{"id":82951,"date":"2026-05-28T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82951"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:36:41","slug":"007-first-light-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82951","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 ability 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 what we got is the best Bond game I\u2019ve ever played.<\/p>\n

First Light\u2019s greatest success is just how impressively developer IO Interactive has executed on its mission to create something it can call its own within a very established universe. What we get is something that\u2019s unmistakably Bond \u2013 and respectfully adjacent to everything that has come before it \u2013 but confidently occupies its own space as a uniquely separate take. <\/p>\n

That is, it never seems like a situation akin to 2001\u2019s 007: Agent Under Fire \u2013 which felt like the series was in a holding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 ability 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":82953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82951","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\/82951"}],"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=82951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82955,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82951\/revisions\/82955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}