At E3 2009, Sony introduced that it was partnering with Rockstar on a PlayStation-exclusive spy recreation referred to as Agent, with Rockstar founders Sam and Dan Houser overseeing growth. The sport by no means materialized, although, and now Dan Houser has shared extra particulars as to why.
Talking to IGN, Houser stated Agent by no means popping out should not be a complete shock as a result of he labored on “a bunch of video games that by no means got here out.” He stated Rockstar tried with two or three completely different groups to make Agent–an open-world spy game–but the groups simply “couldn’t get it proper.”
“And it by no means got here out. We concluded that it was not a recreation we have been ever going to determine the right way to make. Different folks can attempt, however I personally assume it is laborious,” he stated.
Nice spy motion pictures just like the James Bond sequence work so properly as a result of they take viewers all around the world, however “that is not an expertise in an open-world recreation that basically works,” Houser stated.
“So we tried a lot of issues and could not get it fairly proper,” Houser stated, occurring to say that the groups constructed nice parts however they by no means got here collectively in a full bundle.
Photographs of Agent, which was reportedly set within the ’70s, have emerged through the years, exhibiting off a few of what Rockstar was planning.
In 2009, then-Take-Two president Ben Feder instructed GameSpot that Agent was being positioned to be the following Grand Theft Auto.
“It’s the A group engaged on an AAA title,” he stated on the time. “I feel the subject material, the characters, the story, the setting, the background–all the weather are there. It’s such a wealthy setting to play in.”
Throughout the business, video games get canceled regularly–Blizzard has stated it cancels 50% of the video games it starts–but Rockstar’s Agent acquired extra traction due to the studio’s profile.
Rockstar by no means gave Agent a launch date, however it might have adopted up 2008’s Grand Theft Auto 4. The following recreation that Rockstar North led growth on after GTA 4 was 2013’s GTA 5, and now Rockstar North is about to launch GTA 6 on November 19.