{"id":77321,"date":"2026-05-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77321"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:36:28","slug":"007-first-light-second-take-preview-007-first-light-feels-like-the-fresh-start-that-bond-fans-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77321","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Second-Take Preview: 007 First Light Feels like the Fresh Start that Bond Fans Deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>If I\u2019m being honest, I must say that I didn\u2019t exactly love the way that the last run of Bond films wrapped up. To be clear, I\u2019m not down on Daniel Craig. In fact, like many fans, I\u2019m of the opinion that he&#8217;s the best to ever take the role \u2013 but there\u2019s no question that his five-film run as 007 had more ups and downs than an Aston Martin\u2019s ejector seat. Casino Royale and Skyfall are surely two of the very best entries in the entire 60-year canon, but Quantum of Solace was undercooked, Spectre was one Fat Bastard away from being an Austin Powers-style parody, and although No Time to Die course-corrected to some extent, its bloated length and bleak tone has meant that I haven\u2019t felt the need to return to it since its 2021 release. No Time to Die? More like no time to rewatch.<\/p>\n<p>After a three-hour hands-on with 007 First Light at a recent BiliBili: First Look event in Shanghai, my biggest takeaway from IO Interactive\u2019s upcoming spin on Ian Fleming\u2019s superspy series is that it feels like the fresh start that Bond fans deserve. We\u2019re now five years on from the denouement of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I\u2019m being honest, I must say that I didn\u2019t exactly love the way that the last run of Bond films wrapped up. To be clear, I\u2019m not down on Daniel Craig. In fact, like many fans, I\u2019m of the opinion that he&#8217;s the best to ever take the role \u2013 but there\u2019s no question&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":77323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77325,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77321\/revisions\/77325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}