EA Games license to create the Bond games has now been extended to the year 2010.
With the license, they have all the rights to all 20 films – including any films made up to 2010 and all of the books.
More details have started to surface on what actual features will be available in the game.
It appears that there won’t be any direct route for completing missions – there’ll be multiple routes available to you, each with their pros, cons and methods. This will be a change from the previous games which have always seemed to use a linear style of gameplay throughout the levels.
Bond will be able to disguise himself with enemy uniforms in order to infiltrate enemy installations – however I guess this’ll probably be limited to when and where you can use a disguise, although it would be good if you could sneak around, picking off the unsuspecting enemy when you choose.
There’ll be many other options, inlcuding misdirection to aid in completing missions, rather than running through a mission shooting everything that moves. I think everyone’s getting rather bored with these types of games, and that’s the simple reason why game developed are moving away from run and shoot games.
“Over the top” hand-to-hand combat. This’ll be the first Bond game to concentrate on hand-to-hand combat, and the third person perspective gives the ideal oppurtunity to harness this. You’ll also be able to pick up bottles, wooden boards, chairs and other enviromental objects laying around you and then use them in combat. This does all sounds very similar to the recent Indiana Jones game, which featured this sort of combat which leads me to believe, Everything or Nothing will be using the same game engine.
Bond will find himself around the globe once again; the French Quarter of New Orleans, a mountain fortress in Peru, a secret facility in Egypt, and Red Square in Moscow.
Bond won’t be on foot all the time, he’ll be able to hop into the odd car, motorcycle and helicopters and tanks! These won’t be seperate missions either; when you see a vehicle, you’ll be able to take control and carry on. This is a move from NightFire which saw you in a new level whenever you was driving the Aston Martin. Everything or Nothing will allow you to seamlessly transition yourself from being on foot to a vehicle.
Bond will have an arsenal of 20 weapons and gadgets – which will probably include the Walther P99, Laser Watch and all the usual kit. Bond will also be able to climb up or rappel down any wall in the game.
Multiplayer is also moving on from the standard deathmatch modes (which EoN will include). In addition, you’ll be able to go on co-op missions; this could mean two things – a standard team based deathmatch mode, where you go against another team of players or it could be a genuine co-op mission where you can play out missions from the single player game and complete them together with your friends (fellow MI6 agents).
There’s some great features there, and we’ll be following the game throughout development and bring you all the latest news on how it’s shaping up – will it be a Tomorrow Never Dies style game (horror!) or will it be the game we’ve been waiting for since GoldenEye?
The car driven by Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day was auctioned yesterday and received a winning bid of £210,500 by motor-museum owner, Peter Nelson, who boasts that he is lucky enough to have many more Bond cars in a collection of his.
This collection has a 25 cars from the Bond series, and can be seen at his “Cars Of Stars” museum in Keswick, Cumbria in the UK.
“I sat in it and it fit me perfectly. I can’t wait to take it for a drive and my children are desperate for me to pick them up from school in it.
“But I’m a bit shaken and stirred because it’s not a cheap car.”
Welcome back to The Blades Library Book Club – the place for quality discussions of the books of James Bond!
Every two months a book is chosen by the club members to read. A thread is posted in the club forums listing locations on where you can find the novel. Discussions about the book will go on as the book is read and when it is finished. Another thread will be created so that club members can post their review and give a rating on Live & Let Die.
All fans of the Literary Bond are eligible for membership. All you need to do to sign up is register for the CBn Forums and then post your name in the sign up thread.
The Book Club’s Second Book:
Concluding the vote for what book to read next, the club members have decided that Live & Let Die is to be the next book to be in their hands for the next two months. Live & Let Die was written in 1954, and is Fleming’s second Bond novel – continuing after the events in Casino Royale.
Obtaining The Book:
For US readers who are still waiting for the release of Live & Let Die, why not try to get your hands on a UK version? The UK version leaves some passages that were editted out in the US version. Ordering online should be quite easy. Live & Let Die can be ordered online from the following sources:
Online sources for other older versions of Casino Royale:
Discuss other places to buy Live & Let Die or where you got your copy in this thread.
Discuss The Book While Reading:
Want to talk about the book while reading it. Post a new thread in The Blades Library. Be sure to title the thread with “Live & Let Die” and the chapter number you have read through.
Review And Rate The Book:
After you have finished reading Live & Let Die please leave a short – or long – review and rate it in this thread.
If you have any questions or suggestions just post them in a new thread. And good reading.
Earlier in the week, various news outlets reported that Pierce Brosnan has connected himself and his production company, Irish Dream Time, to the film Matador.
In the film Brosnan would play a hitman with issues, who can not complete his assignment in Mexico City. Instead, he hooks up with a business man from the US who has issues of his own.
Richard Shepard is scheduled to direct the film, which is looking to start filming around the end of 2003. Given that Brosnan is also attached to the film Laws of Attraction which is scheduled to begin filming in a couple of months, the likelyhood of a January 2004 start date for Bond 21 is diminishing.
Discuss this 007-related news on the CommanderBond.net Forums, the largest James Bond 007 forum in the world.
Roger Moore might have been a little shaken, even stirred, following his onstage tumble Wednesday in New York. But, after a ticker tune-up, the erstwhile 007 is now back in the pink and received his license to leave the hospital on Friday.
Moore, 75, was deemed good to go after getting a pacemaker to help regulate his heartbeat.
The seven-time James Bond collapsed during a matinee performance of The Play What I Wrote at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. Moore fainted during a dance number at the end of act two, but managed to recover and finish his performance before being taken to a nearby hospital for tests.
While initial reports said Moore had been suffering from respiratory problems, coupled with dehydration and exhaustion, a rep tells the Associated Press that the thesp had been in line for a pacemaker, and doctors at Manhattan’s Beth Israel Medical Center decided to implant it on Thursday.
"He’s feeling absolutely fine," Mary Cahill tells the AP. Cahill, a spokeswoman for UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency for which Moore has served as a goodwill ambassador for 12 years, says she spoke to the actor shortly after his discharge.
Moore’s feeling so fine that he will make a previously scheduled appearance Friday at a benefit dinner in New York, where he’s due to pick up an award on behalf of UNICEF from the French-American Aid for Children organization.
"He’s very gallant. He’s a real trooper," says Cahill. "He does so much good work for us. The fact that he’s making an effort to go there for us tonight is indicative of Roger’s efforts for children."
According to the producers of The Play What I Wrote, which features a surprise celebrity guest every day, Moore is "looking forward to returning soon."
After a stint as crime-busting Simon Templar on The Saint, Moore took over the Bond role from Sean Connery during the ’70s and early ’80s. His first spin as the sexy secret agent came in 1973’s Live and Let Die. He went on to star in six other Bond flicks, including 1983’s Octopussy and 1985’s A View to a Kill, before passing the torch to Timothy Dalton.
Source: Yahoo! News
Actor Pierce Brosnan will lend more than his image to 2003’s Bond game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, he’ll also be lending his voice.
The confirmation comes in the form of a press release from Electronic Arts who confirmed that Brosnan “will lend his cyberscanned likeness and voice to the character”.
Brosnan’s image was used for the creation of James Bond in the last gaming outing, NightFire. NightFire was release in 2002 across the PC, X-Box, Gamecube and Playstation 2 consoles. Everything or Nothing will not be release on PC but will, however, be release on Playstation 2, GameCube, X-Box and Game Boy Advance consoles.
Indiana University will host a series of events titled The Cultral Politics Of Ian Fleming And 007 to commemorate the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. From May 9th to June 1st 2003. The university, which houses many of the rarist Fleming items including original manuscripts of Fleming’s James Bond novels, will welcome scholars from around the world who represent a ‘broad range of academic disciplines including literature, history, gender studies, modern culture and communications’. The university’s library will exhihit the school’s collection of Fleming material, including objects that are not normally available for public viewing. Other events will include film screenings and a display of some of the cars from the James Bond films.
For more information, visit Indiana University’s website.
A selection of screenshots of the upcoming Bond game, Everything or Nothing have started appearing on various gaming web sites on the internet.
Gamespot.com have screenshots from the X-Box, Gamecube and Gameboy Advance versions.
Roger Moore is to leave hospital later today, reports the BBC.
He’s been giving the all clear at Roosevelt Hospital in New York after collapsing at a show yesterday.