Reviewing Every James Bond FPS

Although there have been Bond-themed video games since the early '80s, when most people, myself included, were still feeling itchy in their parents' pants, it wasn't until the late '90s that these games really started to take off. , I think, and they became worthy of being. Taking note, can I help you with something? So I thought it would be cool to go back and take a look at all the first-person shooters we've had over the years that took place in Universe 7, starting with none other than Golden. Keep an eye on the Nintendo 64, I now realized that focusing on first-person shooters means I'm missing out on games like All or Nothing, which many people consider one of the best Bond games of all time, but when I I realized how long this video was going to be just talking about the FPS that cover each and

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Bond game.

It seems a little overzealous not to mention that it's already done. Thank you. I could have done it myself. I also realized that by a lot. Of these games are better known for their multiplayer modes rather than single player, but for many of these games those communities are practically dead and with the ones on consoles it is not even possible to play them anymore, so yeah, don't take that mission as a personal thing, okay, this is going to be long and too sunny, Jim, so put that Aston Martin in park, grab a vodka martini and let's get into it.

It's funny to think that one of the best James Bond games is still one of the first with golden ey 64 released for the Nintendo 64 back in 1997. I'm not even going to bother trying to review this or talk about it in depth, but just I will say that this game is less about what it does and more about what it did It was the first console shooter I remember playing that really impressed me and made a pretty compelling argument that console shooters were worth keeping an eye on as well; It has been a favorite of many players for decades.

For nostalgic purposes, but also in the speedrunning community and just a couple of years ago, there were even people who broke that world speed record. Multiplay was the first time I was introduced to the concept of cheating on screen and to kids these days. I may not understand this, but this really was the kind of thing that could legitimately end friendships. It also set a new standard for bad weapons with the club submachine guns, a weapon that is so weak that I think it would be better to use it to try to kill your enemies instead of gold and it was also the first Bond movie I saw in the cinema and I was very lucky that my first theatrical experience with the series was possibly one of the best films in the entire franchise.

If only to see the Jans family and deliver the kind of performance that I think kicked off puberty for

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kid who saw it and the playfulness that comes from that is just a very good, faithful adaptation of the film. which was something quite rare in the era of cinema. I mean, look, just 2 years before this, we had the Batman Forever game and I don't think I need to tell you what it was like. There's the initial mission at the dam with 006. there's the level where you chase Natala in that tank, even in that fight against Zenya in the jungle, she always enjoyed a good squeeze, she always enjoyed a good squeeze, apart from The sticks, weapons were also a lot of fun to use with generous auto aiming.

The system made you feel like you were actually a pretty decent marksman, and taking down a swarm of enemies with the KF7 was really satisfying. The gun gameplay also owes a lot of how solid it feels, I think, to some really good enemy animations mixed with those fun ones. looking at faces where it seemed like everyone was suffering from extreme intestinal discomfort. I know how they feel. I don't really look at golden eyes, just a sniper. I mean, look, it definitely has a lot of shooting, but it's really more of a puzzle. game where each level often has a solution you need to find out that shooting guns whether you want to or not can work on some levels but you are more likely to run out of ammo and you are also very likely to accidentally shoot an innocent PC that provokes a mission.

Failing some of the stealth missions by firing weapons is a big no, because certain weapons would make more noise than others, which in turn would attract more guards, which in turn would make the mission more difficult depending on the difficulty mode you set. you are playing each level. You will have a lot of objectives that you need to complete and some of them are not really obvious. A perfect example of this is the leveled statue park, where you must meet 006 after first arriving at the place where you are supposed to meet him, he will only appear if you have your gun in your hand and if you get too close. to him at any time during his dialogue, he will get scared and then run away missing the target during the mission where you are escaping the archives with Natalia, if you use your fist instead of a gun you can get through the entire level without them appearing guards, which makes everything much easier.

This might be the kind of thing that sounds obvious when you hear it out loud, but it's not always obvious the first time you play and it makes it more than just shooting everything and finding your way to the exit. This is also a very difficult game. Golden Eye gets really challenging after 3 or 4 missions and never stops. I never managed to beat this thing in Agent Double O when I was a kid, but if you managed to do so, you'd unlock a secret level in an Aztec temple that would end in a boss fight. none other than Jaws himself Richard Keel definitely shows his age in many ways and if someone were to play this for the first time in 2021 they probably wouldn't come away with the best impression, but there's one thing this has too: something we're missing in a lot of games modern and that's a soul, even from the opening credits sequence that introduces all these characters, every aspect of this game feels carefully crafted and it's very rare that no pun intended to see this kind of thing in games.

There have been a lot more attempts at remasters and one of them was leaked online recently, there are fan remakes and even a proper remake from big developers which we'll talk about a little later, but trying to catch that lightning in a bottle twice, well , It is not like this. It's no small thing. I also truly believe that if it had been released on PC in the '90s, it would have been considered one of the best games for the platform as such, we just have to settle for it being a 64 game. I think the main detractor of this one is that It's a game made in 1997 that feels like a game made in 1997, but I also feel like complaining about this for being old in a product of its time is like complaining about chests only having black and white pieces in general, I'll just say which is a hugely influential title lovingly based on one of the best Bond films on one of the best consoles ever released and, as a starting point for this video, it has raised the bar pretty high, but there's no point in living if you can't feel I live well, the next game we got is World is Not Enough in the year 200000 developed for Nintendo 64 and PlayStation and both games were quite interesting because they are very similar to what happened next.

With NightFire you have two completely different versions here and while they both follow the movie a bit. Faithfully, they are still completely different games from each other, the Nintendo 64 version was developed by eurocom, who we are going to talk about. There's a lot to this video and meanwhile the PlayStation version was developed by Black Ops Entertainment and if I had to pick a better of the two, I think I'd say the Nintendo 64 one stands out as the best, but that's really like ask if you'd rather get kicked in the balls with a desert boot or the tip of a wing.

In general, it looks like this. Both games remind me of Golden Eye only with the problem that neither of them were really capable of capturing. Same magic and follows some pretty familiar mechanics and missions, so you can expect the return of those various escort missions. Try to make sure you don't harm innocent civilians in the crossfire. No checkpoints, no healing items, maybe a piece or two. of armor per level if you are lucky and if you fail The crucial objective of the mission you have to manually restart the mission yourself. There's no Game Overc screen here, just a nasty Mission Failed message that stays on the screen again like you've done your best.

In most cases, to recreate the movie scenes, can't you just say hello like any normal person? Can't you just say hello like a normal person? head to the gym, I'll take them away, go to the gym, I'll take them to the trees, go, go, I'm looking for a submarine, it's big, black and the driver is a very good friend. All of these scenes recreated in Engine 2 are also a lot of fun. They have used the image of all the actors, but. I pasted him on these chunky looking character models, Robbie Crain, although somehow he still looks exactly like he did in the movie, although I don't know if that's an insult to Robbie Colron or a compliment to the game's artist .

I have it too. great shootout inside the mines, the ski chase, which is now a mostly real sequence, and a shootout inside a subway station that reminds me a lot of the initial level of Soldier of Fortune. You even have a very similar looking shotgun and a Mac 10 with a silencer. It's great to be able to use all of Bon's gadgets, it's also a lot of fun and they can actually be equipped now that you have his multi-purpose watch that works as a laser, a tranquilizer dart gun that takes on HW, and even birth control. device, the shooting is semi fluid and responsive with a handy locking system that makes it feel even less clunky, although let's not forget that this is a fifth generation video game and it also comes with some fifth generation video game launchers, some of the missions of this game. they're downright sadistic and I think to even beat some of these on the high difficulty modes, you have to beat them without making a single mistake.

There are cheats in some of the missions aimed at beginner players that you honestly can't see coming. For the first time, the boss fight against a helicopter later in the game is honestly one of the worst things I've ever experienced and I say this after also experiencing exploding intestines caused by eating spoiled seafood, putting the PlayStation version below and Nintendo 64. between each other it's pretty easy to see the differences visually, but that's really just scratching the surface to begin with. The PlayStation version runs on a completely different engine due to the larger storage space of a CD compared to the 64 cartridge.

This version is also capable of using actual clips from the film interspersed at the beginning and end of each mission compared with version 64 having 14 missions, although this version only has 11 and can also be finished in a fraction of the time again, it mainly follows the plot. of the movie it skips a few bits here and there, but on the plus side it adds some new missions of its own, so now there's one inside the Zovsky Casino, we can even play Blackjack, which is actually pretty good, well played, Mr B, the stealth mission, sneaking around. Electra's Mansion returns, but I think this one is much worse because now, for some reason, no matter what method she uses to knock out these guards, they literally wake up like 5 seconds later and also suffer from amnesia.

I think the biggest problem this version has. The controls are just horrible. This comes before that era where using both sticks to move a target was commonplace, so what you do here is just use the left stick to move backwards and use it to aim left or right. with L2 and R2 used for strafing and overall that's really not the best control scheme, this version also loads rooms one by one instead of an entire level at a time which is also a bit strange . The environments also appear to be much flatter. than the Nintendo 64 version and by this I mean that the level design lacks any kind of verticality at best, you may have to aim slightly up or down to shoot someone, but most of the time the enemies they'll just be at the same height as you make it seem even more basic, although this version has some clever levels and using Bond's gadgets to get the job done still works pretty well.

Good afternoon Dr. Arov, you even get these informational screens at the beginning of each mission. where you can listen to John C giving you these awkward rundowns of your gear, the only downside is that it can only hold a few rockets at a time, but don't worry, I put a box of more rockets in the trunk of your car along with the money Penny. giving you absolutely useless information, James, maybe you can bring me some digging, that is, if you don't destroy the whole factory first, yeah, that was verygood money. A penny short, but overall useless, although I think both games for the time they arrived.

The results are not too bad and both can be finished in approximately 4 or 5 hours, that short campaign time is a recurring theme, since many of these games begin with the next one we will talk about, which is Agent Under Fire Agent Under Fire It was the first Bond game developed for the sixth generation of consoles and is the first in a series of games also developed by Electronic Arts. What's also interesting about this one is that, unlike the last two games that used the P Brossman-like agent, Under Fire, they use a

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that's like a mix of all of them lumped together, although it reminds me more of Sterling Archer than to James Bond, which makes sense on some level because I honestly think this could be Bond at his sluttiest.

I mean, the guy can't even contain his excitement when he meets a pair of twins during one of these early missions when you can enjoy the view. I still remember begging my dad to buy me this one when he first came out. I remember him giving in and I also remember finishing it that afternoon. Yeah, this isn't exactly the longest campaign ever, even for a bonus game. It can probably be finished in about 3 or 4 hours, which is really sad because it's not based on any of the movies. St. is that Bond is investigating Mal Prave Industries headed by female FAL Adrian Malave.

These are private rooms. Sorry M, who is trying to create clones of nine world leaders to satisfy his own agenda, apart from Mal Prade, the other villain is a guy who looks like Steve Jobs, named Block, who despite being able to almost succeed in his plans for world domination, he struggles to come up with something like a basic comeback, you go to hell first, I mean mate, it took you so long to think that one of the Bond girls this time is Zoe Nightshade, a CIA agent who is a mole who works for Malave, some of the Bond girls.

They are named after body parts or euphemisms, well Zoe is named after a vegetable, maybe she should have been named after a breed of starfish, go to hell now, maybe she has the power of nostalgia for me aside here along with God and anime, but I keep thinking. That Under Fire agent has some pretty interesting levels. The driving levels, for example, in this one, are incredible. Martin has been modeled very well and there is a great sense of speed with the vehicle combined with these arcade driving controls that are as smooth as a Shan's Scrotum, not to mention some really fun weapons to use, it really captures the essence of the films. about how every time Bon seems to get into a vehicle, he seems to be able to break the laws of physics and his Aston Martin might as well be it. a fucking alien spaceship or something, they've even worked in a level where you're in a tank, which feels like a total homage to Golden Eyon.

There are also some really awesome levels in Rails. The first one reminds me a bit of Virtu Cop where you're in a high speed chase down a busy street between other cars while shooting backwards to attack the bad guys. The second is a high-speed chase through these underwater tunnels on a C-rail that is actually kind of exciting. kind of like a Rod amusement park or something just with a lot more explosions and people dying. One of the other things that I think Agent Under Fire also did really well was how he really made you feel like a spy with all the new gadgets you had. you have to play you have a laser to cut locks you have a grappling hook among many others and the way you use these devices within the environment feels perfect and cohesive, although the problem with this game I think the shooting is a little inaccurate with many With these guns, it's like the end of the barrel is a garden hose or something and the bullets seem to come out in these really weird cone-shaped trajectories.

I mean, what is this? Shadow of the Chernobyl Stalker Go to Hell There's stealth to some extent, but it's also pretty basic and seems to work whether or not you're in someone's line of sight in some missions. You have a dart gun that incapacitates enemies. but the ammunition for this thing is scarcer than that of a duck. I don't even know what that means. In many of the missions you can always rely on your silent gun, but you are never punished for being detected anyway unless you count the sound. of an endless alarm and the constant appearance of guards to be a punishment, although during those moments when the theme tune starts, it's hard not to enjoy during Mission H, you have these Bond moments where if you manage some kind of elegant murder. or use the environment to your advantage, you get some bonus points and often a clever lineup Safety First Lads, it just has all the features you would expect from a bonus game, you have the evil villain trying to take over the world.

There are two Bond girls, one who always turns out to be bad along with a lot of chasing. She really makes you feel like you're playing as a guy who's mastered the art of saving the world and has mastered the art of somehow dodging all sexual transmission. known disease I am already in general although it is not an incredible game but it is not bad either and like many of my sexual escapades it is short but sweet you are a dead man Mr. bot what comes next is really I think one of the most interesting games in all this list and that is James Bond NightFire.

Now the reason I say that is because, like World is Not Enough, there were different versions of the game depending on what platform you're playing on at the moment between consoles and PC. The cons version was developed again by eurom and the PC version was developed by none other than Gearbox software and it is important to define which platform you are playing on because the quality between both versions is very polarizing or just to put it a little more bluntly . the PC version here sucks oh, you're very talkative, aren't you? The story in both games is that Bon is working with a French intelligence agent named Dominique to investigate an industrialist named Drake who is building a space station that he plans to use to destroy the world or something, it's a bit of a debauchee with an angle of eugenics in Drake's plan with him sparing the lives of people he deems worthy, if you really analyze everything it's actually just a more refined version of agent Under Fire and As a console game I must say it definitely looks much better, the texture work is really good and you have some eye candy on the night of the opening mission, so Nightshade returns and near the end of the game. even working alongside an agent called Aira Mcall who works for something called Australian Intelligence, yes Australian Intelligence needs a LIF Mr Bond Aur Mall Australian Intelligence, two words that don't usually go together in the same sentence, sorry anyway for the console version, the level design is pretty good too, the car chases are back and better than ever and there are also some cool sections in the real sections, one on the back of a snowmobile and then another on a jet with a rocket launcher for a mission, you're even driving, good day.

Martin underwater avoiding mines and eliminating other vehicles. As you move through these tight tunnels, it really captures that feeling of playing again as the agent's iconic weapon plays and many more upgraded weapons will hit what you're aiming for at the moment and Using all of Bon's gadgets feels a lot more cohesive. There's a Glock, an SG5 MP5K assault rifle, and a shotgun that literally takes up half the damn screen, as well as the return of an ass-ripping desert eagle. There are more stealth sequences. but this time it feels much more forgiving and if your D weapon doesn't work you can easily beat someone until they pass out.

The only thing I don't like about this game is the last boss fight. which is just kind of AIDS and I think I actually got AIDS from playing it. You have to take on Drake in orbit around his space station and it's just a classic example of why low levels of gravity are as fun as rubbing your ball against Denko. sack, but that's really the only thing I've hated about this game. I would even go as far as to say that of everything I played in this video with this game I had the most fun, yes I know, shocking, hello, it looks.

Great for the time with really impressive and polished visuals, the plot is manual and twists are expected but that's also what makes the writing so enjoyable and there's good variety from mission to mission so it never feels boring or repetitive for only one. What's missing is Pierce Brosen voicing Bond or Judy Dench voicing M, but this was the same thing that Die Another Day came out with, so I assume they were busy filming that mess, sadly, although I can't speak highly of the version for PC and list. The list of differences between the two is long and worrying.

I actually made a video about both games a few years ago and honestly I think I went too soft on the PC version because this version really isn't a good game at all and it's kind of like Friends compared to what they managed to achieve. on consoles. This thing was developed by Gearbox Software and actually runs on Half-Life's Gold Source engine, which makes it look like a completely different game, but also makes it play like one, I didn't even know where to start here for example how about how many of the cutscenes are now pre-rendered instead of using the game engine?

What if there are no blood stickers when shooting enemies, so you often don't even do it? I know if you're even hitting someone, and also when they get hit, enemies often don't flinch either, just reducing that feedback even more. Now look, I have an unconfirmed theory here and it's that the gearbox just copied the ballistics right in front of Counterstrike's zero condition, which they also worked on because that's exactly what it feels like in combat, there's even a similar looking P90 weapon model that I'm sure just changed its design to pass itself off as a different weapon, the assault rifle, the shotgun. and the Desert Eagle also feel much weaker than their console counterparts and for some reason there is now a weapon limit as well, but other than that, every vehicle mission from the console version has just been removed entirely.

I mean, I guess they just couldn't. Don't bother recreating them and to make matters worse, the missions they added to replace many of them are just terrible, so for that initial mission in the console version, after you escape this chatau with Zoe, the bad guys will come after you . snowmobiles, which was a really cool way to end that intro sequence, now instead of PC it's a slow, boring stealth mission where you have to sneak into an Airfield Bon. The devices also seem to differ from version 2 of the console instead of a dart gun, it has a dart pen and can now use a phone as a gra hook.

You also have new sunglasses which, I must admit, are actually more useful for the stealth sections. You can use one of the modes to see through walls which really helps when you're trying to hide from patrolling enemies and in the first level you can also use it to see through women's clothing and see what kind of lerie they have. Hello, complete everything with your Zippo lighter, which also works as a spy camera. because yeah, that's totally understated, the levels set in Drake's corporate building are some of the worst parts of this version and it goes on and on and I think this is probably the biggest problem I have with this version, at least with the others Bond games.

They have the decency to not linger too long on certain missions, so even if one of them sucks, it goes out quickly, this one, however, remains forever, it's like a turd that just doesn't download, so on PC There are nine missions in total. Well divided between 41 separate maps, but 18 of these maps are spent in this area now, that's almost half the game in a single location and not only that, but for a large part of it you're just escaping the building and coming back again. the same areas you've already explored, I mean at this point they're just recycling environments, speaking of recycling, they also reuse the same boss, fight twice once at the beginning of the game, you fight a ninja and then you fight two of the same ninjas.

At first, the same thing for a fight in Low Gravity is against Drake's bodyguard named aook and then it's the exact same thing again for the final fight against Drake himself. Yes, imagine Gearbox's software is lazy and cuts corners, it sounds familiar overall. It's just a much worse version of the console game and the only thing this campaign does better is that at one point you get this great shot of Aura's butt and I mean, look if all the grown men can't all get together and appreciate something hot.pants and a nice butt on a low polygonal character model, well, even life is worth living.

Yes, in fact, there is another benefit to this version, although it is still supported by its community, so getting it up and running and playing it really is not. All in all, the PC version also allows you to play through multiplayer maps with bot support, which I must admit is pretty impressive, but this is one of those rare examples where a PC port is outclassed by its counterpart. inferior console, which honestly shouldn't really happen at this point, we're really starting to get to the end of the sixth generation with rogue agent golden ey released in 2004 four and there has never been a more blatant example of a game that tries to capitalize on the popularity of something else, not since Christmas Vacation 2, what they obviously tried to do here is take advantage of the vast legacy that the golden I64 left in the gaming industry, but the only problem is that this has nothing to do with Golden Eye.

You're not even playing as James Bond, I mean, he appears during the 30 seconds of the first mission, where he then dies crushed by a helicopter, the story itself is like something out of fanfiction, so in this one, after being blamed somehow because of

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's death, your character is expelled from MI6 by bym and then Goldfinger gives you a job offer to work for Specter. You're then tasked with hunting down Dr. No, who has turned against the organization, gets help from an odd job, and Colore. My name is Galore, that must be it. Dreaming that the Golden N in the title comes from your character's personality codename and also the fact that he literally has a golden eye that gives him four different abilities: you have x-ray vision to hack enemy weapons and a shield of energy and a magnetic field, and Scara Monga also grants these upgrades to the player.

The Man with the Golden Gun, no seriously, the magnetic hacking feature will allow you to manipulate machines and electronic devices from a distance, if that's not enough, one of the main boss fights is against Zena, although I have to admit that It's great and The only thing the game does wrong is that she never manages to kill me by crushing me to death with those leather wrapped thighs. Overall, it all has a very strange vibe, although I mean, it has these characters that were all mainly from the Connory and Mo movies of the '60s and '70s, but there's also someone like Zenya from Golden Ey, who came out in the '60s. 90's, then the weapons and setting look almost futuristic. laser guns and drones that look like the hunter-killers from the Terminator movies, like I said, it plays out like a fanfiction.

I think the golden eye mechanic is pretty interesting, even if the shield is really the only consistently useful ability, but it uses things. like the x-ray mode and that weapons jamming capability at least gives the shot some depth to shoot things. You have a golden ice gun which, despite having unlimited ammo, is as useful as urine-flavored mouthwash, the P90 assault rifle, and the Desert Eagle. These are the weapons you will use the vast majority of the time, but you will find them all in the first level of the game and will continue to use them until the end.

There are other weapons, like a rocket. launcher that you really only need to use against tanks and drones, not to mention one of the most useless shotguns in any game I think I've ever played. I mean, it's really amazing how bad this thing is. It's a double BR monstrosity called a mumber. and even when it's double welded it's so unfun to use that I never thought I'd use a shotgun which takes all the fun out of using a shotgun and yet here we are as I see it there are three main problems that arise when shooting.

For starters, in this game, the weapon layout is just ridiculous. The P90 layout, for example, has to win some kind of award for being so inaccurate. What did I say earlier about how undef agent weapons were like trying to shoot someone with a garden hose? well this is 10 times worse the other problem is the reload times and in my opinion it takes too long to reload the weapons on this thing which is a problem considering how high the number of enemies is and how fast Chargers burn when you kill people. And also, the ammo capacity is not very high for many of these weapons, meaning that you will have to constantly switch between different weapons to have enough to survive.

There's a mechanic where you can dual-wield weapons, and honestly this only seems to exacerbate the problem, not to mention that when dual-wielding you can't throw grenades, grenades which are surprisingly effective, but are by far the worst part of shooting if you don't. You have noticed. By now there's the crosshair placement, you know how most games made by sensible people put the crosshairs in the middle of the damn screen. Well, on the Rogue AG agent, the crosshairs are in the top third, it's like they saw how Halo put the crosshairs. slightly lower than the Center, so they decided to try a mild version of that.

Look, I can't and probably never will understand why anyone thought this was a good design choice, so if you're going to play this, I'm not. I recommend doing what I do well, activate the automatic aim, try to ignore the crosshairs and never look back. I think part of what sucks the most here is that you can see for a few brief moments how this game could have been so much more because despite everything being said that the gunplay isn't terrible, once again the Desert Eagle absolutely destroys the game. rear. The same can also be said for this minigun that you can play with multiple times, almost everything you shoot at often explodes, explodes and has death animations.

For the enemies it also looks very good, you can often use traps in the levels to kill a group of enemies at once and this makes you feel a bit rude, but overall this is not a very good game and it is a disappointing swan. The theme song for James Bond-themed first-person shooters on sixth-generation consoles is 7 Quantum of solar developed by none other than Treyarch, who of course developed some of the best games in the Call of Duty series with World at War and Black Ops, but they didn't. It doesn't seem to bring any skill to this game because it feels like a rushed, sloppy cash grab and has all the hallmarks of a lazy, half-finished movie.

The proof in the pudding of how Rush this thing was is that it came out the same week as the movie and you'll quickly see that this pudding needed a lot more time in the oven. Now, this is actually a combination of a third-person and first-person shooter, and if you've ever played Rainbow Six Vegas, it's going to look pretty familiar to you, so when you move around freely, the game is set to an initial perspective, you can aim down sights, crouch jump and all that, but then when you take cover the game zooms out to a third person perspective, giving you a better view. view of your surroundings and also improving the accuracy of all your weapons, somehow magically removing 99% of the recoil, now you can overcome this by playing like a generic first person shooter if you really want to, but many of the combat areas They are fully designed for cover-based shooting, which you'll notice by the conveniently placed cover blocks scattered throughout the environment.

There are also some basic stealth mechanics. You have your Walter PPK silenced. There are cameras to avoid and disable and, if you can, get closer. Behind someone there are a bunch of different takedowns, you're not directly punished for being spotted and I don't even think there's a state fail for it. I wouldn't be very good at my job if it were, it just has the disadvantage of appearing on these elite soldiers almost instantly, but these guys are about as dangerous as a housefly developed by Treyarch and even running on the Infinity Ward engine, this thing too It has all the hallmarks of a Call of Duty shooter: hit markers regenerate health and a host of hit-scanning enemies constantly pepper you with bullets and I couldn't help but notice how it's very clearly just a lazy asset swap of some of the Cod games.

You'll notice some very similar looking animations for enemies during combat and jumping. taking cover and aiming down sights also feels very familiar, but they also seem to completely reuse some of the weapon models, changing the look slightly, but mechanically they feel more or less the same. I mean, one of the weapons in this game is an M14 rifle, which is a weapon that was never seen even once in the movie, but it shows up a lot here because I don't know, I guess reusing it from World of War or Black Ops was easier than making a weapon from scratch.

This is also a pretty bad PC port to begin with. locked at 30 frames per second, so you'll need to use a trainer to fix it, but even then it looks like some of the animations are still limited to 30 frames per second, meaning everything will still look choppy during gameplay. There are many minor changes. Control issues that also pissed me off a little, like you can't jump over cover while you're in cover, you first have to move away from the wall for a second and then wait for the message to appear on the screen letting you know you can jump.

The weapon damage scaling is also horrible and it seems like very little effort has been put into balancing this. What I mean by this is that sometimes you take damage so quickly from some weapons that you can literally die in less than a second and There were so many times where I died from something I couldn't even see behind, calling it Quantum of Solace is also a bit of a misnomer, it has 15 missions in total, but 10 of them are Casino Royale scenes and they are just the Quantum of Solace scenes and these, I think are also the shortest missions.

I guess Quantum was available at the time and it made more sense to call it that and cash in on the popularity, besides all that it's just a bad looking game, there's a level on a train that tries to simulate both wind and rain, but instead it looks very blurry and sometimes is completely blurry, most of the cutscenes are these really boring informational screens where all the information is given through audio recordings. and minimal visuals, I mean it's very vague sir, what is recreated from the scenes looks sloppy and unfinished, the character models are often barely recognizable as the characters they are supposed to represent and honestly hardly you would know it was the real actors doing the voices sometimes, each boss fight is a QuickTime event where you have to drag your crosshair to a preset location and click on it within a very short time limit, but they are very easy and lack emotion.

The level where they recreate that Casino Royale scene where Bon gets poisoned at the poker table is one of the worst things I've ever experienced in a video game, if you ever want to play something to induce vomiting just play this mission I hope. our little game doesn't give you sp and then in the Venice level it does that thing I absolutely despise in video games where it shakes the whole damn screen to simulate explosions which also makes me want to take a bath. I don't want to. It sounds like negative Nelly and I guess a constellation is that it's a short game, most levels can be finished in 10 or 15 minutes and the whole thing probably only lasts 3 or 4 hours.

There are some interesting sections, I think I think the shootout in The Chase in Italy was kind of fun. I think the few split screen moments are also pretty interesting because it shows that someone would have had to put in a bit of effort to make them and optimize them like NightFire. There are also two different versions of this game with the main difference this time between the PlayStation 3, Xbox and PC version and then the PlayStation 2 version. Now I know I said I wasn't going to review the non-FPS game, but look , I made an exception with this. one just because of how horrible it is.

I hope you've healed your parents for that and if I accomplish absolutely nothing more with this video, I hope it's to save someone from having to play this absolutely pitiful part, it's worth mentioning. How this PlayStation 2 version is a completely different game to begin with, it's just a third person shooter and also has its own unique levels with only 11 missions in total this time, seven of them are quantum solar scenes and the other four They are from Casina Royale. You know, you don't think this is a very good plan, do you? The Casino Royale scenes are also much more accurate to the movie, even down to the fist fight with the bomb maker on top of the crane, which is almost shot for shot than not.

But that doesn't mean it's good and it doesn't. I can decide which of these versions I don't like more. I think I hate this one more though simply because it has some downright broken quick time events, my main problem with this one is just the controls which are absolutely horrendous, this is a cover based third person shooter but it's very unsatisfyingplay it because, for some reason, they've given it this almost tactical, semi-realistic recoil and weapon spread, meaning you have to stand still and aim to the sides. Actually, hitting anything is fine in any other game, but goes against the grain when you play as James Bond.

I mean, this guy is supposed to be a highly trained operator who could probably perform a vasectomy on a home stream. with his W to PPK, so general erratic gun firing just doesn't work with this type of game, combined with a saucer-sized scope and enemies that spend 99% of their time hiding, the default control scheme as well it is. one that feels like it was designed by a lunatic. I mean, look, we had dozens of third-person shooters at this point and still someone thought that targeting R3 of all things was a good idea, it's like the whole thing was programmed by an alien. all combined with these trial and error stealth sections where you have to complete a series of tasks in a very specific way or else you get detected, this all makes for a bad game and honestly my day. it was ruined after playing the next ruined game.

I have another attempt to cash in on the popularity of the golden eye name with golden ey reloaded developed once again by eurom and originally released for Nintendo Wii in 2010, but later released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with this reloaded edition. however, this actually has a proper claim using that golden title because unlike rogue agent, this follows the plot of the original movie, not to mention I guess it's also some sort of remake of the 64 game, it's also just a more modern interpretation of the story and replaces Bon's version of pce fren with Daniel Craigs, who again even voices the character, now he gets a lot of hate, which is understandable, but honestly, it's not that bad, especially after warm up after Quantas Solus in the initial level.

In the dam it's actually a bit rough, you see some environments that look very familiar and these new rain effects look gorgeous too, giving the level a much more atmospheric feel. There's even a really cool version of the golden eye theme sung by one of the Pussycat Dolls. Which isn't terrible. I know I'm as surprised as you are now. I've got you a golden award. It's just kind of like what would have happened if Michael Bay directed Golden Ey and 5 minutes into this first level James and Alec, the so-called secret agents, were suddenly driving a truck through the dam. during this so-called stealth mission. firing machine guns and murdering everyone in sight, so again, like quantum soles, this thing is basically called a link, even to the point of being powered again by what is clearly a modified version of the Infinity Ward engine they call X engine, but look, that's not the name.

You're not fooling anyone, I mean, you have things like breaking into rooms in slow motion, even down to the weapons you can pick up, showing what kind of accessories they have. Stealth again sucks, you're using silenced weapons that aren't silenced. It's not even silent, but like before, you're never really punished for being detected, you just get that extra guard spawn. Now I don't have too many problems with the gameplay here, other than what kind of P derivative it is, but I do. I have a problem with the way some of these characters have been portrayed, although mostly Zenya, who really was one of the most memorable female villains I would say in the entire series, if not just the movies in general, is not bad for a fake family.

Jansen just created that character. so memorable even to Bond villains, which is really saying a lot now in this version, she doesn't have any of those traits, she's just a generic looking Russian girl and the only memorable thing she does is this horrible looking outfit that looks like a the fur coat fought with some food coloring, the boss fight against her like all the boss fights in this is just a boring QuickTime event where there isn't even any sense of weight or impact to your punches or the from her, same with zukovsky changing from Robbie c train to whoever he is, now he's just some nervous looking guy with tattoos all over his arm and instead of Bon hurting him in the past by shooting him in the leg, now has left a giant scar on his face, it seems This time it's not such a professional courtesy, call it professional courtesy compared to just having him mutilated.

She now left a total scar on the guy and deformed him for life. At least Natalia looks better. I guess she spends half the game walking around in a jean miniskirt and catching herself staring. Like a cocaine-burned high-priced escort, gameplay-wise, despite being a bit mundane and repetitive with just shooting things over and over again, there is some variety in the level design and you can choose between sneaking or shooting, I think The Nightclub level is absolutely impressive, even from a technical point of view. You move through this huge open area with dozens of NPCs trying to find your contact and it really feels like a real place and then you have to escape from all these firefights. with henchmen along the way and it's a pretty fun fight, the tank level is also awesome, taking the tank sequence from the original movie and that old game and turning it all up to 11 during the remake of the Memorial Park level.

Moving through these underground tunnels with an AA 12 and night vision goggles on and all this made me feel like John Wick took out these guys as they popped up around corners, even the jungle level is cool sneaking through the bushes like If you were. play Far Cry and reprogram turrets to shoot bad guys, but it's actually the silliest kind of basic shooting you'd expect and lacks all the creativity and challenge of the original game's level design - I mean, the most complicated thing that You'll have to do is use your smartphone to take photos or something, but often you can't miss these prompts anyway.

It also reintroduces one of the worst tropes in video games where it has those sequences where you're trying. to escape from somewhere while everything explodes around you and the screen shakes like it's having a fucking attack. The gold one and I last recharged it for about 15 minutes during the mission inside the Soviet bunker and I'm not kidding when I said he gave me a damn headache like I had a headache. They also brought back a sequence where you have to defend Natalia while she hacks a bunch of terminals, which I can only assume is supposed to be a throwback to those.

Horrible missions in Golden Eye in '64. This whole last level is downright sadistic, plus it's a huge difficulty increase in an otherwise cruiser type game. Well you have to cross the Cradle to reach Alec through this open area with all these hallways, most of which collapse when you try to cross them, this is all while literally dozens of enemy soldiers shoot at you from a distance and then it's complete with a QuickTime event against Alec followed by the final fight where he literally survives dozens of bullets, but I guess that's okay because he's wearing a bulletproof vest, so yeah of course he doesn't get killed by taking 150 shots to the head, that was sarcasm , by the way, although I think this is definitely better than Quantum. from Solace and I also have fun memories of seeing El Pridor rampaging through multiplayer as well as pieces.

I almost lost control with sadness, although I really believe that the worst has been safely left for last and let's get this over with, yes, that brings us. To the end of our list with 7 Legends released in 2012 and yes once again developed by eurom and this game here is the reason why no other developer touched the franchise in 9 years, the first indication I had that this was going to be pretty bad was during that Gun Barrel opening sequence where he didn't even use the movie's theme song, which alone should have been half a warning, but it won't take long to play it to see how fast it is. all despite leaving after both.

Quantum of Solace and Gold N rate loaded, somehow manages to look worse than both games again, it's supposed to run on this X engine, which this time is even more obvious just the Infinity Ward engine, even the pause menu has exactly the same design as the Call of Duty games, the engine also looks super blurry despite what settings you have and that's because even if you're running it at 1920x 1080, it's still rendered as 720p upscaled to 1080 , apart from its slow resolution, does not. It looks so bad, like there are some nice times here and there. I think D's Ice Hotel from the other day looks pretty good, it reminded me of Fort Frolic from bshock, although arguably the most attention to detail is on the Bond girls.

The resemblance to Honor Blackman and Diana's platforms is quite striking, it just reminds you how pretty both women were, even some of the Lesser Bond girls like Pam from License to Kill, as if I needed another reason to be attracted to girls with short hair. I know if I can do this, unfortunately, although there is no h Berry at the levels of other dying days, although I don't know, maybe he had the good sense to just keep his nose out of it, at least it would have been the second most embarrassing thing. that once in his career he did the same thing again with Dr.

Goodhead in Moonraker, now again it's just something basic that looks like an extra background that you would see in Too Fast and Furious, how do I know this is not a trick, but? What is 7 Legends All About? Well, I'm really glad you asked. Well, like Quantum of Solace, this was released around the same time as one of the movies, this time Skyfall and it's basically just trying to cash in on its popularity. The game begins by recreating that. Skyall opening scene where Bond is accidentally shot by Money Penny and seemingly falls to his death, then flashes back to the past films where you can relive them through Daniel Craig's Persona reimagined again to fit a more modern aesthetic where you have Goldfinger .

Her Majesty's Secret Service is licensed to kill din the day and moon rer with skyall released as DLC at the time of the game's release, not bad to start with, I have to say it's also a little strange some of the decisions that took to recreate the scenes. Look wrong, don't get me wrong, Goldfinger is a classic, that side of Jill's golden corpse in bed is one of Siri's most iconic images, same with Bon tied to that laser table about to have his balls cut off for Half, no, sir. Bond, I hope you die. I also think Her Majesty's Secret Service is a criminally underrated Bond film and I love that it's getting more attention here, but then you have License to Kill, Die Another Day.

Moon Rer was also a decent movie. but it is not one of Roger Moore's best either. I think that's just for Eyes Only. What was it I said about the last game? What Bond of Duty or Call of Bond was basically like. Well, yes, this one takes it even further. just directly copying the mechanics for btim to start, as I said before the pause menu again has the exact same layout as the ones in Call of Duty, but more than that7 Legends has an XP and upgrade system that simply uses mechanics and perks by Call In Duty multiplayer modes, for example, you can upgrade all your weapons to give them the same Red Dot and ACOG look along with upgrades like rapid fire and silencers that don't cut it.

There are also the same upgrades for players, such as a faster reload time that is literally Call of Duty-lite as well as taking less damage from explosions again, which is basically just the benefit of the flat jacket. It also has a very similar style of gunplay to Call of Duty right down to the same hit markers. I mean, it's like they don't even do it. Don't bother passing this off as something new, the first mission is a bit misleading too, it introduces you to all these features that your devices have, like how you can scan the area for toxins or fingerprints, you can use your watch to get into safes or causing electrical equipment to malfunction, but right after that you have like four or five levels of mindless, mindless shooting where you'll probably forget everything he taught you.

I mean, the level right after all this sneaking around has you in that big shootout. against the Goldfinger soldiers at Fort Knox, where you will kill literally hundreds of them. James Rush, followed by a skiing sequence based on the chase scene from Her Majesty's Secret Service with controls that make me think whoever designed this level has never skied in his life. After that, another level where you are raiding the Blow Fields mountain base, where you will again be responsible for the genocide of countless henchmen, there is a hand-to-hand combat system where you face a single opponent at a time, which which is like a really dumb version. from Super Punch Out and you have tohitting their weak spot with a button that's been designed very clearly with a controller in mind and again, just like in Quantum of Solace, every boss fight uses this mechanic, every single one of them likes it.

Some of the other games you can also play it in what is called 007 Classic Mode, which removes health regeneration and restores health and armor placement, although this seems like an afterthought because there are very few of these pickups in each level, There is a pair. vehicle sections too with insultingly bad controls and some of the funniest vehicle physics I've seen from big platformers in road racing somehow those old driving levels on PlayStation 2 and GameCube are more fun than this overall, It's really nothing more than a constant swing on a Miss, what did I like about this thing? um um I don't know I guess I like seeing Richard Keel come back as Jaws again I know he's supposed to be a bad guy, but there's something so lovable and memorable about the character that I couldn't hate for him and I guess I like seeing to Pam, one of the most underrated Bond girls, getting a little more love here on a positive note.

I guess she has a more developed stealth system, so this time the enemy leaves. to detect you gradually if you are in line of sight of him compared to instantly like it was in Golden. I reloaded in the later levels you get a pen that can shoot tranquilizer darts distraction darts you have your watch that can shoot a laser, which is useful for taking out cameras and it is actually possible to sneak through some of these areas undetected, which is a positive change. The inclusion of all of these main and secondary objectives to complete combined with the XP system adds some depth to the missions.

It's more than just pointless shooting at times, but it's actually a terrible game and there's probably a reason this was the last Bond game we had. It's a little sad, I mean, the series deserved a better send-off, I'm not sure. If it makes any sense to talk about the new Bond game in the works by IO Interactive considering there isn't much information about it at the moment, but at least sure it's in the hands of the right people, I don't think we'll do it. I'll see it release in 2021, but honestly, I don't mind waiting a little longer and I think enough time has passed now that the stigma associated with those later games has disappeared and we can all return to this series with a fresh approach either way, Although this brings me to the end of my video, it's been long and extensive, like the list of women joining the bed over the years, if you want to see me cover any of the other Bond games I specifically miss.

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