Quantum of Solace The Game (Page 2 of 2)

Pretty nice game, really sucks you in, but it's just too short (I'm not a very fanatical gamer and still finished it in 3 3 hour play sessions). Enjoyed the game better than I did the movie though.

No Bliss was who was originally in the game.  Beech was Bonds original cover along with...Miss Stephanie Broadchest.

That's Right, lol. Thanks for the correction!

Beat the game this morning, the last two levels have some very intense fire fights.  Had a very annoying thing happen to me.  Right at the end of the next to last level, to escape the falling building Vesper is in, you have to leap onto a temporary bridge that you drop down between two parts of the building.  I missed the leap and died, but everytime the game restarted I was at the same part of having missed the leap so I would die instantly with no hope of saving it.  So I had to restart the level.    What made it even more annoying was I had a hard time with one of the gun battles in the courtyard.  First time I went right through it, second time took me about ten times. 

Anyway, games was good and I did enjoy it, but a little variance from the constant gun battles would be good.

Just finished QoS for the Xbox 360. I played it on easy the first time thru and actually beat it in one day, probably taking about 5 hours in total. I'll have to try it at a higher difficulty at some point.

I thought it was a fun game hampered by some very noticeable shortcomings. The storyline was very disjointed and hard to follow; I think they would have been better off presenting the levels chronologically rather than flashing back to CR right in the middle of the QoS adventure. The rendered cinematics were also sub-par with some really ugly character models and pretty uninspired readings of the lines. Since so much of the dialog was verbatim from the movies they would have been better off just looping it from the films. The game was almost 100% gunplay, so a lot of the setpieces from the films such as the PTS and plane chase from QoS were presented as cinematics or reduced to a blip on an overhead map. It really highlighted the fact that the game could have used a couple of vehicle levels and maybe a gadget or two here and there. The God of War style quicktime action sequences were competent but I would have preferred some implementation of actual melee combat rather than just timed button presses.

Overall a decent game and an improvement over EA's last couple of efforts, but hardly a masterpiece and certainly not the best the series has seen. Everything or Nothing still gets my vote for best overall Bond game.

Last edited by TonyDP (20th Jan 2009 00:42)

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I'd been playing Fallout 3 for the past few weeks and that was such a deep and intricate game that I wanted something a little lighter, so I decided to go on easy. I had trouble in a few spots as well as the game didn't always make your next objective clear. Even on easy, there were a lot of enemies in that final level and I had to play a few sections more than once. I also wasn't nearly as thorough as I usually am in exploring the levels to find all the hidden stuff (like the cell phones). I'm sure upping the difficulty and playing it more methodically would lengthen the experience for me as well. I also experienced a few glitches here and there like doors not opening after I cleared the room.

I liked the game more than I thought I would (which mirrors my experience with QoS the film) but yes, it is a flawed game in some ways and strikes me as having been a little rushed, which actually isn't all that surprising. I recently read an interview with an Activision exec where he talked about the company's direction going forward and why they had dropped several promising games like Ghostbusters. He just kept throwing out marketing terms like preferred 12 month development cycles for their games, title viability and marketable franchises. It was kind of disheartening since he talked about everything but a game's quality and in seeing the finished product I can see some of those principles already in place with the QoS game.

QoS didn't sell nearly as well as Activision had hoped and I wonder how its performance will impact the Bond license's future franchise viability, to use one of his own terms.

Last edited by TonyDP (20th Jan 2009 02:36)

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I'm afraid that Everything or Nothing really spoiled me, because although I'm impressed by the Quantum of Solace game,I just don't find myself enjoying it as much as I wanted to.Part of my problem with QoS is this bizarre insistance on 007 participating in a "fair fight" with his adversaries.I'd much prefer to slug my opponents with ease--as in EON or Grand Theft Auto--rather than punch a series of specific buttons within a limited period of time and hope for the best, as in QoS.

And then there's the look of the game.I'm playing the PS2 version and while I'll admit the images are pretty good, everything being equal,they pale in comparison to the remarkable visuals EA achieved with EON.

And one more thing--and this is not a complaint as much as it is a personal observation--I'd rather play an original 007 story designed to be a game,than a game written to accomodate the storyline of a 007 motion picture.Having said all this,QoS is fun,but it's not the equal of EON--at least in my eyes.

Last edited by Willie Garvin (1st Feb 2009 20:31)

I think the difference was that EON flowed very well, whereas QOS felt very disjointed and all over the place.  I feel that way about most games turned into movies.  Id go so far as to say that this is a worse game than From Russia with Love.

Who knows what Activision will do next but somehow I dont thin they will ever make an Everything or Nothing

I liked the game, it was nice to have a new Bond game after a three year break. I do wish that Activision had do more with the Wii version.

I had my eye out for the cell phone early on only to discover that you can only find them in the 360 or PS2 versions. Special features like this really make for more exciting game play for me. Everything or Nothing did a fantastic job with extras for the gamers to find reguardless of what console you played the game on. If Activison wants to manke money off this licence then they should take this factor in account.

Wait, what? Do you happen to mean the PS3 version. I have played and beaten this game at least three times, (and thats between dealing with my 1 and a half year old daughter) and am writing a walkthrough for it, but I was of the understanding that the cell phones were not in the PS2 version. Please, let me know. That was one of my main gripes.

Last edited by GoldeneyeRA1 (30th May 2009 04:32)

For any gamers who still haven't tried Quantum of Solace and are curious about it, the Xbox 360 version of the game is now selling for $19.97 at Amazon.com. At that price, its definitely worth a look (the Wii and PS3 versions are still hovering around $30).

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AWIOYG/?ta … ops.com-20

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