To my biggest surprise, Agent Under Fire is a very entertaining Bond FPS, that shows how much potential is in this character when it comes to video games.

Agent Under Fire is very short, and I appriciate it, because the overall design of the missions are top notch. Some of the levels feature multiple paths that you can take, using your gadgets to zip around with a grappling hook, hack doors and terminals or even destroy locks with laser. The variety is awesome, and while some levels are super short, they are good filler before the actual missions. There are on-rail segments, vehicle levels with actual open ended designs, and the game even tries to motivate you to replay missions, as there are scores when you finish them.

The scoring system watches the time of completion, how many enemies you dispatched and Bond moments, which can be triggered in each mission. These basically serve as a collectible, but they are interactive. You need to do something that would be considered "Bond enough" and the iconic theme starts to play out for a few moments, with an icon popping up in the left corner to make you feel even more like a super spy.

Sadly, the story suffers from being as generic as a Bond story can get, but when a game is this entertaining, I do not mind it at all.

After the sour taste of the PS1 era, the PS2 era of James Bond looks promising!

Reviewed on Nov 26, 2023


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