{"id":86098,"date":"2026-07-16T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86098"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:36:42","slug":"007-first-light-almost-turned-james-bond-into-mr-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86098","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Almost Turned James Bond Into \u201cMr. Gadget\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/007-first-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">007 First Light<\/a> strikes a key balance between keeping James Bond grounded while also placing him in believably outlandish sequences, but for longtime fans of the franchise, the lack of any over-the-top gadgets was sorely missed in the game. That&#8217;s not to say that developer IO Interactive didn&#8217;t consider giving Bond some extra black ops hardware during the development of the game, but these gadgets were cut back so that Bond&#8217;s arsenal would more accurately reflect the world he was living in&#8211;which meant no alligator submarine, flamethrower bagpipes, or a boombox rocket launcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We had things in it that we thought were going to be cool, but when you play it, it turns out it&#8217;s not cool, it just looks silly,&#8221; senior combat designer Tom Marcham said to GameSpot.\u00a0&#8220;There was definitely a point where it felt like he&#8217;d become Mr. Gadget, and we had to tune it back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bond&#8217;s gadgets in 007 First Light focus primarily on espionage and creating windows of opportunity, something Marcham said suited the close-quarters nature of the gameplay and Bond&#8217;s character. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t want to go into overly gamey stuff where he was always using tasers or sleep darts. It didn&#8217;t seem to fit the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>007 First Light strikes a key balance between keeping James Bond grounded while also placing him in believably outlandish sequences, but for longtime fans of the franchise, the lack of any over-the-top gadgets was sorely missed in the game. That&#8217;s not to say that developer IO Interactive didn&#8217;t consider giving Bond some extra black ops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":86100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098"}],"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\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86101,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions\/86101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}