007 Legends

007 Legends is a first-person shooter game in which the player controls James Bond in levels based on the films Die Another Day, Goldfinger, Licence to Kill, Moonraker, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The gameplay largely consists of firefights against groups of enemies across multiple locations, which several critics compared to the gameplay of the Call of Duty franchise. While in combat, the player can use iron sights, crouch behind cover, and vault over objects. Throughout the game, there are occasional sections in which the player will need to sneak past enemies.

During these stealth sections, the player can knock out unsuspecting enemies or kill them with a silenced gun. The player also has access to gadgets to make the stealth sections easier, such as a wristwatch with radar to detect enemy movement, and tranquilizer darts to subdue enemies from long distance.

The game begins with the opening chase sequence in Skyfall, in which MI6 agent James Bond (likeness of Daniel Craig, voice of Timothy Watson) pursues the mercenary Patrice in Istanbul, only to be accidentally shot and wounded aboard a train by his partner Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris). Plunging into the river below, Bond begins to flash back to several of his previous missions that took place in-between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. However, with the release of Spectre, the game has been rendered as non-canon.

In Miami, Bond awakens in a hotel room to find Jill Masterson dead from skin suffocation, coated in gold paint. Days later in Switzerland, Bond infiltrates the facility of Auric Goldfinger (Timothy Watson, likeness of Gert Fröbe), the man responsible for Masterson's death. He discovers Goldfinger's plan to irradiate the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky in Operation Grand Slam. Bond manages to convince Goldfinger's personal pilot, Pussy Galore (likeness of Honor Blackman, voice of Natasha Little), to inform the CIA, and he and the United States Army manage to thwart Goldfinger's scheme in the nick of time.

007 Legends was developed by Eurocom, who had previously worked on other James Bond games, such as The World Is Not Enough (2000), James Bond 007: Nightfire (2002), and GoldenEye 007 (2010). For the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise, holding company Danjaq and video game publisher Activision contracted Eurocom to make a game that incorporated key moments from the franchise. Six James Bond films were selected for 007 Legends, with each film corresponding to one of the six actors who have played James Bond. Bruce Feirstein and Robin Matthews served as the screenwriters for the game.

The game was first released in North America on 16 October 2012 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A Microsoft Windows release followed on 2 November 2012. The Wii U received the final platform release in December 2012. The game is available as physical optical disc media, as well as a digital release download via PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on date of release, though it was removed off all other digital stores without warning in January 2013.

007 Legends received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, according to aggregating review website Metacritic. Reviewers often commented that the game felt like a missed opportunity, and that it played like a Call of Duty clone. Some reviewers noted that the game had small moments that engaged the player as Bond, but that generally gameplay was bland and uninspired. Commentary on the game's multiplayer was mixed. While most lambasted the online play, some appreciated the inclusion of split-screen multiplayer.

Tristan Ogilvie of IGN accused the game of drowning out the Bond series' iconic moments by shoehorning them into a cheap and poorly made Call of Duty clone, further adding that the gameplay was boring and repetitive and that production had only made a half-hearted attempt to bind the chosen recreation of films together, and that the lack of overarching story offered little incentive to keep playing. Dan Ryckert of Game Informer was similarly critical of the game, describing it as "a mess of a title that's uninspired at best and nearly broken at worst", and while the review applauded the concept of remaking films in video game form, it also attacked the gameplay mechanics as overly-simplistic with the player following on-screen prompts to perform certain actions, which was broken up by "truly awful" stealth gameplay. Eurogamer's Will Porter was critical of its by-the-numbers gameplay and stated "every inch of 007 Legends has been covered in a camo-coloured Call of Duty paint." Leif Johnson of GameSpot felt that it was an "unfulfilling slog".