The new James Bond game unveiled on Friday by Activision has people talking, for sure. The game features the polarizing Daniel Craig as James Bond and British singer Joss Stone as the token "Bond Girl". Interestingly enough, the story was written by Bruce Feirstein, who wrote Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough. No, not the games, the actual movies. Will that actually be enough to make a good game? I certainly hope so, especially since the next Bond movie is on indefinite hold.
What I'd like to see with this is a continuation of the Bond franchise through games, honestly. If you can get funding and support for games, but not movies, doesn't it make sense that you would try to push the games a lot more? I feel like the possibility is there to make James Bond a more successful franchise and maybe drum up some funding for another movie, but I honestly don't have that much hope in Activision. Maybe some short films could be made especially for the game, like Ubisoft did with Assassin's Creed: Lineage. If you don't recall, Ubisoft made a series of short films for Assassin's Creed 2 as a sort of prequel to the game, and to get their feet wet in the movie industry. This sort of move is interesting to me, and I'm honestly wanting to see where else they can go with that sort of game-movie combination. I wish Activision could do something that cool with Bond, seeing as we probably won't be seeing a new one anytime soon.
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