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[Fro]

Bizarre Creations Behind The Wheel Of Activision's Second Bond Game?

Report suggests a James Bond racing game is in development

From EGM 224 (January 2008)

My spy tells me the Project Gotham Racing 4 creators are working on the next James Bond game. "But they make racing games," you say? Well, duh--- that's why it's going to focus a lot on driving.

[dinovelvet]

Eew, I don't like driving games. But its Bond, I'll have to get it anyway. Gaaah! So I assume this is the "other" Bond game that's being worked on, separate from a game tie-in to Bond 22?

[K1Bond007]

This is what I heard, but I was waiting for confirmation from a friend of mine before saying anything.

Of course I didn't hear it was a straight up racing game. I heard a slightly different tale. Bizarre makes some great racing games. They're a very talented group and any game featuring a car from them is automatic gold. Look at the entire Project Gotham Racing series. Each one a huge seller and critically acclaimed. Even Metropolis Street Racer, which was a precursor to the Gotham series was pretty damn good. And they don't make just racing games. Their latest game is actually a third-person shooter.. sort of an arcade shoot-em up called The Club.

Yeah, dinovelvet, this is game #2. Most likely it'll see release in 2009 and it makes sense. If we get a Bond film every other year and they do a game adaptation of that every other year, then what are they going to do in the off years? A game focusing on vehicles is logical and the obvious route. There are other things to do with Bond, but I don't think they want to water the main series down with release after release of the same ol same ol. So something different is required.

[sharpshooter]

I like this idea a lot.
I always thought it would be a good idea to focus on the vehicles of Bond a little more.

[MarcAngeDraco]

This could be a very cool development. Much more excited about this than a Bond 22 game.

[Agent Ostlund]

I believe they had a James Bond racing game for the original playstation a while back..

[DamnCoffee]

They did: 007 Racing, which was an utter flop, if I remember correctly - but I liked it .

[Skudor]

Not too keen on a driving game... but will no doubt buy and play this (well, as long as it's also for the PS2...)

[chris-o]

That would be the greatest idea of Bizarre since PGR4! I own PGR4 and I can say that when you're driving around with the Aston Martn DBS you really feel a bit like Bond.

The 007-Racing on Playstation wasn't very bad at all but something was missing.

[sharpshooter]

Hope to hear something from this soon. Hopefully, with full time development focusing on driving, it will not feel tacked on like some other Bond games. It'll be a good release since QoS lacks driving levels, probably for the better.

[Golden Gun-E]

I happen to have recently purchased a Playstation 1 and 007 Racing for old times sake and it is a very decent game. Not bad at all in my opinion.