Quantum of Solace: The Game Comments by Kristan Reed

This review is bullshit man!
And then there are plenty of people on here who HAVEN'T EVEN PLAYED THE GAME joining in on the shit talking.

Actually go and play the game, then you'll see that it's pretty good.

If you like COD4 and RB6: Vegas2, and you're a bit gutted that COD is returning to WWII, then this is the game for you!

Oh and it's not called Quantum of Solace: The Game, but simply Quantum of Solace..... At least on my UK version it is.

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

+1 to the 'WTF does this mean' gang.

EDIT - although I do see this has been addressed elsewhere in the comments.


I thought the Bond licence was taken away from EA and given to Activision in an effort to improve its quality?!

I would like to see a review of the Wii game. That look beyond awful.

"@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"

As explained, it's a quote from Casino Royale, you incoherent half-wit.

@KingsXKing

Thanks buddy.
I expected some serious flaming for that, which may still come my way actually.

Am I the only one in the thread that thought the film was actually perfectly enjoyable? Enjoyable trash.

I quite enjoy mindless action orientated entertainment but QoS was the limit. It should have at least had some story to it or gone the whole hog and trotted out an 80 minute long movie. Damn, Arnies Commando (a class movie) had more story in it than QoS.

Sounds like many of the criticisms are the same as I felt about COD4s campaign - standard FPS, very linear, nice setpieces, you can see the respawns/AI behind the curtain, bland in places. Lucky COD4 was redeemed by its multiplayer for me eh?

"Pay attention 007. Looks like a normal games console, right? Wrong! This is the Xbox 360. Press this little button here, anywhere from five minutes to five months, and eventually these three lights will turn red - the RROD! Guaranteed to leave its victim a quivering wreck and on the phone to customer support for two hours."

"And what's this, Q?"

"That's the PSP."

"And what does that do?"

"F**k all."

Harsh but fair, I guess. I found it an enjoyable romp in a Bondy-type world although definitely no keeper (unless I forget to return it...)

I didn't really expect this to be very good. I'm not sure why people did, although I didn't pay much attention.

CoD4 engine! OMG! /sleep

The 3 minute PC demo of this game was so awful.

Movie tie in ????? Get real - since when were they ever up to much? Goldeneye excluded (Though that came out eons after, in fact it was merely a couple of months before Tomorrow Never Dies went into cinemas) ..... No big surprise here. Far too many other games to be giving our attention to. Move on - Thank God - my wallets aching from the beating its been taking over the last month......

I bet it is hard sometimes having to drag yourself away from something great like fallout 3 to play/review this rubbish.

I agree with the majority of EGs review except for the end score.

Its easily a 6.5 or 7.

whilst it is simple and linear its a perfect Bond tie-in. Its fun and lets face it, if it were difficult and you kept dying then you would say its nothing like Bond. So I think that they have portrayed Bond perfectly.

So if you want to have a bit of fun but don't wanna fork out the money for this game then do what i've done, buy the game, play it and enjoy yourself (its only short) then sell on a week later and end up having spent only £3 on the thing. Bargain if you ask me :)

I'd give the film an even lower score. It was shite.

"Rather than giving the Bond game its Casino Royale moment, Activision and Treyarch have simply carried on in the joyless tradition of dumbed-down shooters designed for thickos, and GoldenEye has never seemed so far away."

Heh. You sound angry. Not in a silly "angry internet men" sense, but because of palpable annoyance. Which is good. :)

"@pearofanguish

So seeing casino royale and knowing its script gives you brains.

I missed out on both

Ur the fuckwit"

By missed out on both, I assume you mean 'seeing Casino Royale' and 'brains'.


Maybe next time you should attempt to comprehend what you are reading before posting silly comments and jumping down people's throats, as you only make yourself look even more stupid.

I love my Wii but those shots are awful.

When the fuck did Bond start firing his gun with his feet?

Yes. Playing Fallout 3 recalibrates the scoring system slightly for me. Maybe pre-Fallout this ranks as a 6, or a 7 if you're feeling ludicrously forgiving of shocking game design. Post-Fallout, games like this feel like they were designed in a different *century*.

shame because he's supposed to be an avid game and wasn't going to play ball unless they made it good..and its still shite?

Anyone here played the multiplayer? Any good?

I'm playing the game in work on my breaks, and to be fair it isn't terrible by any means, just really really average. It starts off pretty shit but definitly picks up as you go on. The controls are really solid, and there are some nice set pieces, but like the review says the enemies are rediculously stupid. Alright for a rental I'd think.

The film is considerably worse than Casino Royale, sure it might have more action scenes, but when most of them last 90 seconds and look like they were shot and edited by someone having an epileptic fit it doesn't really mean that much. Nothing in the film was as cool as CR's freerunning opener, or the scene at the airport, and the plot was a bit of a mess too.
Basically Martin Campbell needs to come back for the next one, because Forster can't shoot an action scene for shit.
That car chase at the start was cutting at least once every second, fucking rediculous,..... I'm too angry, I'm going to shut up :)

This review is terrible for a start you need to play it on agent or 007 it really is a fun game havent had this much fun on ps3 since uncharted great controls to...im glad i ignored the ign review people need to try this also as trophies to if you are a trophy whore this is better than goldeneye imo.

what does this mean for the next Call of Duty..........

The wii screenshots actually made me laugh!

I agree with the posters who liked it. Review contained fair points but I still enjoyed it. Definitely a worthwhile rent (like Spider-man WOS)

Krudster: I agree with you on the game, however I have one question:

If the multiplayer is the best part, why not elaborate on that, and leave the cruddy single player to rot in a corner? Why dedicate 15 paragraphs to the single player and only 1 to the multiplayer when anyone contemplating getting the game should clearly be most interested in hearing about the multiplayer?

I bought the Collector's Edition of this from gamestation yesterday, as I'm a sucker for shiny things, and having read how easy/short the game was, decided to whack the difficulty all the way up to 007, and I'm having great fun with it.

Went in not expecting all that much from it, and was pleasently surprised with what I've gotten out of it so far.

Even from a brief play on an HMV demo pod, I knew that I'd enjoy the "pop 'n' shoot" gameplay.

@peterfil

No you're not the only one who enjoyed it. Saw QoS with my fiancee last night. It IS somewhat plot-light, but the action is impressive and the acting solid: I found it perfectly enjoyable.

No interest in the game.

genuine lol @ Waffleaber.

I just dont get reviews any more. I'm playing this, and liking it alot, its fast, fluid, with nice looking levels that make me want to play more to see whats coming next. Compare this to Braid which got a 10 out of 10, which I bought on the strength of the review, and hasnt been played for more than a couple of hours at most. I'm actually surprised that I like a Treyarch game. COD3 convinced me never to play a Teyarch game ever again. But for me but this game is quite well done. OK its got annoying parts like the stealth and security cameras, but for a quick blast in the very limited gaming time I get these days, its great.

The COD engine does not seem to do AI much at all, as it is all scripted events, really, in COD4. That got rave reviews; but when a Bond licence comes along to do the same thing, it gets butchered? That strikes me as a little unfair... but perhaps the scripted set pieces are simply uninspired and same-y. Like, the Chernobyl sequence in COD4 was simply fantastic, even though it was all scripted predicability, really, but it was still refreshing and great. That the same game holds something like the later "Death from above"-level goes to show how veried that game is - even though the AI is pretty weak. It's all about smoke and mirrors, not about AI . not really. It does not bode well for COD5...

But then again, maybe QoS is exactly the game EA ordered from Treyarch? Maybe they wanted something short and manageable, something casual 40-something Bond fans could play through and enjoy?

Isn't good? I think it's bloody brilliant! So happy with this game!

Movie tie-in game in utter crap shocker!!

heh, this review contained perhaps the most damning criticism of a title i've ever read on the internet to date:
"wondering whether EA would have done a better job after all."
fucking harsh! lol.
almost burnt my nasal cavity with coffee reading that.
:)

Also - multiplayer is excellent.

@ simakperrce: I'm not saying that all 40-something gamers are casual gamers; just that there are a lot of 40-something bond fans who are not "hardcore" gamers. I'm simply venting the possibility that they somehow found this to be an important demographic.

I'm 40 in two years myself, and still a gamer, although not exactly "hardcore". But then again, I guess I never really was. Kids and morgages etc. take up a fair chunk of time - but then again, whiling away the evening with a good game on the big screen, with the offspring soundly asleep, is an exellent pasttime. But I have to say that finishing something like GTAIV (which I did actually finish) or Oblivion (which I'm still chipping away at) is a huge task that takes several months. Fallout 3 is very appealing, but also somewhat daunting. I sorta liked being able to finish Uncharted and COD4 within a reasonable timeframe. Maybe six to ten hours is about right for a nice, mainstreamed game aimed at the still gaming family guy demographic, who has better things to do than walk around Liberty City looking for pidgeons or closing fifty plus oblivion gates.

I cathegorise "casual gamers" as someone who gets a game not because they're into gaming as such, as a hobby, but because the're into whatever the given game is about. Like Guitar Hero; lots of people playing it because they're into rock music, not because they concider themselves "gamers" (although a fair bit of gamers also enjoy those games). So: 007 QoS is probably made for people who are primarily fans of James Bond, not hardcore gamers. The latter group would probably get Gears of War 2 instead, right? And Bond has a lot of grown-up fans with morgages and kids and all that, and not 70 hours to spare to finish a game.

6 hours of singleplayer gameplay still sounds really stingy, but maybe it is a result of a deliberate strategy, and not just developer laziness.

Just remake Goldeneye or something, it'll never happen but I'd love to see Goldeneye remade EXACTLY the same, just with a facelift.

Goldeneye was the best Bond game ever, and it still is.

Until I see something amazing, if I wanna play Bond, then I'll dust off the N64.

Besides I'm none too keen on all this FPS/TPS crossover thing, FPS games a great, so are TPS, personally I like FPS better, but mixing the two just annoys the fuck out of me when playing a game.

Is it true that Goldeneye is coming out on xbox live arcade? wow, wouldn't that be awsome?!

well i usually use eurogamer as my main guide to games but i really think you got it wrong with this one. I picked it up for 19.99 this week and thought i would give it a go and i think its great. Its not a fantastic game but it has to be worth a 7 or 8. It uses the COD engine and adds a cover system and this works really well. I set the difficulty to agent (hardest) and have really really enjoyed this game. I suspect playing through on the regular difficult may be far too easy but agent is just the right difficulty for a hardened gamer. The AI of the baddies is great they will run away, charge you and if you are not careful they will flank you. The melee works well requiring a short quick time event which is better than just pressing a single button as it most games.

Then the online games are great too loads of game modes that work really well. I think 5 out of 10 is harsh and the reviewer got this wrong. Especially considering most movie licenced games are bad, this is a solid game you feel like bond and i am really enjoying it. I would recommend it to anyone who has finished cod5 and gow2 and needs a new challenge and its a must for bond fans.

The multiplayer is actually quite good fun, with all the varied levels looking excellent and a good selection of modern guns to select depending on the layout of the map. Admittedly the single player is fairly shortly but are generally fun. The achievements are well thought out as well.

Pick it up cheap on ebay and you'll enjoy it. There's still a lot of people playing it online.

I bought this game a few weeks ago and have been playing it on and off until I completed it last night.
I didn't read any reviews first but expected it to be a 7 not 5 out of 10. I enjoyed it and it was quite demanding at times on the hardest difficulty. I'm now going back on easy to mop up the remaining achievements on my pc. For £10 I've had more than my monies worth.