{"id":83432,"date":"2026-05-30T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83432"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:38:51","slug":"in-007-first-light-bonds-bs-is-his-best-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83432","title":{"rendered":"In 007 First Light, Bond\u2019s BS Is His Best Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Rob Minkley, Crux magazine, here to interview Sir Nicholas Webb. Don&#8217;t mind me as I rifle through your security office cupboards.<\/p>\n<p>John Fisher, museum curator, checking a valuable artefact for damage. Fletcher, operations department, searching for a rogue employee. I&#8217;m a lab technician who lost his coat, a tourist who took a wrong turn, a concerned bystander who found this heavily armed man passed out on the floor, the poor sod \u2013 and no, that&#8217;s not the outline of my fist imprinted on the side of his face. Honest.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/007-first-light\">007 First Light<\/a>, James Bond&#8217;s superpower is literally bullshit. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike Hitman\u2019s Agent 47, Bond doesn\u2019t need a disguise: with a single button press he blurts a tale so brazen, so blatantly untrue that it bamboozles anyone in earshot, buying you 30 seconds of peace in any restricted area. Stroll to your objective uninterrupted or, as I often do, pick off your enemies under the cloud of confusion.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"image-with-caption\" data-image-url=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/05\/29\/bond-bluff-01-1780062211413.jpg\" data-image-title=\"undefined\" data-image-class=\"article-image-full-size\" data-image-link=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/05\/29\/bond-bluff-01-1780062211413.jpg\" data-caption=\"A%20lie%20is%20as%20good%20as%20a%20gun%20in%20007%20First%20Light.\" \/>\n<p>You can ignore this ability, called a bluff, and make it through the campaign just fine, but you really shouldn&#8217;t. More than just a silly party trick, it exemplifies the tongue-in-cheek tone of the entire game. This is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Minkley, Crux magazine, here to interview Sir Nicholas Webb. Don&#8217;t mind me as I rifle through your security office cupboards. John Fisher, museum curator, checking a valuable artefact for damage. Fletcher, operations department, searching for a rogue employee. I&#8217;m a lab technician who lost his coat, a tourist who took a wrong turn, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":83434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83432","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\/83432"}],"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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83436,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83432\/revisions\/83436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}