IO Interactive General Thread - Developers of Project 007, Hitman, Freedom Fighters, Kane & Lynch (and Mini Ninjas)

  • 📧 If you are an employee of a T1 ISP, US datacenter, or related company please get in touch at josh@kiwifarms.net. I have some questions.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Just got done playing a hooky copy of First Light, as a kid I was a huge James Bond fanboy (To the point I collected the comics and even owned a ton of the trading cards, remember those? I do but barely anyone does) and since moving out I haven't really dabbled or fucked with James Bond stuff, it was a big "Family sit down and watch together" thing I found hard to replicate yknow?

Anyhow, exposition aside, I really enjoyed the game, it did feel like I was playing a James Bond movie and it was going back to the era of bond I loved (Sorry guys, I don't like the Craig era), I love the focus on whacky gadgets and a smug, smarmy bond who fucks and quips, it's goofy fun. It definitely has it's dramatic moments which I am fine with because it gave everything stakes and a sense of why James would be so hellbent on doing what he is as it felt personal to him, which was usually how they played it in some movies.

I think the cocktease with the Valhalla was annoying though, what a way to pull a Chekov's gun and have it be an absolute let down, I really was hoping for a high-speed action segment but with all the game had done up to that point it feels like critiquing a tasty and delicious cake because the icing wasn't my favorite colors. I think the focus around the Q-watch was a good idea and I hope they expand on it more going forward with more gadgets and a wider array of opportunities in missions.

I am also fucking glad that M/Moneypenny aren't the typical DIVERSE STRONG WOMAN stereotypes, I saw the initial outrage over the races and wasn't taken by it (I don't care as long as a character is written well) but I did have a fear that they'd both be "always right" and James would just be some blundering white man who gets girlbossed all day. Thank FUCK they didn't do that.
 
Scarthew said:
and the sarajevo 6 missions which were originally playstation pre-order exclusive for hitman 1, are lazy dogshit and not worth buying.
Click to expand...
i liked how the colorado map for that had the target actively hunting you down so you couldnt just stay in one place while doing something or waiting for something
 
Galeocerdo said:
(Sorry guys, I don't like the Craig era)
Click to expand...
People keep saying this but it needs to be qualified. Craig's Casino Royale is the best bond movie. He's a good bond it's just the ip holders put him in bad movies. Even then, the first 3 are mostly good and the last 2 are god awful. That's still over half his movies, and it's not his fault.
Casino Royale hits high highs consistently while also still nailing the subtlety of its calmer moments, and is paced amazingly well. It's genuinely a perfect movie and one that should be studied for making good action thrillers.
DeadwastePrime said:
i liked how the colorado map for that had the target actively hunting you down so you couldnt just stay in one place while doing something or waiting for something
Click to expand...
That's fair but those missions are pretty buggy and I feel like most of them are glorified contracts.
 
Last edited:
Scarthew said:
People keep saying this but it needs to be qualified.
Click to expand...
I should clarify, I don't like the Craig era as James Bond movies, I do not mean to put across they're bad movies or bad action movies, I find them to be great action movies but I find it hard to call them 'James Bond' in my head, because for me I watched James Bond for the zany villains, the cool gadgets, the cars and the overall tone which I feel the Craig era didn't have in them as the Craig era was more grounded and 'realistic', again that's fine in of itself but for me, it's not what I tune into a James Bond property for.
 
Galeocerdo said:
I should clarify, I don't like the Craig era as James Bond movies, I do not mean to put across they're bad movies or bad action movies, I find them to be great action movies but I find it hard to call them 'James Bond' in my head, because for me I watched James Bond for the zany villains, the cool gadgets, the cars and the overall tone which I feel the Craig era didn't have in them as the Craig era was more grounded and 'realistic', again that's fine in of itself but for me, it's not what I tune into a James Bond property for.
Click to expand...
Yea I wish they dabbled in that a bit, cause they did get silly again but not in unique ways. Spectre could've reintroduced a character like baron samedi or scaramanga.
 
Scarthew said:
Yea I wish they dabbled in that a bit, cause they did get silly again but not in unique ways. Spectre could've reintroduced a character like baron samedi or scaramanga.
Click to expand...
It's why I appreciated this game for going into the silliness but still remaining relatively grounded, I especially liked that they did the thing of having two classic bond archetypes for the antagonists, Webb Snr is the "cunning and plotting" type who has a train of logic you can follow and reason with even if it's an evil scheme, while Webb Jr is the "Crazy psychopath" type who is cartoonish and larger than life.

I am hoping with the cliffhanger it leads to a range of games which will be a revival for the 007 franchise which will return it to form.
 
Galeocerdo said:
I am hoping with the cliffhanger it leads to a range of games which will be a revival for the 007 franchise which will return it to form.
Click to expand...
No its gonna be dlc for first light, after that amazon has the rights to new titles so we don't know if IOI will even be involved.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom