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[thecasinoroyale]

I think FIFA is known as...what is it again....a cash cow? Milking the fans dry! Not that I am, but buying practically the same game every year for a few new bits and bobs, I mean please.

[Walecs]

I'm so bored of hearing about Call of Duty.


I cannot remember a more overrated franchise of games in my lifetime?

Kinect Sports aka The Ultimate Rare disgrace

[marktmurphy]

What's a dispatch photo? A photo of the package?

Yeah, it's quite reassuring, if a tad pointless!

Oh that's good- I'd not heard of that before.

[Iceskater101]

In my opinon CoD is nothing new or great - it's overrated. End.

Thank you! Some of my guy friends like COD but I don't.

[jamie00007]

There's nothing wrong with COD. The problem is all the crappy knockoffs made to cash in on its popularity. Such as 007 Legends.

[JB007YH]

So its def an issue if the Best Buy video game section staff looked at me with confusion when I asked for "007 Legends, the new bond game". One rep realized what I was talking about and then ran to the stock room to get me a copy. Its def a problem if retailers like Best Buy are not displaying it on their new release section or on their shelves at all. I predict this game to have worse sales numbers than bloodstone, and this prediction has nothing to do with quality of gameplay. I think activision is creating their own competition in releasing it around the release of the new Call of Duty, which messed with some other bond releases in the past. I also have not seen a 007 legends commercial on TV yet. This game will not sell well in my opinion and its bec of the lack of marketing effort. Im debating not opening my copy bec I feel like the price will go down in two weeks once the disappointing sales are realized(like when bloodstone dropped $20 off its price)

[LoneWolf]

I completed the game on Medium difficulty (minus the Skyfall mission) and really enjoyed it. I'll be playing it again on the highest difficulty. However, I have a similar story to share when I went to pick up my preorder at Game Stop. The guy checked the inventory and said I was the only person to preorder the game at that store location. I had already read the IGN review that day (I usually agree with most reviews), but any Bond game that features an assault on Piz Gloria is a must see in my book. The game hasn't let me down. I'm disappointed it hasn't been as well received as GE: Reloaded.

[Mr Teddy Bear]

Are the glitches really as prolific as described in the reviews? It's hard imagine this being such a huge step back from the GoldenEye game, especially considering they would be reusing most of the tech.

[jamie00007]

As the release date was pushed back two weeks in Australia, with people only being notified on the day it was supposed to come out, I'm going to assume it must be some glitch, like it doesn't work on Australian consoles or something, otherwise what the hell? I've never heard of a games release date being pushed back on the day it's supposed to come out. What a disaster of a game.

[PeteNeon]

Just entered Fort Knox. Enjoying the game, but I can't shake that COD clone feeling! I kind of wish I hadn't read the reviews beforehand. The graphics are fine, the only thing that puts me off are the shadows which are horrendously blocky.

Two things re: IGN review; the guns sound exactly the same as GoldenEye Reloaded so I don't know why they're highlighting it for this, and yes, there are some doors where the handles are part of the texture, but COD has that all the time!

It does have some very nice touches. Tracy's death is very good, with a nice tie in to Casino Royale, at least that's what I think it is. You can see they tried to put a lot of effort in, it's just hindered by the short dev time.

It's quite funny, in Licence to Kill, Bond starts to sound like Timothy Dalton!

Multiplayer is a lot less laggy, I'm in a match with 7 Americans and no lag at all. A lot more fun than GE. I'm in hysterics here, just followed two guys into a vent and electrocuted them as Zao. It's awesome. Electrocuting is so fun. Man, it is really solid MP without the lag. Here's hoping it stays like this.

Just finished the campaign. At the end it says "JAMES BOND WILL RETURN - A free pack of Skyfall missions will be available for download the second week of November." Better than just straight credits, but at the moment its a bit abrupt, the Moonraker mission just ends without a cutscene or anything.

Overall, Eurocom have made a great effort with what little time, and I suspect little budget, they had. There are lots of cool moments, and nice touches scattered throughout.

Music-wise, Goldfinger and OHMSS are great, but the other levels have little new music, it's mainly from Blood Stone; the music when you finish a mission or die in MP sounds like it's from Blood Stone but tweaked which is fine, but there are a few instances where it is completely the same, and they're repeated many times in the later levels. I did notice the ice chase has references to the DAD score in it though. There is quite a great "secondary" theme, which is used in a similar way to Goldfinger, that appears during the later levels, and there are hints of the Bond theme, but no full theme.

Oh, and an FYI to those people saying the flags in GF don't move; they do... they ripple!

The MI6 Ops (now Challenges) are better too, they're crying out for co-op!

Edited by PeteNeon, 18 October 2012 - 08:03 PM.

[jamie00007]

"Eurocom have made a great effort with what little time, and I suspect little budget, they had"

When the game still costs full price that's really no excuse.

[PeteNeon]

"Eurocom have made a great effort with what little time, and I suspect little budget, they had"

When the game still costs full price that's really no excuse.

Fair enough. It's not really any worse than GE Reloaded, apart from the clunky way the levels are linked together and the bad shadows.

[MattofSteel]

I'll do a full review when I'm through it (done the DAD campaign just now), but...

-Glitches are nowhere near as bad as people say. Game runs well.

-On "007" difficulty (highest), enemies take a ridiculous amount of bullets to kill. I shot a guy six time in the face-region yesterday. Didn't drop him.

-Two kinds of music. One are original remixes of classic Barry soundtrack scores ("Laser table", "Gumbold's safe", OHMSS main theme come to mind, + a more orchestral version of Arnold's "Iced Inc." for the Aston chase!). And two, they RIPPED MUSIC DIRECTLY FROM BLOODSTONE. A LOT. LIKE, 60% OF THE GAME'S ACTION MUSIC IS BLOODSTONE SCORE! HA! I don't mind, I just can't believe they so cheaply got away with it.

-Driving levels are brief and mildly frustrating. They're kind of cool, but frankly, just there to check boxes so they can brag about a 'full Bond' experience. If lengthening the entire game (on foot) would have meant nixing the driving elements, I'd have been all for it.

-There's very limited stealth compared to GoldenEye: Reloaded. I could play that entire game silently if I wanted, and 007 Legends forces you into battle-sized firefights for most of the time. Which, don't get me wrong, is awesome.

-At the end of the day, the game is fun and a cool, celebratory Bond experience. I'm 27. If you'd released this exact game 10 years ago, I'd have had a stroke on the first playthrough thinking it was so awesome.

-The story contrivances are kind of hilarious to make each one fit into 2 "levels", with the exception of DAD, which is 3, and in my opinion - actually, significantly, improves on the film!

[PeteNeon]

The stealth in the campaign is a bit baffling. It's kind of clunky, way too easy to be spotted, but then in the challenges, the stealth ones are the same as Reloaded, so I don't see why they couldn't have put similar bits in the campaign. The stealth in the challenges is much more satisfying than in the campaign.

[thecasinoroyale]

Nice one Matt - nice to hear a nice positive(ish) review!

[LoneWolf]

Awesome, I'm glad you guys are having fun with the game too. I definitely think it's better than GE: Reloaded.

[x007AceOfSpades]

It's a ton of fun! I'm loving every second of it!

[Gothamite]

I'm definitely sensing this being a rental more than an immediate purchase (I see no reason not to get it second-hand, especially if it goes under €20). Given its supposedly short run-time, I should even be able to complete it over the course of a one-night rental.

I'm one of the lucky few who never really took to the CoD games (my brothers swear by them, though), so the similarities in this game are unlikely to stick out as sorely to me.

The biggest disappointment I've noticed just watching the review videos has been the timed-event boss battles. Whoever came up with timed-events in video games is a moron.

Edited by Gothamite, 19 October 2012 - 10:57 AM.

[thecasinoroyale]

I'm not a CoD'er either so I agree with you Gothamite, I don't see the comparisons anymore than any other shooter.

Shame it's still a short game, although from what I've seen you couldn't pad this out for many more hours than expected! And I've heard about those timed boss battles - still sounds naff, but in a way I'd prefer that than plowing them full of bullets with no effect for 20 minutes running around with dozens of soldiers shooting you down as well.

One of THE most annoying boss battles I've done is Bond vs Trevelyan in 'GoldenEye: Reloaded' - that was annoying, the shooting...so boring. The fighitng, I enjoyed that in fairness.

Still, when I play this, I'll be back with my take but I think I'll save it until post-'Skyfall' for a Bond fix I know I'll probably need.

[Melancholy Productions]

As the release date was pushed back two weeks in Australia, with people only being notified on the day it was supposed to come out, I'm going to assume it must be some glitch, like it doesn't work on Australian consoles or something

As a wild guess, I don't think it's a glitch, but rather, it's release was pushed back closer to the release of Skyfall here, to try and boost sales of the game. That'd be my only hunch.

[Gothamite]

What I might do is try and rent the game after seeing Skyfall next Friday, which coincidentally, is when I get paid.

[thecasinoroyale]

A perfect Bond day Gothamite!

I remember doing that here 4 years ago, the Xbox 'Quantum Of Solace' game came out the day the film was released in the cinema and so I went to buy that, then went to watch the film. A great 007 day!

[col_007]

Stuck on the fuse box thing on goldfinger can anyone help me out

Edited by col_007, 19 October 2012 - 03:32 PM.

[PeteNeon]

A perfect Bond day Gothamite!

I remember doing that here 4 years ago, the Xbox 'Quantum Of Solace' game came out the day the film was released in the cinema and so I went to buy that, then went to watch the film. A great 007 day!

I spent the morning playing it until the opera level, then saw the film and carried on in the evening! I think that has been Activision's most successful game so far. The cover mechanic was great, as was multiplayer.

[thecasinoroyale]

I agree sir.

[seawolfnyy]

I'll rent it. I was a CoD fan until MW2 ruined the series for me and Activision whoring it out to anyone who has $60 to waste. Admittedly, I haven't played Legends yet and will reserve judgement until then. I was never excited for it, but I trust all of your opinions far more than any reviewers so I will give it a fair shot. Also, glad to see everyone is enjoying more than GE: R.

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

Pardon my language, but this game is poo poo ca ca. Awful awful awful effort by the makers. They've taken a good idea and dragged it through the mud. Will finish what I've started, but after that, I'm going to condemn this game to a dusty cupboard, where it will spend the rest of its days until the day I die and my relatives clear out my stuff and find it there, hopefully tossing it into the nearest dustbin they can find.

Rant over.

[col_007]

Anyone else played the OHMSS level yet was disappointed with what they have done to Piz Gloria

[DamnCoffee]

Just started the OHMSS level. Got incredibly annoyed at the Ski Sequence. 1) Because it's so unbelievable, and 2) It took me a good half an hour to understand how to increase speed.

[col_007]

Just started the OHMSS level. Got incredibly annoyed at the Ski Sequence. 1) Because it's so unbelievable, and 2) It took me a good half an hour to understand how to increase speed.

Annoying that bit isn't it