A surprisingly good movie licensed based game
Story
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The game tells the story of Jason Bourne, a CIA agent, who failed to assinate his target and is now on the run from CIA and pretty much every authority in the world, all while getting help from a woman called Marie. The story is partly based on the first Bourne movie "The Bourne Identity" while following some of his past missions not covered in the movies. If you haven't seen the movie yet, then you probably should, otherwise you probably won't be able to understand much, the game skips a few sequences from the film and it's a bit convoluted for those who never seen it, so watching the movie is highly recommended. For people who have seen the movie, the game will expand the universe.
7.0
Gameplay
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The Bourne Conspiracy is another game that mixes shooting, with driving and fighting. The shooting parts are the highlights, you move around, taking cover, shooting enemies. You can use the Bourne Instinct to highlight objects you can use, it can also help you aim. After shooting a certain number of enemies, your adrenaline meter fills you and you can do a shoot takedown, which kills just about the enemy before you, or the few enemies that are in the room with you, it makes the game a bit easy and considering you have plenty of time to react to it's quick time event, you'll quickly just start hurting enemies, just to get enough adrenaline to take him out. That being said though, it is fun and the cover system works well. Then there's the hand-to-hand sequence, basically your up against one or more enemies, it's the simple stuff you got your light attacks that's quick and doesn't deal a lot of damage and then you got the strong attacks, which is slow to use but deals a good amount of damage. The hand-to-hand sections tends to get repetitive, you always hit a guy, then block, wait for him to hit you, you then hit him and the process repeats until you get enough adrenaline to perform a takedown. When fighting against bosses, there are also a few quick time events which will prevent from getting hit, but once again these are too easy. The driving sections are surprisingly decent, though the car physics could be a bit better, their easy and fun to play. The quick time events in the game are good, except for the in-game ones which are a bit too easy.
The game takes around 6-10 hours to complete, after that there's not much replay value unless you have the Xbox 360 version. Each version contain extras but they aren't really exciting or that special.
7.0
Graphics
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The graphics are good, the environments are good looking and the character models animate really well, but they could look better. The take downs are the visual highlight, each looking very realistic and beautiful to see. The cut-scenes are made to imitate the shaky camera that was use in the movies, it works well, but the cut-scenes are mostly pre-rendered and they doesn't look as good as the in-game graphics either. The game doesn't use any likeness of Matt Damon or any of the other actors either, it's a bit disappointing, but it at least their somewhat re-created well. The frame-rate might go down a few times but otherwise, this is a good looking game.
8.5
Sound
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The voice acting is good, though none of the actors are voicing. The guy who voice Jason Bourne however is a good stand in, he doesn't try to imitate Matt Damon, but he does a good job. The music is provided by Paul Oakenfold and he does a good job.
8.5
Overall
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The Bourne Conspiracy is a surprisingly good game, some elements in the game could be better but otherwise, this is a surprisingly good game, it's short length however makes it hard to recommended a purchase though, rent it, unless your addicted to achievements.