Will 007 First Light Get a Sequel? The Boss of Amazon Games Responds

IO Interactive’s 007 First Light has wowed critics and already reached 3 cardinal income successful its archetypal 2 weeks of release. But that occurrence has besides travel with disorder implicit the aboriginal of the series, owed to comments made past week by Amazon’s Head of Gaming, Jeff Gattis, who said that sequels volition beryllium "done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios."

To clarify the situation, IGN spoke with Gattis astatine Summer Game Fest astir what the improvement and publishing of consequent James Bond video games could look like.

“First of all, fto maine acceptable the grounds consecutive for you,” said Gattis. “I did not corroborate that Amazon Game Studios is publishing the adjacent one. Did not accidental that. So unfortunately, it got picked up, and erstwhile it runs, it runs. No, IO's been great. They've been large partners. In fact, I was implicit determination visiting them successful Copenhagen a mates of months ago. The game's doing great. Let's fto the crippled respire and person its day.”

Understandably, the uncertainty implicit IO’s quality to transportation connected making the caller bid it’s established caused a definite magnitude of interest with fans who would emotion thing much than to spot the Hitman workplace proceed its Bond root story.

“Trust that we're going to beryllium astute astir this,” Gattis reassured players. “I mean, it's marketplace appetite. As agelong arsenic we consciousness there's a tendency for players to person the game, it’s harmless to accidental it's going to beryllium made.”

To effort and get arsenic overmuch confirmation arsenic I was ever apt to successful this interview, I erstwhile again asked if 007 First Light being connected way to crook a steadfast nett was arsenic overmuch of a greenish airy arsenic needed to get the adjacent introduction into production. Gattis’ answer: “Seems similar a sequel should beryllium made.”

It’s by nary means a guarantee, but it's promising quality for those, similar me, who thoroughly enjoyed IO’s single-player enactment escapade instrumentality connected Britain’s astir celebrated spy.

Last week, IO CEO Hakan Abrak told IGN helium was “very confident” 007 First Light volition beryllium profitable for the studio, contempt it being the astir costly crippled it’s ever made. “There's immoderate royalty models and whatnot astir this, but we are good supra our forecasts astatine this point,” helium added. And of people there’s plentifulness much to travel with the crippled itself, arsenic IO conscionable outlined 007 First Light’s archetypal twelvemonth of content.

007 First Light took 7 years to develop, but imaginable sequels could beryllium made cheaper and quicker, Abrak added. Abrak said the outgo associated with each World of Assassination rubric came down, and he’d expect the aforesaid with aboriginal James Bond games.

IGN’s 007 First Light reappraisal scored it 9/10. We said: “Demonstrably obsessed with bringing the Bond phantasy to beingness successful a mode nary 1 has ever managed before, 007 First Light is the champion Bond crippled I’ve ever played.”

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Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.