James bond: the stealth affair (1990) review for MS-DOS

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James bond: the stealth affair
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James bond the stealth affair or operation stealth as the game is also known is an adventure game from Delphine that uses the updated engine from their earlier games. You play as James Bond and your mission is to recover the stealth bomber that was stolen as it shows in the intro. You'll have to use all kind of gadgets to help you solve the case.

The game starts at an airport and the first thing you have to do is try and get past the security guard waiting at the arrival gate. Luckily the items in your briefcase's secret compartment allows you to forge a passport with which you can fool the guard. After getting your luggage and getting out of the airport your mission will start in earnest in a small village. You'll have to face countless dangers and solve many puzzles before the mission is over.

The game uses a point and click interface that is updated from previous games like future wars, you walk around the screen using the left mouse button and rightclick to bring up the menu which has the standard commands like examine, use and operate as well as your inventory. If you want to use one of the commands on items in your inventory you rightclick the command instead of leftclicking. This can be quite confusing and I never really adjusted to the interface getting it wrong constantly. The other thing that can be annoying is the fact that you always walk in a straight line and if there's anything blocking your path you get stuck and have to walk back a bit to walk around the object.

Graphics are nice with 256 color vga graphics but there is not too much music around in the game. Delphine made some good adventure games in the past and dispite some annoying bits like the interface, mazes and a few dead ends its still fairly fun. You would think that with the secret agent story the James Bond licence would fit well but it never really gets quite like the movies as the licence was added later and they changed the name and some small things in the game. Secret agent adventure games are quite rare and this one is definately worth playing so check it out.

Overal rating: 7/10

Erde Kaiser

James bond: the stealth affair was released for several different systems here are some notes:

DOS	Released in 1990. Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC. Doesn't seem to work under windows but it does under dosbox.
Others	These versions are not available. Amiga released in 1990. Atari ST released in 1990.

Date added

May-05-2005 20:40

Name

James bond: the stealth affair

Developer

Delphine

Publisher

Interplay

First released

1990

Genre

Adventure

Download

MS-DOS, filesize: 2425 Kb

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