The most memorable part 007 First Light it is something that is often boring: tutorials. In most games, you’re forced through a series of boring tutorials on how to play, presented in a way that feels disconnected from the story itself and the pace of gameplay. But First Light you do something different. Because the game focuses on a young James Bond, who is just learning to be a secret agent, the tutorial is structured like a training montage in a classic action movie. As the months pass, the game has a quick supercut of Bond learning everything from shooting a gun to stopping a building. But because it’s a game, these moments are also interactive, and you quickly learn the ropes around the character. It may seem like a small thing, but First LightThe tutorial is the latest example of how the lines between games, film, and television have become blurred.
Cultural cinematic games are nothing new. Media has been influenced by movies since its inception, though Donkey Kong pulling from the classic monster movie or franchise like What is not written again The wind of Tsushima making the movie-like experience interactive. (Directors like Hideo Kojima love nothing more than to squeeze Hollywood talent into their games.) But a game like it. First Light it represents how far this situation has come. It’s not a movie tie-in, and it’s not a genre limitation, either What is not written it is Indiana Jones-Stylish adventure films. A remake of the original game of the longest-running movie.
First Light it’s not a complete reinvention of action-adventure games. For the most part, it plays more like a cross between Hitmana killer franchise also made by First Light developer IO Interactive, and What is not writtenfull of action set pieces. But it also draws from the world of the film in clever ways. After the explosive opening sequence, you see a classic Bond credits sequence with a new song from Lana Del Rey, and the game uses the familiar language of cinema as a training montage to give it that movie-like feel. Things you’re used to seeing in the movies, like Bond being beaten while being interrogated while tied to a chair, are now interactive rather than something you just watch. This is more than the usual tricks of the video game trade: dramatic cutscenes, great action sequences, fast car chases, and celebrity cameos like Lenny Kravitz (who appears briefly as an African gangster boss with a mysterious American accent).
What’s really interesting about this time isn’t just that games are getting better at combining elements of film and television in a way that feels natural; motivation now goes both ways. I Exit at 8 the film adaptation opened with a first-person sequence that closely resembled the game to “blur the lines between video game and cinema,” while Markiplier’s The Iron Lung the movie was like watching someone play an indie horror game. our last’ The HBO adaptation is so similar to the games that watching it can seem like a cutscene supercut.
This combination of mediums worked very well First Light. It’s a game developed by a studio with a history in open-world action games and a clear understanding of both what makes Bond work and how that can translate to a video game. That allowed the studio to combine mediums in ways that could make the tutorial feel like it was taken out of an action movie.
