007 Legends
007 Legends | ||
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Composer(s) David Arnold | Kevin Kiner | |
Series | James Bond video games | |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Microsoft Windows Wii U | |
Release | PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 Microsoft Windows
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Genre(s) | First-person shooter Interactive film | |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
007 Legends is a first-person shooter video game featuring the character of British secret agent James Bond. It was developed by Eurocom and first released by Activision on October 2012 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with Microsoft Windows and Wii U versions releasing later that year. Wii U release of the game was cancelled in Australia and the game was removed from all digital storefronts in January 2013.
The game was released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the
Upon its release, 007 Legends received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the choice of missions, bland gameplay, and lack of an overarching story; though its multiplayer mode did attract some praise. It is the fourth and final James Bond game title released by Activision and the last game Eurocom developed before the company ceased operations. It is currently the final James Bond video game released, although in 2020, a new Bond game (developed by IO Interactive) was announced to have entered development.
Gameplay
Built on the engine used for Eurocom's previous title, 2011's GoldenEye 007: Reloaded,[1] 007 Legends shares much of the same gameplay, though there are some notable additions and modifications. The most significant change is the greater focus on stealth-based play, with enemy AI being more suspicious and investigative.[2] Throughout the campaign, players will frequently be presented with situations that require stealth to get past, though often running-and-gunning will also be an option.[3] To complement such stealth scenarios, players will have access to three gadgets from the start of the campaign: the returning smartphone, which has new vision modes[4] and binocular capabilities; a new dart pen that can fire three different types of darts, including distraction, shock, and tranquilizer darts; and a wristwatch that can track enemies, fire a laser, and map nearby enemies and cameras.
Another notable addition is the incorporation of an XP (experience points) progression system.[5] Players can use XP to unlock and/or upgrade gadgets, weapons (and attachments), and Bond's physical abilities.[3] Other notable points include there being at least one vehicle-based level in each of the missions,[6] new weapons,[citation needed] and a new free-form melee function that enables players to control punches with the analogue sticks.[7] As with the MI6 Ops Missions mode from GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, the Challenges mode will present extra missions based on assault, elimination, stealth, and defence-based objectives, with adjustable difficulty. New to this mode will be the option to play special missions for some of the villains and companions from the single player.[1] Players' scores will be uploaded onto online leaderboards.
Multiplayer is supported across all platforms.[3] Four-player split-screen is available for local offline play, while online play will have capacity for up to 12 players in a match.[8] Players' multiplayer experience are indicated by their level, such as Level 50 (00 Agent Grade 0).[9] There is also a 00 Specialization mode, similar to Call of Duty's Prestige system[vague].[9] Character skins and maps from the single player are available to players.[10] Players can also equip gadgets to enhance their abilities, such as the Fast Switch gadget, which halves the time it takes to switch weapons.[11] Scenarios revealed are Conflict, Golden Gun, You Only Live Twice, Escalation, Data Miner, Team Conflict, Icarus, and Black Box.[9]
Plot
The game begins with the opening chase sequence in
In Miami, Bond awakens in a hotel room to find Jill Masterson dead from skin suffocation, coated in gold paint. Days later in Switzerland, Bond infiltrates the facility of Auric Goldfinger (Timothy Watson, likeness of Gert Frobe), the man responsible for Masterson's death. He discovers Goldfinger's plan to irradiate the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky in Operation Grand Slam. Bond manages to convince Goldfinger's personal pilot, Pussy Galore (likeness of Honor Blackman, voice of Natasha Little), to inform the CIA, and he and the United States Army manage to thwart Goldfinger's scheme in the nick of time.
In the
Bond finds his CIA agent friend
In Iceland, Bond and NSA agent
In Brazil, Bond and Holly Goodhead (Jane Perry), a NASA scientist moonlighting as a CIA agent, infiltrate the rocket launch facility of Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), a billionaire industrialist who has started his own private space exploration program. They quickly learn that Drax, a twisted social Darwinist, intends to wipe out the human race while creating his own new "master race" from personally-selected specimens, spared from the destruction of Earth via biological weapons onboard Drax's personal space station. Bond and Goodhead manage to get on board the station via a shuttlecraft and proceed to destroy it, killing Drax in the process by blowing him out of an airlock.
Back in the present, Bond regains consciousness on the riverbank, injured, but alive. A few days later, he is seen in Shanghai, following Patrice to prevent the assassination of an unknown figure. Bond succeeds, but kicks Patrice off a building to his death before learning of his employer's identity. After finishing his report to M (Judi Dench) via phone, he is informed by Bill Tanner (Rory Kinnear) that another mission awaits him.
Development
007 Legends was developed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the
The game was first released in North America on 16 October 2012 for
Some additional actors from the films reprise their roles in the game, whether through new voice lines or archival audio. Two Moonraker actors return to their original roles.
Reception
Aggregator | Score |
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X-Play | [37] |
IT News Africa | 7.0/10[38] |
The Globe and Mail | 5/10[39] |
007 Legends received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, according to aggregating review websites
Tristan Ogilvie of
The Globe and Mail questioned the choice of missions in the game, claiming that fans considered them to be among the worst installments in the Bond film franchise, and that the game threw players into the middle of missions with little explanation or context to them, concluding that the game "feels like a low-budget knockoff of [...] Call of Duty".[39] IT News Africa's Frederick Charles Fripp thought that "it could have been a better game if Eurocom focused more on improving the graphics and changing the game dynamic from a fairly linear shooter to something a bit more complex and through-provoking. [sic]" He added that "it does become a bit repetitive after a while, especially if the player does not feel challenged".[38] Will Porter of Eurogamer felt that the heart of the films had been lost. In his review he stated "any personality the movies had is erased by the modern Daniel Craig update."[26]
Some praise was given to the game's split-screen multiplayer modes, with IGN's Tristan Ogilvie pointing out that localized split-screen was a feature that had been frequently overlooked in first-person shooter games, before adding that there was little to separate the multiplayer of 007 Legends from that of the
Due to the reception and lowering sales of console games,
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External links
- 007 Legends at MobyGames
- Official website
- 007 Legends at IMDb