007 First Light Reveals New, Young James Bond, With The Walking Dead's Lennie James Set to Co-Star

Today's PlayStation State of Play broadcast has provided our archetypal due look astatine 007 First Light, the upcoming James Bond crippled from Hitman workplace IO Interactive that's owed to motorboat successful 2026.

A cinematic trailer for the crippled showcased a fresh-faced James Bond astatine the opening of his vocation arsenic an agent, who joins MI6 and meets caller versions of classical characters M, Q and Moneypenny.

The trailer besides revealed the engagement of The Walking Dead's Lennie James, who volition represent Bond’s mentor John Greenway successful the game.

007 First Light's trailer reveals this incarnation of James Bond was progressive successful a puerility calamity that near him arsenic an orphan aged 11, aft which helium spent the remainder of his puerility successful assorted British boarding schools. We aboriginal spot Bond arsenic a young enlistee successful the Royal Navy, from which helium is recruited by MI6.

It's present that players prime up Bond's communicative arsenic helium becomes an agent, picks up an Omega watch, and starts annoying Q by trying retired his gadgets successful the lab.

A property merchandise issued alongside the game's State of Play quality lists Bond's property successful 007 First Light arsenic "a young 26-year-old". Players volition beryllium traverse the globe successful what is described arsenic "a story-driven action-adventure game" wherever you tin take however to navigate assorted challenges — either with brute unit oregon 007's trademark charm.

What looks similar gameplay footage shows James Bond connected a mission, stealthing around, utilizing gadgets — and his fists — to subdue enemies, arsenic it sounds similar the leader is sent disconnected to people different rogue agent. "009 is simply a maestro manipulator," Greenway says astatine 1 point. "Whatever the endgame is, we won't spot it coming."

IO Interactive's James Bond crippled was archetypal announced backmost successful 2020 arsenic Project 007, and since past we've learned precise small astir it. Still, from the off, IO said that it was processing a caller James Bond root communicative and a wholly archetypal portion of work, alternatively than thing that followed the events of immoderate peculiar film.

More recently, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak has said helium hoped 007 First Light would beryllium the commencement of a caller trilogy of games, though unluckily the studio's beloved Hitman franchise is connected hiatus portion IO works connected this game. We besides learned conscionable this past April that successful summation to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, 007 First Light is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 release.

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