007:EoN, now with worse graphics, less decent voiceover, stiff controls, and other disappointing hits from the 80's!
The controls are stiff and jerky when you're on foot and the driving controls are way too sensitive. It took me less than a second to 180 my vehicle, but a full few seconds to start walking in the other direction. This isn't good when many enemy terrorist bad guys are shooting you with multiple close range bullets, but it's ok as long as you're close enough to perform a wrestling move on someone as you can instant kill with your suplexes and stay invulnerable while doing so. That's another thing, guns are useless. They hurt about 10% as much as your punches and take forever to aim (which won't help you anyway) and fire. You're trained how to drive early on but never how to select/toggle/holster/use/look at weapons, so you're busy sneaking about holding a gun in a defensive stance and can do nothing about it until you can find someone to punch. Just ignore the firearms and run up to DDT your gun-weilding foes.
Camera control is equally as bad as movement, the radar systems looks and works like something I drew on a carboard box when I was 5, and the overall presentation feels like EA should've done this game instead... but as I mentioned earlier, they did and it was better. And if they had done this, it probably wouldn't have glitched in a level, freeze-locking all the doors, forcing me to start over. As for the story? I mean, you can guess all of it. Weapon's in the wrong hands, you gotta get it back, oh no she's working for the enemy but not really because she's also a spy, bad guys a-comin', escape, ok now we'll surprise attack 'em! Wake me up when Viva Pinata comes out.
There are few reasons you would play this. Take me, for example. I was interested in playing a spy/action game with a kick ass leading man supplying the digital smacking down of evildoers. And I was thoroughly disappointed. I actually got in the mood to put on the original Syphon Filter after a good hour of playing this, a game almost a decade older with better collision detection and less glitches.
Another reason might be because you want to buy a game that has The Rock in it. Well, his voice acting is lame. He sounds like he's bored, and he would've had good to reason to be if he were watching game footage during recording. And his likeness is badly drawn. He looks more like himself in disguise, complete with highway patrol glasses and fake Big Bossman moustache. You want The Rock serving fools and looking cool, watch his movies. I mean, he fights Ernie Reyes Jr. in The Rundown and that's just 14 times cooler than anything you'll see in Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run.