2018 · Action · Tactical

Agent

PlayStation exclusive

Agent takes players on a paranoid journey into the world of counter-intelligence, espionage and political assassinations during the height of the Cold War at the end of the 1970s. The trademark for the game's title was renewed in 2013 and 2017, and abandoned by November 2018.

Released: 1 November 2018
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Genres: Action Tactical
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Action Stealth
Country: United Kingdom

About

Agent is a cancelled stealth action game developed by Rockstar North for PlayStation 3. The game was to be set in the 1970s Cold War era. Agent was teased in July 2007 and formally announced in June 2009. The trademark for the game's title was renewed in 2013 and 2017, and abandoned by November 2018.

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Story

Agent was to be set during the Cold War in the late 1970s. According to a press release, the game was planned to "take players into the world of counter-intelligence, espionage and political assassinations".

Development

In July 2007, during E3 of that year, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that Rockstar Games was working on a new franchise for the PlayStation 3. S. PlayStation Blog: "As part of our long standing relationship with Rockstar, and the incredible success for both companies with the cultural icon that is Grand Theft Auto we've agreed to the PlayStation exclusive rights of the next great franchise from the Rockstar studios." A.

Noire. According to Shorrock, "Rockstar really wanted to make a game that you can truly only do on PS3" and added that the reason Sony locked the intellectual property down as an exclusive deal was because Sony believed the franchise would "set the bar for the rest of the industry". Ben Feder, the then-president of Take-Two Interactive (Rockstar's parent company), said that the game would be "genre-defining" and "a whole new way of experiencing videogames that we haven't really seen before".