Ah, Agent. First teased as a PlayStation 3 exclusive all the way back in 2007, Agent was all set up to be a pretty big deal — a new property from Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar, set during the Cold War in the 1970s. It was a project that had people seriously hyped for years — especially when it was officially revealed in 2009 — but it never actually released. For reasons that still remain a little unclear to this day, Agent was scrapped internally a few years after its announcement, and Rockstar moved over to the inevitable Grand Theft Auto V.
Anyway, Agent has finally been removed from Rockstar's website, where it's been listed on the company's 'Games' section for over a decade. The end of an era, you could argue, but its removal doesn't come as a huge surprise since the Agent trademark was abandoned back in 2018. Maybe Rockstar only just remembered to take it down.
Said trademark had been renewed numerous times over the last ten years, which has almost always lead to some shaky speculation regarding a possible Agent revival — but it obviously never happened.
Do you remember the Agent announcement? Pay your respects to one of the PS3's strangest sagas in the comments section below.
[source rockstargames.com, via twitter.com]
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lazy lazy rockstar living off shark cards
Wow, never even heard of this. Missed opportunity, IMO, as it sounds like it could have been a very cool property.
I'm still waiting for my LA Noire and Bully sequels that will never happen.
I do miss the Rockstar of old a lot. Sure Red Dead 2 was great but I do miss when they did all sorts of stuff like on PS2 instead of mostly just GTA online stuff. Bully to this day is still my favorite Rockstar game. Agent could have been cool just off the premise but alas it wasn't ment to be.
My question is why other triple A developers haven't tried their hand at a game with this premise. If Sucker Punch can make a Feudal Japan game a massive success then what's stopping another first party Sony studio from doing the same with a genre that has arguably even more mainstream appeal?
@Ralizah. You never heard of agent.are you serious.😒.were you a Nintendo fan at that time agent was everywhere.people was talking about it it was crazy.word up son
Manhunt 3 and Max Payne 4. And bully 2.i will take the warriors remake also.easily in my top 10 favorite movies ever.can you dig it suckers.make it happen rockstar.word up son
Did you hear the one about the heavily-armed gunman who ran into an Estate Agent and shouted, 'Nobody move!' ?
That's not surprising, but it's still depressing.
@Integrity No I've not heard that one. Can you tell me the whole joke?
@Saucymonk 😂 right?
I wonder what they did with all the assets assuming it had any significant amount created? Can't imagine they just threw them in the garbage although it wouldn't be hard to imagine them somehow being repurpose for Rockstar's dumpster aka GTA Online 🤷
Why make new games when you can continually recycle all your old crap into a giant f**k you to your customers
@Juanalf it’d be a write off
@playstation1995 Back in the mid-00s I doubt I even casually browsed dedicated gaming news websites, so I'm not surprised I missed this.
I thought the game was being revived and gasped very dramatically and loudly
Remember when rockstar made games and not a game.
If you haven’t played warriors do it. Fantastic game.
rockstar still owes sony an exclusive game. too bad rockstar no longer develops games and will dedicate itself entirely to gta as a service going forward and nothing more.
@Korgon It sometimes shocks me that they even did Rd2. They are in a similar boat to Valve, both companies could stop developing games today and they would still be set for life.
So wished there were so many games like that. With a "realistic" setting, and not like 99% out there - boring monsters, robots, scifi, etc blablah
I love how every time there's a post about something R* people start commenting with sequels and games they want even though it'll never happen. That R* is dead, they might as well change there name to Team GTA going forward.
@RBMango Bully sequel is all i'm wanting in gaming
@Grimwood this. I remember playing true crime and suddenly there are dragons. Wtf.
@Saucymonk sure thing!
Did you hear the one about the heavily-armed gunman who ran into an Estate Agent and shouted, 'Nobody move!' ?
@Integrity Jokes aside, you made me think about the restaurant scene (Pulp Fiction) with Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer. Good times😀
On topic: I really would like to know the story behind this. I don’t believe they “forgot” about it.
Honestly, this game has probably been cancelled since as far back as 2011, a literal decade ago.
Can't even believe it was still on their website until now.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Are you aware that Rockstar released their last game less than 3 years ago after they spent 8 years developing it?
Damn I was looking forward to this
Logo just reminded me I still need to see A Sopranos Story on HBO MAX
R* really peeing me off at the moment.
Don't care and never have about this game I'm just eagerly waiting for GTA VI, but looks like all they're interested in at the moment is squeezing cash out of old GTA games.
@Agramonte
I need to get around to actually watching it myself. If i was younger no biggie but it's 86 episodes lol
Its tricky to guess what Agent might’ve been as away from a handful of shots from one time artists we never really heard much more.
The rumoured ps3 era cancelled Bully 2 would've been interesting...present day Rockstar would probably have a mtx BMX bike shop with custom decals,ditto clothing stores,weapons, skate boards etc.,for online...& prepaid "lunch money shark card equivalents"!🙄😂
As for GTA VI,With the exodus of the lead creative team (Dan Houser,Benzies,Lazlow etc.),I wouldn't hold my breath future releases would have big single player storylines & more likely short tutorials for grindy online live service mtx affairs!
@PegasusActual93
Oh god, I hear you. I do not even remember where I gave up on it.
They did the prequel movie 'The Many Saints of Newark - A Soprano Story” I think it is only available up to some point this month for streaming. I just keep forgetting to see it.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi
Yep, and as long as People keep buying them en keep playing nothing will change
Such a shame. I would have been so into it rather than any GTA I couldn’t care less whatsoever.
I wonder why they kept the name for so long though.
@stefan771 are you aware that R* has studios all over the globe, and for comparison Santa Monica Studio released GoW in 2018 but we all know Ragnarok is on the way and we have known for some time now? There isn't and hasn't been very much news on the R* front for years now, other than remasters and GTA Online...
Hopefully R* is working on 'something' new, but to keep the customers in complete darkness and "remaster-ness" for so long, doesn't look good.
@gamer_since_83 Are you aware that all of Rockstars studios were working on RDR2? These games take years to develop and they will show something when they are ready
@stefan771 Yes I am aware.
But this has nothing to do with the fact that R* isn't sharing any info regarding something which is actually news, in three years. I don't need them to "show" anything, but to at least communicate. Hell, have you read the articles regarding the new Remastered GTA Trilogy?
This company used to be experts in hype of their new titles (look back at GTA IV). You know well what I mean any many others on this site. No point in twisting this around i favour of R*.
RIP Agent, the final nail in your coffin has been placed.
@Mgene15 @RBMango Same here, I'd love to see another Bully or L.A. Noire game from Rockstar.
Sadly they are still too focused on milking GTA 5/Online and to a lesser extent Red Dead Online.
@Agramonte
Its not a very good movie, kind of a disjointed mess. It basically is like they tried to cram a miniseries full of story into a two hour movie and none of those sideplots are really resolved.
@PegasusActual93
Oh thanks, good to know. It is 100% FOMO at this point.
The Mrs does not care to see it and those are 2hrs of free time I rather use to play my games.
Maybe I'll just read an IMDB synopsis and call it a day.
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