This is Bond before the Bond you know. A naval air crewman with more nerve than sense gets pulled into MI6, and the training goes badly wrong the first time it matters.

Before the number meant anything

The Double 0 programme has only just been brought back, and you are the raw recruit in it. A job to bring in a rogue agent ends in a death nobody planned for, and the trail leads somewhere far more uncomfortable than a single traitor.

Quiet or loud, your call

Nearly every job gives you more than one way in. Slip past the guards with a gadget, talk your way through the front door, or drop the pretence and start a fight. The game does not punish you for picking the messy option.

Places worth the trip

Missions move between countries and set pieces, with cars and chases in between. Once a mission is finished you can go back and run it again with modifiers turned on, which changes the rules rather than just the difficulty.

Made by the people who make Hitman

IO Interactive have spent years building levels you are meant to pick apart and replay, and it shows here. The maps reward a second look far more than a first rush.