There was a period in the early 2000s — around, and just after, Pierce Brosnan's 007 stint — when Bond games were all the rage. And they were, for the most part, pretty decent. I'd argue they peaked with Nightfire in 2002, a solid shooter with fun gadget-laden missions and a gloriously silly plot that eventually takes Bond to space because, well, why not? The problem was that none of them could hold an exploding pen to the pioneering standard-bearer for both Bond games and the FPS genre as a whole: 1997's Nintendo 64 mega hit GoldenEye 007 .

More so-so Bond shooters — including a nostalgia-grabbing remake of GoldenEye , this time starring Daniel Craig, that came out on the Wii in the early 2010s — have come and gone in the time since, with the last effort, 2012's critically ma

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