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Do you expect me to talk? No, you expect me to show you the first public screenshots from Quantum of Solace, the first James Bond licensed game from publisher Activision. With Daniel Craig's likeness and the impressive Call of Duty 4 engine, the game will at least look good.

As we mentioned previously, the game will be developed by Treyarch and will actually adapt both the upcoming movie and the first Daniel Craig Bond flick Casino Royale (currently running about 84 times a day on Showtime). We still think the title Quantum of Solace sounds less like a Bond movie and more like a Parker Posey indie film, but we aren't movie executives.

Activision grabed the James Bond game license away from its long-running owner Electronic Arts a couple of years ago but this fall we will finally get the first 007 game from the new owner. IGN has the first hands-on preview of the title, Quantum of Solace, and while it shares the same name as the forthcoming James Bond movie, it actually adapts the events is Daniel Craig's first Bond flick, Casino Royale, as well.

The game is being developed by Treyarch and like their work on the forthcoming Call of Duty: World at War, Quantum of Solace will use Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 game engine for the visuals. However, this won't be a complete first person shooter; some sequences apparently switch to a third person viewpoint such as climbing a ladder. The preview showed scenes adapted from Casino Royale (obiviously to keep the secrets of the Quantum of Solace movie intact) and Craig will lend his voice and likeness to the title. It should be interesting to see if this game will be a cut above the normal mediocre movie-to-game adaptation.