Xbox Game Studios Spotlight: The Initative

The Initiative’s first project is a reboot of Perfect Dark, which is being co-developed with Crystal Dynamics. The game is set to be an eco sci-fi story about secret agent Johanna that will be more focused on corporate dystopia than the warring aliens of the original (or so it seems). The game was revealed in 2018 at The Game Awards in a teaser trailer, but since then there has been no further footage. The original series is an FPS, but because of the talent that had been joining the studio, many speculated that the team were going to shift to third-person. In a developer interview trailer, this was confirmed to be false, though the FPS will “differentiate spy-fighting versus what you would see in a traditional first-person shooter.” No word yet on release, but we would hazard a guess at 2023 at the earliest.