007 First Light reveals new, young James Bond, and Lennie James of The Walking Dead will co-star
Blog Andrew Joseph 05 Jun , 2025 0
Today’s PlayStation Play Status Broadcast provides our first correct introduction to 007 First Light, the upcoming James Bond game for Hitman Studio IO Interactive, which will be launched in 2026.
The game's movie trailer begins his career with a fresh James Bond who joins MI6 and meets new versions of classic characters M, Q and Moneypenny.
The trailer also reveals the involvement of The Walking Dead's Lennie James, who will portray Bond's mentor John Greenway in the game.
007 First Light trailer reveals the incarnation of James Bond involved in a childhood tragedy that made him an 11-year-old orphan, and has since spent the rest of his childhood in various boarding schools in the UK. Later, we see Bond is a young recruit from the Royal Navy, who was recruited by MI6.
Here, the player becomes Bond as a broker, picks up the story of Omega watch, and starts annoying Q by trying his gadgets in the lab.
A press release with game status appearance lists Bond's age as “26-year-old” in 007 First Light. Players will travel the world in what is called a “story-driven action-adventure game”, and you can choose how to deal with various challenges with the trademark charm of Brute Force or 007.
The footage that looks like the game shows James Bond performing a mission, stealing things, using gadgets and his fists to subdue the enemy as the hero is sent to the target rogue agent. “009 is the main operator,” Greenway said. “Whatever the final game is, we won't see it coming.” Oh yes, as Killer Studio expected, you can dress up in a disguise.
IO Interactive's James Bond game is First announced in 2020 As the 007 project, we have no idea about it since then. Still, IO says it is developing a fresh James Bond origin story and a completely original piece, not after any particular movie event.
Recently, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak said he hopes 007 First Light will be Start a new game trilogyalthough unfortunately the studio's love Killer franchise is interrupted When IO is engaged in this game. We also learned that in April this year, in addition to PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, we also learned that 007 First Light is getting Nintendo Switch 2 version.
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