In Blood Stone 007, current Bond Daniel Craig lends his persona and voice to the game, where he plays 007 on a mission hunting terrorists across the world, leading you to several locations and different mission types. The gameplay is a standard third person shooter taken right out of 2005, and its visuals as well, and we’ve seen smarter enemies on the PS2 ten years ago. Usually they’re just waiting for you to take them out, and even when alerted, offer little to no challenge. The main chuck of the game, you’ll be infiltrating one place after the next, killing enemies, hunting them and so on, in exotic places and far end destinations like Siberia. There are a few noticeable missions, like the driving ones, which stand out and are quite well done. That’s no surprise, since developer Bizzare Creations previously worked on the Project Gotham Racing series. But those missions are far and in between to really make an impact.

Visually, the game looks bland and quite boring, besides the driving missions which manage to take things up a notch. The enemy AI is so vague that you can easily complete the short 5 hour campaign without dying. What’s worse, this being a Bond games, you really don’t have any gadgets besides the usual arsenal of pistols and rifles. You have a souped up cell phone. And that’s it. Multiplayer is just as bland with no innovation at all. A few basic modes (deathmatch, team deathmatch etc.) and to make matters worse, the best part from the single player campaign — the car chases and vehicle missions — are not available in multiplayer. Shame. In fact, when we said in our GoldenEye 007 review that it was one of the best Bond games ever, we can say the opposite about Blood Stone: it’s one of the worst, shallowest and most boring Bond games ever.

The Good:
Good vehicle missions
Good voice acting

The Bad:
Bland visuals
Repetitive combat
Bad AI

Overall score: 3/10