Operation Stealth
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Operation Stealth, also known as
The game was released with the Bond license in the United States,[2] although this led to some inconsistencies as the MI6 agent appeared to be taking his orders from the CIA.
Gameplay
Operation Stealth mainly features a point-and-click style of gameplay reminiscent of many of the
The cracked Amiga version of the game featured a primitive
Plot
John Glames (James Bond in the U.S.), a
The protagonist visits the banana republic of Santa Paragua to investigate; upon meeting his contact, the agent is apparently assassinated and hands Glames the key to a bank slot where the case documents are kept. Once he retrieves an envelope, it turns out that the man he met was Colonel Karpov of the KGB; he explains that they captured the CIA contact and manipulated Glames to open his briefcase as he would know the combination. Karpov and Ostrovitch apprehend the documents and take Glames to a cave where he is left to die. However he escapes and swims back to town in one of the game's arcade sequences.
Wandering in a hotel, Glames is mistaken and welcomed as someone who happens to resemble him; a woman even attempts to assassinate Glames, but she is stopped when that person, Otto, shows up. Glames and the woman are captured by Otto's guards and thrown into the sea but Glames's actions save both of them.
The two are rescued and taken to a military base in a jungle. Glames learns that the woman is Julia Manigua, the niece of President Manigua; her uncle was replaced by Otto with an impostor
There, they are discovered and Julia is arrested, but Glames passes a series of mazes, while avoiding guards, and reaches Otto's office. He reclaims the documents from a safe (which Otto had recovered from the KGB agents), and once more he is apprehended by the two agents; that moment Otto emerges. Karpov escapes with the envelope and Glames pursues him on a
He is rescued by an American
Inside, Glames is arrested but escapes using some of his gadgets and reaches the base's headquarters where Dr. Why and Otto expect him, holding Julia as a hostage. The base surfaces as an artificial volcanic island and the Stealth is launched. Glames creates a diversion and destroys the base's computers, causing it to collapse, and the Stealth to become vulnerable. Dr. Why escapes with Julia on a helicopter which is hijacked by Glames.
He causes the helicopter to explode, but not before saving himself and Julia on an inflatable boat. In the end, he is honored as a national hero by General Manigua, with Julia on his side.
Reception
Computer Gaming World described the game as "somewhat of a disappointment". The magazine criticized the game's hidden object game-like interface and clumsy parser, and stated that the graphics and music were inferior to that of Future Wars, and that the central plot had little connection to the game's puzzles and arcade sequences.[2] Judith Kilbury-Cobb of the U.S. magazine .info gave the game four and a half stars and wrote, "The innovative interface is elegant in its simplicity and very easy to use. The stunning graphics are sharp, detailed, and complemented by first-rate sound and animation. No Bond fan should miss this one."[3]
See also
- David Wolf: Secret Agent, contemporaneous game involving a stolen Stealth fighter
References
- ^ Cine – ScummVM
- ^ a b Greenberg, Allen L. (April 1991). "Taking Stock on Bond". Computer Gaming World. No. 81. p. 38. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
- ^ Kilbury-Cobb, Judith (March 1991). "James Bond: The Stealth Affair". .info. p. 36. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
External links
- Operation Stealth at MobyGames
- Operation Stealth at the Hall of Light
- Operation Stealth at IMDb
