This type of game has earned a bit of a reputation for being rushed into shops to match a film’s release date, especially since successive generations of consoles have required longer lead times for games in development.Īs it stands, there hasn’t been a new James Bond videogame released for consoles since 2012. Not so long ago, it wouldn’t have been hard to imagine the knock-on effect of delaying a major movie like this affecting the obligatory video-game tie-in either. That’s proven costly from a PR and marketing standpoint, as dribs and drabs of the film’s second major campaign keep appearing to promote a film that’s not going to actually arrive before audiences until April 2021 (barring further accidents). Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 has coincided with an industry-wide decline in movie tie-in games – here are the James Bond videogames that made it.ĮON Productions has been very canny with the scheduling of the 25th James Bond movie, No Time To Die, twice moving the release date in anticipation of UK lockdown measures.
