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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)

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...)

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.

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.

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.