007 Legends review

James Bond is coming back to theaters in his upcoming movie, Skyfall and to hype this up, they released 007 Legends! To be honest, this game didn't really do what it was meant to achieve.

The game begins with a scene from Skyfall. Bond is battling a villain on top of a train and accidentally gets shot by one of his own and falls into the river below.
While unconscious, he has flashbacks from previous missions and that is where the structure of the game begins.

There are five missions in total, starting off with Goldfinger, then On her Majesty's secret service, License to Kill, Die another Day and Moonraker. Skyfall will be added as downloadable content after the release of the film.

Now, to start off, all of these games are based in the present day and Bond is Daniel Craig... unfortunately. This game is to celebrate 50 years of Bond kicking bottom and yet they couldn't even get some of the old Bond's for each of the missions? They basically set up the Bond franchise for us!
Another problem is that they have Felix Leiter in the game, yet it isn't Jefferey Wright's Felix, the updated one. Instead we get the version from the 1953 Casino Royale.

Bond sounds like an android in the game. The voice was not Craig, I'll give you that. The voice over work was not done well at all. The voice just doesn't have that general 'smoothness' to it and it is lacking his sarcastic tone when needed.

I am a rather big fan of original James Bond soundtracks and I really liked how they based most of  the tracks on the original. They have a theme which really shouts out 'BOND' to me and the theme mostly consists of the Goldfinger theme, which I quite enjoy.

Now, to the actual gaming experience. To be honest, I was rather disappointed with the action scenes. Basically, the whole game is pure action and that's all there is. There's no story to it whatsoever really. All you do is mindless shooting and maybe the occasional silent take down, but I really think they rushed the game in this sense.

With showing Bond's hand to hand combat skills, there's one thing it taught us and that is to strike where your enemy isn't defending. The content was far too short and all you basically do is move the toggle either left, right, up or down, but it just take five seconds! And most of the time the opponent won't strike one punch!

The game description on the internet states that you are able to use your detective skills, but the only thing relative to this is remembering codes for hacking... that's it. It requires you to use your intellect but not enough. Bond's phone is what helps you with your detective skills by allowing you to see fingerprints and see what codes are, but once you master this it becomes rather simple.
His phone has multiple settings, helping you with finding fingerprints, cables and just taking pictures to send back to HQ.

I have already mentioned Bond's phone, so I must mention his wristwatch. To be honest this accessory was the most useful of gadgets. This allowed you to make distractions and find out where your allies and enemies are. Best gadget a spy could ask for.

Overall, I think this is a rather fun game, maybe lacking at some areas, but fun nonetheless.

I rate this game a 6.5 out of 10.