Agent Was Going To Be Like James Bond

Extra information got here to gentle about Agent, the PS3 unique Rockstar recreation introduced throughout E3 2009 that’s since been deserted and misplaced to time, with no indicators of life anyplace. With its trademark deserted and the sport now not displaying up on the dev’s web site, it’s honest to say that it’s definately canceled.

Earlier this month, although, former technical director Obbe Vermeij spilled the beans on his newly established weblog about his time working at Rockstar North. Apparently, it was meant to seethe “traditional James Bond” vibes the place you have been set to play — internally generally known as — Jimmy, which he described as a “Scottish model of James Bond.” Sadly, he was deemed a “distraction,” so he was scrapped.

Initially, the sport was poised to be extra liner than the Grand Theft Auto sequence and would happen in a number of areas someday in the course of the ’70s. Vermeij reminisced about engaged on a snowboarding stage with firearms. After some time, Rockstar North needed to get behind the wheel and work on GTA 4, and whereas the studio had sunk a yr of improvement time into Agent, it wasn’t sufficient, and the sport was handed off to a different Rockstar studio the place it now sits principally lifeless.