GodisaGeek: "FIFA 13 has held off its competition for another week, to maintain the top spot in the UK charts."
It’s been a while since the video game world was blessed with a James Bond title.
There were a few non-film ones back on PS2/GC that were really good.
I can imagine the cinematic elements of those games would look even better now.
Everything or Nothing is my second best Bond game behind Goldeneye 64, followed by Nightfire.
we have a lot of great video games and we have a lot coming out this year...lame
What's happened to the James Bond franchise in general?
It, much like Star Trek, Star Wars, has had too much of the "real world" shoved down their throats. That plus people with agendas hijacking them thinking they can use brand value to deliver "transformative" messaging while lacking the awareness, the creative talent, needed to make them entertaining at even a base level.
Also, getting back on subject, doesn't help that movie studios don't see gaming studios as equals who need as much if not more time to do their jobs right.
Yeah, come to think of it. Maybe their absence can be attributed to the falling popularity of the videogame adaptation or even the licensed franchise tie-in, as well as the gaming landscape being quite different now than it was. The Bond titles filled a niche of FPS-action titles, the likes of which are not exactly uncommon nowadays. That said, the Bond games were a fun take on the genre that I'd like to see return one day.
That's true. You couldn't get past the PS2 days without a movie tie in. Now, I can't think of the last game tie in.. even Star Wars was different
Games Asylum: "Outdated football games are a common sight when scouring jumble sales, car boots and charity shops for bargain price video games. Entire shelves filled with decade-old FIFA and PES games spread across a dozen formats. Often they end up in bargain bins, sitting alongside unwanted celebrity fitness DVDs and seemingly random TV show box sets. But here’s the thing. Not all football games gathering dust in the likes of Oxfam are in fact worthless."
Developers have retreated from the James Bond property, a sad state of affairs for what was once the gold standard of licensed video game adaptations.
You'd think that a developer would release a 007 game more akin to a stealth franchise like Hitman by now to play up on Bond's espionage
I can remember more than a decade ago, the Goldeneye-esque shooters were fairly popular. Unfornately, Goldeneye-esque shouters seemed to die out after 2005, with the polarizing PDZ having a good online population for a few years. Conversely, the extremely content rich and well designed Timesplitters: Future Perfect underperformed in sales. As for bonds games, I haven't played one since 007 Nightfire (a personal favourite). I personally, think if 007 games (and Pefect Dark games) were to return, the titles should take influence from Deus Ex. With levels designed to allow the players to either play stealthy, uses gadgets or just shoot up the place.
A very fun game to play drunk and sober with friends, it is always good banter playing FIFA.
Damn Skylanders as a franchise is just growing so fast.