u/Weird_Ant_1729

Just completed Double Agent on my replay this morning. I remembered double agent with mixed feelings. It was one of the first games I got on the Xbox360, and due to that it got a good number of replays. But I remembered always thinking, it wasn't the same as the earlier games in the serise.

First of, damn. This game is buggy, it's more buggy than the first 3. I experienced at least two times the game froze and I just had to shut the xbox down and start again. Seemed paticularly the Sea of Okhotsk mission was prone to freezes, frame drops. I guess the heavy snow was too much for an early 360 game to handle.

I think my biggest problem with this game, would be an incredibly simple fix in a remake or remaster. Make the unlockable gadgets optional, so far my entire replay had no alarms. But I found myself, triggering alarms to make sure I wouldn't end up with the lock picking or the hacking mini games ruined, or heaven forbid the enhanced goggles.

I remember originally not liking the JBA missions particularly. But on a replay, they are actually pretty good! It's intense, it's an intresting map, and some neat mini games and objectives that bring the story together. I saw someone on here suggest that the missions should be forced to be 100% ghosted, it doesn't make sense that the new guy would be caught out of bounds, having got through multiple secure doors just to loose a little trust. But in general these mission pay off.

The Shanghai Hotel mission, was just as beautiful and intense as I remembered and ghosting it was quite the challenge!

Kinshasha is another great mission, the 360 certainly struggled here too, the fps chugged at times but the game didn't freeze this time!

The final pay off for the game to me, is the final mission. In my head cannon, Fisher shoots Jamie. Lambert bleeds out from his injuries and Fisher kills every member of the JBA in the HQ. That's how I played it, it was so satisfying, after the hours of avoiding the guards to kill them all one by one, getting each main member of thr JBA to complete the files (sorry enrica lol).

I love how if you grab Emile and Moss from behind you get a little fight sequence, it gave the game the cinematic ending it deserved.

Onto conviction, I know the serise takes a big downward slope now and I'm intrested if my replay will stop before I reach the end of the serise.

Been a while, but I thought I would update.

Chaos theory, wow. I think it has to be the peak of the serise. The gameplay formula really has been perfected at this point.

The frustrations of the check points are gone, thank god!

So many great missions as well, with the exception of the very final section of bathhouse, there wasn't a single mission I disliked.

I 100% every mission, except boathouse. That final part just defeated me in the end! Haha .

I did reload the save, to reexperience the section where Sam is captured and interrogated! What a great addition!

I think I can honestly say I have no idea what mission was my favourite, as soon many stood out as great levels in there own rights.

It's a tad bit sad how Chaos Theory ended on such a high point, both narratively (scooby doo style group laugh lol) and gameplay. Just for double agent to swoop in and both the make the serise more of a downer, and significantly drop the gameplay mechanics.