{"id":81707,"date":"2026-05-26T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=81707"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:36:31","slug":"007-first-light-review-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=81707","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Review So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Like the man himself, a James Bond game should ooze style and swagger. There\u2019s no point in a timid tie-in with neither the balls nor budget to bring the Bond fantasy to life, and I\u2019ve never particularly wanted one that simply gaffer tapes all the loudest bits of Call of Duty together and stuffs them into a tuxedo. What I\u2019ve wanted is a Bond game that\u2019s confident and charismatic; one that both ebbs patiently and peaks violently as it segues between social stealth, dangerous infiltrations, gadget-driven shenanigans, and destructive, never-tell-me-the-odds action. What I\u2019ve wanted is a Bond game like 007 First Light \u2013 and I\u2019m having a fantastic time so far.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"007-first-light-official-launch-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Since its arrival at IGN over the weekend, I\u2019ve put around 14 hours into First Light over the last two days. This appears to have brought me to within a couple of chapters of the end of the story, which feels likely to take a few more hours based on the generally juicy lengths of each chapter I\u2019ve played to date. I\u2019ve been very happy with the pace so far and, since the world around Bond has been so thoughtfully and convincingly fleshed out, I\u2019m finding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the man himself, a James Bond game should ooze style and swagger. There\u2019s no point in a timid tie-in with neither the balls nor budget to bring the Bond fantasy to life, and I\u2019ve never particularly wanted one that simply gaffer tapes all the loudest bits of Call of Duty together and stuffs them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":81709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81707","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\/81707"}],"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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81711,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions\/81711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}