5.6 /10 1 Votes5.6
2/5 My Abandonware Initial release date 1990 Developer Kremlin, The | 3.5/5 Emuparadise Mode(s) Single-player | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms Publishers Domark Software, The Hit Squad Similar James Bond games, Domark Software games, Adventure games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me is a video game adaptation of the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The game was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS computers, Sega Master System and ZX Spectrum in 1990. A version was planned for PS1 but was cancelled.
The Spy Who Loved Me is a top-down shooter game in which the player navigates James Bond driving a modified Lotus Espirit. It features the characters from the film and some new characters.
Critical reception
The game received a good, but not excellent, reaction on the ZX Spectrum, with CRASH! giving it a 79% rating and saying "Good Mr. Bond, but not quite good enough to deserve an accolade.", Sinclair User giving it 72% and saying "This one will leave you shaken but not stirred; A competent movie licence" and Your Sinclair rating it at 76%, saying "Half good/half bad Bond game. There's quite a lot here though, so it's not bad value." It was less well received on the Commodore 64, with Zzap!64 giving it a rating of 38%, describing it as "an uninspiring and unambitious conversion."