IO Interactive is speaking with a lot of confidence about 007 First Light, and it looks like they are aiming very high with the project. The studio believes the game can finally go beyond GoldenEye 007, the Nintendo 64 classic that many fans still see as the best James Bond game ever made.
During a recent interview with GamesRadar, 007 First Light narrative and cinematics director Martin Emborg was asked what kind of “legacy” he hopes the game will leave behind, to which he replied, “Just that everyone agrees that this is the best Bond game ever.”
Patrick Gibson, the actor playing the younger James Bond in the game, also joined the conversation, saying, “Or just the best game ever.” Emborg playfully replied, “I’ll take that. That’s kind of the minimum that we expect.”
While it is easy to say you want to create the best James Bond game ever made, actually doing it is the hard part. However, it will not take long to find out if they can truly live up to those claims, as 007 First Light launches on 27 May for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version also planned for later this year.
If you don’t know much about the game, 007 First Light is a thrilling narrative action-adventure spy game where you play as a young and reckless James Bond before he becomes a famous secret agent. Fresh out of the Navy, he joins MI6 to stop a rogue agent.
In other news, Sony has unveiled the limited-edition 007 First Light DualSense controller for PlayStation 5, launching alongside the game on May 27 for $84.99 with a gold James Bond-inspired design. For more 007 First Light related coverage, keep checking GameObserver.
