Ranking Every James Bond Video Game Worst To Best

15. James Bond 007: A View To A Kill (1985)

James Bond 007 A View To A Kill
Mindscape

The second game based on A View to a Kill is thankfully much better, and proves that sometimes, simpler is the way to go.

This text adventure from Mindscape was designed by Raymond Benson, who would later work as a Bond novel writer from 1997 to 2003.

And though it's certainly not a game for those impatiently craving a blast-a-thon spy romp, it does succeed largely thanks to its unexpectedly sharp writing, which leans firmly into the character's literary origins.

Undeniably quaint by today's standards, for fun for a giggle or two even if few will stick it out to the end.

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