James Bond 007: Blood Stone (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

James Bond 007: Blood Stone

James Bond 007: Blood Stone features the likeness and voice talent of Daniel Craig, Joss Stone and Judi Dench and features an epic, original story developed by legendary screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. Players…

47 2 November 2010

What James Bond 007: Blood Stone is

James Bond 007: Blood Stone is a shooter game developed by Bizarre Creations and released in 2010. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Horizon.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When MI6 uncovers a plot by the international terrorist Greco to carry out a devastating suicide attack on the G-20 leaders gathered for a summit in Athens, M assigns her top agent, James Bond, to stop him. Bond chases Greco through the city and, in a high-speed pursuit behind the wheel of an Aston Martin, foils the deadly plan before it can reach the summit. But the mission is only the beginning. The following morning, M sends Bond to Istanbul on the trail of Malcolm Tedworth, a Ministry of Defence researcher who vanished while conducting top-secret work and is believed to have been kidnapped for it. As Bond races to recover the missing scientist and his research, the investigation draws…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the James Bond series

James Bond 007: Blood Stone is the 37th of 44 entries we hold in the James Bond series. The next entry was GoldenEye 007: Reloaded in 2011. Its critic score of 47 is 21 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is GoldenEye 007 at 88.

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How it was received

James Bond 007: Blood Stone holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 23 points below the year average. Players rate it 59, 12 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

James Bond 007: Blood Stone launched on 2 November 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Official trailer