is clearly not on the same level as the other locations) and I won't be paying full price for the same with this one.
It would be great if Sean Bean voiced Bond actually. Anyone got any suggestions for a particular actor's voice they'd like to hear?
Eh, Hitman 2 wasn't really their fault. Yeah, the full game was basically only available via DLC, but that's because of the greatly reduced budget on account of the management buyout. It's why the initial levels didn't have full motion cutscenes either. Still, it didn't take long for the entire game plus DLC to be available for less than $20. More than fair. Don't get me wrong, I certainly wouldn't have paid the huge price tag of the Gold Edition at launch either. All the same, I don't fault IOI for doing what they had to do.
Personally I don't think the semantics of what was meant by "level" is them lying at all. It seemed fairly clear to me that they simply meant the entirety of the game would be available at launch this time unlike the previous two entries. Six new locations, full length or not. Hawke's Bay was fine by me. I don't mind a small map like that to contrast some of the larger ones. I hate Isle Of Sgail with a fiery passion even though on the surface it is an incredible map.
I was reading some of the comments on the Hitman discord and from the attitude there you'd think this was some type of Cyberpunk 2077 level blunder! I fail to see it, but I guess I'll see when I get rolling on the game tomorrow evening.
And we'll agree to disagree on that one, because their recent marketing clearly indicated that there would be six fully complete levels (I believe they even note 'Mastery Level 20' for each to clarify this point further), which really isn't the case at all. Poor wording on their part, sure, perhaps, but I'd much rather wait and get it for dirt cheap when it's patched to hell and back.
Yeah, anything comparing this one to Cyberpunk 2077 is certainly overblown and false. In all my years of gaming, I've never played something that inherently broken.
EDIT: Around 2:09 (video's barely a month old now) is where my issue comes in - it's a clear lie, in my opinion, but yes, semantics. I'll just wait to get it for $20 and not feel the sting as heavily.
Me too. I would also like to see Jon Hamm play him (if they went American). Kit Harington would be my personal choice. He’s known, but not everyone-knows-your-name famous. That really helped the previous Bonds.
When I think of Game of Thrones, Richard Madden would be great, too, in my opinion.
He was another choice! Tom Hiddleston could be interesting as well. Brian Blessed would make a great villain. Maybe for Jean-Paul Scipio, if they use Forever and a Day as a influence or adaption. Speaking of FAAD, I would like to see them use this, Richard Maibaum and Michael G Wilson's original scripts of Bond 15, and even Jeffery Deaver's Carte Blanche. I know a lot of Bond fans don't like it, but there are bits that could be adapted well for a video game.
Imagine Project 007 having VR too..
True, Madden has a very commanding voice.