Quick Look: James Bond 007: Blood Stone

Jeff's driving me crazy with that phone.

" Is it just me, or would it be way, way more fitting to get an Assasins Creed-style James Bond game? From the movies, the whole point seems to be walking into a civilian situation and craftily getting shit done without raising a fuss, not just shooting your way through guards. "

" Wow, Jeff's making some unreasonable criticisms for a game? Shocker. "

"I never say this, and I never agree with the comments, but I'm going to do both.  Jeff is totally playing this wrong. "

Bunch of backseat gamers here! Let the man play the way he wants to play it.

This game needs some Blood Diamond Pants for JimBo to look tacticool.
 
Oh BTW, the location is NOT China, the shop signs in the demo are in Thai language so obviously the location is taking place in Thailand.

I really would have liked to see some of the driving in this quicklook :(

most annoying quicklook ever, stupid phone!

007: Electric Boogaloo is my favorite Bond game.
 I also like the part of this game where you shoot the guys with your stun gun, duck behind cover, they look around and scratch their butts, and then they go into a spasm as they hit the ground. It makes it very comical and entertaining.

Problem is not the detective mode, it's Jeff's constant use of it.  Like really you need  to press it every second?  Leave it off for a while man, damn that was annoying to watch.

They dont have to get shot per se. Most of the time they have 4 guys link arms and kneel down on a matress and then one lead is taped to one outside guys shoulder and the other is taped to the other outside guys arm and all 4 of them are shocked at the same time. Generally about 3 seconds.

It's not really the "Batman complex" though. For me it all started with the original Splinter Cell. That game did some (for the time) amazing stuff with lighting and shadows, but most of the time you wouldn't notice because you spent 95% of your time in the B/W night vision mode. Just like in Batman I'd switch it off at times just to enjoy the scenario, but it just made a lot more sense to leave it on for the gameplay.

I saw a woman dressed in black bending over in front of Bond in the thumbnail before I clicked it. Yeah.

Thats a pretty crappy looking Daniel Craig

Every time the switch to the Smartphone mode was made, it made me feel a little dizzy for a split second. However, it was worth it to see James Bond staring at his phone constantly. 

Is it me, or does Bond on the Wii have a better looking character model than Bond on this?

I don't understand why he uses phone-vision so much in a game as linear as this. Do you really need to turn it on every time you jump a ledge to have it tell you to jump the next ledge? Seems extremely excessive. 

constant cell phone mode switching inducing headache! ack!!
 
maybe if there wasn't a waypoint every 5 meters people wouldn't be so inclined to use it as breadcrumbs.

Pierce Brosnan is the only Bond. 

PC Steam version is also available. How about looking at games on a real computer, and not a console?

Lol at 30-second stand-off. Good AI is good. 
 
Flipping the phone on/off is giving me a fucking headache.

It actually is true that a cop has to be shot with the stungun before they can use it. The cop that would visit my high school told us. Said it hurt like a bitch.

I don't see why multiplayer can't be as disposable as the singleplayer. Not everything has to have the longevity of a Gears or CoD.

Hi I love you guys I've been around since the gamespot days but I could not even finish the QL, I can see us entering an era of gaming where I guess we need our hands to be held. 
First I say this because gamers complained about getting lost and finding there way thorough levels I'm not saying it has to be like one of the classic Zelda's memorizing maps or making your own, but this is where it started and that's an adventure rpg. 
Then game makers incorporated maps and nav systems justifiable in rpg's but not so much in an action game, but others made them as just an added feature on the game box. 
Now it looks like where becoming dependent on them which is sad. I read and heard talks of Batman AA graphics not being appreciated because of the overuse of the Detective mode I've played thorough it twice and didn't feel it was totally necessary, I thought this was an age of a older mature gamer that doesn't need to be babied so don't give game makers a reason to.
 
Anyway
Peace

Daniel Craig looks like goddamn George Bush when talking with the strip club owner... what the hell.

Is it just me or does the detective vision make this game look a bit like Kane and Lynch 2?

The screen pixilation could give you a seizure... it gave me a headache...

" Pierce Brosnan is the only Bond.  "

Yes, the most dull and plastic of them all. The only one where he doesn't suck is Tommorow Never Dies.

That, my friend, is an HTC smartphone and believe me, as an owner, it's battery life will not last near that long.   :)  I call this game bogus and deficient of realism!  I hope you know I was being facetious.  I don't care about realism.  Seriously though, that battery would only last him until lunch. 

The cell phone abuse was horrid, had to stop watching halfway or I would've gouged my eyes out. Seriously, if the game is this linear and easy, I don't see why you need to constantly turn on the cell phone. It's not like you can get lost.

A.I. looks like it's from a PSOne game...

Yea, unimpressed with this one.

looks ok, but not worth the money really.

I would love to see more of this simply because I want to see what Bangkok look like in games.

" PC Steam version is also available. How about looking at games on a real computer, and not a console? "

" @drozzy said:

" PC Steam version is also available. How about looking at games on a real computer, and not a console? "

I'll bet that the game was designed for consoles and the PC version is a not-so-good port. That's the usual way Actizzard does things. So doing a QL of the console versions is the most sensible thing. Also, most people will be buying it for their consoles. "

Wow, there's alot taken from Conviction. The blurry screen, the way Bond ducks behind cover and melee=auto aim takedown. Not that that's a bad thing, just really stood out to me

" Remember when this was called Bourne Conspiracy? "

Being able to both pause and skip cutscenes is very nice.
 
@AddyMac said:

" I don't see why multiplayer can't be as disposable as the singleplayer. Not everything has to have the longevity of a Gears or CoD. "

New bond game is deep. everyone spending too much time looking at their phones XD

Meh. Looks like this'll be a GameFly rental.

Ginger Ale Thug is an awesome gamertag. Not gonna lie.

Music sounds a bit harry potter-ish

The cell phone abuse was horrid, had to stop watching halfway or I would've gouged my eyes out. Seriously, if the game is this linear and easy, I don't see why you need to constantly turn on the cell phone. It's not like you can get lost.