1.5/5 ★ – danbremner96's review of 007 Legends.

007: Legends (2012) (PS3) (Replay) Here we are. The game that killed the franchise in the video game space and meant the rights were floating around for a decade before it was picked up by IO Interactive in what should hopefully be an excellent game. This however, rushed out to tie into Skyfall and the 50th anniversary of James Bond is a truly awful cash-in of the likes we don't see anymore with licensed IPs. I kinda miss it. This truly is a completely soulless Call of Duty clone. Rather than becoming a super spy, you instead go guns blazing with endless waves of faceless enemies with A.I. as smart as a social media influencer. Watch them line up and walk into your bullets. You honestly have to do no work yourself for this one. The only times I ever died was due to all the frustrating controls when it came to vehicles or skiing. The handling is just awful. None of the weapons feel like they have any weight at all. There is nothing satisfying about getting a kill here as guns feel as if they don't pack a punch in the slightest. There are some melee takedowns that feel better, but not by much. You get to relive all your favourite moments from a random selection of Bond films, except they star Daniel Craig's 007. Remember in Goldfinger when point escorts the US army and has to take out a tank with a rocket launcher? Me neither, must have been a deleted scene or something, but at least it's restored here in all it's interactive glory. While Daniel Craig's likeness is used (Kinda), sadly his voice is not. Which is deeply off-putting and weird leaving some poor voice actor to do an often laughable imitation of him at best. Some of the deliveries so robotic, stilted and strange I couldn't help but laugh. At least they managed to get Judi Dench to lend her vocal talents to this mess. The Pitiful excuses for boss fights are all the same. I'd have honestly preferred just standard quick-time-events instead of this punch em up nonsense that plays horribly. Seeing Bond go hand to hand each time with main villains (And random henchmen), is never anything less than tedious. There are gadgets in the form of your wristwatch and mobile phone. The phone leading to awful mini-games that somehow makes the pacing of the game even worse and had me sighing whenever they would turn up. The few positives are the iconic music from each of the films is used and environments are also recreated very well. I still just don't understand why such a random selection of films were chosen. I mean, Die Another Day of all films? Literally one of Bond's worst outings. It's all very stitched together and strange, with none of these films coming together to make something cohesive. It is mercifully short at just 4-5 hours. Part of me misses when a full price, brand new release game could be finished in the space of one or two sitting, but whatever. There really is very little reason to come back too. All that's barely worth experiencing you can do in your first playthrough, unless you like challenges of killing a certain amount of enemies with each gun. 007: Legends has an interesting idea behind it, allowing you to play through the iconic moments of Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, License to Kill and Goldfinger. It's just the execution is clearly rushed, had no effort put into and feels like a lazy cash-in with next to no merits. By far the worst James Bond videogames I have ever played. 3/10 Dans