Rockstar has announced that its Edinburgh studio, reasonably well-known for the GTA series, is working on a new project. Agent is a PS3-exclusive espionage thriller, set at the end of the 1970s, a period of political assassinations, counter-intelligence and Cold War paranoia.
Sam House had this to say:
"We have always enjoyed making action games, and with Agent we are making what we believe will be the ultimate action game. Agent is a game we have wanted to make for a long time. The team in Edinburgh is doing an amazing job combining intense action, atmosphere and story in a great period setting to create something that feels quite unique. We cannot wait for people to experience this game."
The cultural influences aren't hard to guess - The Conversation, Parallax View, All The President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, the novels of Robert Ludlum and John le Carre...
Intriguing stuff.
