Anyway... I beat this game last night and I'm glad I didn't pay full price on it. The graphics seemed so-so to me, the mechanics were underwhelming, and the campaign was a disjointed mess (you spend roughly an hour or so in Quantum of Solace, and three or four hours in Casino Royale in a massively extended flashback). Not only that, but half of the achievements are based on online multiplayer, and no one on XBL plays this game anymore. I fired up Perfect Dark Zero (you know, the 360 launch title) to see if anyone was on that, and I got into a deathmatch right away. Weird, right?
Overall, the game is an okay first-person shooter with third-person elements here and there. The cover system seemed a bit dodgy to me, and the blindfire really isn't all that blind. If you peek out of cover, line up a shot, then go back into cover and blindfire, you'll hit the exact shot you had just lined up. Maybe this is how blindfire is really supposed to work and I've just played all the wrong games. I'm not complaining too much; this makes the game rather easy, but it just didn't feel right.
I'd say that the bottom line on this game is if you're looking for a few hours to kill and you have a man-crush on Daniel Craig, give this one a tumble. Don't pay full rental price for it unless you're only getting it for a day or two; GameFly it if you can, or get it for a few bucks at your local Gamestop or similar venue. Don't pay full price for it or you'll end up having spent $13 an hour for the time it takes to beat the campaign on a middling difficulty.
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