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And the world went on just fine without him staying as Bond. Booo hooo hahahaha!!!
Still, I think they've homed in on all the right elements of Bond's origins; his adventurous and slightly rebellious spirit, and being given structure and purpose by MI6. 'Bullet without a target' is a great phrase.
I'm not a gamer so it's not of huge interest to me, but I'll still be interested to see how it all turns out.
The world will go on just fine without Craig as Bond.
And also a confirmation of this still being the first of a trilogy would be welcome.
Definitely Lennie James, but the lady escapes me...
Here is hoping.
A great Bond game is long overdue.
Exactly. Craig ended on his own terms in a way Brosnan was denied.
What I am taking from this trailer is of course that it's a strongly narrative game. Linear story. Moving from mission to mission. But I also gleam a whole lot of Hitman DNA. Those parts in the hotel (?) look like straight up Hitman missions. So the question still remains how free players will be in approaching certain situations or if they will try to press you into certain mechanics and situations.
I.e. will we get to a certain point and then it's the classic Hitman thing of "kill this target. Don't get discovered. Get out any way. There are dozens of paths available to you. Go." or will it be more "Now go over there and kill that waiter to get his uniform. Now walk into that room. Trigger a cutscene and an ensuing fight. Now take this other uniform. Now walk out, sneak along here and then use this car to escape."
I am hoping for a happy medium that leans towards more freedom, but I guess they'll have to hit way more pre-planned events and cutscenes in order to make the story work than the Hitman games do.
Anyhow. Very optimistic. Definitely will finally have to update from the old PS4...
Edit: Oh, and on second look, it seems like those of you hoping you wouldn't mow down a medium-sized village worth of henchmen are going to be disappointed.
Okay, and if I were to thoroughly outline why *I'm* excited and why it *is* Bond and "Bondish", would you even be open to hearing me out or would you just reply with another couple of generic "don't like it, bad" sentences? Cause if it's the latter I - and probably a lot of the others here - would rather you just left this thread to the people actually interested in the game.
Not a gamer so don’t know if I’ll ever get the chance to play it, but never say never.
I was thinking about this earlier. I dont think this kind of storyline would work in a film (Cubby I think didnt want to go down this route when they were working on TLD) but as a video game that explores it, yeah that would work.
Anyway I am excited by what I have seen today. I think we have become so used to a Craig Bond that anyone else in the role (virtually as well) will seem very alien at first. It will be the same with the new cinematic Bond. I am sure it will settle as we get more accustom to it. Like the scar detail.
The game likely has another year in development - they will want to steer well clear of GTA which is May and I dont see them going before then - so would suspect a Sept/Oct launch. Plenty of time to tidy the game up - the facial animation looked a little off - especially Lenny James (great casting btw).
Literally nobody ever made that argument. You’re making that up.
Yes, and thank you! So it's really going to be Agent 00 4 7. Really cool.
Again, yes! We'll have to see how this is implemented, but it seems like another good port from Hitman. There's one way to play the mission for the story, but if you want to go back and do it differently later on you can and there's further depth available. Great! It's a video game. Let me play with it. (I have to say, I do think somewhere in this thread is a post by me where I propose something like that. Having MI6 as a hub to play and replay missions.)
They did. In 2004.
Yeah. Nobody ever said that.
Sure, nobody except for every single person who whined about Craig's films being "too dark, too grim, too serious, too dour..." "Oh, it's just what the STUPID PUBLIC want these days..."
And yet we got CASINO ROYALE where Bond is still very much fun, quippy and charismatic. QUANTUM OF SOLACE tried dipping its toes in Bourne but thankfully Eon course corrected after backlash.
So much for the idea that nothing from the Craig era in terms of tone and/or ideas will make its way into future Bond works 😉
But in all seriousness I don’t ever remember anyone making the claim you’re saying.
The eternal battle between Brosnan and Craig.
Longer than the battle of Moore and Connery.
Then do you think it could work as the blueprint for Bond 26, at least tonally? If it apparently nails incorporating so many different styles?
Indeed.
I find it funny that some fans might have hoped that a new iteration of Bond, whether on game or film, would try to pretend the Craig films never existed. Love or hate his films, they made a major impact on the Bond franchise and will never be ignored.