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I did finish it a total of two times, including the DLC for it (seriously, what was so secret about that made them wait to put it on the game?) I waited a LONG while in between playthroughs....about a year and honest and truly, it is NOT as bad as I had remembered it. Yes it is a CoD clone, but then so were GoldenEye Reloaded and Quantum of Solace, yet those get praise? I still don't get it!
Eurocom did a great job on updating the gameplay, gun play and overall feel from GE Reloaded, for once in areas that I felt needed to be tweaked on that game. For example when you crouched on GE and aimed down the site of your weapon it would pop you up regardless if you were next to a short wall or not, on 007 Legends you only pop up if you are next to the short wall, otherwise you just aim down the site.
At first I was disappointed that when the movie level ended that there was zero mention of it for the rest of the game, but then I really thought about it and except with a few examples, the same thing can be said about the Bond movies too. The stories in the films are self-contained too, so that no longer bothers me.
The level of difficulty is strong for this game. Unlike GoldenEye Reloaded where the classic GE N64 007 health mode is reserved for the super hard mode of the game (THAT was a gauntlet, let me tell you). Well on 007 Legends the classic health mode is separate from the difficulty setting, so you can use it and still play on a lower setting.
Furthermore those levels in 007 Legends can get very tough. Especially the areas that require a high level of stealth to get through. There is one on the License to Kill section and Moonraker......That level, the last of the normal game was super hard. You are swimming in the zero gravity and your goal at the end of the level is to stop even ONE poison plant pod from being launched. To do this you need to use the Moonraker laser to destroy the arms that send the pods out. If you miss one, you still have a chance to destroy it before it launches, but doing so will release the chemical in the area making you lose health and die if you don't finish in time.
After not playing for a while, like I said, I was able to go back and give it a real play through and I really enjoyed 007 Legends.
1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.
1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby