007 First Light Should Revive Everything or Nothing's Co-Op Campaign

Since GoldenEye transformed living rooms in 1997, the James Bond video game franchise has carried multiplayer as part of its identity — a social ritual as much as a solo adventure. With 007 First Light, IO Interactive charts a deliberately single-player course, a choice that honors narrative ambition but quietly severs a thread connecting generations of players to the Bond universe. The question being raised is not whether the game will be good, but whether it can afford to forget what once made Bond games irreplaceable.