007: Quantum of Solace

Welcome to 007: Quantum of Solace. I played this game on agent which is a difficulty down from 007. Reasonably easy game, even at the agent difficulty, but be aware of the cover system.

With the cover system in this game? You will find at times you have to fiddle around and maybe say the odd swear word or two when the game messes up your play.

Other than that, a nice tidy game with online play, if anyone is out there playing.

Pros:Fun Gameplay gun selection is pretty big game looks gorgeous for a 2008 release takedowns are awesome James bond.

Cons:Sadly storyline is completely nonsensical and seems to be a combination of Casino royale and Quantumn of solace but its just incomprohensible A bit repetitive sometimes.

Enemies have limited lines (i swear they literally only say We need Backup Over!) One shotgun only some parts are kind of bullcrap (sinking chapel and a spotlight section for example) one or two gadgets would be nice.

Verdict 5.5/10 (7/10 if you dont care too much about the story) Well i know that i mentioned alot of positives but the fact that the story is so BAD it makes no sense just kind of ruined the game for me. Other than that the game is fun especially the gunplay also lost of things to explode which is also Fun. As i also said the game contains some Parts that are kind of bullcrap and come with no warning and require a few retries definetly,Some timed sections seem unnecessary,And in the first level when stuff is exploding at the end the game actually lags a bit aswell! Other than that its not that bad but the story is.

I know, I know, every 007 game since Goldeneye of the old N64 has sucked big ones. It's like the law. Oxygen is a must, Water is needed, and Bond games after Goldeneye are terrible, you know...? I must admit, I gave it a miss upon it's release, thinking it would be awful but my partner bought it for Xmas and I gave it a fair chance. I went into this one expecting it to be the same old but was pleasantly surprised.

I'm a big fan of FPS games: Black on PS2, Call of Duty 4 was the daddy but the servers have become noticeably poor since they released COD5, which, despite it's superior graphics and great gore, is sadly held back by it's WW2 weapons and setting(it's just not as fun, guys!), not to mention the MASSIVE maps online meaning it's harder to find the opposition and leads to endless running around. Farcry II has possibly the best graphics I've ever witnessed, but again the online play kinda sucked a bit, I dunno, something was just missing for me, and the story mode spoiled by too much real-time driving (fun for the first play then it so drags the game down)... The likes of Resistance 2 sucked for me also, poor graphics and aliens never really were my thing to be honest.

I, like many other PS3 owners, just want rid of all the aliens/WW2 nonsense and to have, for a change, a good old-fashioned Rambo style one-man-war mowing people down action game.

So Bond wasn't really expected to match up to any of them, and boy did it. The story mode is better value than the COD games, it is longer, although I ain't seen the movie so was left a little confused by all the twists at times.The action is the best thing I've played since Goldeneye, bar possibly COD4 when it was first released. Sure, the graphics are great in places but on the whole they aren't in the same league as it's other competitors, however, the game's main strength lies in it's sheer fun.

The cover system is a cool add-on which I think most FPS games could benefit from adding in in the future. The likeness to Daniel Craig is fantastic. The 007 pistol with silencer makes you FEEL like you're James Bond. For instance, if you're playing, say, Call of Duty online and you run out of bullets and are left with just a pistol, your first thought would probably be along the lines of "Stick a fork in me, I'm done" but as Bond you don't mind, it's actually quite cool headshotting your totally unaware victims with a silencer whilst in cover haha! For me, this is the best online game out there since COD4. Even more impressive when you take into account that there is no gore at all (NONE!!!), there is not even a ranking system (???wtf???), there are less than 100,000 players on the whole leaderboard, the environments are non-destructible and the cool spy-like mêlée scenario you can do in the story has been replaced by a kinda lame rifle-butt strike for the online modes. There is just something about the pump-action shotguns, p99 silenced pistol and big-ass Rambo guns that make this game a hell of a lot more fun than all those big name titles I listed above, I don't know how they've done it, but Treyarch have taken a franchise that everybody had written off as irrelevant and they've produced one of the finest games they possibly could have done, and I for one will be playing this game from now on until Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2 comes to us. Shove your Resistance, mate.

Yes it even surpasses it with gorgeous graphics and realistic looking locales. Having seen the movie, I have to say it has transfered well while not strictly sticking with the plot of it, it has changed details to suit the game more which doesn't hurt, also voice-overs from the cast are thrown in. The villains in this game seem to be a forgetful bunch with cellphones laying around, which is a bit silly, but alright. The guns are all very realistically done and packs a good punch with booming effective sound, also explosions and debris are very authentic looking, so can shoot almost anything and it breaks. The henchmen behave like real human beings when they are hit and have a really good AI. Some bad things about the game is that you can't do fights and are forced to do button-sequences which loses momentum to proceedings. Otherwise this is a very recommended game, and you might enjoy it more if you are a fan of these films (yes you also get to play Casino Royale in the middle of the game as flashback).

When I was in my early twenties, I used to play this game and GoldenEye on Wii. The reason why I enjoyed this one because it mostly took place from Casino Royale. I thought that was really neat. But mixing it with the second movie doesn't make it better. If it was just Casino Royale, it would've been much cooler. It would be a special treat for the Bond fans. I still don't like Dominic Greene as the villain. I always thought he was corny ever since I watched the movie. I had fun playing Daniel Craig's James Bond. No doubt about it. I just don't like the scenes from Quantum of Solace. I'm not trying to sound like a critic. I'm just telling you how I feel about it. That's all.