Lack of new Bond game news (Page 1 of 2)

I am pretty surprised myself since 007 Legends was a big let down for all gamers and Bond fans alike.  You would think that Telltale Games or somebody else would pick up the baton and run with it. I remember when the Tomorrow Never Dies game for Playstation flopped in 1999, that did not stop EA from continuing to make games based on the James Bond series.  Hopefully soon, a new game will come out. In the mean time I still have a majority of the pervious video games to hold me over.

Actually, it isn't all that surprising. Most studios and publishers are shying away from videogames based on movies these days, at least on the consoles. There has always been this implicit requirement that a game be released right around the same time as the movie and most have suffered for it, not having enough time to make a quality product, leading to poor sales and reviews. Think back to the high profile movies released over the past couple of years and hardly any of them have had a console based videogame tie in.

Some movie tie-ins are going to mobile devices these days but I think that is a temporary thing too. The "free to play" model on phones and tablets is very misleading and you invariably are expected to keep pumping money into the game to keep advancing and unlocking stuff. That kind of a model will only work for so long before people get fed up and move on from that as well.

Ultimately, I just wish a publisher would get the Bond license and try to come up with an original game not connected to the movies at all rather than releasing something that just rehashes parts of a movie or other game (way too many Bond games were just Call of Duty clones). That was how WB revived the Batman videogame franchise with the Arkham games, but I'm not holding my breath for EON to get a publisher to do the same thing with Bond.

This article came up on my FB feed. I really hope this happens!

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/curve-di … me/0161488

Saw this article and I thought it sums the present situation for all of us: https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?i … amp;s=news

@ Sir Miles Sorry about the double post, I will try to be more careful in the future.

I do hope that Curve Digital gets to make a James Bond game that is decent, as much as I love revisiting the older games in the series I would really like to see a new game in the near future.

The Arkham series could be a fantastic template for a modern Bond. The Arkham games feature no direct tie-in to a film (loosely based on the comics, actually), and give players a large and interactive open world to play in. I think people would get a kick out of roaming around an open world as Bond. Customizable weapons, clothing, and gadgets would keep things fresh. And if the player could hop on a plane and leave one city in order to traverse to other exotic locations (think the travel system in the Mass Effect games), it would be all the better. This is, of course, never going to happen, for many of the reasons expressed above. But there's no good reason why someone couldn't, first and foremost, make a sophisticated, modern game and then sprinkle it with Bond elements. I hardly think that would deter anyone from buying it. Goldeneye 64 was a classic for that very reason. But instead of blazing a new trail, they have (both literally and figuratively) just attempted to remake Goldeneye for the past twenty years.

I'd love a Bond game like the Arkham. Think of the alternate skins that could have you play as each Bond actor.

I am surprised no company has taken the rights over would love to see another original game

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I did finish it a total of two times, including the DLC for it (seriously, what was so secret about that made them wait to put it on the game?) I waited a LONG while in between playthroughs....about a year and honest and truly, it is NOT as bad as I had remembered it. Yes it is a CoD clone, but then so were GoldenEye Reloaded and Quantum of Solace, yet those get praise? I still don't get it!

Eurocom did a great job on updating the gameplay, gun play and overall feel from GE Reloaded, for once in areas that I felt needed to be tweaked on that game. For example when you crouched on GE and aimed down the site of your weapon it would pop you up regardless if you were next to a short wall or not, on 007 Legends you only pop up if you are next to the short wall, otherwise you just aim down the site.

At first I was disappointed that when the movie level ended that there was zero mention of it for the rest of the game, but then I really thought about it and except with a few examples, the same thing can be said about the Bond movies too. The stories in the films are self-contained too, so that no longer bothers me.

The level of difficulty is strong for this game. Unlike GoldenEye Reloaded where the classic GE N64 007 health mode is reserved for the super hard mode of the game (THAT was a gauntlet, let me tell you). Well on 007 Legends the classic health mode is separate from the difficulty setting, so you can use it and still play on a lower setting.

Furthermore those levels in 007 Legends can get very tough. Especially the areas that require a high level of stealth to get through. There is one on the License  to Kill section and Moonraker......That level, the last of the normal game was super hard. You are swimming in the zero gravity and your goal at the end of the level is to stop even ONE poison plant pod from being launched. To do this you need to use the Moonraker laser to destroy the arms that send the pods out. If you miss one, you still have a chance to destroy it before it launches, but doing so will release the chemical in the area making you lose health and die if you don't finish in time.

After not playing for a while, like I said, I was able to go back and give it a real play through and I really enjoyed 007 Legends.

New fan made version of Goldeneye is out!!

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/0 … beautiful/