«The Lord of the Rings”, “Star Wars”, “Harry Potter” – these and other franchises have already been translated into Lego games. As it turned out, James Bond could have joined them, but fate decreed otherwise.
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The other day, an internal trailer (first a “raw” version, then a finished version) of an unreleased game by TT Games about a secret agent of the British intelligence service MI6, made in Lego format, began to spread across the Internet.
The 50-second video includes cinematic scenes inspired by Bond films like A View to a Kill and Live and Let Die, the humor typical of TT Games projects, and James Bond’s pathetic pronouncement of his name.
The project was originally supposed to be part of the failed third year of support for the 2015 platformer Lego Dimensions, but in fact the Lego version of James Bond was supposed to be a standalone game.
As moderators of the LegoGaming community report on the Reddit forum, with this trailer TT Games hoped to convince the management of the Lego Group to approve the development, but the corporation considered the James Bond franchise incompatible with Lego games.
The failed Lego game about James Bond was confirmed by former technical director of TT Games Paul Hughes: “I always thought that if it happened, [a game] with such a rich history would be a real bomb… Well then…”
Players who dream of plunging into the interactive adventures of James Bond should not despair: Hitman developers from the IO Interactive studio are still working on Project 007 (code name) based on the Bond movie.