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   I'm sure that not many of you still remember Vivendi signing the rights to publish games based on Robert Ludlum's spy-action novels two years ago (neither do I). So it's with some surprise - albeit little interest - that we welcome today's announcement of the first game set in the Bourne universe, pompously titled Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy. It's currently targeted for release in summer 2008, on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles only.

   Much like the movies spawned by Ludlum's novels ("The Bourne Identity" and "The Bourne Supremacy"), the upcoming Bourne Conspiracy game "will give players the experience of becoming a 30 million dollar elite agent, fusing an experience that delves deep into Jason Bourne's character with gameplay and game presentation inspired by the aggressive filmmaking and frenetic action found in the films", they say, adding the mandatory clichéd intrigue:
"Only by playing Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy will players discover Bourne's true identity and experience the very moment he became a malfunctioning weapon, first hunting targets around the world as a deadly government assassin then marking himself as his agency's most wanted."    From the looks of the first screenshots, you can expect the Bourne Conspiracy game to step in Sam Fisher's footsteps, clearly resembling Ubi's Splinter Cell franchise. The difference? Well...
"As a third-person espionage action game, players move from fistfights to firefights to experience sequences that, unlike any other game, seamlessly blend Bourne's signature hand-to-hand combat with intense shooting and the ability to escape and evade deadly situations."    Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy is currently developed by High Moon Studios, and Sierra / Vivendi promissed to show and tell more about it at E3 2007 (July 11-13).