GAME REVIEW
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007 LEGENDS
Platforms: XBOX 360 (version tested), PS3, PC, Wii U
Developers: Eurocom
Publishers: Activision
Players: 4 (plus 12-player online)
The final mission in 007 Legends is not included on the disc,
but will be made available later as free DLC. Why, you ask? The official
answer is to avoid spoiling the movie, which itself only raises the
question of why the game wasn't released at the same time. A quick
glance at the Call Of Duty: Black Ops II release date should provide
your answer. In short, Activision have rushed out an essentially
incomplete game to avoid a full version either cannibalising or getting
lost in the wake of its flagship title. As it stands now, the game just
stops at the end of the Moonraker mission, immediately cutting
to credits from a cutscene which apparently leaves Bond floating in
space without so much as attempting re-entry. If that weren't bad
enough, XBox 360 owners will have to wait three weeks longer than PS3
owners before being able to finish the game, as Sony have exclusivity
rights on the free DLC providing the game's proper ending. Sigh.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much the game all over, evidently rushed
and showing few signs of being properly thought through. Replaying
classic Bond missions in video game form isn't a bad idea, and while a
little odd to see Daniel Craig using (obnoxiously branded) smart phones
in the middle of Goldfinger, it shouldn't be an issue for
anyone who played Eurocom's very respectable previous effort, GoldenEye
Reloaded. More problematic is how little effort the game makes in tying
its six scenarios together, despite spending an interminable amount of
time plodding through the stories of each. The framing device is a scene
from the pre-credits sequence of Skyfall, where Agent Eve
(Naomie Harris) accidentally shoots Bond off the top of a train, rather
than the enemy agent he's grappling with. As Bond plummets into the
river below, his mind flashes back to past adventures.
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