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games: The Bourne Conspiracy

July 25 2008 | WilHarris

Jason Bourne was last seen diving off a building into the Thames in the hit action movie The Bourne Ultimatum.

But in this game, he’s back with a vengeance - quite literally - with a new storyline and plenty of fisticuffs and gun toting to go with. The game is based on Robert Ludlum’s books, rather than the movies, so although Bourne doesn’t look like Matt Damon, the same action mystery underpins it.

The game looks fantastic on the next-gen consoles - check out the ChannelFlip verdict in this video review.

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Norbit

July 25th, 2008 - 3:34pm

“Jason Bourne was last seen diving off a building into the Thames in the hit action movie The Bourne Ultimatum”

That was actually the East River in New York :p

KatharineFletcher

July 25th, 2008 - 6:59pm

lol! I would just like to point out that I did NOT write the above intro…

John

July 26th, 2008 - 12:25am

So who did write the intro?! Name and shame!

Schmung

July 26th, 2008 - 12:36am

Was the game not based more on the books than the films? Hence lack of MATT DAMON? I actually never bothered reading them as I am allergic to Ludlum after an unfortunate childhood incident involving too much Frederick Forsyth and Tom Clancy, but I’m sure the interwebs can clear up that one.

The quick time events (for that is what they are) disturb me a little, but the combat actually looks alright.

Perhaps a case of game of the film of the book in half decent shocker.

lawrence

July 27th, 2008 - 9:41pm

yo was wondering kathrine wat is your gmer score on xbox360?

Norbit

July 28th, 2008 - 1:45pm

BTW my favourite amnesiac is actually Leonard Shelby from Memento

KatharineFletcher

July 30th, 2008 - 2:26pm

Good call on Leonard Shelby Norbit. I forgot about him

KatharineFletcher

July 30th, 2008 - 2:33pm

Hey Lawrence - I’ve never really cared about that sort of thing so I don’t actually know! My current gamer score is something stupid like 50 as I just recently changed profiles. My old score was never fantastically high though either as although I spend a lot of time playing games, then because I have to get through a lot quite quickly I don’t have time to go through chasing achievements and perfecting my game as you would if you were playing for leisure rather than to a work deadline. I’ve probably played a greater number of games then a lot of people, but I bet you’d kick my ass at your favourites!

Brian

August 29th, 2008 - 4:07pm

Love your podcast on itunes Katherine. It is so cool to see other gamers out there that are girls too.

Match

September 4th, 2008 - 3:52pm

played the demo and was pretty disappointed. Overall it isn’t bad, not at all, but, for me, the quick time events in this one were more annoying than anything else, because the time window you have for pressing a button is often pretty damn short. Now, I rarely had a problem with the QTEs in God of War for example, and I find them to be an enjoyable way to put more suspense in otherwise cool, but non-interactive cutscenes, but I’ve noticed in a few games that they are quite a bit too hard to be really enjoyable. If a QTE is too hard, it completely destroys the suspense for me instead of heightening it. Bourne Conspiracy was one of these games were they completely killed the suspense for me, because I had to do them at least three times to get through anyway.