This review contains spoilers
I love James Bond video games.
Well, the original stories, at least. Most of the games based on the movies sucked.
I especially enjoyed the newer Daniel Craig era of Bond so I was excited to pick this one up and play the story, expecting the gameplay to be a similar dull, forgettable experience like Quantum of Solace (PS3) was, but actually, this game was a lot of fun!
Most of the prior Bond games I played were Call of Duty clones, where you shoot your way through a level, but this one tries to put shooting in the rear view mirror with a focus on stealth segments.
You don't get punished for killing everyone (unless you die) but alerting an entire area's worth of enemies can make going through a level quite the challenge, making stealth takedowns the easier option.
It does feel rewarding when you manage to pull off a stealth takedown, or go through a level without alerting anyone, and if you want to use as little bullets as possible it does force you to think creatively (until you give up and run in guns blazing).
My only issues with this game are how terrible the car physics are, the enemies like to glitch out and the fact that regular takedowns (which can alert other enemies in the area) and stealth takedowns (which don't alert other enemies) use the same button; the only way you can know which one's which is when the game tells you, which can change in an instant - an instant you don't really have because the enemy has already spotted you and you're spamming the button trying to take him out before he alerts the others, but then you alert the others instead because you're not doing a stealth takedown as the game changed its mind while you were spamming it.
The story is meh, but I do like how much the devs made it like an entry in the series, with a cool intro and all.
You think you're done, but Bond goes to Bangkok, and then gets sent to Burma, and now the games over--nope. Now he's chasing the chick he was with earlier.
The outro does set up both the unreleased sequel, and also the rest of the Craig movies if you really think about it.
The main thing that'll put people off this game would be the fact that there was an online mode, with trophies, but in 2020 the servers for it were shut down, meaning you can't get 100% on it anymore.
Well, the original stories, at least. Most of the games based on the movies sucked.
I especially enjoyed the newer Daniel Craig era of Bond so I was excited to pick this one up and play the story, expecting the gameplay to be a similar dull, forgettable experience like Quantum of Solace (PS3) was, but actually, this game was a lot of fun!
Most of the prior Bond games I played were Call of Duty clones, where you shoot your way through a level, but this one tries to put shooting in the rear view mirror with a focus on stealth segments.
You don't get punished for killing everyone (unless you die) but alerting an entire area's worth of enemies can make going through a level quite the challenge, making stealth takedowns the easier option.
It does feel rewarding when you manage to pull off a stealth takedown, or go through a level without alerting anyone, and if you want to use as little bullets as possible it does force you to think creatively (until you give up and run in guns blazing).
My only issues with this game are how terrible the car physics are, the enemies like to glitch out and the fact that regular takedowns (which can alert other enemies in the area) and stealth takedowns (which don't alert other enemies) use the same button; the only way you can know which one's which is when the game tells you, which can change in an instant - an instant you don't really have because the enemy has already spotted you and you're spamming the button trying to take him out before he alerts the others, but then you alert the others instead because you're not doing a stealth takedown as the game changed its mind while you were spamming it.
The story is meh, but I do like how much the devs made it like an entry in the series, with a cool intro and all.
You think you're done, but Bond goes to Bangkok, and then gets sent to Burma, and now the games over--nope. Now he's chasing the chick he was with earlier.
The outro does set up both the unreleased sequel, and also the rest of the Craig movies if you really think about it.
The main thing that'll put people off this game would be the fact that there was an online mode, with trophies, but in 2020 the servers for it were shut down, meaning you can't get 100% on it anymore.