A nostalgic James Bond game? Hell Yeah!

User Rating: 9 | From Russia With Love GC
By Suti64 | Review Date:
Ever since it debuted in 1962 with the film Dr. No, the James Bond series has been one of the most prolific movie series of all time. In terms of the video games made from the franchise, each game in the series today (or in other words, since 1997) has been targeted by fans as hopefully the next great game after Goldeneye. Pretty much Everything or Nothing has been the most recent game with the highest score from critics. That same year, Electronic Arts released From Russia With Love, a different game than games like Nightfire, Agent Under Fire, EoN, and Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. While those games had their own stories, From Russia With Love is like Goldeneye and The World is Not Enough as it follows the plot of a Bond film and while it is rather easy to complete, it is a great addition to any diehard James Bond fan's collection.

From Russia With Love, as you may guess from the title, is based off of the 1963 film From Russia With Love, deemed by many as the best James Bond film ever. The movie follows Agent 007 (Sean Connery) as he fights Russians in hopes of acquiring a valuable encoding machine, a Lektor. The game is generally the same plot, with a couple of changes. First of all, the main villain organization in this game is Octopus, not Spectre like in the movie. There are also a couple of new levels, like the level where Bond battles Russians in the streets of Istanbul before heading to Station T.

The big part of this game is that voicing Bond is the original Bond himself, Sean Connery. Yes, his voice sounds different from his voice from the days when he actually portrayed Bond on the big screen, but this is a key part, in my opinion, to a good Bond game. One of my biggest complaints with Nightfire is that I really didn't like the voice of the guy they got to play Bond. No wonder why Everything or Nothing was such a great game. It had Pierce Brosnan voicing 007.

The biggest complaint in this game is mainly how the game is easy. Yes, this is true because your health bar, for one thing, isn't like other games (like Agent Under Fire or Nightfire) where your health bar was the gunbarrel that has become a staple of the franchise. You have an armor bar which, considering how good you are, will probably never fully go down. If you pretty much just go like Daniel Craig does in the movie Quantum of Solace (in other words, being a wild shooter) you should get through this game in under a few hours.

But, you have to give the creators a lot of credit because they make you feel like you are reliving that famous movie again in a new millennium.

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