Skyfall would make a good 007 game
When you look at the list of games cancelled using the James Bond IP, you can’t help to think for the most part they would have been amazing games and much better than what we have gotten over the past few years. From Activision, a publisher which during its rein on the IP published four titles in the series. While their first game Quantum of Solace was released based on the movies of this era, the rest of their published games primary focus on reimagination of other games and movies in the series.
The COD based design which attributed to many of their 007 titles was received well by some, but overall hindered the end product which resulted in Activision removing the titles from digital distribution platforms earlier this year, and revealing they no longer wish to create licenced games. This action lead to rumours that the licence was revoked and not freely given up, which still hasn’t been cleared up by both parties, and probably never will.
Their final game 007 Legends was an interesting concept however poorly executed. However like Blood Stone has a small following, and also like Blood Stone was the developers’ final game before closing their doors. In theory all the right movies where picked, and all the right scenes, however overall it was very liner, with long loading screens and poor “checkpoint” placement.
Legends is also interesting for another reason, it is the only 007 game so far to be based around Skyfall. With the central plot based around everything been a dream situation during Skyfalls climatic opening sequences ender.
Now the Skyfall missions are interesting, there is of course the Istanbul opening and the Shanghai mission as DLC. I’ve posted the videos of these sections in this article, you can notice the badness of the game, especially with the section before the “take the shot” scene, which Bond is just punching the bad guy and it doesn’t really seem like its doing much or going anywhere, it just seems like its filling in time, and its surrounded by a gimmicky idea of showing up where Bond will punch if you hit a certain button.
I’m not writing to pick on this game, no I’m writing today to say something magical and special, that is if Skyfall got a proper game, and it was done well (not this shell of a quickly released COD clone), that it would be better than Goldeneye. Not the horrible Goldeneye released a few years back. No the original one which is loved by many and coated in nostalgic spoof.
While the 007 Legends levels are not 100% trueful to the magic of Skyfall, it does give a sense of what the world would be like. Something much better then Goldeneye if done right. For example when they capture the bad guy? That would be an epic fight, also the hold up at the end in Bond Manner, it would be amazing. Oh and an awesome roadtrip as well. Perfect.
