Goldeneye 25 Project

Damn that’s a shame, their gameplay demo vids have looked awesome!

Yes it's very sad, but ah well, not to be. They did look like they were doing some lovely and impressive work. The soundtrack sounded great too: very Serra.

"It would certainly fill the void any Bond gaming fan currently feels. To my knowledge there is no other Bond gaming projects ongoing at this point in time so why not utilise the popularity of this one to drum up new interest in the franchise and/or reinvigorate Bond videogames."

My guess is there are three factors stopping a new 'proper' Bond game for consoles:

1) The terrible critical and commercial reception of 007 Legends, which makes Eon wary of getting their fingers burnt again;

2) Eon wanting to concentrate on films rather than spreading their resources too thinly, into projects which might be less successful;

3) Sales figures. This is the big one. While the earlier Craig console games sold rather well, with Quantum of Solace selling over 3.78 million units and GoldenEye 007 selling over 3.16 million, from then on the sales began to fall. Blood Stone sold only 1.21 million and 007 Legends an unimpressive 0.78 million (less than half a million sold on each competing console system for Legends.) A new Bond game would need to be marketed strongly in a crammed console shooter/action market, competing with CoD, etc. Is this really worth the time and effort for Eon?

Those are my thoughts on why we haven't seen a new Bond game lately...

The cease and desist order came from EON/Danjaq so they were obviously uncomfortable about the use of the James Bond character and likeness despite the fact that other major IP holders are ok with these kinds of projects as long as they are released for free (which was the plan here). The fact that they waited two years before making this move feels somewhat sleazy to me but who knows, maybe they were just clueless to the game's development. The irony is that Goldeneye 25 was shaping up to be a quality title while most of the official Bond games released after Goldeneye were largely forgettable and often inferior copies of more successful gaming franchises.

The developers have said that the project will continue but that all ties to James Bond will obviously be removed. They have already renamed it to a more generic spy title and this will also free them up to release the game on sites like Steam and possibly even do a console port.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 … t-lawyered