What do we know about Agent, Rockstar North’s recently announced PlayStation 3 exclusive? 1. It’s an action game. 2. It’s an international spy thriller set in the 1970’s. And that’s about it. Pretty much no other details have surfaced since Jack Tretton revealed the above logo during Sony’s press conference. Even so, that hasn’t kept Take-Two CEO Ben Feder from declaring Agent to be the best thing since virtual sliced bread:
"The game, like anything from Rockstar North, is going to be very, very cool. It's going to push the edge, it's going to be genre-defining and it's going to be a whole new way of experiencing videogames that we haven't really seen before.”
"They're the best development team on the planet. We have a lot of respect for Sony, we have a lot of good business relationships with Sony. The PlayStation platforms are best suited for the title."
To be fair, most companies tend to bill their games as “genre-defining” and “revolutionary” early in the product cycles, but that doesn’t keep Feder’s remarks from sounding any less presumptuous, given that they’re about a title we know next to nothing about. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if his statement turns out to be true, or if it’s just another case of PR hyperbole.
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1:32 AM on 06.04.2009
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You really want to wow anyone show some gameplay first and let that do the talking then you can talk all u want
Then they started fucking around with exclusive DLC bullshit and that pissed me off.
Can the Agency get them back into my good books? Who knows, but fingers are crossed.
EVERY game developer needs to read that. Just announcing a new IP with a logo dosnt really mean anything. Hell even teaser trailers dont really mean much or create hype, unless its freakin Metroid or GTA or some other established IP.
I totally agree. They can say "PS3-Exclusive" all they want, but at one point or another it's coming to 360 and PC (Don't believe me? Look at every title they've made over the past few years, they all made it to other platforms at one point or another. Nothing Rockstar makes stays exclusive, unless you pay them enough).
And I agree with the notion that this game needs to be shwon before any kind of hype talk can begin. But I already know it WON'T be genre-defining, because every developer that says that is usually wrong. I am intrigued at the thought of RS making a spy-thriller.