James Bond, ever since his first ever appearance on the pages of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, has been consistently popular over the years, despite how uneven his appearances are. I was never that huge of a fan, but I did read Thunderball as a teen and liked watching the movies about 007 over the course of my life. I grew up during the Pierce Brosnan era, but personally always loved Timothy Dalton’s performance as Bond the most. Which I still maintained even after Casino Royale (the 2006 one), which might be the best movie in the series so far.
But when it comes to games about Bond – I have not played that many. And those that I did play were not titles I enjoyed all that much. This doesn’t mean, however, that when coming into 007 First Light I had low expectations. No, IO Interactive have shown over their entire history that they can make fantastic social stealth-based action adventure titles with the Hitman franchise, and they can make fun linear action games with Kane and Lynch. Sure, their titles weren’t always hits and their previous attempt to mix those different approaches with Hitman: Absolution was quite disastrous, but nonetheless I had high hopes. And they mostly paid off.
