first ever 3rd person 007 game with Daniel Craig.very nice indeed,sharp admirable controls in shooting involved
as you know 007 blood stone is the latest project that is only out for video games and the game is 3rd person unlike the other 007 bond video games,007 games has always been 1rd person untill this one.
all the characters and voices are from the real actors such as Daniel Craig and Joss Stone and so on.
there is a storyline in which you will play as james bond,the main character who is an British MI6 agent,and there is always a girl in these movies,DUHHHHH, well this time it isnt video game based on the movie,all the elements involved in this game is perfect the elements create a great bond together and publish an amazing action scenes you will not see or interact again,like this one.
i should mention that,it is just a 3rd person game here,it goes on just like a real cinematic movie,you will jump on the edges,on tall buildings,break windows see and feel the explosions in front of you,youll get to drive Aston martin cars around the city in a chase scenarios,you will have to chase a few important people with boats and so on.so much variety, fun and entertainment is involved in 007 blood stone.
as for the details, i can mention that i was actually surprised to see such a great graphic in the game,for example one thing that caught my eye while playing the game was that, there is 2 different kinds of light here,first the normal sunshine light,the second one is the lights that have a little camera effect and those lights are commonly the electrical lights and again you will see that kind of effect and notice it in the missions mostly at nights.
as for the camera that is behind bond all the time,which is offering a 1st person game here,is really good, i am really impressed,for example to explain this camera better,when ever there is an explosion ,which we will see a lot in this game the camera goes all over the place,and gives you the feeling that some one is actually on the surface in which the explosion has occurred and is holding the camera steady,very interesting use of camera here,i can also see that some times while free aiming you can be able to see the DOF created by camera,very good indeed.
it wasnt really that difficult to see a few features that looked exactly like the ones from "Splinter cell Conviction".for example the ability to aim directly at the enemies head and the one shot kill.some of the hand to hand interactions did seem like the ones from the "SCC" also that fire work did not looks as neat as the one in splinter cell conviction ,but good copying activision.the car chasing levels will happen a few times in the whole story mode,some levels are entirely at night giving you more chances to go along in stealth,and other levels give you pure action shooting scenes at day time.
one thing i liked a lot in 007 blood stone was the,sharp shooting game play,giving you almost a real time action.you have the ability to take cove and blind fire while covering,which is pretty useful.
another useful feature is that when ever you either kill enemies silently or in a stealth mode or even blind fire kills,on the buttom right side of the screen it shows you how many you have done out of the requirement needed for the achievement earning,very useful for those who want to go back and kill more to get any sorts of achievements from the game,on the other hand some levels really needed this feature but wasnt given it,for example special clock counter was really handy if they gave on the last chase,so you dont really know if you will get the achievement at the end of the level or not.but still pretty good ability to know where you are at, before the achievements.
Daniel Craig's lips where not really moving with the words,i think they needed to work more on the lip sync.the scenes created in different countries such as Turkey and Thailand was great indeed,it felt pretty much real. the roads and basically the whole city was not a duplicate of different parts and was actually there, modeled perfectly, to me the cities felt really alive and attentive.just like other bond movies we did see the introduction into the game.there was the great soundtrack and motions of girls dancing,i think those two are the main elements in every James Bond movie.this one did match the name "Blood Stone" though,so yeah pretty nice.there was a downside as well into the introduction it did feel a little bit fake to me.
there are 4 kinds of difficulty you can choose from.at first try, you can only choose 3 difficulties,and the 3rd one is called agent,but after you complete the game once you will unlock the 4th difficulty mode known as "007".you see it is a lot harder than agent mode,007 mode is a 2 bullets kill mode,and pretty hard infact,some of the levels are really a challenge to every one on 007 mode,but other on the other hand can be really easy even on the "007" difficulty mode such as driving missions
thats about it,007 Blood Stone has been created astonishingly, and the beautiful textures really match each level and also match James bond's style,you will be seeing some slow motions in the game,also pretty neat.blood spill and the whole idea of seeing blood is reduced to zero,makes you think this game is intended for kids.
i have to add at the end that,the game was all like kind of short,and at the end it did feel as if something was missing from the storyline.
7.5 to 8.0 out of 10.