- 007 First light lets players experiment with a multitude of gadgets in battle
- This includes Bond’s spy watch, a missile pen and more
- “They seamlessly integrate into the fighting style more than you might have seen in the movies,” explained senior combat designer Tom Marcham
My latest hands-on with the upcoming spy thriller 007 First light was a pleasant surprise, revealing a level of mechanical depth that I don’t think has been evident from the marketing trailers so far.
Armed with a selection of spy gadgets, players have a surprising amount of freedom in how they approach combat encounters. “Pretty much all of our gadgets are usable in combat,” explained senior combat designer Tom Marcham in a recent interview with TechRadar Gaming.
“We have a smoke bomb that you can use both in stealth and in combat. It’s one of my favorite gadgets to use in the middle of firefights to cut off line of sight, or maybe use it to go into melee. We have the missile pen, which is one of our most combat-focused gadgets that you can use to arm enemies,” he said.
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“The laser watch is another one we have, the dart phone that you can use […] is good at incapacitating some of the harder targets. We have these land mine earphones that you can put on things. There is a whole range; they all work in combat and in stealth. That’s an important part of it.”
Players can also use the environments to their advantage by smashing enemies’ heads into hard surfaces or kicking them off ledges. I especially enjoyed shoving enemies into electronic devices like laptops and then zapping them with the clock to unleash an awesome burst of electricity.
“We lifted a few mechanics straight from the movies,” Marcham revealed, but the fact that this is a modern story helped give the developers some more freedom to experiment with the spy’s gear.
“We use a lot more technology. You’ve seen the gadgets; they integrate seamlessly into the fighting style more than you might have seen in the movies. You can use the gadgets a lot more in combat. He uses them occasionally, in no time to die he uses the watch to blow out someone’s eye, but we use them much more, much more freely.”
You can experiment yourself when 007 First light will launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S and PC on May 27, 2026. A Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game will follow later this year.
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