Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?

I played a good few hours of 007 First Light last week, and I encourage you to click that link and read all about what I thought of them. But my time with Jim Bond sparked other thoughts. Thoughts that probably don't belong in a preview. Thoughts like: What if James Bond just shouldn't be a videogame protagonist?

I know what you're thinking, and first of all I'd like you to stop calling me those names. Second, yes, GoldenEye for the N64 is a classic. You're also not really James Bond in it. You're a hand with a pistol in it and, sometimes in cutscenes, Pierce Brosnan's face. The character of Bond existed as a lore reason for your gun to emit bullets.

But games that try to make you feel like James Bond, that put you in his actual shoes and attempt to embody him as a character? They fall down.

Admittedly, a lot of them are simply not very good videogames, but also: I think the very nature of Bond is that he is a creature of cinema. He just doesn't quite fit into games.

Part of this is, well, h...