I'm just glad we still have 007 Everything or Nothing -- it's still the best Bond game ever made during a time when EA wasn't complete trash.
The driving segments were handled by the same team working on the Need for Speed games -- and the NFS titles during the mid-aughts were some of the greatest of all time -- and the stealth segments were competently done, mirrored after Siphon Filter and Splinter Cell.
The gunplay was a little finicky but it worked, and the action set pieces are still some of the best in gaming, 20 years later.
EA set a pretty high bar with that game and only went downhill thereafter (the remake of From Russia With Love was typical EA cash-in fanfare) and no other company has bothered to since then. Blood Diamond had the foundations to be good, but Activision was more concerned with Call of Duty at the time.
That being said, I didn't particularly like the look of IO's rendition of Bond when I first saw him, and nothing they showed of the gameplay or story looked remotely interesting. This is a real shame because a Bond game running in the Hitman framework should have been a PERFECT combination. A spy-thriller set in sandbox environments mixing detective work, stealth, and investigation gameplay could have been sublime. But the gameplay looks excruciatingly dull and riddled with exactly what they said... "modern values".
I'm just glad we still have 007 Everything or Nothing -- it's still the best Bond game ever made during a time when EA wasn't complete trash.
The driving segments were handled by the same team working on the Need for Speed games -- and the NFS titles during the mid-aughts were some of the greatest of all time -- and the stealth segments were competently done, mirrored after Siphon Filter and Splinter Cell.
The gunplay was a little finicky but it worked, and the action set pieces are still some of the best in gaming, 20 years later.
EA set a pretty high bar with that game and only went downhill thereafter (the remake of From Russia With Love was typical EA cash-in fanfare) and no other company has bothered to since then. Blood Diamond had the foundations to be good, but Activision was more concerned with Call of Duty at the time.
That being said, I didn't particularly like the look of IO's rendition of Bond when I first saw him, and nothing they showed of the gameplay or story looked remotely interesting. This is a real shame because a Bond game running in the Hitman framework should have been a PERFECT combination. A spy-thriller set in sandbox environments mixing detective work, stealth, and investigation gameplay could have been sublime. But the gameplay looks excruciatingly dull and riddled with exactly what they said... "modern values".
Hard pass here.