Grichka Bogdanoff Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) Some old unreleased screenshots from Agent, when it was still under development. There's more here: http://darrenhatton.wix.com/resume-v2#!vstc0=agent-art Edited December 21, 2015 by m3tal z_DKI UltraGizmo64, PhillBellic, Johnny Playert and 11 others 14 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068288481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudeSpeed1911 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Holy sh*t, that means Agent was and might still be semi open world with different hubs. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068288582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarimNTerr Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Nice find, m3tal z_DKI, I'm loving those screenshots! I wonder what that setting could be, and I hope that one of the countries we'll visit is Morocco as in the 60's it was known for being a hideout and operative center for spies and such - actually, those screenshots are reminiscent of Marrakesh. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068289061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) Good find, m3tal. What's even interesting beside these artworks, is that the ex-Rockstarer says that he doesn't if the project will ever be published, and the art team was taken off the project to focus on GTA V. This goes along with what many speculated about why Agent never saw the light since it was announced in 2009, that is, all efforts were pulled out to build the latest GTA. It seems that Agent never went beyond pre-production as the development effort stalled at conceptualization of environments and gameplay design by a couple of developers and not a dedicated team. Edited December 21, 2015 by FiS!!HeR UltraGizmo64 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068289752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillBellic Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Good find, m3tal. What's even interesting beside these artworks, is that the ex-Rockstarer says that he doesn't if the project will ever be published, and the art team was taken off the project to focus on GTA V. This goes along with what many speculated about why Agent never saw the light since it was announced in 2009, that is, all efforts were pulled out to build the latest GTA. It seems that Agent never went beyond pre-production as the development effort stalled at conceptualization of environments and gameplay design by a couple of developers and not a dedicated team. Sad to say, but Agent will be forever stuck in the depths of Development Hell, permanently. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068289804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) If it hasn't happened already, Agent could be revived again when the opportunity presents itself. It's typical for Rockstar to keep toying with a project a very long time before it gets into full production. They keep all efforts directed toward one main project while doing another project's work on the side. Recently, Rockstar posted a couple of job ads on their website and one of the positions asks for a developer to create 'asymmetrical cooperative stealth experience'. Without any other hints, it seems that this description would be more fitting for an existing Rockstar title, which is Agent. With the success of GTA Online and as Rockstar is now equipped with enough expertise to tackle challenging online mode development, the opportunity now exists to integrate Rockstar's vision of what would be a stealth-based Co-op multiplayer experience into Agent. Not to say that there wouldn't be a single player campaign, but rather the chances of a SP-only Agent title is slim at this point. Edited December 21, 2015 by FiS!!HeR UltraGizmo64 and BurnettVice 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068289895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraGizmo64 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 AGENT will most likely still be released, as far as we know the game has been in development for eight years (2007-2015). Max Payne 3 was also in development for 8 years and was still released (2004-2012). Also, don't forget that GTA V is full of many AGENT, and James Bond references. BurnettVice 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068290330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaghetti Cat Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Looks an awful lot like the movie set in V. I always thought there was a connection there besides the car and license plate. Also, f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck where the hell is the news ANY news on this game?? Comeon R* Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068290453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudeSpeed1911 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 If it hasn't happened already, Agent could be revived again when the opportunity presents itself. It's typical for Rockstar to keep toying with a project a very long time before it gets into full production. They keep all efforts directed toward one main project while doing another project's work on the side. Recently, Rockstar posted a couple of job ads on their website and one of the positions asks for a developer to create 'asymmetrical cooperative stealth experience'. Without any other hints, it seems that this description would be more fitting for an existing Rockstar title, which is Agent. With the success of GTA Online and as Rockstar is now equipped with enough expertise to tackle challenging online mode development, the opportunity now exists to integrate Rockstar's vision of what would be a stealth-based Co-op multiplayer experience into Agent. Not to say that there wouldn't be a single player campaign, but rather the chances of a SP-only Agent title is slim at this point. Hopefully that doesn't happen or is a side thing. I wouldn't want this game to go this path. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068290720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmileyBandito Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 The artist worked on Agent from 2009 to 2010 before he and his team had to work on GTA V. These screenshots are pretty old. Rockstar should have just tossed this game over to the San Diego team. This game probably suffered from so much development hell it lost its vision in between. The maps look pretty cool though, definitely last-gen visuals though. Almost gives you the impression that it's a hub world since there are so many roads cutting through. Either that or a very large linear level with multiple pathways. Nonetheless, this stuff's ancient. Still cool looking at the what-could-have-been though. ClaudeSpeed1911 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068290923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudeSpeed1911 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) I don't think R* SD would have done anything because they did work on V as well. Would have been cool to see the game done tho. Edited December 21, 2015 by ClaudeSpeed1911 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068290932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmileyBandito Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 True. I think it's safe to say GTA V's titanic development cycle consumed this game's production rate A LOT. Anyway, let's not get excited over this. The screenshots are cool to look at, but they are from 2009-2010. Hopefully we'll get news on a new Rockstar game in 2016. I'm beginning to think Rockstar is going all Valve on us, after GTA V's success they just wanna sit back and relax. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068291001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchizNitz Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Kinda tempting to shoot him an email and see if we could get just a little bit more info out of him-but we probably shouldn't. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068292355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillBellic Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 True. I think it's safe to say GTA V's titanic development cycle consumed this game's production rate A LOT. Anyway, let's not get excited over this. The screenshots are cool to look at, but they are from 2009-2010. Hopefully we'll get news on a new Rockstar game in 2016. I'm beginning to think Rockstar is going all Valve on us, after GTA V's success they just wanna sit back and relax. Well, thankfully at least, Rockstar knows how to count to Five. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068292364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudeSpeed1911 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I still have hopes that it will happen someday. This year we had The Last Guardian, Shenume 3 and FFVII remake so the impossible could happen. I can dream.... Zello 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068292971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggsy pls Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I still think it's very possible. It's not odd for a game to go through a long development, especially for Rockstar. As someone else said, look at Max Payne 3. RDR and L.A. Noire also had a long development process, and games change dramatically in that time. A lot of people don't know this , but the original Manhunt had a long dev process as well, back in the mid-90's when Rockstar were still DMA Design. It was supposed to be an FPS (which is why there's an option to look at things in first person), and the concept art depicts the city as being a sort of futuristic dystopia, rather than the near post-apocalyptic state we got. Basically, I'd bet Rockstar still have Agent on their plate, what with all the V references, and trademark renewals. They just might not be actively working on it, but one day they may get it out. It will just probably be very different to what we expect. UltraGizmo64, BurnettVice and ClaudeSpeed1911 3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068294164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmileyBandito Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Agent will probably end up being another Max Payne 3. Decent linear game that suffered from development hell because Rockstar logic. UltraGizmo64, Norsea and Rented 3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068302318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic_Al Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 (edited) Since this is supposed to be a Rockstar North production I suppose there's a slight chance it could be referred to in the course of the The Benz lawsuit. The judge may agree to keep confidential matters under seal however. Edited April 30, 2016 by Nem_Wan Spider-Vice and UltraGizmo64 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068736724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ak-4seven Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 The trademark has been renewed http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86014006&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch Under Prosecution History RedDagger, BS_BlackScout, UltraGizmo64 and 1 other 4 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068822747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Fairly certain Agent is still alive and it's one of the projects that the developers say they're working on. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068822789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) They have been renewing the trademark for years now, so I don't see why this one would be special. Whatever that means or indicates, I still hope to see Agent before the end of this decade. As far as Rockstar is concerned, it could be a 2022 game! I say, and hope, that it might be North's next project on the pipeline rather than simply GTA VI. Edited June 5, 2016 by FiS!!HeR UltraGizmo64, uJhatafart00 and Spider-Vice 3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068822980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 What are you people talking about Agent IV comes out next week Payne Killer 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068823053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaghetti Cat Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Ya know, it might make sense. I'm not sure which studio works on the online updates, but it doesn't seem like the full resources at R* North are being used up. If AGENT is the next game out of North, then maybe these little pieces of content for Online were just a way to make sure the R* brand is still out there and relevant and at the same time generate income without expending valuable resources. (sorry about the run on). Kinda like how MP3 had it's updates and everyone was expecting info about V at the time. R* was able to keep interest in one game while devoting time and effort to another. Or I could be talking out my a$$, this AGENT thing has gone on for waaaaaaaaaay to long without any info. UltraGizmo64 and Spider-Vice 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1068825573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabalous Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Seeing this game's logo displayed on the games section and social club of R*'s website feels bizarre. It was announced 8 years ago and they still bother maintaining its website. Payne Killer, universetwisters, burger_mike and 4 others 7 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069345252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
burger_mike Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Seeing this game's logo displayed on the games section and social club of R*'s website feels bizarre. It was announced 8 years ago and they still bother maintaining its website. Even the original PS3 logo is still on there, crazy. I guess they didn't update it because once they do everyone will freak the f*ck out. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069557087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnettVice Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Hopefully show if off at e3 during Sony's conference or psx later this year Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069558620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 I don't think they will they probably forgot or it's been cancelled I've lost all hope for Agent. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069558632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnettVice Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Then why bother keeping the website for it up? They renewed the website again back last year. https://gamerant.com/agent-rockstar-take-two-trademark/ Payne Killer 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069558790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnettVice Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Do you guys think the game should be a serious stealth game or silly and fun? I had this idea in my head for awhile where the mc is a young rookie by the books type like Cole Phelps and his partnered with a hardened veteran like Frank Woods. Since its supposed to be set in the 70's, I think it would be neat if one of the levels or missions take place in a nightclub like studio 54. Maybe your meeting with an informant and $hit hits the fan and there's some obscure disco or pop song playing in the background while your in a gunfight. Zello and Payne Killer 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069558814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 I think it'll be something like that game Alpha Protcol. I wonder if they will make the main character American or will they make him British and parody James Bond. BurnettVice 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/413482-agent-cancelled/page/32/#findComment-1069558904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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