Rockstar Games Co-Founder Reveals Real Reason Why Agent Was Canceled (1 Viewer)

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Rockstar Games Co-Founder Reveals Real Reason Why Agent Was Canceled

Agent was another massive Rockstar Games title, until it was abandoned for good in 2018, and Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has explained why.

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"We worked a lot on multiple iterations of an open-world spy game, and it never came together. Agent had about five different iterations. I don't think it works, I concluded. I keep thinking about it sometimes, I lie in bed thinking about it, and I've concluded: What makes them really good as film stories makes them not work as video games, or I need to think through how to do it a different way as a video game."

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That was one of the versions. There was another that was set in current [times]…we had so many different versions of this game, we worked on it with so many different teams."

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I fail to see how an open world spy game would work or even by fun. Hitman does it best doing it by mission. I think 007 First Light is meant to be semi open world. Will have to see how that goes.