

You'd play an assassin in a suit icing Chinese mafia types, hardballers spitting fire and fury. So they changed tack, drafting storyboards for an action game based on John Woo movies like Hard Boiled and The Killer. "We were asked to prove ourselves with a simple shooter first."Ī run-and-gun action game would indeed be quicker to create and it would give Jacob and his team the leeway to get back to their world of might and magic. "One of the marketing guys at Nordisk Film persuaded us to stop development on Rex Dominus," recalls lead designer Jacob Andersen. The former wanted to make a fantasy MMO they had dubbed Rex Dominus. The company was a joint venture between Reto-Moto, a Danish development house, and Nordisk Film studio. The truth is that IO Interactive nearly didn't make Codename 47 at all, and it originally intended to make a simple shooter that would pave the way for bigger and better things.
