Millennial gamers who grew up on '80s and '90s blockbusters are today being courted by the industry, with the latest James Bond offering hard on the heels of an Indiana Jones adventure and soon to be followed by "Jurassic Park."
"I've worked on a lot of different projects, but always had an eye to Bond," Rasmus Poulsen, art director for "007 First Light," set for release on Wednesday, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) ahead of the game's publication.
The Dane, in his 40s, also runs a YouTube channel showing off 3D models of spacecraft from the Star Wars and Star Trek universes – underscoring his part in a generation of game developers now turning their hands to adapting the worlds they fantasized about as kids.
With his firearms, high-tech gadgets, luxury cars and over-the-top flirting, "James Bond is a perfect fit for video games, because he's a character built around the imperative to act," said Alexis Blanchet, a cinema and media lecturer at Paris' Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.
The British agent had not appeared in a game title for more than a decade before "First Light" – with follow-ups to 1997 Nintendo 64 mega-hit "Goldeneye" leaving most players neither shaken nor stirred.
