The Bourne Conspiracy Review XB360

The Bourne Conspiracy is one of those games you think would be kind of lame, since its a movie based game. Well I can finally say that this is one of the few movies based games that is actually very decent. The game of course is about Jason Bourne and him trying to remember his past. But what seperates this from the actual movie is that the game is broken up into two parts. You will play in scenes from the movie as well as flashbacks from Bournes previous endevours. So you actually get to see what Bourne did in his past as a hitmen. The game itself has four parts that you will use in order to play the game. There is the fighting which is self explanitory, its just you fighting hand to hand against thugs. The second is gunplay, where you use weapons that are scattered around the level as well as ones from enemies. Third is the quick time events and this has a lot of them. This game constantly throws them at you so be ready at all times to quickly hit a button but its very forgiving as far as timing so your not really having to redo alot of these parts because it goes to fast. Last is of course the driving sections. You will drive a car through the level and dodge cars and cops coming at you from all over the place. These are the main elements from the game and you will switch to them numerously throughout the level and the game does it quite well. I had no problem getting use to the cover system then moving into the hand to hand combat then back to guns and finally ending with a quick time event. Blending all of these together is the "Takedowns"! The takedowns are basically events that will help you through one of the three types of gameplay (quick time doesnt use it). How it works is you fill up a meter through shooting baddies as well as beating their asses. You can fill it up basically three tiers full and execute them by pressing B. The cool thing is that if you have multiple guys on you and you have a full takedown meter you can use it and a quicktime evnt will commence and allow you to take all three down with a ultimate combo. The same goes with the guns, you can use the takedown for the guns and a quicktime will pop up having you special kill a baddie with a gun. This adds a cool feeling to the game since Bourne will use the environment as well as certain finishers to kick ass. Visually the game looks good and flows very well. The only problem I had with this is the cutscenes. They seem to have a grainy feel to them adn it just looks really odd, nothing to really take away from the game just odd. The controls also feel good with a run button as well as the gears cover system thrown into the mix. This was a decent game and I highly recommend it for the Bourne fan! but even non Bourne fans will have a good time with this game simply because it gives you a different type of action game which will keep you on your toes.


Overall - B+