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This game was damn good fun, invoked a lot of the insanity of the action sequences during the Moore era, like the mission involving the highway chase between Bond's motorcycle and Jaws' 18-wheeler.
I'm wary of ordering used copies on Amazon, however, for fear of getting scratched up discs.
I recommend adding Nightfire to your collection as well, as it's a another classic of the Bond gaming universe.
TWINE is a good story directed in a really, really mediocre way. DAD is just, after the climax of the Cuba scene with the horrible backwards high dive, a complete disaster.
@Murdock I would pay to see that Bond film and that reaction.
No doubt it would have come with some Brosnan style quip like "Oh Moneypenny, you can see right through me." that they would be groaning over to this day.
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Yes, they were overseen by Activision and produced by their CoD lackeys.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-38980653
There were a few good laughs in Spectre (e.g. the sofa fall, banter with Q) and the PTS is delightful... But I found much of the film to be grim and distasteful. We get to see/hear Mr. White kill himself (twice). Blofeld drills holes into Bond's skull (easily the nastiest thing to happen in any Bond film). And the whole ending, where Bond leaves Blofeld alive - there's something about the music, the way it's shot, the trashy cliched dialogue, and the heavy implication that Blofeld will kill Madeleine in the future, after it's been well-established that Bond cannot protect her - it just makes my stomach churn. It is the darkest, most senseless ending to any Bond film. So no, I can't say I found Spectre to be fun.
Your first two points (White's shooting himself and the drilling in the head) are what I think contribute the most to Spectre being what Birdleson described as an "oppressively dark" film, but Newman's music is an enormous contributing factor here as well. The music is largely responsible for setting the tone of the film, and apart from the opening PTS beat and a couple "fun" moments during the intro to Rome and car chase, Newman's music is dour and ghostly and doom-portending. Even the love themes are cast with a spectral quality. Appropriate for the film then? If the film intends to be "oppressively dark," sure, but if it's trying to be fun, absolutely not.
I would much rather have films that are willing to take themselves seriously and that respect Bond's character and development than those that place him in the center of parody.
That's a purposeful choice. One of the main themes of the film are ghosts that haunt the present lives of the characters. Then there's the Day of the Dead symbolism (the dead return to you from the "grave"), the characterization of Bond as a messenger of death from the PTS on, the use of White as a ghostly, cautionary figure, etc.
It was made with meaning and content in mind every step of the way.
Believe me, the "ghost" theme wasn't lost on me. The movie kinda hits you over the head with the idea. Anyway, the point here isn't whether or not the "ghostly" feeling was on purpose - it's whether or not the film is the "most fun Bond adventure in decades."
How well this all works and the overall quality of the film or one's personal enjoyment of it, whether taken as lighthearted adventure or gloomy character piece, is a different matter and evidently fully up for debate.
Is it though? Compared with Skyfall maybe, but up against Bond's charming, youthful go-get-em-ness of CR and QOS? Even with QOS, which many for some reason take to be completely humorless, compare Bond's quips about Fields having handcuffs or even searching for the stationary with smashing glasses into the floor and Monica Bellucci crying and in the aftermath of it all being told he's going to a place of no mercy. Which is the breezier and more lighthearted? After meeting Felix, they shake hands and Felix tells him to get a move on and we get a brief bit of fun action music from Arnold, by contrast with White slumped dead in his chair. I'm sorry, but one left me smiling and the other didn't. I really don't think Spectre is more lighthearted than CR or QOS—and yes, I realize that is saying something.