James Bond 007: Blood Stone hurled through holiday release window, courtesy of Bizarre

Assassinating months of speculation, Activision has finally announced its new James Bond game, helmed by Project Gotham Racing and Blur developer Bizarre Creations. Featuring an original story by Bruce Feirstein (who penned the screenplay for GoldenEye and the script for 2003's Bond game, Everything or Nothing), James Bond 007: Blood Stone features a mix of third-person cover-based shooting, hand-to-hand combat and "adrenaline-fuelled driving sequences" on land and sea -- and air, if there are enough exploding ramps.

Daniel Craig will reprise his role as suave spy guy (it's not like they need him for a movie right now) alongside Judi Dench, who once again plays stern boss lady "M." Grammy award-winning singer Joss Stone will be playing Blood Stone's obligatory gun-toting temptress, presumably because Oliver Stone couldn't quite pull off the evening gowns. Stone -- that's Joss -- will also provide the game's original theme song, "I'll Take it All," with the aid of Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics.

Bizarre's James Bond 007: Blood Stone is set to launch on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this holiday season. N-Space is developing a DS version for the same time frame. You can watch the trailer for the console version here.

James Bond 007: Blood Stone (first screens)

Reader Comments (28)

Sounds decent enough. I've only played their racing games, I never got around to playing The Club, but I'll be keeping my eyes on this.

I'm surprised that this didn't appear at E3, I guess not to take away from Goldeneye, but personally this is more exciting.

@Glitch W
This is definitely more exciting than Golden Eye re-make coming to the Wii.

@Glitch W

Totally agree! Bring Bond back!

@Glitch W

I'm definitely aroused.

DS version will be legit thanks to N-Space.

Goldeneye Wii should trump all the other versions, sans the graphics. I just never could get into the 3rd person Bond games like I could the FPS ones.

If it's half as good as "Everything or Nothing", I'll be satisfied.

@brad4815 I spent hours playing that game on the PS2. Insanely fun.

@sharukh007 Seriously, I replayed it sooo many times. And the coop was just the icing on the cake, even though I nearly never got to play it.

@brad4815

Agree'd

Everything or Nothing was most definitely a solid Bond game, especially it being a 3rd Person Shooter.

@brad4815
+1 EoN was great.

I am actually really interested in this. And I just realized that they are not making another Bond movie (thanks a lot bad friends who don't tell me anything).

Yes, cannot wait! That screen of Bond does look an awful lot like the Quantum of Solace game though, but I'm sure it'll look a lot better.

For accuracy's sake, you might want to replace "anymore" with "for the time being", or link to a different story about Bond 23 in your post. The official word on the new movie is still "suspended", not "canceled", as the latter was disproved the day after that story hit as tabloid hype. Silly Brits.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=8720&t=mi6&s=news

Daniel Craig and Judi Dench are awesome for being in this game

The coldest blood runs through my veins you know my naaaaaaaaaaaame!!! =) I hope this game is as good as the old ps2 ones unlike quantum of solame!

Third person, nice. Everything or nothing was one of my favorite bond games. Hope this is good if not better

"N-Space is developing a DS version for the same time frame."
Sweet, their DS shooters have awesome multiplayer.

Joss Stone should have done a Bond theme anyway, so this takes care of that. While QOS wasn't a groundbreaking game in way, I'll admit that a competent shooter with Bond skins, Bond music, and Bond stuff is something I'm always willing to play.

Joss Stone's character model looks so weird and oversimplified, I can't help thinking it looks exactly like something out of the Playboy Mansion game that came out back on the PS2.

So the DS is going to have two different Bond games coming out during the holiday season.

I am very excited, I absolutely love the franchise and always enjoy the games, well expect a few of those horrible PS1 games.... lol... Everything or Nothing is still frakkin awesome!

BTW here is a link to the trailer! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfvQN0AzOo&feature=player_embedded

So the same guy who did Goldeneye and Everything or Nothing(the 2 best bond games) is going to be directing this. BAD ASS!

YAY! I love Bond games! :)

Finally, an action game where you play as a mannequin. I've waited so long for this day.

Stage 1: Stand in a window display.

Im excited, but i am also a little perplexed, a few of these screens are really really simple and smooth and undetailed, like the one of joss stone. Hope its just an early picture. On a side note, i like the really vibrant colors, enough with all this gray crap we got going on.

I was a bit skeptical, but this sounds promising. They've got the car-chase aspect sorted and the script sorted. The graphics look poor by today's standards, but lets hope the gameplay is top-notch. I'll keep my eyes on this. They should have got Pierce Brosnan back though; it's his role.

Very loooking forward to this