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The
game starts nice and slow and builds up in intensity. You watch as
a comrade is gunned down and
from
there you have to prove yourself as a competent agent against
the good old boy network. You are up against several bad
guys. There are at least 5 and they are a mixed bag of enemies. There
is an opera singer, a large Scottish fellow, and
three others left to your imagination. Encountering
these bosses is
presented in a fairly different way from other games. In
each meeting you are relatively unarmed and have to match wits
and skills instead of firepower. This was fun and different from
other games, which give you bosses that simply need to
be outgunned.
The regular henchmen are your standard dolts that run and
gun without much surprise or stamina. Attention to detail was a huge part of the game with conversations between workers helping to finish missions. Conversations about classic spy shows from 60’s TV were a favorite. One henchman says the girl from the Avengers could kick his butt anytime. The décor of the missions was also fun. 1960’s kitsch was the order of the day. Most of the rooms are loud from a décor standpoint and Warhol homage is tossed in for good measure. At one point you think you are watching Kubrick’s 2001 with the space station mission. You are also given several vehicles to ride, motorcycles and snowmobiles. The missions that include those vary from fun to standard fare. An
aspect of spydom explored here are gadgets.
This being a staple of any spy film we
have seen. The gadgets are given
at mission end as
you train for the next. All
the gadgets were fun. My favorite was the
robot dog. It was
underutilized but worth the trouble. Most
of the gadgets went unused which
probably
means
I made the missions harder
than they needed to be. The
complaints with the game are the standard
ones. The AI was buggy. Henchmen ignored
you until you were close and acted
erratically in
most instances. Some
other complaints are preference complaints.
I
would have enjoyed less
sexism but that was fitting for the context
of the game. There was one other instance
of a strange
scene
of a man, a goat, wine
and candles.
I will let
you figure it out but
it was strange. Other preference complaints
were that there were too many stealth
missions. They got tedious after a
while. There were timed
missions and they were fun. Usually this
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Review:
Bored with all the macho first-person shooters (FPS)? Than grab
your purse and run like a girl to get this game that helps
you get
in touch with your feminine side, but retains the typical action
you come to expect from a first-person action game.
Speaking of stamina, you
have no healing power ups in the game so health is precious
and once you loose it you are out of luck. Armor is scattered here
and
there so that helps. 
Some
were only given with cheats
so I did not use those in trying
to
be fair. The gadgets run
the gamut from a clunky code breaker for
key pads, a belt buckle grappling
hook, various types
of lipstick that blows up,
and sun glasses that acted as camera,
infrared
scanner and mine sweeper.
This was a nice touch and making your way
through mine fields
was
interesting. Another
interesting mission was one where you have
no parachute but desperately need one.
This
scene was
reminiscent of Roger Moore
chasing a bad guy to get his chute. 
meant
you were outrunning a
bomb or volcano. It added a nice touch
of tension to the game. With the cut scenes
you
actually have to interact
with the characters and choose dialogue.
I have never seen this done before and
was OK for
a time
or two but then I simply
kept opting out of this and went directly
to the mission. A
huge complaint is the number of splash
screens you have to get through to start
the game. There were at least 6 screens
advertising all the folks involved in making
the game a reality.
You also did not have a large number of
saved games spaces. This made it tough
if you want to go back to a favorite mission. 
