After years of disappointing followups to the Nintendo 64’s Goldeneye 007, I’m letting myself get excited for a James Bond game again.
The more I think about it, the stranger late-’90s gaming feels. As a 14-year-old, I would have friends come over to my home to play local multiplayer games on the Nintendo 64. And that all seems so distant and foreign during 2020 and this pandemic. But at the time, it was always fun thanks in large part to the James Bond shooter GoldenEye 007. My friends and I spent hundreds of hours playing that deathmatch classic on the big rear-projection television in my basement. It was such a defining game experience for me that I spent years hoping for a worthy followup — but nothing ever really recaptured the magic of the original. After years of mostly disappointing James Bond games, I gave up hope. Until today. Hitman developer IO Interactive announced today that it is making Project 007. This is an officially licensed game that is using the same Glacier Engine software tools that powered 2016’s Hitman and 2018’s Hitman 2. “It’s true that once in a while, the stars do align in our industry,” IO Interactive chief executive officer Hakan Abrak said.
