Hitman studio’s Project 007 gives me hope for James Bond in games again

The more I think about it, the stranger late-’90s gaming feels. As a 14-year-old, I would have friends come over to my home to play local multiplayer games on the Nintendo 64. And that all seems so distant and foreign during 2020 and this pandemic. But at the time, it was always fun thanks in large part to the James Bond shooter GoldenEye 007. My friends and I spent hundreds of hours playing that deathmatch classic on the big rear-projection television in my basement. It was such a defining game experience for me that I spent years hoping for a worthy followup — but nothing ever really recaptured the magic of the original. After years of mostly disappointing James Bond games, I gave up hope.

Until today.