aspro said:

I'll be getting Deadly Premonition at launch. It will be a good excuse to replay (trophies, HD), plus I blazed through the original because I wanted to see what would happen next. I spent no time exploring people's homes, collecting cars, flowers, fishing etc...

It's finally coming out on PS3?

It wasn't HD?

And do'h. missed the review copy by but a few months.

aspro said:

Good question. The back of the box says, "720p/1080i/1080p". So I guess they mean "H'er D'er". Even more H's and D's.

Maybe they displayed the game at those resolutions, but didn't bother to include any HD textures when designing it?

isntchrisl said:

Legends really didn't look too polished in the trailers. Shame too.

PMs, man. Top right envelope.

isntchrisl said:

Thanks. I replied to you.

And a message aspro sent me in May.

The more you know.

I'll get back to you later today.

I am so sick of Gangnam Style.  Why can't we, as reasonable people, appreciate something for a respectable period of time, and then move onto the next thing and appreciate that.

It's like Mona Lisa and the Louvre all over again.  THERE ARE OTHER THINGS WORTH OBSERVING!

We have our first 007 Legends GAF hands on:

So I rented it from redbox and beat it today, and the reviews are pretty spot on. Everything that's supposed to be super cool and a big set piece falls flat, generic cod gameplay, and the graphics range from meh to terrible (also lots of screen tearing). It's super short and the multiplayer is pretty much unplayable if your lucky enough to find a game.


On the plus side, it's cool just running up to baddies and blowing them away with your shotgun and the mini puzzles are ok I guess but super easy.

But now we have the first positive review:

Gaming Nexus said:

In the end, 007 Legends is just that: a love letter to fans of James Bond films and games. It’s just a little disappointing that it didn’t turn out as cohesive or thrilling as I was hoping, but then again I can’t fault Eurocom for daring to push their limits. I would prefer that they work on single movies or stories like they did with GoldenEye, as I just feel this plays to their strengths better, and if they focus and refine the new ideas they have in 007 Legends, they really have the potential to make the ultimate Bond game as opposed to one that is merely great.

Eurocom has been making James Bond video games for over a decade and they have it down to a science. Rare may have hit it out of the park with GoldenEye 64 back in the day, but Eurocom has spent a career crafting the perfect 007 experience. They’ve earned the James Bond mantle many times over and deserve to be the sole curators of his videogames. James Bond will return, and Eurocom will be there to make sure it is a triumphant one.

8.5

The Skyfall level is free DLC that will come later BTW.

Famitsu reviews

- Borderlands 2 - PS3/360 – 9/9/9/10 – (37/40)

- FIFA 13 - PS3/360 – 9/10/9/9 – (37/40)

- Forza Horizon - 360 – 8/9/10/9 – (36/40)

- Street Fighter X Tekken - Vita – 9/9/8/8 – (34/40)

- Cardboard Senki W - Vita/PSP – 9/9/8/8 – (34/40)

- AKB48 + Me - 3DS – 8/9/8/7 – (32/40)

- The Idolmaster Shiny Festa - PSP – 8/8/8/8 – (32/40)

- FIFA 13 - Vita – 7/8/7/8 – (30/40)

- FIFA 13 - PSP – 6/6/6/7 – (25/40)

- Natsu no Kioku - PSP – 6/6/5/6 – (23/40)

aspro said:

It makes one wonder how cohesive a unit Eurocom is at this point.  Like is there a creative core to the company? Or is it just a couple of business guys who hire on contractors as needed?

I am hoping this is a case of a good team that was just not given enough time to make a quality game.  Eurocom has a rich, rich legacy of games to their credit, I hope this does not do them in.  I make this comment with Psygnosis in mind.

They made Dead Space Extraction then Goldeneye so they have talent there.

Gaming Nexus 007 legends review said:

Eurocom clearly pulled out all the stops to make this an authentic Bond experience. 007 Legends is running on an enhanced version of the GoldenEye Reloaded engine, so as soon as I started the first mission I felt right at home. From the outset, 007 Legends plays a lot like GoldenEye Reloaded—you have standard cover-based firefights, melee attacks and explosives, but with a healthy mix of stealth and a couple much needed enhancements on standard cover mechanics.


Basically it’s a lot like one of the recent Call of Duty titles, but with more class and sophistication. But Eurocom didn’t just copy-paste the exact same gameplay mechanics from GoldenEye; they’ve added onto and enhanced a number of the concepts from GoldenEye, with…mixed results.


For starters, they’ve completely overhauled the stealth system. Unlike in GoldenEye, where if you were spotted an enemy would almost immediately call in reinforcements, in 007 Legends they have a suspicion gauge very similar to the Assassin’s Creed games. An arrow on the HUD points to any enemies that have spotted you, and the more visible you are/the longer they see you, their suspicion level will go from white to yellow to orange where they’ll come and investigate, and finally red for when you’re completely detected.




This system seems like a great idea at first and on paper it works just fine, but in practice there are a few things that make it very frustrating. Naturally, enemies are alerted by dead bodies so you have to be careful not to leave dead henchmen just lying out in the open. The only problem is that you can’t move bodies around and hide them. Even worse, stealth areas are positively packed with patrolling guards and cameras, so it’s highly likely that even enemies you’ve taken out off the beaten path will be discovered eventually, usually when you’re slowly sneaking toward the area’s exit.


This leads to aggravating trial-and-error where you restart a section over and over just to get the stealth sequences right. Your radar only highlights enemies in your general line of sight, so it’s very easy to get spotted or accidentally run right into a patrolling guard as you try to mentally map out an area. It typically took me at least 3 or 4 retries just to find out where all the guards were, much less find an effective way to take them all out or sneak past without being detected.


There are distraction items in the environment that you can set off to draw attention away from you, and a gadget is unlocked about halfway through the campaign that lets you fire distraction darts, but simply giving me the ability to hide bodies—something that’s been around since Metal Gear Solid 2—would’ve made the stealth sequences a lot more enjoyable. After so many retries I usually just gave up, and ran in guns blazing. Now that’s not something Bond would do, is it? Well maybe, but certainly not all the time.

GoldenEye Reloaded had perfect stealth gameplay partially because it was rather unrealistic. Enemies would vanish after you killed them, yes, but the multiple paths through levels, silent melee takedowns and quick, last-ditch suppressor kills made the stealth organic and fun, and most important of all you felt like James Bond, sneaking his way through an enemy base and beating the odds through quick thinking and concise action.

The final fight with Trevelyan in GoldenEye Reloaded also used quick-time events, but it was a huge, multi-part slug-out on the collapsing antenna cradle with axes, pipes and a lot of bone-crunching and skull-cracking involved. The quick-time battles in 007 Legends just aren’t as exciting or memorable, which is too bad considering the legendary villains you’re fighting.

The gameplay is a bit of a mixed bag overall, but it definitely skews toward the better. It has GoldenEye’s pedigree in it, and I applaud Eurocom for trying new things and taking risks—they could’ve just as easily taken the Call of Duty route and churned out the exact same game year after year. 007 Legends is certainly airtight as far as the technical aspect; I didn’t run into a single bug or glitch on my playthrough, even if the objectives were a bit opaque and it was difficult at times to figure out what the game wanted me to do.

In terms of production values, 007 Legends is about what you’d expect from a high-budget licensed game, with a few surprises. Eurocom’s facial animation is as impressive and eerily realistic as ever, and the game overall has seen a noticeable boots in visuals from GoldenEye Reloaded.

In the end, 007 Legends is just that: a love letter to fans of James Bond films and games. It’s just a little disappointing that it didn’t turn out as cohesive or thrilling as I was hoping, but then again I can’t fault Eurocom for daring to push their limits. I would prefer that they work on single movies or stories like they did with GoldenEye.

8.5

This is a good review to read, not because he liked it, but because he liked Goldeneye wii and explains what has changed and the review is much more informative than the rest. This is just a portion of the review^.

So unlike Goldeneye the enemy bodies are left and spotted by patrolling guards, but you cannot move or hide bodies. Ugh.

Some stealth missions have immediate fail screens if you are spotted. Ugh.

Then you have the QTE boss fight from Goldeneye, only worse and a lot more of them. Ugh.