£260.
That, to most people, including myself, is a lot of money. Yet I spent £260 of my own hard-earned money on the PS5 Legacy Edition of 007 First Light.
Before I launch into what you actually get for that money and my thoughts about it, you first need to have context as to how much of a big deal it was that I even ordered this. That is because, as I’ve mentioned, £260 is a lot of money to me.
I have never bought the most expensive version of a game at launch before. Add to that, it’s been 16 years since the last true, new Bond adventure with an original story, namely the excellent James Bond 007: Blood Stone game back in 2010. Yes, there were other games released after, but I don’t count remakes or the monstrosity of the game known as 007 Legends as ‘New Bond games.’
So, I felt, as a hardcore fan, that I’d put my faith, trust, and money into supporting the companies involved, that I want them to do well with 007 First Light by buying the most expensive version of the game available, the £260 Legacy Edition.
Pre-order issues with companies aside (story for another day), my package arrived at 3:30 PM on the release date of 27th May 2026.
The first sign that something wasn’t right was that the weight of the package was less than I thought it would be. I’d told friends that the Golden Gun, as long as it wasn’t just a cheap-looking plastic toy and at least made of metal, would be enough to make me happy.
Boy, was I in for a shock!
Opening up the package, the first impressions were excellent. The artwork on the box is superb and gives off a quality vibe. When you open that box up, there are three foam sections with items perfectly, and very professionally looking, held in place with them.
The game itself had one whole section of foam alone. But then we come to the main story, the other items within. The other two foam sections had two, hard, black-backed, plastic trays, and in one of those trays, underneath a thin film of plastic, was the very shiny Golden Gun, bullets, and golden certificate of authenticity.
What happened next, I’m sure, was repeated by every other person who bought this.
Instinctively, I tried to pull the Golden Gun out of the tray it was set in, and I found I couldn’t.
Confusion.
Hang on, what’s going on? I tried pulling out a bullet. Again, nothing. “What’s going on?”, I thought. “Why isn’t anything coming out? Perhaps they are locked in from the other side like toys generally are in their packaging these days?”.
I tipped the tray upside down and gently tried to pry the Golden Gun out of its casing, but instead of the gun coming out, the whole tray it was set in started to budge. I pulled just a little more, and then the tray with the gun separated from the back casing.
My editor wanted me to do a video unboxing of this, and I’m so pleased I declined. It was because at that moment, if I had, the whole world on the internet would have realized from the disappointment in my voice that I had been duped!
When the tray fell out, it had revealed that the Golden Gun not only wasn’t metal or a plastic toy, it was, in fact, simply half a casing of a Golden Gun embedded into a tray. In short, there is no actual complete gun or thing to pull out to man-handle at all. The back side of the tray simply had a lot of tiny screws holding what you see in place, and the hard plastic back tray had two pieces of metal glued to it to add weight to the whole thing.
Maybe it was my mistake for thinking I was going to get a toy I could pull out and play with. To be honest, even if it was, I would have only probably pulled it out, said out loud, “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die,” once, then after a couple of “pew-pews”, put it back in the tray and left it. But no. I couldn’t even do that.
At that moment, I felt silly and, yes, a little angry.
I took all the other items out, then proceeded to put the stand together. That also wasn’t a straightforward process. A base unit, a metal support pole, and the top tray with the gun should have been a simple task to put together, but it wasn’t. The pole is meant to be placed into the base, given a twist, and you put the tray into the slot on top.
Nothing would line up, though! When you very delicately try to twist it a little more to see if you just hadn’t turned it enough, you get an alarming-sounding crack from somewhere to make you stop before you break anything.
I watched someone online put the item together, and the EXACT same thing happened. I eventually got it set up correctly (not sure how) and put it on my gaming shelf about five minutes later, then I sat back, feeling a little odd about it all.
So, what exactly do you get for £260?
A Golden Gun Figurine with a base stand, a connecting metal pole, and a metal 007 golden logo to place in the base unit. You also get a physical copy of the base game itself. A set of in-game skins. A steel case game cover. A metal credit card-sized plate with “007 First Light” on it, a certificate with a “thank you” message from the team, and a lot of cool looking packaging.
I’ll run you through the costs, some will be estimates, but working backwards from £260.
The base game is worth £60.
Before I redeemed the DLC code, I checked out the value of the skins you get, and they would have been £20 if you bought them separately.
The steel book game case, in my opinion, would be around £20.
The 007 First Light metal plate, about £5.
The certificate, meh…I’ll be generous and say £1.
The packaging, free, but still has value for display purposes.
So, if you take those costs above, add them up (£106), and take that cost away from the total price of £260, it leaves you with, in essence, a price of £154 for the Golden Gun figurine, base stand, metal strut, and 007 metal logo.
So, the million-dollar question is, “How does that make me feel?”.
If my head was talking, I’d be furious. £154 for a lump of plastic and a bit of metal I can do nothing with other than look at. What was I thinking? This moment reminded me of that scene in the film Skyfall when Bond met Q in the art museum, and Q gave Bond a small box with a gun and a radio. The sense of disappointment from Bond’s voice in that moment as he says, “A gun and a radio. Not exactly Christmas is it?”.
But then, after my initial disappointment, my heart took over.
I can’t lie, this Golden Gun Figurine looks FANTASTIC! As soon as you walk into my gaming room, your eyes are immediately drawn to it. When my wife and daughter came to have a look, they both did the same thing. They walked right up to it and tried to take it out. I kept telling them before they even got there, it didn’t come out, but both of them went up to it, and thought they could flick it out.
Don’t listen to what some naysayers are saying online, in real life, this thing doesn’t look like cheap plastic, it looks great. If it did look like cheap plastic, people wouldn’t be fooled to think it looked real enough to take out of the case. They have done a tremendous job of the presentation of the item.
As a bit of Bond memorabilia, it looks awesome. You could and probably should put the stand in a glass case, and it would quite easily give the illusion of being an actual piece of James Bond film history that I had somehow gotten my hands on and was displaying.
The base stand design with the gun barrel moulding, and with the gold metal 007 inlaid into it, also gives an air of class and Bond-like sophistication. All in all, I love the look of this thing. It would have been even better with a bit of gold colouring in the recesses of the base moulding to make it pop some more, but alas, they didn’t include that.
Can I justify the approximate cost of it in real terms of costing me around £154? Actually, yes!
My daughter and I go to a shop in Newcastle called Forbidden Planet. In there, they have display cabinets for figurines, from superheroes to gaming icons. Admittedly, these figurines have a lot more detail and are in some cases much larger than the Golden Gun I have, but then, so are their prices.
There are currently pre-orders available for a ⅙ scale Death Stranding 2: On the Beach figurine for £680! Suddenly, knowing the cost of figurines, big lumps of plastic, items you’re not exactly going to play with, and how expensive buying items of your favourite franchises can be, £154 for a 1 to 1 replica Golden Gun figurine with an awesome-looking, themed stand to display it like a museum piece doesn’t actually sound too bad anymore.
So overall, I am just about happy with my purchase, but there is a lot of reticence.
The reticence comes from the fact that I feel somewhat duped into what I thought I was getting to what I actually did. The devil is in the details, and does anyone not used to buying things like this, described as a “Golden Gun Figurine” understand what that really is? It should have been made much clearer that this wasn’t something you could get out of the case and man-handle. The fact that it wasn’t has left a sour taste in my mouth that Amazon/MGM did that deliberately to be as judicious with the truth of the matter as possible.
The double whammy about this is that they must also realize that the only people who probably ordered the most expensive version of the game would most likely be (and most definitely are, in my case) hardcore fans of the James Bond IP. The fact that they are willing to potentially upset and deceive the very long-time core fans of the franchise staggers me at their brazen disregard and disrespect.
It’s also very disappointing that even getting the high-end version of the game doesn’t even unlock for you all of the in-game items that are available. Paying top dollar for something means you should be getting EVERYTHING! But Amazon/MGM, in their infinite wisdom, have locked other in-game items/skins behind other versions of the game. Who in their right mind is going to buy multiple versions of the same game to get DLC codes to unlock everything?
Lastly, imagine paying out £260 for a game, only for the game to turn out to be bad? In my short time with the game so far, and a review upcoming, I can at least say that, thankfully, that is not the case, but still, it was a worry when ordering.
So, all in all, I am just about into the camp of feeling okay about buying the Legacy Edition of 007 First Light. I’ve experienced lots of different emotions in the last 24 hours. However, as I sit and write this at my computer, I can see the stand just a couple of feet away to my right. It does look awesome and brings a smile to my face every time I look at it, so I’m just about happy…but only just.
My score for this whole packaged would be a 6/10.
(But, you know I wanted to score it a 007/10, didn’t you, dear reader?)
