The Bourne Conspiracy Review

Graphics- The graphics in Bourne Conspiracy are very realistic, arguably better looking than character models of the "Smack down vs. Raw" series. This is no surprise considering it uses the "Unreal" engine, so used in games such as the "Unreal Tournament" and "Gears of War" franchise. The game continues to look superb no matter how fast or slow the current action is, with the exception of a few minor noticeable jaggies. As for the cut scenes it looks like you are watching a movie.... beautiful.

Sound- The sound during gameplay is on point. Like most games there is music to alert you when danger is around and is silence when you have eliminated the threat. The voice acting is also movie quality. Of course your going to have that every once in a while moment when you think what the hell where they thinking putting that terrible voice acting in the game, but what game doesn't have that. The main character says things that you would expect Matt Damon in the actual Bourne movies to say. Be prepared to hear the Bourne theme song quit often throughout the game.

Story/Gameplay- Although the game is called The Bourne Conspiracy the story seems to follow the storyline of The Bourne Identity, the first installment to the Bourne series. The first thing that you may notice is that you are not playing as Matt Damon, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, its just that when you think Jason Bourne, you think of Matt Damon, that is of course if you have watched the movies.

The games starts off with a mission that has almost nothing more to do with the story other than to show his life as an agent, seems like they decided to just through in a random mission just for fun. There will be times in the game where you are playing exact scenes from the movie, but again there are a lot of random missions that also pose as a flashback from when he was an agent. The cutscenes also follow the storyline of the first movie, what you see in the cutscenes did happen in the movie. The game is very short and is very easy to pick up. The fight sequences are fun to do but there aren't a wide variety of combo's to use. The square button is the light attack and if you hold it, it is a light kick, same for triangle except instead of light attacks its heavy attacks. It takes quite a while for the game to realize that you are holding down a button to do a kick, so while your holding that down the enemy can easily take a nice chunk of your health away. You also have a adrenaline meter which is used to initiate Bourne's signature takedowns, whether it be a hand-to-hand takedown, a sprinting takedown, or a shooting takedown. Bourne also has a spidey sense type of thing called Bourne Instinct. It highlights anything of importance including enemies, also when wielding a gun Bourne instinct will auto-aim to a enemy. This can be very useful, but when playing on higher difficulty it does deplete the adrenaline meter. The other thing that I didn't like, is that when sprinting in tight areas and running around corners, the camera goes everywhere except where you want it to go and Bourne tends to run into walls while sprinting around corners. The driving part of the game feels very fast pace, but sometimes the car just feels a lil too uncontrollable. I found myself running into a lot of things due to the poor handling of the car, I think they could have done better with it. Overall the game can be a little confusing at times but for the most part the game is pretty fun but way to short. You could by it and beat it the same day. This game is definitely a rent, and deserves a 7.6. Considering there is no 7.6 playing card, it receives the 8 of clubs.