Developing the first James Bond video game in over a decade has felt like returning "back home" for IO Interactive, the Danish studio known for its own globe-trotting agent fantasy series "Hitman".

Scheduled for release next year, "007 First Light" takes the long-honed stealth infiltration formula IO developed for "Hitman" and throws in a healthy dose of Bond's over-the-top car chases, gunplay and sex appeal.

"While doing (Hitman) earlier, I was bathing in 007 cool," the new game's art director Rasmus Poulsen told AFP at the Gamescom trade fair in Cologne.

"Now we're back home (in) this elevated world with a sense of wonder and a sense of ominous 'what now'."

The most recent movies starring Daniel Craig are favourites at IO, making it no surprise that the game depicts a younger Bond ea

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