007 is really different these days. Photo: Creative Commons
007: Top Agent is an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that had been featured on the cover page of the app store. It is currently on sale for $1.99 on the app store and is one of the few apps to be officially licensed with the 007 James Bond name.
007 Top Agent puts you in the world of spies to create the ultimate agent. There is a multiplayer battle mode in the game that allows you to fight other people’s agents and a single player mode that allows you relive some of James Bond’s most famous missions including “Die Another Day,” “Live and Let Die,” “Goldfinger” and “The Spy Who Loved Me”
The presentation is average at best. The graphics are cartoonish and the sounds are decent. They are nothing to enhance or take away from the gameplay experience, with the exception of the well drawn backgrounds that really look like the movie scenes.
The gameplay in both modes are the same. It is a turn based combat game between the two agents. Each agent picks a particular move to use against the other and then the attack is simulated. It basically boils down to a complicated game of rock, paper, scissors. If you manage to win, you gain experience and cash to use towards upgrades like Oddjob’s hat, a bagpipe machine gun, and the Q Branch Suitcase. However, this is not an action game, nor is the actual name of James Bond ever mentioned.
The fights in 007: Top Agent are nothing like this:
Ah Connery, the best Bond ever. He’s way better than the whiny emo Bond in the newest two movies…
In the end, 007: Top Agent is an app that is inevitably disappointing. The gameplay itself is somewhat entertaining and is not really a bad app, but very undeserving of the James Bond name. Tack on a $2 price tag and an app that doesn’t give you a lot of gameplay, and you’ve got an app you should pass on.
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