007 First Light finds the sweet spot to start a James Bond videogame. It's not necessarily an origin story, as Bond has already made his way into the lower levels of MI6, but it takes place early enough that IO Interactive can showcase a 007 that many may not have seen before, making this more than just a film adaptation.
"We've been so lucky with our partners that we were trusted to do more than a gamification of a movie," Hakan Abrak, CEO of IO Interactive, told me at Gamescom. "It's not about making Pierce Brosnan look as good as possible with pixels, but actually, creating this young man from scratch and with an original story. We wanted to take that opportunity and go all the way with creating something for the gamers that they could call their own."
