The first rule of spycraft, we learn early on in 007 First Light, is to always do the unexpected. The thing is, the game – an origin story chronicling how James Bond becomes a 00 agent – is full of what you’d expect from a Bond story: quippy one-liners, endless charisma, highly competent people romping around stunningly beautiful places and a story so over the top you can’t help but shake your head at it.
But what is unexpected is how the somewhat clichéd individual elements are shaken (not stirred) together, creating a brilliant Bond cocktail that rivals the franchise’s best films while being a thoroughly excellent game to play.
Developed and published by IO Interactive, First Light takes us back to before James, portrayed by a pitch-perfect Patrick Gibson, was known as 007. When the game opens, he’s a 26-year-old British navy aircrewman, headstrong and resistant to authority with a quicksilver tongue and a somewhat reckless need to save the day. But one explosive prologue later, he finds himself as the newest recruit in MI6’s newly rebooted 00 programme.
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