IO Interactive Releases 007 First Light 14 Years After Bond’s Last Major Game
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Updated · Rolling Stone · May 28
IO Interactive Releases 007 First Light 14 Years After Bond’s Last Major Game
3 articles · Updated · Rolling Stone · May 28
007 First Light launched on PlayStation 5, PC and Xbox Series X|S, giving James Bond fans a new entry while the film franchise remains in its longest hiatus.
IO Interactive built the game as a standalone origin story rather than a movie tie-in, centering a 26-year-old Bond before formal spy training and emphasizing social manipulation, bluffing and player choice.
Patrick Gibson, 31, plays the new Bond, becoming the first fresh actor in the role since Daniel Craig and anchoring a version the studio says was created from scratch, not modeled on past films.
At roughly 20 hours for the main campaign, the release aims to offer a deeper Bond experience than a single film, and IO Interactive says post-launch missions and add-ons are planned.
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