James Bond is back, better than ever
that would be the opening of the first mission on new James Bond's game, Quantum of Solace. After the last James Bond game, From Russia With Love (EA), James Bond come back in 1st person view. Treyarch and Activision (they don't write it as Activision Blizzard and that's making me confuse) has done a good job with this game, but...there are some great issue about the difficulty.
The story, Quantum of Solace follow the movie's story line which cause it is not available with subtitle making me a little bit confused (this is the first time treyarch don't give subtitle to their game). The story also combined with Casino Royale's story. Interesting idea (actually, it just tell us about Bond's lost after Verper's death) but still, i don't quite understand (i'll just watch the movie that come out november 6th in Indonesia). There is not much of movie scene on this game. instead, they using computer screen showing us the mission and sound of M and her associated, and Bond. Well that's not a good idea actually. But, original artist as the voice cast is great (love Judy Bench's voice)
The gameplay, this the interesting part, playing Quantum of Solace is like playing a combination of Perfect Dark Zero, with the stealth action, Call of Duty 4, with the mission direction (it place on top not at the bottom of the screen), Call of Duty 3 , with the graphics, general gameplay, and crosshair system, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, with the covering mechanics. Actually this is an interesting game. Bond can cover like the one in Rainbow Six plus, Bond can dash to cover by ponting at it and hold (A) button, Bond can switch his cover in corner, and do blind fire too. Great covering mechanic! (wish CoD world at war can have the same system) Bond can do melee attack, sprint takedown and stealth takedown which perform by pressing the right analog button and do button sequence. Some fighting scene also need you to do button sequences. The gameplay can be intense by the amount of the enemy and the capability of the AI too search another place to flank you, the problem is, JAMES BOND IS TOO FREAKING GREAT! MI-6 trained him very well, he can shoot with awesome accuracy, even when he do blind fire! Bond also can regenerate his health in a blink of an eye, and...the environment really help him! no cover can be broken! even with only a little crate, the enemy can't shoot him! when in cover, Bond is invincible! Other ridiculous thing is every weapon in this game (except for handgun) have a front grip on it. That making Bond can shoot without any recoil! I finish it less than 6 hours in field operative difficulty, now i'm playing the agent difficulty and so far, i still can't fell the diference.
The graphic, actually, for a spy game, the graphic is too bright, they should make it like Call of Duty 3, that would be more awesome and realistic but overall, it's great, from Siena to Miami, everything is just great. there are some low frame rate but that wouldn't have any effect to your playing. One thing that really annoying is the character's animation. IMO, Bond is too short on the game! he doesn't have any facial animation too. Craig, Judy, Eva, and Olga don't look like the real one. that's bad. Treyarch should learn from EA when they made Sean Connery, that's awesome. one last thing, they should give blood animation to this game (just like call of duty 3)
The soundtrack, for this part, i really amaze with the Bond's theme attach to the game. Really epic!
so, it's cool, well actually it's just plain fun, but i still love it. there is a quote at the end of the credits, 'James Bond will return' (if i'm not mistake) is that mean the next james bond's game will produce by Activision-Treyarch again? let's wait.