Agent var en helt ny IP om international espionage fra Rockstar, der blev afsløret helt tilbage i 2009. Efter mange, mange års stilhed blev projektet helt nedlagt i 2018, men nu ved vi at Rockstar prøvede i mange omgange at få det hele til at spille.
I et interview med Lex Friedman fortæller Rockstar-medstifter Dan Houser, at Agent blev rebootet internt helt fem gange inden Rockstar i sidste ende droppede hele projektet.
"We worked a lot on multiple iterations of an open-world spy game, and it never came together. Agent had about five different iterations. I don't think it works, I concluded. I keep thinking about it sometimes, I lie in bed thinking about it, and I've concluded: What makes them really good as film stories makes them not work as video games, or I need to think through how to do it a different way as a video game."
Houser siger sågar at i en af disse versioner, så foregik spillet ikke i 70'erne, men i moderne tid, men også denne ide blev lagt ned:
"There was another that was set in current [times]...we had so many different versions of this game. We worked on it with so many different teams," said Houser. "I question if you can make a good, open-world spy game,"