Angel soft Incorporated designed the movie inspired James Bond 007 in: A View to a Kill and Mindscape Incorporated released it in the late eighties. Like many James Bond inspired games, View to a Kill is an adventure game. Obviously, it features an espionage and mystery theme.
Naturally, the user plays the part of English agent, James Bond 007. The plot of the game is greatly based on the movie of the same name, although it does not begin with the fabled ski chase down the treacherous mountain that so many of us recall from the movie.
Angel soft Incorporated designed the movie inspired James Bond 007 in: A View to a Kill and Mindscape Incorporated released it in the late eighties. Like many James Bond inspired games, View to a Kill is an adventure game. Obviously, it features an espionage and mystery theme.
Naturally, the user plays the part of English agent, James Bond 007. The plot of the game is greatly based on the movie of the same name, although it does not begin with the fabled ski chase down the treacherous mountain that so many of us recall from the movie. Max Zorin is an evil scientist who is attempting to take control of the world’s computer and microchip market. His main plan for achieving this goal is to flood California’s Silicon Valley
and destroy most of the world’s major computer geniuses by engineering an earthquake that will pull off this disaster.
The game takes place in most of the great and scenic venues from the movie. While James Bond 007 in: A View to a Kill does not follow the plot of the movie as closely as its video game counterpart Gold finger followed its respective Hollywood flick, it is still reasonably close, and the user will find himself guiding James Bond around the Siberian Mountains, as well as the cities of San Francisco and Paris, France.
The game is primarily text driven, which means the player has to pay close attention to the details that the game offers when the user issues a command. This makes some of the puzzles more difficult than they otherwise would be, since the game is not necessarily as descriptive as it could be. The puzzles are challenging, and are mostly good, but as an adventure game, at least a couple completely illogical and random puzzles have to be included. No adventure game is flawless on that front. There are good graphics and sound.
In total, James Bond 007 in: A View to a Kill is not the world’s greatest adventure, but fans of the movie will probably appreciate it, and will also be much more likely to succeed at it without frustration. It is vanilla, as adventure games go, meaning it lands somewhere in the middle of the field as far as rating. Give it a try. It might be just the game for you.
