Jun 9, 2026 · 6 min · 7 segments
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First Light's greatest success is just how impressively developer IO Interactive has executed on its mission to create something it can call its own within a very established universe.
What we get is something that's unmistakably Bond, and respectfully adjacent to everything that has come before it, but confidently occupies its own space as a uniquely separate take.
That is, it never seems like a situation akin to 2001's 007 Agent Under Fire, which felt like the series was in a holding pattern before EA cut another check for Pierce Brosnan.
Inspired in all the key ways by the work of creator Ian Fleming and the expectations bred by the films, but tailored to IO's take on the series like a bespoke suit.
First Light doesn't rush the world building, patiently moving through Bond's first encounter with MI6 as a Royal Navy air crewman in the wrong place at the wrong time, to his initial 00 training, and onto his transformative first field mission that sets up the core story to come.
First Light's greatest success is just how impressively developer IO Interactive has executed on its mission to create something it can call its own within a very established universe.
What we get is something that's unmistakably Bond, and respectfully adjacent to everything that has come before it, but confidently occupies its own space as a uniquely separate take.
That is, it never seems like a situation akin to 2001's 007 Agent Under Fire, which felt like the series was in a holding pattern before EA cut another check for Pierce Brosnan.
Inspired in all the key ways by the work of creator Ian Fleming and the expectations bred by the films, but tailored to IO's take on the series like a bespoke suit.
First Light doesn't rush the world building, patiently moving through Bond's first encounter with MI6 as a Royal Navy air crewman in the wrong place at the wrong time, to his initial 00 training, and onto his transformative first field mission that sets up the core story to come.
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