007 First Light Official Game Reveal, Launching On Switch 2 In 2026

Hopefully this turns out to be good. It does look like hitman with James bond skin though 😂

Not what I was expecting, Uncharted meets hitman meets goldeneye? I'm in

Bond looks too pretty and young

This looks incredible. Hope it turns out as good as it looks.

@Automated_Unit_4937 Bond is always pretty. That's part of the character. At least in the movies; I've never read the books.
And this is his first mission, before he earns "00" status. So, he's young.

With the movies on hiatus and being oddly up and down anyways with Craig, let's see if this is any good next year!

I'm Very Excited to play. Hopefully it will turn out good!

Uh no thanks

Give me an older bond struggling to keep up with the world for a change

All I see is Drake, Nathan Drake.

Doesn't look bad though, interesting they decided to go with a younger James Bond this time around.

I miss having bond in video games, hopefully this will stir up a resurgence. Goldeneye, nightfire, everything or nothing, bloodstone, quantum of solace, and goldeneye wii were all games I had very good memories of. This looks pretty good so far.

I'm totally in. Fantastic State of Play. Hopefully the Abzu/Pathless team's new game comes to the Switch 2 as well.

I am not interested in the franchise (not a bond fan anymore) but I am excited at the prospect of a third person action game. Would likely get on deep sale if it is good.Curious about the MI6 characters though.

He kinda looks like Tintin from Spielberg's motion-cap film. Which ironically starred Daniel Craig.

@Automated_Unit_4937 To be fair its set in his past before he became a fully fledged 007 agent so that explains the youthful appearance

@Scoopz Really, because it looks like modern day London.

Yes! I love it. Cant wait to het my hands on it

Nitpicking over the appearance (or exact time period) of James Bond is like nitpicking over the appearance (or exact time period) of Doctor Who.

As soon as you’ve established what Bond ‘should’ look like he’s replaced with someone else entirely. That’s the nature of the franchise and how it’s managed to remain alive for so many decades.

I'm intrigued. This looks cool.

@Mommas James Bond was 41 in 1971 (Diamonds are Forever) and 38 in 2006 (Casino Royale). He grew 3 years younger over the course of 35 years.

This is to say, if you can present me with a plausible cross-media timeline of what age Bond ‘should’ be in what year, I will be very, very, very impressed.

He doesn't look like a James Bond. Looks...generic.

Lame, Lame Bond.

I kid.
Looks ok.

Ethan Hunt started out in MI6? Well this blows things wide open!

He looks like James Bond Jr. from the 90’s cartoon.

My money would not have been on Nathan Drake being the next James Bond

Looking good. Here's hoping to great gameplay.

This looks amazing

At least super high production values from the looks of it. I truly hope they nail the mix of stealth, action, spy stuff well; I'm very ready for a new Bond game.

Should have done James Bond Junior.

@Maxz James Bond is a code name given to several different agents. They aren’t all the same single guy.

This feels like a AAA game of 12-13 years ago, in absolutely a good way. I'm interested to see how this turns out

A period piece setting would have saved this concept for me instead it just feels like an continuation of the setting and aesthetic that the Craig films and games wore out extensively.

Looks absolutely fantastic

@Bass_X0 Skyfall suggests otherwise.

And we saw it at a playstation event. Which was a bit disappointing as I thought it may be Switch 2 exclusive. But got a PS5 too. So now I can decide which version to get Switch 2 or PS5. It looks great too.

@Automated_Unit_4937 Too pretty? The scarred the o̵l̵d̵ young boy.

@Bass_X0 In various media (I’m mainly thinking about the Young Bond series) he has the name ‘James Bond’ well before taking on the 007 moniker. Even in the trailer above, they refer to him as ‘Bond’ before he has joined ‘the programme’. Admittedly, I feel this fact alone is far from conclusive, and I’m also willing to accept the argument that the ‘Young Bond books don’t count’.

Perhaps more conclusive is this gravestone from Skyfall of Bond’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. … Bond.

It seems a rather remarkable coincidence that one’s codename happens to be identical to one’s parent’s surnames, and by extension one’s own surname. As a way to conceal one’s identity, it makes Superman putting on glasses and calling himself Clark Kent look positively inspired.

I admire the sheer imagination necessary to believe that all the Bonds exist in the same universe with unbroken continuity, but I’m more inclined to believe that James Bond is just a fictional character in a story (many stories), just like Batman is fictional character in a story (many, many stories), and that the enormous scope of both franchises requires that the actors be recast, the characters reinvented, and the stories retold time and time again… thus muddling any sort of overarching continuity.

Basically what I’m saying is it’s a mess. And it’s allowed to be a mess. Because it’s a story. And stories are allowed to twist and turn and reshape themselves through the ages.

@bones The game was announced 5 years as multi platform, so I don’t think there was ever a chance of it being exclusive to Switch 2.

I found the trailer a little bit underwhelming. Eager to see the Gameplay over the weekend.

@Mommar Its explicitly stated during the showcase. This is a Bond before he became 007. It still can be a modern London under those circumstances. Theyre exercising their artistic license.

Yikes. An origin story with a young Bond is definitely not what I was hoping for.

Oh well, I can always replay GoldenEye.

@Bass_X0 No, James Bond is his birth name. 007 is the codename. The books are one guy, even the movies are one guy (from the same company that is) up to Die another day. He don't really get any specific age though he should be mid to late thirties.

I'm glad that Nintendo console will no longer be left behind with new releases, unlike the first Switch.

@Mommar the Bond movies retcon the times so just treat it as such.

@JohnnyMind The trailer and the music they used (actually from one of the films which i’m trying to determine right now but I want to say Sean Conery era bond) wants me want to what this instead of playing it.

@Maxz exactly. Bond’s origins and story are always retconned like Captain. America’s story is always pushed forward. Cap is frozen during WWII but the decade where he thaws out is always pushed forward.

As for Bond, they just move the era forward but the films (excluding Craig’s since those where a complete reboot) had always retconned the time period but carried the story elements over from the previous ones.

I'll get blasted for this, but, what the heck is up with all the forced diversity?

@Bass_X0
Wrong!
007 is the codename.
James Bond is his name!

@Maxz
Even the original movies don't support that crap!
Bond's wife is killed with Lazenby Bond, next movie is Connery Bond hellbent on revenge for it.

Then there are... three, I think, mentions of her during Moore's tenure.

The Dalton visits her grave and finally, Brosnan mentions her in two movies.

Heh. Looking forward to this, but not as much as other stuff.

Also, @Spider-Kev , the classic movies were a single continuity.
The most recent 5 are largely different seems like,

@Mariotag
I know

Interesting, let's see how it goes. Personally I would love to see something like this set in the original books' post-war Cold War 50s. Didn't live through that time myself but the existence of smart tech, AI and the internet makes the modern era gadgets much less interesting to me.