{"id":120906,"date":"2020-11-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/watch_out_goldeneye_007_n_hitman_studio_ioi_is_working_on_a_james_bond_game"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:00:00","slug":"watch-out-goldeneye-007-hitman-studio-ioi-is-working-on-a-james-bond-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/watch-out-goldeneye-007-hitman-studio-ioi-is-working-on-a-james-bond-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out, GoldenEye 007 \u2013 Hitman Studio IOI Is Working On A James Bond Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/535ab5c9f43e4\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/535ab5c9f43e4\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/535ab5c9f43e4\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>For many years now, it&#8217;s been an accepted fact that, despite numerous attempts to better it (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/goldeneye_007\">including a remake<\/a>), the N64 title <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/goldeneye_007\">GoldenEye 007<\/a><\/strong> is the best Bond game <em>ever<\/em>. So good, in fact, it&#8217;s even had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/movie_review_king_of_kong_meets_spinal_tap_in_going_for_golden_eye\">spoof movie<\/a> made about it, and has also inspired a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/go_behind_the_scenes_of_goldeneye_007_with_this_upcoming_documentary\">full-blown documentary<\/a> into its creation.<\/p>\n<p>Many have tried and failed to topple Rare&#8217;s FPS masterpiece (we still shudder at the memory of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/james_bond_007_legends\">James Bond: 007 Legends<\/a><\/strong>), but most would agree that <strong>Hitman<\/strong> studio IO Interactive has the best chance of succeeding. The company has just revealed that it is working on an &#8220;original Bond&#8221; project which serves as an origin story and will allow players to step into the shoes of a young Bond as he attempts to secure his coveted &#8217;00&#8217; status.<\/p>\n<p>No platforms have been confirmed for <strong>Project 007<\/strong> (that&#8217;s a working title, by the way), and IO Interactive has stated that it is currently &#8220;recruiting elite talent from the around the world&#8221; to work on the game, which it will also be publishing itself.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it&#8217;s quite likely to be several years away, it would perhaps be unwise to expect a Switch version, but \u2013 depending on whether or not a more powerful Nintendo console is available at the time of release \u2013 we <em>could<\/em> potentially see Project 007 come to the Switch as a &#8220;cloud&#8221; version, as has happened recently with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/control_ultimate_edition_-_cloud_version\">Control<\/a><\/strong> and will happen soon with IO&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hitman_3_-_cloud_version\">Hitman 3<\/a><\/strong>. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens, if any studio can come close to matching Rare&#8217;s seminal shooter, IO Interactive is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years now, it&#8217;s been an accepted fact that, despite numerous attempts to better it (including a remake), the N64 title GoldenEye 007 is the best Bond game ever. So good, in fact, it&#8217;s even had a spoof movie made about it, and has also inspired a full-blown documentary into its creation. Many have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}