Sure, the Quantum of Solace movie is getting a mixed buzz, but that hasn’t dampened our interest in the QoS game. The Activision title runs on a modded Call of Duty 4 engine, which just sounds great. We can already hear the Bond theme in our head. We always here it, you know — especially when we walk around our local shopping mall in sunglasses.
Wow, check out the Gallagher watermelon smashing physics in this game. Amazing. Fortunately they added that, because otherwise it would have looked a bit like a bland shooter that was developed using a check list. Blind fire: Check. Cover: Check. Take Downs: Check.
Reading through a press release about the upcoming Best Buy midnight opening launch event for Quantum of Solace, I stumbled upon this interesting tidbit:
Additionally, those in line at 10:00 PM will get the exclusive opportunity to be one of the first to play the Bond song “Another Way to Die” performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys which is soon-to-be-released as downloadable content for Activision’s Guitar Hero® World Tour.
I kinda like the song. It would be great if they released this as a freebie, but there’s not even a hint of that, so I’ll just hold my breath until they make it so. Annnnnd GO…..
Hitthejumpforthefullmidnightlaunchdetails *passes out*
This is the new launch trailer for the Quantum of Solace game, but, more intriguing, it pays homage to the Roger Moore-era classic The Man with the Golden Gun. This video features a suspicious golden hand held weapon that looks as if it kills with one shot. We’ll have to wait for some hands on time to see what they’ve done with the multiplayer, but running on the Call of Duty 4 engine, Bond has never looked better. The game is slated to release on November 4th for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, PC, and DS.
If you were unaware, the Quantum Of Solace game includes the storyline from both the latest movie and Casino Royale. The events of the new movie begin very shortly after the last, so the combined storyline should work nicely in the game — and probably offers a better selection of sequences to choose for a well paced action game. That said, we only got to taste two scenes at this stage, both from the Casino Royale side of the coin (to prevent us learning any juicy spoilers). First a Vienna chase sequence and then a stealth scene through Casino Royale.
The Vienna sequence was quite a challenge, starting with an underground chase and then moving onto rooftops with quite a lot of enemies to contend with on route. There was no penalty for taking your time, but enemies were happy to throw grenades should you play too conservatively. One issue I found was with the cover system, which was a little too sticky in a crisis. Hopefully this gets loosened up a little before release.
Just as the title says, this latest video from Activision talks about how the developers are translating the environments from the film to the game. Unfortunately, there isn’t much to see here in terms of gameplay, but you do get to see a few new locations that you’ll encounter. You can expect the game out about two weeks before the movie November 4th.
Be the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. While that’s a pretty cool tagline for the new Quantum of Solace I still can’t get over the fact that every Bond game since Goldeneye has been less than, well, Goldeneye. This is obviously not new news in any form or fashion, but come on people! we the gamers demand James Bond goodness! Hopefully Quantum of Solace will deliver what we’ve all been longing for.
James Bond 22 the Quantum of Solace is coming! It’s the first original Bond film starring Daniel Craig and no 007 would be complete without his game counter part. In these videos we see how TreyArch visited the movie sets as well as how they were able to capture the likenesses of all the actors. More videos after the jump.
Isn’t he dreamy? This, ladies and gentlemen, is Thomas Godaj, winner of the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, which is essentially the German version of American Idol. I’m told that, unlike the American contestants, Godaj here actually has musical talent. I would have come to our country’s defence but come on – Taylor Hicks? Really? I bet he couldn’t belt out Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell” near as well as Thomas did, which is exactly how Activision’s Games Convention 2008 press conference came to an end…but how did it begin?
