A graphically good game that is lost with a bad story line and bad game play taking away anything the game had to offer.
User Rating: 6.5 | James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire (Platinum) PS2
The Bond franchise has stuck with their first-person shooting mode for this game, which is a good move. There are, however, a lot of flaws. The default auto-aiming makes the game too easy. The AI of the enemies is terrible. Unless you are in their eyesight, they don't do a darn thing. The game moves too fast, and all the innocent bystanders do is crouch, even when no one's there. However, the weapons are really good, the gadgets are a great idea, especially the Q-Claw, and the missions are challenging enough depending on your difficulty level.The graphics are okay. First of all, who in the heck is this Bond guy? He looks nothing like Brosnan; he looks like Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan mixed together and he looks disgusting. If that was EA's intention, job well done. The environments need work, the weapon design is really bad, and the character hair is pretty bad. The character, vehicle, and framerate are pretty darn good, though.The Bond voice sounds like James Earl Jones an octave higher (that's not a good thing). You need a good James Bond voice in order to make a Bond game. The one footstep sound bothers me, and that god-awful squirrel-squealing sound of the rocket launcher makes me want to dice my brains and eat them with chopsticks. Other than that though, the sound is well done.This Bond game is not revolutionary, but it is worth a shot, especially if you're a hardcore 007 fan.
Cover Artwork ~B-~ It has a lot of things on the cover, a bland center piece of a shadowy Bond character takes away from the cover.
