BLEUCHAMP

Oh well, Eurocom's blown it. Rather than try to engage with chimeric nature of the Bond films, they've opted to dump Daniel Craig into any old adventure. I suppose this is symptomatic of a wider held belief that tie-in games are forever to be quicky cash-ins - why bother ponying up some extra dough for past actor likeness rights when you can just repurpose what you've already got? So for the 007 Legends stab at On Her Majesty's Secret Service you can forget about George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, and most especially Telly Savalas, whose bruiser Blofeld has been mutated into a composite lump of visual cues from wildly varying sources.

DRAX

Given that Eurocom's last major project was a Daniel Craig flavoured reskin of Rare's GoldenEye 007, would it be terribly negative to surmise that this Moonraker level was initially intended to follow Eurocom's re-jigged campaign, much like it did back on the N64, but was ultimately held back for this release? 007 Legends fulfils 1997 dreams of a Bond game full of levels drafted from the entirety of the film series. We're promised six film specific missions, presumably one from each Bond. This sneak peak offers few clues whether we can expect fully licensed likenesses of Roger Moore et al, or Daniel Craig awkwardly crowbarred into adventures that don't fit his reading's MO. Other than that, 007 Legends looks much like Eurocoms last effort - detextured Call of Duty weapon models blasting away at primary coloured spy furniture. Fingers crossed we get to strangle girls with their own bikinis using a Sean Connery character model!