Quantum of Solace: The Game Comments by Kristan Reed

Fantastic! Another game off the list - my bank balance breathes a sigh of relief

the game's bland, james bland

edit:
'although it's a dinner jacket rather than a dinner jacket'

what?

So we're back to the good old days of traditional movie tie-ins.

Meh, when are they finally going to release a decent bond tie-in?

C'mon... we all knew it wasn't going to be good, didn't we? Just because the game uses the CoD4 engine, doesn't guarantee it will be good... not when Treyarch are behind it! ;)

Quelle surprise.

"it's a dinner jacket rather than a dinner jacket"

donkey jacket?

oh w0w lol sum oF d gRphX are TEH BEZT!

still it was better than halo 3! :)

An the Wii version

Much like the actual movie then. No gadgets, a thug version of bond and no real plot to speak of.

Why the heck is the evil organisation called quantum of solace instead of specter. Who's idiotic idea was that. An organisation who's name means an infinetesimally small amount of solitude WTF

Horrid game, thanks Gamestation for allowing returns!

I have to echo the_dudefather - "although it's a dinner jacket rather than a dinner jacket. " means what? I'm easily confused at the best of times, but I read that one bit several times to see if I could get it. I can't.

I'm hoping the Wii version won't just be a broken version of this. Please.

Barton: That's a joke, right?

"Why the heck is the evil organisation called quantum of solace instead of specter. Who's idiotic idea was that. An organisation who's name means an infinetesimally small amount of solitude WTF"

Partly because it's a reboot, partly because the rights of SPECTRE were a hotly contested issue. Additionally, the group is just called Quantum, not Quantum of Solace.

Also the Dinner Jacket line is referencing something in Casino Royale - "There are Dinner Jackets and then there are Dinner Jackets".

Obviously the emphasis is somewhat lost in plain text.

Give the lad Sackboy a dinner jacket, he'll make a good Bond game.

What did everyone think of the film? I thought it was singularly boring. What a waste.

@FWB - nope apparently not.
Check it out http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/

crap like the film then

OUCH! worse than goldeneye i see. I am now officially worried about COD:WAW.

when is a dinner jacket not a dinner jacket?

when eurogamer says so.

@Gremmi

ahhhhhhh

add italics to review please EG :)

Game spin-off from movie, in mediocrity shocker!

er, did "Saruman" really have a golden gun? I missed that bit in LOTR... Scaramanga must be jealous! :P

The thing that annoyed me most about the game was that all the interesting setpieces (including the entirety of the car chases) were shown as low-quality pre-rendered cutscenes. Though I suppose, like most Bond games, they couldn't adequately do a combination of driving, shooting, flying etc so decided not to bother.

"I want a quantum of solace
But no more than a quantum
I know they do big bags of solace
But I don't want 'em..."

..and the popular Golden Gun mode also makes an appearance, giving one player Saruman's one-shot-killer

eh?

have I missed the Lord of the Rings/ Bond crossover film?

\tiddles got there first

@Trane - what do you mean 'finally' release a decent Bond game. Did you not play Goldeneye on the N64?

I can testify that this is the shortest SP game I've ever played, 4 and a half hours in and you've suddenly completed it, effing rip off. there are some nice touches in it however. Who wants to swap this and one of my finest camels for Dead Space?

Game isn't as bad as they say. Not a keeper by any means but definitley worth playing through.

One thing this game is though is WAY better than the movie. QoS is a stinking pile of shit compared to Casino Royale. Theres about 10 action sequences punctuated with little dialogue and even less story. I would give the game 6.5 and the movie 4 or 5 out of 10.

Well, that was completely expected. Did anyone think this was going to be good?

Partly because it's a reboot, partly because the rights of SPECTRE were a hotly contested issue. Additionally, the group is just called Quantum, not Quantum of Solace.

And maybe because the name SPECTRE is silly.

i hear ya red panda. i was getting worried this might be good and worth buying.

Played the PS3 version at the weekend, thought it was dull and severly lacking in anything interesting.

Whats more, the graphics were terrible. While I don't usually think GFX make or break a game, when it looks worse than CoD2 from years ago, you have to start wondering just what the hell happened.

40 quid saved for me, thanks a lot Treyarch!

haven't seen the movie yet, the game does look nice, but euro 59 for 8 hours of mediocre fun is a bit much.

amusingly one of the broadsheets said this was brilliant. I still wonder why the main stream press even bothers to review games. They obviously just get some chump to do it who wants to be a ploitical correspondent and is willing to do anything. Probably tries to shave with his PSP before cracking an egg on top of his non-stick PS3 Pan before settling down to write a review.

Saw the film last night. It's rubbish.

Then the Wii looks shockingly bad.

On PC the game is... how shall I put it... As if made for three year olds... I've probably never made so many headshots in a FPS game and you barely have to bother aiming because even blindfiring from cover will kill the thugs most of the time. The graphics are silly and the level design is lke something out of 2001. There is very little challenge and even less freedom to improvise (I mean, why even bother shooting the explosive barrels and such when the ehemies are easily dispatched as it is, except, of course, to shorten the experience...) However the game DOES throw a lot of explosions around and designed to be idiot friendly, I guess it's a good starting point for newcomers to the genre... Er... this is about as nice as I could come up with.

Any game based on a film that is made to tie in with said film's cinematic release is doomed from the start due to rushed development. That's why such games are universally meh if not LOL!

I was in Gamestation on Thursday. The girl behind the counter was like "Quantum of Solace is out tomorrow! It's the best Bond game yet!".

"Better than Goldeneye?", I asked.

"Well...", came the answer. Then she tried to sell me Fallout instead.

the review is a bit harsh imo, tune the difficulty level up from easy to agent or 00 level (the hardest 2 settings) and you will have much more of a challenge on your hands, sure it is linear but on these difficulty settings the game creates a good sense of urgency and danger, and on certain levels I found myself swearing at the deviousness of the ai. The online multiplayer is solid too its not a great game by any means but a 6 or 7 would of been a fairer reflection

Obvious Phail. And the film was a shitty mess too!

KingsXKing, you make no sense.

I'll echo what has been said that the game must be very faithful to the film because that deserved 5 out of 10 too.

er, did "Saruman" really have a golden gun? I missed that bit in LOTR... Scaramanga must be jealous! :P

Wasn't scaramanga and Saruman both played by the same actor (Christopher Lee) though? If so, aren't EG just being facetious with their saruman comment?

Oh my, I get really good at predicting scores. :)

Yes, the Saruman comment is related to Christoper Lee. It's deliberate.

"@pearofanguish

"To give Treyarch credit where it's due, Quantum of Solace does at least look presentable throughout, although it's a dinner jacket rather than a dinner jacket."

If this makes sense to you im happy you fuckwit"

If you read the rest of the comments thread, you'll see where I pointed out what this means.

"First things first: we must apologise for the absence of Quantum of Solace and Red Alert 3 reviews. They are in progress, and will be up as soon as humanly possible (probably Monday morning), but they won't be done before the games' release tomorrow.

Saddest of all, we only have ourselves to blame. The Eurogamer Expo meant we weren't in the office much this week, and so we couldn't hunt down review code when the PRs dragged their feet. There were some extenuating circumstances. EA sent Red Alert 3 to my Mum's house, brilliantly, and for the second week running Activision only distributed review copies of a shifty-looking licensed game at the last second - whatever could it mean? (Presumably the total absence of Crash Bandicoot code is another good sign too). But we can't blame all that. We're just rubbish. Leave in droves. That's what we'd do."

Gremmi explained it perfectly. If you know the dialogue in the movie, you'll know what the comment in the review refers to. Tom added in the gag and decided it didn't need italics. I can see why people would read it and think it was a mistake.

I bet this a really fun, if a little unoriginal shooter that deserves about a 7, sort of like Timeshift.