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[Mister Asterix]

[mra]So after EA is done with From Russia With Love, they most likely will be back to making games with the current Bond. (Not sure if they have a choice.) Well, Daniel Craig is the current James Bond. How will they do his games? Will we get the

[Loomis]

Heaven knows. I can't really imagine a Craig game*, to be honest. Perhaps it'll be some kind of adaptation of the CASINO ROYALE film.

*Or any Craig-related Bond merchandise, for that matter.

[spynovelfan]

Yeah, hard to see how they'll do this. Hard to reconcile the idea of getting away from an older audience by filming a gadget-light back to basics, gritty Fleming-fest that will appeal most to 98-year-olds, too.

Craig was apparently wearing a Brioni suit at the press conference. But something tells me Brioni might pass on having Craig in their promotional material, as they had with Brosnan. I can't see it happening. The car I could see him doing - he'd look cool driving.

And lifejackets and chewing gum. He could advertise both of them.

[Andrew]

I assume they'll do what they did with FRwL and just add tons of action for game purposes.

It won't be that hard.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

I would rather see an OHMSS game voiced by Lazenby.

Come on it's not like he's too busy.

[marktmurphy]

I'm not sure- they do one game a year and Casino won't be out until November. Unless they do a straight Casino adaptation, I can't see them doubleguessing the style of the new films very easily. I'm sure they already have the next game in development so I'd guess that CraigBond won't make a game appearance until the game after next; that is unless we don't have a slightly longer gap between games this time.
Personally I'm crossing everything in hope of a Roger game.

[Flash1087]

I see a Craig game being much more slow-paced and maybe Splinter Cell-esq, with no (or little) unnecessary driving levels and a much lower absurdity level.

[The_Mole]

Either way, EA will add multiple explosions, cars, Natasha Bedingfield and pointless cutscenes.

Give the licence to anyone but EA, please.

[00-FAN008]

I think the James Bond games should stick with the third-person from now on. It's not like I dislike first person, but the way things are working for From Russia With Love shows me they should keep doing things the way they are. They should stick with that engine, and not have to change things around.
If they have a Casino Royale video game, I would expect a lot more one-on-one fighting than shooting. Of course, there should also be shooting and a large variety of weapons so that EA remains familiar with the previous titles, but more emphasis should be directed in other areas.
I think the gadgets in the game should be more small-scale and used for the purpose of collecting data rather than fending off the bad guy. Stuff like the mini 007 camera in Moonraker, or the homer tracking device from Goldfinger. Of course, driving the Aston Martin is essential.
Last, but not least, split-screen multiplayer. Essential.

So after EA is done with From Russia With Love, they most likely will be back to making games with the current Bond. (Not sure if they have a choice.)

I would hope they keep making video games based on the old movies. It wouldn't make any sense if they just made From Russia With Love a video game, and no others.

[Loomis]

This probably has no chance of happening, but might it be a good idea to get a Craig game in the shops a few months before CASINO ROYALE is released? Y'know, to help pave the way for people to accept him as Bond?

[spynovelfan]

I would rather see an OHMSS game voiced by Lazenby.

Come on it's not like he's too busy.

And he seems to be in with the Bond people enough, too, judging by conventions, etc. If Connery could do it, why not indeed? He'd be a hell of a lot cheaper than Connery. I think an OHMSS game could work brilliantly.

[doublenoughtspy]

I've got an audio recording of the Guincho beach surf they can use for the OHMSS game

[spynovelfan]

You're a nutter, doublenoughtspy. But I mean that in a good way.

[Mister Asterix]

So after EA is done with From Russia With Love, they most likely will be back to making games with the current Bond. (Not sure if they have a choice.)

I would hope they keep making video games based on the old movies. It wouldn't make any sense if they just made From Russia With Love a video game, and no others.

I would hope they would mix it up, but the circumstance of From Russia With Love seems to be that they were only able to do that because there was no Bond of record at that time.

This probably has no chance of happening, but might it be a good idea to get a Craig game in the shops a few months before CASINO ROYALE is released? Y'know, to help pave the way for people to accept him as Bond?

[mra]It may have a good chance seeing as EA had a Brosnan game in pre-production before they switched gears and went with From Russia With Love. It would depend on what kind of change they think they need to make to adjust to the Craig Bond. A Global Domination plotmay not work and may need to be scrapped. (Or maybe they don

[spynovelfan]

Perhaps a Daniel Craig game should start with a short intro level where you have to get to a landing pad in London to meet M to be debriefed. You have to get there via speedboat and not get too -scared in the process...

What do we think?

[Loomis]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' date='21 November 2005 - 21:20'][mra]It may have a good chance seeing as EA had a Brosnan game in pre-production before they switched gears and went with From Russia With Love. It would depend on what kind of change they think they need to make to adjust to the Craig Bond. A Global Domination plotmay not work and may need to be scrapped. (Or maybe they don

[spynovelfan]

As for a Lazenby game, I think it would have zero (or near-zero) commercial appeal.

Really? I think it could be done fairly easily. I think a major advantage is that Lazenby looked like a fairly generic version of James Bond. Dark hair, square jaw. If you were designing a secret agent for a shoot-em-up game and you didn't base the features on anyone, you could come up with someone looking a lot like Lazenby. He kind of looks like Action Man, I think. He's very regularly featured. So I think 15-year-old kids who had never seen the film wouldn't be going 'George who?' so much - they'd just presume it's a generic Bond guy. The title also helps, in a similar way - it could be applied to any of the films (bar one, perhaps ), sounds very cool, is associated with Bond, and would be a perfect title for a game. I think very marketable. Finally, the film has the best soundtrack - they should simply update the Propellerheads' marvellous updating, and I know 15-year-olds who love that - and it features the most iconic Bond action of all in spades: skiing. Ditch the kilt, obviously, and the dead bird at the end SPOILERS, FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLDS, SHE DIES! - and Bond's your uncle, the world's not enough of your oyster, bingo.

Picture it: a video game where you're skiing LazenbyBond down a mountainside, pursued by baddies, with something like the Propellerheads' version of the theme song banging away over the top. Christ, I'd buy that!

[Loomis]

Some good (and amusing) points there, spy. Gotta say, as a "purist" Bond geek who genuflects before the '60s films and anything that's "faithful to Flemming, I mean Fleming", the idea of an OHMSS remake/update in game form is very exciting. And I guess we're nearing the day when even little green men from Mars will unthinkingly say "Oh, OHMSS is the best film of the whole bunch, actually", so....

[spynovelfan]

Yes, I think an OHMSS game could appeal to teenagers, young adults and older adults alike. If done properly, it might even be well reviewed. They seem reluctant to use Blofeld, though I'm not sure why as they now own him outright, but even so, I'm sure there's a way round that.

[Niwram]

Casino Royale

http://commanderbond...item&item=27652

[dinovelvet]

Erm...so why is Julian McMahon on that cover? This whole thing sounds bizarre, its not like Casino Royale is a natural fit for a videogame, especially if its meant to be gritty and has only one explosion. Will there be a torture level where you have to survive the carpet beater of doom? I think they'd be better off doing another standalone game like Everything or Nothing.

[Mr Malcolm]

Will there be a torture level where you have to survive the carpet beater of doom? I think they'd be better off doing another standalone game like Everything or Nothing.

Maybe you'd get to play as Le Chifre in that level. Just think; it could be like Dance Dance Revolution, where you have to hit the buttons in time to the music. Once 007's pain-meter fills up, his screams shatter the windows, allowing the SMERSH agent to get inside and do his job!

[Loomis]

This whole thing sounds bizarre, its not like Casino Royale is a natural fit for a videogame, especially if its meant to be gritty and has only one explosion. Will there be a torture level where you have to survive the carpet beater of doom? I think they'd be better off doing another standalone game like Everything or Nothing.

But maybe the games market is now so big and important that any "action/adventure" blockbuster worth its salt has to have one as a tie-in (I gather that the GOLDENEYE game actually made more money than the film).

That said, I'm surprised that there aren't any Bourne games (that I know of, at least).

[Mister Asterix]

Next EA Game Is 'Casino Royale'
Game to follow film plotline

[mra]With Eon following the plotline, I

[Loomis]

What do you mean by "with Eon following the plotline"? I thought only the last third or so of the novel was going to be faithfully(-ish) translated to the screen? Which of course leaves room for lots of "new stuff" (Solari, anyone?) and, erm, gadgets.

Still, it's already an established fact that there will be no Q in the movie (yippee!), so....

[Mister Asterix]

What do you mean by "with Eon following the plotline"? I thought only the last third or so of the novel was going to be faithfully(-ish) translated to the screen? Which of course leaves room for lots of "new stuff" (Solari, anyone?) and, erm, gadgets.

Still, it's already an established fact that there will be no Q in the movie (yippee!), so....

[mra]Sorry that didn

[tdalton]

I'm not really sure how this game would work, especially if the last half of the film is more or less what Fleming put down on the page. But, I have full faith that EA will find a way to mess this up like they always do.

[sharpshooter]

A craig game would be awesome. Hope they keep the same mechanics from EoN and FRWL. Good its third person, hope you can customise what he wears like frwl. I hope you can do unarmed combat without your guns out - like you have to do in frwl. Should be good.

[JimmyBond]

The very fact it's Casino Royale opens up a lot of gameplaying possibilities. I hope you actually get to play

Spoiler

Poker

in the game, that would be a nice change of pace from having every level be a shoot em up stealth affair

[krypt]

Guns. Lots and lots of guns.

Hand-to-hand fighting.

Gadgets to open locks and decrypt files.

Casino mini-games.

MI6 training levels.

And driving levels with both Aston Martins.