[h1] 06/10 [/h1] (wish it was 07, would be funier)
[b] Story - 07/10 [/b]
Story is not bad, it a James Bond story, if you like it from the movies its ok, but personaly James Bond was most of the time not my cup of tea. The final boss was an a5spull though, completly unnecessary.
[b] Characters - 10/10 [/b]
I loved the characters, James and Greenway where amazing together, I liked their dynamics. James was very fun with his dialog and oneliners.
[b] Graphics and Performance - 09/10 [/b]
I heard before that it would look increadible, and I have the hardware and also the settings to see it, I just did not understand when was the part where it would look incredible. It always look very good, but not the most beautiful game I ever played. The performance was great though, had always over 200 fps (mostly 280), it dipped on rare occasions to 180 fps. Graphics would be a 8/10 and Performance 10/10, only got once a glitch where the jacket was inside my chest during cutscenes and walking passages.
[b] Gameplay - 03/10 [/b]
well the gameplay was very bad. I will tell in detail:
[u] Difficulty [/u]
first the biggest tip, dont bother to play on anything below hardest dificulty, this game is so easy I meleed 19 guys who shoot me without loosing once. The only time I lost was to the turret in the final fight and even then only because I wanted it to be over and did not concetrate on hidding.
[u] Shooting [/u]
Gunplay is soo incredibly easy, I dont even know how it came trough testing. It also feels so unrewarding. When you get to the shootouts you need to kill 50 - 200 guys, each time! What are those numbers? How are they even paid? By the end of the game James killed in 1 Month more guys then Simo Häyhä in his lifetime.
It completly breaks the story for me. I wish the shooting stuff was toned down by 10 or 20 and was heavily punished, because James has no armor.
[u] Melee [/u]
I liked melee a lot, it was very easy too but it was sooo fun that I give it an exception.
[u] Gadgets [/u]
Boring. Not enough cool stuff. You are limited to 2-3 gadgets outside the wristwatch. It wants to be a mix of Watch Dogs and Assassins Creed but fails both. Nothing else to say.
[u] Level Design [/u]
Very limited in freedom. You can only do a few things and most of them are heavily scripted and liniar.
[u] Enemies AI - Stealth [/u]
Like I told before shooting is too easy, well stealth is even more easy. You have this energy system, you can use it for "bullettime" (to make the easiest part of the game more easy? I dont even know the button for it, I did not use it outside of the tutorial), for bluffing (fun mechanic but did not get enough use) and luring enemies. But I now will break the game for you: instead of wasting your luring resource just stand up and let the enemies see you until his detection marker becomes yellow, he will then go investigate alone and you can execute him with "x" without problem, repeat 20 times level is cleared.
[h1]Final thoughts [/h1]
For the first try its not bad, the got amazing characters, a fun writen James Bond and a decent story that feels like a James Bond story, the villians where meh though. The gameplay lacks a lot in my opinion, the story would have worked better as a movie or series then a game. But I hope they can learn to make the second game much better. I think that a sequel would be a far better game, if they change some stuff that I said, if not it will be perhaps again a decent story that would have worked better as a movie.
The current price is way too expensive overall though 70 € ($) for a movie with boring game elements, make it 50 € and we can talk but better on sale vor 20-30, that would be a fair price overall.
