A former Rockstar developer has revealed details of some of the storied studio’s canceled projects. These include Agent, a secret-agent-themed action game that was once set to be a PS3 exclusive, and an untitled zombie survival game set on a Scottish isle.
The details come from former technical director Obbe Vermeji, who recently began to update a blog (via Rock Paper Shotgun) about his experiences at Rockstar North. Vermeji joined the studio in 1995, when it was called DMA Design, and left in 2009, shortly after GTA IV shipped.
Agent was announced back in 2007 as a platform-exclusive IP for PlayStation. Further details emerged in 2009, but the game quietly vanished. It may have officially died in 2018 when the trademark expired. The game was apparently going to be level-based, with locations in a Swiss ski resort, Cairo, a French Mediterranean city, and even a final space station level. So more Moonraker than Casino Royale. Vermeji worked for “over a year” on the game, before Rockstar decided to focus on GTA IV.