just as bad as montreal's crack at this story. unfortunately i think double agent's narrative as a story and as an excuse to change the gameplay formula is just fundamentally broken regardless of whether montreal or shanghai were going to do it. theres a lot of potential here, shanghai has a fantastic eye for memorable action setpieces, the graphics are incredible for an xbox 360 launch title, the score, while not as good as montreal's version, is used so much more dynamically than what we've seen previously, but all that talent is wasted on a terrible story, an awful upgrade system, horrendous changes to the C.T.E system, and the worst level design the series has ever, and will ever see. just a complete bummer in every way.