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This page shows the canceled video games in James Bond 007 franchise.

Film based games

Octopussy

Shortly after James Bond 007 video game was released in 1983 by Parker Brothers, another video game was announced that was called Octopussy, based on the film of the same name, scheduled for 1983 Summer release, it was cancelled shortly after it was announced by Parker Brothers .

GoldenEye 007

A racing version of GoldenEye 007 was going to be released the same year for the ill fated Virtual Boy. Only a screenshot was released on the internet, but the game was later cancelled.

Related, a revamped version of the Nintendo 64 game by Rare was planned for release for Xbox Live Arcade on 27 February 2008, but due to financial disagreement between Microsoft and Nintendo corporations, the project has faded out. As of Decemeber 2012 Microsoft has made no comment on the idea of Rareware's GoldenEye 007 being released on XBLA due to the circumstances.

Tomorrow Never Dies: The Mission Continues

The original VHS release of Tomorrow Never Dies featured a brief trailer with Desmond Llewelyn which highlighted a game that would "start where the film ends." Footage shows Bond skiing, scuba diving and driving in third person and on a first person shooting mission. The game was to come out on PlayStation and PC in the fall of 1998 and was being made by MGM Interactive, not EA; EA was not involved in Bond until November of that year.

A Tomorrow Never Dies game was finally released on November 16th 1999, distributed by EA, but with notably differences from the 1998 attempt. The game was a third person shooter with the scuba diving level nowhere to be found. But perhaps the most glaring difference was the fact that the story now followed the plot of the film, not the continuation that had been promised.

A level in the game sees Bond skiing down a mountain and killing a Japanese terrorist named Sotoshi Isagura (who had featured very briefly in the film), while on another stage Bond has a driving mission in Switzerland. These were not from the film and may have survived from the 'continuation' story.

The World Is Not Enough

A port of The World Is Not Enough for the PC and PlayStation 2 version was cancelled in favor for Agent Under Fire.

Casino Royale

Based on the film of the same name where Daniel Craig starred as Bond and was going to give his voice and likeness in the video game. It was set to release on PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. The game was 15% developed when the project was cancelled as Electronic Arts would not finish it by the film's release in November 2006. Later, unfinished development screenshots from the Venice level were uncovered.

Original games

007 Racing: The Sequel

A PlayStation 2 sequel to 007 Racing was rumoured to be in development.

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent sequel

A sequel to 2004's GoldenEye: Rogue Agent was originally planned but scrapped due to poor sales and reviews. The game's ending heavily suggested a sequel as well. According to various sources, the sequel would have included vehicles and a longer story mode. On the EA website for GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, a forum with many questions about what fans wanted to see in the next game when it was available. Rogue Agent's engine for the DS was used as a concept for a version of Halo: Combat Evolved for Nintendo's handheld (informally called Halo DS), but didn't get past verification, despite a playable demo being made.

Phoenix Rising

The game was originally meant to be released in 2005, set to star Pierce Brosnan as James Bond 007. Nothing was ever revealed about the plot but the rumours said that it was a follow up to NightFire with the gameplay elements of Everything or Nothing video game. First, the title was going to be used for NightFire but later was pushed back for the 2005 Bond game that never saw the light of the day and was switched into Sean Connery's From Russia with Love video game adaption when Brosnan officially announced that he was stepping down from the role.

Risico

The early replacement of Blood Stone and nothing officially was announced, it was based on Ian Fleming's short story Risico with the plotline expanded and involved with other unseen elements from James Bond novels written by Ian Fleming himself. It was set to star Daniel Craig as Bond in an original storyline developed by both Bizzare Creations and Raven Software studios. However, it was canceled in late 2009. Only some screenshots were hit on the internet and many canceled main-title sequences are shown, rumours say that the plot was involved with diamond smugglers, or with oil-problem. Either Risico was cancelled or delayed as the next James Bond game, titled 007 Legends, was released in October 2012,

References

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3. "Games - Unreleased - GoldenEye". Planet Virtual Boy. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
4. "Tomorrow Never Dies Video Game". YouTube. 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
5. "IGN: 007: Tomorrow Never Dies Screenshots, Wallpapers and Pics". Media.psx.ign.com. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
6. "EA and MGM Bond - PSX News at IGN". Psx.ign.com. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
7. "The World Is Not Enough - PlayStation 2 Preview at IGN". Ps2.ign.com. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
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9. MI6-HQ Copyright 2011 (2010-05-26). "EA's Lost 007 'Casino Royale' Videogame :: Gaming :: MI6 :: James Bond 007 Video Games". Mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 2012-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
10. Fritz, Ben (2006-05-03). "Bond, Superman games on the move". Variety. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
11. "Bond Races to PlayStation 2 Again - PS2 News at IGN". Ps2.ign.com. 2000-12-11. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
12. James Bond 007: "From Russia With Love" by EA Games

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