Astute observers of videogames can have observed that right now, May 26, is when evaluations for IO Interactive’s 007 First Light began to get printed. Even extra astute observers can have observed that PC Gamer’s assessment was not amongst them.
What’s up with that, then?
Although I’ve been poised in full assessment place ever since our on-line editor, Fraser Brown, tapped me on the shoulder in direction of the top of final month and mentioned (think about the next delivered in a Scottish brogue) “Do you want to review 007 First Light?” we’ve got as of but not really acquired the, ah, requisite code to do this.
The quick and tall of which is that our assessment goes to be a tad delayed. But worry not, it can come, and it’ll come as rapidly as potential whereas nonetheless giving yours really sufficient time to really play First Light correctly and assemble some coherent ideas about it. If you are determined for a PC-Gamer-branded hipfire take, although, you may at all times try my preview of 007 First Light from a hands-on event last April.
And, well, that’s all there is to say about it, really. We do apologise for the delay—I don’t think I’ve missed a review embargo in all my time at PCG, and I’m sad not to hit this one for you. But I promise that when I do hit publish, the resulting piece will be the most thoughtful, considered, deliberate and perspicacious 007 First Light review you ever read. It’ll be twice as perspicacious as all those other guys’ reviews. Mark it.
Right now, though, all I can do is review the 007 First Light that exists in my head: I thought it was a bold move to have James Bond denounce the long legacy of British imperialism and devote his life to armed struggle among third-world liberation movements, but I liked it. Maybe that goes differently if you fail the QTE to read the collected works of Amílcar Cabral. I’ll have to reload a save and try it.