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# Quantum Of Solace game review
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## The latest attempt at adapating James Bond to the video game format is
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more fun than a lot of its predecessors.
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![The Quantum Of Solace][1]
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More bang for your buck: the new James Bond game is all about run and gun
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action
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By Nick Cowen 12:01AM GMT 03 Nov 2008
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[Comments][2]
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* **Score: **6/10
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* **Formats:** Xbox 360, PC, PS3, Nintendo Wii
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* **Publisher: **Activision
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* **Price: **From £39.99
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* **Age Rating:** 12 (BBFC)
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* [Watch the trailer for Quantum Of Solace][3]
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* [Order Quantum Of Solace][4]
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* [Video: making the Quantum of Solace videogame ][5]
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* [Interview with Treyarch Executive Producer, Garrett Young][6]
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* [More on James Bond][7]
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Quantum Of Solace is one of the best movie-based video games ever. To those
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who know movie-based games, this will sound like faint praise. But developers
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Treyarch deserve applause for a respectable adaptation of the last two Bond
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films - as Quantum Of Solace works in plotline both the latest Bond film and
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Casino Royale. After all, QoS would probably sell very well if it was terrible
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due to the fact it has the 007 logo on the cover. Instead, this is first time
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since the highly acclaimed Goldeneye that Bond fans won't get horribly stung
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if they decide to bring Bond home to their console.
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Essentially, QoS is a first-person-shooter (FPS) crammed with a number of on-
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the-fly mini-games. In between gun battles, players will have to hack
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computers, dismantle security cameras and occasionally sneak up to opponents
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and silently dispatch them. There are also times when players will have a
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fistfight with an opponent, and then the action switches to a third-person-
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viewed mini-game in which timed button bashing sees Bond dole out brutal
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punishment.
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But the lion's share of Bond's activities involves dishing out flying lead.
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Just as the film franchise eschewed zany gadgets and camp humour in favour of
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pugnacious grit and lead-pipe brutality, so the video game follows suit
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providing run and gun action built on the Call Of Duty 4 engine. The fire-
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fights come fast and furious, complete with a booming soundtrack and an
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adaptive AI. The gunplay also puts a premium on finding cover and Bond doesn't
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last long out in the open. A lot of the environments also contain handy gas
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cylinders and other explosive devices which players can used to decimate large
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numbers of opponents with a well-placed shot.
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Cast members have been digitally captured, and the voice work, as you'd expect
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from the likes of Daniel Craig and Dame Judy Dench, is uniformly excellent.
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Bond fans will also be pleased to know chronicles events from both QoS and
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Casino Royale (possibly to pad out the action). The game also offers an online
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multiplayer similar to the mode offered in Call Of Duty 4, except with Bond
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skins
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What makes QoS so appealing is the way the action switches so seamlessly from
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FPS carnage, to puzzle solving, to brief cinematic and then back again.
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Treyarch has taken every effort to make QoS look and feel like the player is
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starring in a Bond film and the end result is exciting to play, if not an
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instant classic.
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## Related Articles
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* [007: Blood Stone video game review][8]
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05 Nov 2010
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The only other problem facing the game is its date of release. This month has
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seen the release of some absolutely amazing games (Dead Space, Far Cry 2 and
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[Fable II][9] to name three) and even more are on the way. In spite of being
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tied to one of the most loved and respected film franchises of all time, QoS
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may battle to find an audience beyond James Bond's fan base..
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* **Quantum Of Solace is now available for Xbox 360, PC, PS3, Nintendo Wii**
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game-review.html
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Telegraph
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## [Video Games][15]
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* ### [Nick Cowen »][16]
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In technology
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[![Brink hands-on preview][17] ][18]
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### [UK video game chart 16 May 2011][18]
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