Games

GoldenEye 007: Reloaded

In what I intend to be the final bit of fiddling before I actually start playing some games on my new devices, today I tried to set up a pair of James Bond titles on my Steam Deck: the PS3 versions of GoldenEye 007 Reloaded (as the Xbox 360 one doesn't run so well) and Blood Stone (aka 007 Blood Stone, aka James Bond 007: Blood Stone, but nowhere does anyone call it Blood Stone 007, despite that being the order of the words on the cover. But I digress...)

Long story short, the latter was a bit of a disaster. I eventually learnt it doesn't run well at all, so abandoned it. It was released on PC too, although is no longer officially available, but if I can find it that would be a better bet — although my brief bit of reading suggests it doesn't run instantly either, but might be doable with some fiddling.

The fact I've logged this entry as GoldenEye should tell you I had more success there. Absolutely no crashes or freezes, everything ran smoothly and looked good. Hurrah! I ended up playing the whole first level, which probably took me a lot longer than it's meant to, even on the lowest difficulty setting; but I also didn't die, which suggests the game is pretty forgiving on said setting. Fine by me — as I've said before, I don't actually play games like this to be challenged, but to experience other aspects.

Now, whether I keep at this or immediately switch to something else (Everything or Nothing was the Bond game that I really wanted to play, and there's so many other titles I'd like to get stuck into, not to mention the games I already have on the go), time will tell.