007: Licence to Drive
By 2011, the smartphone ere of mobile phones was in full swing, so it’s surprising that a Java-only licensed James Bond games was made at the time, developed by Gamelion with the name “License to Drive”. While the name is obviously supposed to…
GoldenEye 007 (XBLA)
In 2007, Rare were working on a remastered version of GoldenEye: it was going to be the same game, with new graphics, and updated control scheme and online multiplayer. There are lots of rumours about why this got cancelled, but nothing concrete. The…
007: Quantum of Solace (DS)
Unlike the previous DS Bond game, Rogue Agent, this doesn’t attempt to replicate the console version of the game, instead it does its own thing. A bit like the Game Boy Bond game, this is also clearly inspired by the handheld’s Zelda game,…
007: Quantum of Solace (PS2)
For the PS2 version of Quantum of Solace, Eurocom return to the Bond franchise. This one is entirely a third person shooter, but is not an extension on Everything or Nothing, with no lock-on at all. While the ability to shoot anywhere is…
007: Quantum of Solace
With the Bond license now going to Activision, they gave Treyarch the task of creating a new film tie-in alongside making Call of Duty: World at War. Naturally, this involved using the Call of Duty game engine, focusing on shooting with very little…
From Russia With Love (PSP)
The handheld version of From Russia With Love went to the PSP instead of the DS – and was the only Bond game to do so. It’s essentially a highly compromised version of the home console game, so I’ll be going through the…
From Russia With Love
After Everything or Nothing, EA still wanted to make James Bond games, but Pierce Brosnan was no longer James Bond, and the next Bond hadn’t been chosen. They decided on two things: one was a “Bond” game where you don’t play as James…
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (DS)
While this game isn’t being helped for being based on a console game that wasn’t very good, Rogue Agent on the DS is a great early example at what the DS can do. This is a full first person shooter that recreates the…
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
A blatant cash-in trying to use the name to bring up memories of the N64 game, this certainly had a lot of competition in the first person shooter genre. Not only does the name invite comparisons to the classic GoldenEye, but Rogue Agent…
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
EA went all out with the story and presentation of Everything or Nothing, using writers that worked on the Brosnan Bond films as well as getting Pierce Brosnan to actually provide the voice of James Bond, and Willem Dafoe playing the main villain.…