- Tested on PC using a code provided by the editor.
- Test configuration: RTX 4090 + AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D + 64 GB RAM = 60 FPS constant in 4K with DLSS Performance / Frame Gen x2 and all settings at max (including path tracing).
- Pierce Brosnan is a fire spitter and suffers from claustrophobia, now you know.
Only good memories of Tomorrow never dies on Playstation in the company of my tender Brudi, both of whom fell in front of our little cathode tube in the twilight of the 90's, while we were shooting in clusters of twelve terrorists from a snowy station. If torrents of water have sank under the bridges of the video game since this blessed time, an element of game design has remained frozen, both elusive and immutable, as insensitive to modern injunctions, I named the explosive red barrel. 007 First Light Lots of it.
James! I know where you're hiding! Come here and I'll kill you. *****E!
From a purely logistical point of view, all these explosive red cans raise questions. And the answer is certainly problematic. How did they get on this tarmac? Why? While James would unfurl everything that moves with his uzis by zigzaguing on an aeoport track, no pyrotechnic effect could have removed these questions from the head. Would I have done better to push back this questioning and keep blowing up those barrels like I've always done after 25 years of video-ludic indoctrination? Why do the spies always cover up behind if they're the ones who moved them here first? A call for help, I imagine, which would also explain the beastly AI as a nail to the enemies of the game.
Suddenly a small voice: « The barrels are one way like another to renew the player's attention ». Stronger now: « The barrels do BUM when they explode, it's BRUYING so it REVEILLES! ». A scream now: « WE HAVE BARES RED OUT BY PARESSE OKAY ?! ». Thanks for the clarification. At this stage of the test and after having already written the word six times, you might think that barrels are obsessed. I admit it, I have never been so cautious about these Rigatonis Metallic. It must be said that I was not well captivated by what he was working on the screen in 007 First Light.
Futile beauty
The game is difficult to attack on the graphic plane, especially with the path tracing activated. Definitely impressive, the activation of this technology completely transcends the image to the point of making each scene infinitely more incarnate thanks to the diffusion of light. Tapestries come to life, muscles shine, sunscreen shines, in short, you will believe!
As for the level design, the title does rather good work and you feel that the studio is strong from the experience of the games Hitman. 007 First Light Moreover, it takes over the skeleton, for the best (building the levels) as for the worst (rigid gameplay). You don't spend your time shooting in this James Bond, and sometimes you have to infiltrate. For this, James can listen not far from a conversation by taking the most blatant position possible, either leaning to a wall two meters from the interlocutors pretending to piano on his phone, but regularly throwing amusing glances at the spied persons. At this point, you might as well pull out a newspaper with eye holes.
This search for clues is friendly, no more, and you never feel any pride in collecting this information, unlike the trilogy Hitman In which these sequences were incorporated in a much more organic way. Here, the secondary paths seem much more scripted and superficial. « It's a lot of work. », as Boeing aircraft engineers so well say.
Otherwise, we pass the rest of the missions to fight with bare hands or to shoot, provided that the presumption of self-defence permit has been granted to us by Mr. In both cases, the balance sheet is mixed. The sound of weapons seems stifled and James tends to stick to the wrong cutlery, which is sometimes frustrating. The lack of punch of the shootings is widespread and we are bored. The Great Max Payne 3 The sensations were extremely brighter in 2012, 15 years ago.
As for the punches, browns are added with the Carré key, but it is the Rond key that was chosen by the developers to trim the bacon. What a bad idea, our thumb often lags between two gins to come back on the parade touch. Nothing gravissimistic in a game with the normal difficulty precisely balanced, but frustrating enough to be noted. The fights at times evoke a dance of Pinocchio under ether, which was already the case in Hitman, who saw his entire staging fly in bursts soon an armed conflict started.
Finally, let us come to the biggest flaw of the game, namely its horribly invading and non-disabled HUD in the options. It's probably the worst HUD I've ever seen in an action game. From the white circle around James when it is hidden in the high grasses (for pity, stop with this camouflage of pacomille) to the verbs « CERTIFICATE » and « BLUFFER » written in huge at the bottom of the screen during all phases of infiltration, passing through invasive icons scattered here and there or even to the blue azure lens that never disappears from the upper left corner: the HUD of 007 First Light is unsightly and has still not been patched four months after release.
Fortunately, 007 First Light is not only a half-raised succession of bearded infiltration phases and soft shootings. If the story is followed without being exciting, its characters, on the other hand, die out the screen, especially this young 007 becoming, both intelligent, funny, impetuous, and seductive without being heavy. To make it simple, it is he and especially his mentor Greenway (motion-captured and doubled by the excellent Lennie James) which made me hold to the end. The casting of the MI6 gentlemen is very convincing, which is less so for the antagonists. Too bad. Will I answer for a future? Not sure, but if that were the case, it would only be to find the fervour of this new agent, a charismatic asset in Her Majesty's secret service.
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