007 Legends Announced As New James Bond Game

The James Bond franchise is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year! That’s why publisher Activision and developer Eurocom have announced 007 Legends. The game will launch in October 2012 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (with Kinect support). 007 Legends will take gamers back through time to relive a selection of Bond’s most iconic and intense undercover missions from the popular Bond films.

A first-of-its-kind Bond video game, 007 Legends features an original, overarching storyline tying together six classic Bond movies, concluding with this year’s highly-anticipated 23rd installment — SKYFALL — to offer the most diverse Bond gaming experience yet! As with the feature films, 007 Legends equips players with state-of-the-art spy gadgets, an arsenal of weapons, including Bond’s signature Walther PPK, and sleek vehicles as they jet off to exotic locations and utilize Bond’s quick wits, class and style to take down notorious villains and their brutal henchmen, perform impressive stunts, and of course… mingle with gorgeous Bond women.

In addition to 007 Legends’ main story, the game will feature the return of fan-favorite single-player Mi6 Ops Missions, which debuted in GoldenEye 007: Reloaded and challenges players to complete extra missions ranging from all-out action to stealth and gadget-based gameplay and compete for the highest online leader board scores. For the first time ever, players will be able to participate as one of Bond’s cohorts or villainous foes, reliving the missions through their eyes, as well as 007’s.

The robust James Bond multiplayer experience includes local four-player split-screen game modes and online competitive gameplay with new maps, weapons and characters derived from Bond’s 50 year legacy. With more gadgets, deeper stealth and spy investigation gameplay, gamers will have every opportunity to truly feel like the world’s favorite spy.

“To honor 50 years of the world’s top secret agent, 007 Legends offers a collection of his most famed moments in the smartest and most treacherous Bond game yet,” said David Oxford, Executive Vice President at Activision Publishing, Inc. “Creating a video game storyline that ties together six popular, yet very different, Bond movie narratives can be challenging, but together with EON Productions, our developer Eurocom, has pulled it off to create an homage that we think will be a unique and highly entertaining Bond video game.”

Since there’s no 007 Legends trailer yet, here’s the James Bond: Skyfall cast introduction conference. The movie stars Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, Javier Bardem, Berenice Marlohe; all of whom will no doubt make an appearance in the game as well.

I really enjoyed the last two James Bond games Quantum of Solace and Blood Stone. I suspect 007 Legend will keep increasing the fun-factor closer to the Call of Duty games.

Do you think 007 Legends will be the best James Bond game yet?