James Bond 007: Blood Stone Debut Trailer

James Bond makes his illustrious return in a new third-person action game from Activision and Bizarre Creations



With the recent resurgence of news stories citing the formal cancellation of "Bond 23" (the next James Bond film, where Daniel Craig would be working with director Sam Mendes), Activision finds itself in a peculiar spot of timing with James Bond 007: Blood Stone. There's no movie to tie-in with, so this is basically the only, "new James Bond experience" for 2010 -- here's hoping that we get something closer to EA's excellent Everything Or Nothing rather than the lackluster Quantum of Solace. Blood Stone is an original James Bond action-adventure game starring Daniel Craig, with a new original story written by Bond writer Bruce Feirstein [GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough].



The majority of the game is played in the third person perspective, as it's a cover combat based game, but unlike many games in that genre, it also features the ability for Bond to perform takedowns using cover; so Bond is able to drag people over and around items in the environment.

It's the collaboration of all of these things that makes it a Bond game. We have an original story from a Bond writer, we have Daniel Craig driving Aston Martins, along with Dame Judi Dench. Blood Stone also features Joss Stone as our new Bond girl, which is very exciting. Joss Stone will provide an original [and exclusive] musical track to the game.