Agent (cancelled)

[Jabalous]

I imagine that Agent is something more like MGS The Phantom Pain. This means that story is told through successive missions that take place in open worlds. There would be many choices and possibilities to successfully carry out your assignments.

 

Say you are assigned to assassinate a target. There would be set up missions like the heists in GTA V through which you would need to secure your way to the final target. You may make some contacts, recruit agents to act as insiders, plant spying gadgets in the target's hideout. You're given many choices with each leading to a different challenge when doing the final mission; assassinate the target.

 

It's a game that combines the best of Splinter Cell, MGS and Hitman. This, again, makes it something like The Phantom Pain, only with Rockstar's clever world design and must-to-have challenging AI just to make different decisions having different impacts and challenges.

[Frantz Fuchs]

Why are all you talking out your ass like you work at R*? lmao.

 

All we know is that it's a spy game. It could be anything from a full on stealth game like Splinter Cell/MGS, or could be more of a James Bond/LA Noire like detective game.

[Norsea]

Again, you're looking at this topic as a news topic. It's not. FiS!!HeR was voicing his thoughts, and in his post, he said absolutely nothing about it being true.

[Durden]

R* announces 3 playable protagonists:

 

-Mafia leader

-Mafia rat/agent working for the government

-Police/detective trying to shut down the Mafia

 

Wouldn't even be mad.

[IDredMan]

Has there even been a single bit of news on this since its announcement?

[Norsea]

Obviously not We're just all sitting around a table with no waitress service at all.

[poley23]

Sorry for my ignorance about the cold war in the late 70s, but how would they go about it? Because from what i can understand, most of the big events in the late 70s didn't happen till around 1979 and carried on into the early 80s. Besides the Iranian hostage crisis and the invasion of Afghanistan by Russia, what do you think they would use. Or do you think they would make up their own story?

[Mista J]

The game doesn't exist. It's cop out since GTA IV was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive. The IP was revealed just to please Sony and I doubt they care anymore.

[ryanhunter_rfc]

That's the most stupid thing I have ever heard. I hope you are joking...

[Mr. Scratch]

The game doesn't exist. It's cop out since GTA IV was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive. The IP was revealed just to please Sony and I doubt they care anymore.

 

Actually, IV was supposed to be 360 exclusive.

[Zello]

I'm thinking the protagonist of the game is either gonna look like this

 

 

Or this

 

 

[Mista J]

 

The game doesn't exist. It's cop out since GTA IV was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive. The IP was revealed just to please Sony and I doubt they care anymore.

Actually, IV was supposed to be 360 exclusive.

Nope. MS paid for it to come to 360.

[PhillBellic]

I'm thinking the protagonist of the game is either gonna look like this

 

 

Or this

 

 

Knowing Rockstar these days, they both would be the Protagonists.

[.Ryan.]

It's the code name for GTA V's story DLC.

[PhillBellic]

It's the code name for GTA V's story DLC.

What, Vapourware?

[Mr. Scratch]

Umm... that's not entirely true.

 

http://www.unseen64.net/2010/09/15/agent-xbox-ps2-cancelled/

[RyanBurnsRed]

LA Noire was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive, not GTA IV. Rockstar wanted to have the game (LA Noire) on both consoles and thus promised Sony another game (Agent)

MS only paid for timed exclusive DLC (TLaD & TBoGT)

 

LA Noire was originally going to be published exclusively for the PS3 by SCE...then Rockstar got the publishing rights from them in 2006. I'm assuming since Sony no longer owned the rights to LA Noire that Rockstar chose to make it multiplatform. I don't think Agent had anything to do with LA Noire so I'm not sure why you brought that up.

 

There are separate rumors that can easily be found via Google that dates back to 2005 that GTA IV was to be PS3 exclusive. Then Michael Pachter made a statement in 2010 said Microsoft paid $50 million to Rockstar to bring GTA IV to Xbox 360 and for timed exclusivity on the DLC.

 

Also look: https://trademarks.justia.com/860/14/agent-86014006.html

 

Take-Two continues to extend the trademark on it....if I'm understanding this correctly they extended it most recently on May 28, 2015. Not sure if that's even remotely significant.

[Spaghetti Cat]

Looking at the set where you find the James Bond-type car seems awful similar to an Eastern European location. We're told that AGENT might take place in Europe in the 70's. This little bit gives me hope that some type of layout design is going on. Why else have it that detailed, and so out of place with the rest of V. I'm hoping that R* is dropping little hints like this and the license plate, leading up to some sort of announcement.

[Mista J]

It was a movie set, bro. It's not supposed to fit in. Just like on the universal lot here in LA. They have sets for Europe, Mexico, Old West Texas, and New York.

[acmilano]

 

 

Wars[edit]

Main article: List of wars 1945–1989 § 1970–1979

The most notable wars and/or other conflicts of the decade include:

• The Cold War (1947–1991)
  • The Vietnam War came to a close in 1975 with the fall of Saigon and the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The following year, Vietnam was officially declared reunited.
  • Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989) - Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.
  • Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) - resulting in intervention by multiple countries on the Marxist and anti-Marxist sides, with Cuba and Mozambique supporting the Marxist faction while South Africa and Zaire support the anti-Marxists.
  • Ethiopian Civil War (1976–1991)
• The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 in South Asia, engaging East Pakistan, West Pakistan, and India
  • 1971 Bangladesh genocide
  • Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• Arab–Israeli conflict (Early 20th century–present)
  • Yom Kippur War (1973) - the war was launched by Egypt against Israel in October 1973 to recover the international standing Egypt had lost in the 1967 conflict. The Israelis were taken by surprise and suffered heavy losses before they rallied. In the end, they managed to repel the Egyptians (and a simultaneous attack by Syria) and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt proper. In 1978, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel at Camp David in the United States, ending outstanding disputes between the two countries. Sadat's actions would lead to his assassination in 1981.
• Indian emergency (1975-1977)
• Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) - A civil war in the Middle East which at times also involved the PLO and Israel during the early 1980s.
• Western Sahara War (1975–1991) - A regional war pinning the rebel Polisario Front against Morocco and Mauritania.
• Ugandan–Tanzanian War (1978–1979) - the war which was fought between Uganda and Tanzania was based on an expansionist agenda to annex territory fromTanzania. The war resulted in the overthrow of Idi Amin's regime.
• The Ogaden War (1977–1978) was another African conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia over control of the Ogaden region.

International conflicts[edit]

1979 Iranian Revolution

The most notable International conflicts of the decade include:

• Major conflict between capitalist and communist forces in multiple countries, while attempts are made by the Soviet Union and the United States to lessen the chance for conflict, such as both countries endorsing nuclear nonproliferation.
• In 1976 peaceful student protests in the Soweto township of South Africa lead to the Soweto Uprising when more than 700 black school children were killed by South Africa's Security Police.
• Rise of separatism in the province of Quebec in Canada. In 1970 radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Crossduring the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters. The election of the Parti Québécois led by René Lévesque in the province of Quebec in Canada, brings the first political party committed to Quebec independence into power in Quebec. Lévesque's government pursues an agenda to secede Quebec from Canada by democratic means and strengthen Francophone Québécois culture in the late 1970s, such as the controversial Charter of the French Language more commonly known in Quebec and Canada as "Bill 101".
• Martial law was declared in the Philippines on September 21, 1972, by President Ferdinand Marcos.
• In Cambodia the communist leader Pol Pot led a revolution against the American-backed government of Lon Nol. On April 17, 1975, Pot's forces captured Phnom Penh, the capital, two years after America had halted the bombings of their positions. His communist government, the Khmer Rouge, forced people out of the cities to clear jungles and establish a radical, Marxist agrarian society. Buddhist priests and monks, along with anyone who spoke foreign languages, had any sort of education, or even wore eyeglasses were tortured or killed. As many as 3 million people may have died. Vietnam invaded the country at the start of 1979, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge and installing a satellite government. This provoked a brief, but furious border war with China in February of that year.
• The Iranian Revolution of 1979 transformed Iran from an autocratic pro-Western monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to a theocratic Islamistgovernment under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Distrust between the revolutionaries and Western powers led to the Iran hostage crisis on November 4, 1979, where 66 diplomats, mainly from the United States, were held captive for 444 days.
• Growing internal tensions take place in Yugoslavia beginning with the Croatian Spring movement in 1971 which demands greater decentralization of power to the constituent republics of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia (Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. In addition, the 1974 Constitution consolidated Tito's dictatorship by proclaiming him president-for-life. The 1974 Constitution would become resented by Serbs and began a gradual escalation of ethnic tensions.

Coups[edit]

Haile Selassie was overthrown from power inEthiopia, ending one of the longest lasting monarchies in world history.

Main article: List of coups d'état and coup attempts § 1970–1979

The most prominent coups d'état of the decade include:

• 1970 - Coup in Syria, led by Hafez al-Assad
• 1971 Ugandan coup d'état - Military coup in Uganda led by Idi Amin.
• 1973 - Coup d'état in Chile on September 11th, Salvador Allende overthrown and killed in a military attack on the presidential palace. Augusto Pinochet takes power backed by the military junta.
• 1974 - Military coup in Ethiopia led to the overthrown of Haile Selassie by the communist junta led by General Aman Andom andMengistu Haile Mariam, ending one of the world's longest lasting monarchies in history.
• 1976 - Jorge Rafael Videla seizes control of Argentina in 1976 through a coup sponsored by the Argentine military, establishing himself as a dictator of a military junta government in the country.
• 1979 - Attempted coup in Iran, backed by the United States to overthrow Interim government which came to power after theIranian Revolution

Terrorist attacks[edit]

Main article: List of terrorist incidents § 1970s–2000s

The most notable terrorist attacks of the decade include:

• The Munich massacre takes place at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where Palestinian Arab terrorists of the Black September terrorist organization kidnap and murder eleven Israeli athletes.
• Rise in the use of terrorism by militant organizations across the world. Groups in Europe like the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof Gang were responsible for a spate of bombings, kidnappings, and murders. Violence continued in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Radical American groups existed as well, such as the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army, but they never achieved the size or strength of their European counterparts.
• On September 6, 1970, the world witnessed the beginnings of modern rebellious fighting in what is today called as Skyjack Sunday. Palestinian terrorists hijacked four airliners and took over 300 people on board as hostage. The hostages were later released, but the planes were blown up.

Prominent political events[edit]

Worldwide

• 1973 oil crisis and 1979 energy crisis
• The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho,Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Americas

Nixon displays the V-for-victory signas he departs the White House after resigning

• United States President Richard Nixon resigns as President in 1974 while facing charges for impeachment for theWatergate scandal.
• Augusto Pinochet rises to power as ruler of Chile after overthrowing the country's Socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973 with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States. Pinochet would remain the dictator of Chile until 1990.
• Suriname receives independence from the Netherlands on November 25, 1975.
• In Guyana, the Rev. Jim Jones led several hundred people from the United States to establish a Utopian Marxist commune in the jungle named Jonestown. Amid allegations of corruption, mental and physical abuse by Jones on his followers, and denying them the right to leave Jonestown, a Congressional committee visited Guyana to investigate in November 1978. They were attacked by Jones' guards and Congressman Leo Ryan was killed. The demented Jones then ordered everyone in the commune to commit suicide. The people drank or were forced to drink cyanide-laced fruit punch. A total of 900 dead were found, including Jones, who shot himself.

Europe

United States President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Austria.

• Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party rise to power in the United Kingdom in 1979, initiating a neoliberaleconomic policy of reducing government spending, weakening the power of trade unions, and promoting economic and trade liberalization.
• Francisco Franco dies after 39 years in power. Juan Carlos I crowned king of Spain and calls for reintroduction of democracy, dictatorship in Spain ends. First general elections held in 1977 and Adolfo Suárez becomes prime minister of Spain after his Centrist Democratic Union wins. Socialist and Communist parties legalised. Current Spanish Constitution signed in 1977.
• In 1972 Erich Honecker was chosen to lead East Germany, a role he would fill for the whole of the 1970s and 1980s. The mid-1970s were a time of extreme recession for East Germany, and as a result of the country's higher debts, consumer goods became more and more scarce. If East Germans had enough money to procure a television set, a telephone, or aTrabant automobile, they were placed on waiting lists which caused them to wait as much as a decade for the item in question.
• The Soviet Union under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, having the largest armed forces and largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, pursued an agenda to lessen tensions with its rival superpower, the United States for most of the seventies. That policy known asdétente abruptly ended with the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan at the end of 1979. While known as a 'period of stagnation' in Soviet historiography the Seventies are largely considered as a sort of a golden age of the USSR in terms of stability and relative well-being. Nevertheless, hidden inflation continued to increase for the second straight decade, and production consistently fell short of demand in agriculture and consumer goods manufacturing. By the end of the 1970s, signs of social and economic stagnation were becoming very pronounced.
• Enver Hoxha's rule in Albania was characterized in the 1970s by growing isolation, first from a very public schism with the Soviet Union the decade before, and then by a split in friendly relations with China in 1978. Albania normalized relations with Yugoslavia in 1971, and attempted trade agreements with other European nations, but was met with vocal disapproval by the United Kingdom and United States .
• 1978 would become known as the "Year of Three Popes". In August, Paul VI, who had ruled since 1963, died. His successor was Cardinal Albino Luciano, who took the name John Paul. But only 33 days later, he was found dead, and the Catholic Church had to elect another pope. On October 16, Karol Wojtyła, a Polish cardinal, was elected, becoming Pope John Paul II. He was the first non-Italian pope since 1523.

Asia

Camp David Accords, 1978

• On 17 September 1978 the Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt. The Accords led directly to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. They also resulted in Sadat and Begin sharing the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Major changes in the People's Republic of China. U.S. president Richard Nixon visited the country in 1972, restoring relations between the two countries, although diplomatic ties were not established until 1979. In 1976 Mao Zedong andZhou Enlai both died, beginning a new era. After the brief rule of Mao's chosen successor Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaopingemerged as China's paramount leader, and began to shift the country towards market economics and away from ideologically driven policies.
• In Iraq, Saddam Hussein began to rise to power by helping to modernize the country. One major initiative was removing the Western monopoly on oil which later during the high prices of 1973 oil crisis would help Hussein's ambitious plans. On July 16, 1979, he assumed the presidency cementing his rise to power. His presidency led to the breaking off of a Syrian-Iraqi unification, which had been sought under his predecessor Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and would lead to the Iran–Iraq War starting in the 1980s.
• Japan's economic growth surpassed the rest of the world in the 1970s, unseating the United States as the world's foremost industrial power.
• On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, took over Cambodia's capital Phnom penh
  • From 1975-1979 the Khmer Rouge carried out the Cambodian Genocide that killed nearly two million
• April 13, 1975-The Lebanese Civil War began

Africa

• Idi Amin, President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, after rising to power in a coup becomes infamous for his brutal dictatorship in Uganda. Amin's regime persecutes opposition to his rule, pursues a racist agenda of removing Asians from Uganda (particularly Indians who arrived in Uganda during British colonial rule). Amin initiates the Ugandan–Tanzanian War in 1978 in alliance with Libya based on an expansionist agenda to annex territory from Tanzania which results in Ugandan defeat and Amin's overthrow in 1979.
• South African activist Steve Biko dies in 1977.
• Francisco Macías Nguema ruled Equatorial Guinea as a brutal dictator from 1969 until his overthrow and execution in 1979.
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who had ruled the Central African Republic since 1965, proclaimed himself Emperor Bokasa I and renamed his impoverished country the Central African Empire in 1977. He was overthrown two years later and went into exile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s

 

Most important political events of the 70's. Probably some of things that will be in the game.

 

Also,remember the name Michael Townley? Take a look at this:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley

 

 

 

According to head of DINA Manuel Contreras, Townley returned to Chile at the end of 1973, working for the CIA, with the intent of receiving from the "Highest National Authority, in agreement with what had already been planned by the CIA ... the order to act in direct, personal and exclusive form, without intermediaries, against General Prats in Buenos Aires".^[5] Prats and his wife were killed with a car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974. Contreras also said that Townley traveled with a false passport provided by the CIA under the name of Kenneth Enyart.^[5] Contreras stated Townley was aided by CIA agents, as well as Argentine and Chilean agents, and paramilitary groups such as the Triple A and the Grupo Milicias. Contreras said he thought the CIA planned the assassination because it feared Prats would try to overthrow Pinochet's dictatorship with the help of the Argentine Army, thus leading to a war between Chile and Argentina which would constitute "a difficult problem for the United States in the Cold War era".^[6]

 

 

According to declassified CIA documents, in 1975 Townley met with Italian Gladio member Stefano Delle Chiaie, founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, and was also in contact with OAS member Albert Spaggiari.^[7] He was convicted and sentenced in absentia in Italy to 15 years of jail, due to his role as an intermediary between the Chilean DINA and Italian neo-fascists.^[8] According to Townley, both Stefano Delle Chiaie and Albert Spaggiari worked for DINA.^[9]

Michael Townley also stated that Enrique Arancibia had traveled to California in the fall of 1977 on banking business for ALFA, alias Stefano Delle Chiaie.^[9] Enrique Arancibia is a former DINA agent who resided in unofficial exile in Buenos Aires after the assassination of Chilean Army Chief of Staff René Schneider on October 25, 1970. Arancibia was arrested by Argentine intelligence officers shortly after the extradition of Townley to the US and charged with espionage.^[10]

 

Wouldn't be suprised if these events are also described in the game.

Edited June 4, 2015 by acmilano

[Mr. Scratch]

Looking at the set where you find the James Bond-type car seems awful similar to an Eastern European location. We're told that AGENT might take place in Europe in the 70's. This little bit gives me hope that some type of layout design is going on. Why else have it that detailed, and so out of place with the rest of V. I'm hoping that R* is dropping little hints like this and the license plate, leading up to some sort of announcement.

 

That set was Southern Europe without a question. Neoclassical and Renaissance architecture. Probably supposed to be Rome or Valletta.

[ClaudeSpeed1911]

What to you guys think the game play will be like? I have a feeling that the game will be similar to Manhunt but less gruesome and with more focus on shoot outs and maybe some driving segments if the game is open world.

[Mista J]

Probably like the older Metal Gears.

[Freakorama]

The gameplay will be just like you imagine it.

Because that's what the game is.
All in your imagination.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

hmm i hope this game comes out soon. one of the things i want to see in agent is that call of duty black ops feel. and before you start hateing on me listen. cod bo was set in the cold war. its storyline was very dark and serious. i fell in love with that style. i love the cod bo campaign one of the best in the cod series. i hope rockstar take a page from the bo campaign and add the gritty yet hilarious type of storyline in there. and some people were mentioning the gta 5 movie set. honestly i always thought it was a ripoff of assasins creed 2. it looked just like it and to make it even better parkouring on those roofs were fun. the james bond car in gta 5 is probably a reference to agent though. like a way of saying it is still in development and will come out eventually.

[Marlowe.]

Half-Life 4 will be out by the time R* announce this isn't happening.

[PhillBellic]

Half-Life 4 will be out by the time R* announce this isn't happening.

Or Half Life 5.

[Frantz Fuchs]

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Edited July 31, 2015 by Frantz Fuchs

[Frantz Fuchs]

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86014013&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

 

Status Date: Jun. 04, 2015

 

It's not dead.

Edited July 31, 2015 by Frantz Fuchs

[Norsea]

Well, sh*t. That's good to know. I guess that if the game is still in the works, it's been moved to being a PS4 exclusive.

 

Also, try not to bump the topic so much unless you have some real news.. some people will get upset