Review 007 First Light Is A Technical Standout on PS5 and PS5 Pro

Key Points:

• 007 First Light, running on IO Interactive's Glacier Engine, marks the most technically advanced James Bond game to date, surpassing previous titles like 007 Legends and showing significant improvements over Hitman 3's base technology.
• The game features innovative lighting techniques, including a software ray-traced global illumination (RTGI) system combining screen-space tracing and probe-based fallback, though some visual artifacts occur due to reliance on screen-space data.
• On base PS5, the game offers both 30fps quality and 60fps performance modes, with minor visual compromises in performance mode; however, image quality issues such as flickering and artifacting are noticeable, especially with foliage.
• The PS5 Pro version delivers a much sharper and cleaner experience using Sony's enhanced PSSR technology, maintaining a locked 60fps frame rate and improved shadow quality, providing the best visual performance for the game.
• Gameplay is more methodical and stealth-oriented, resembling Hitman more than action-adventure titles like Uncharted, focusing on environment scanning, trailing, and deception, which has been well received by early reviews.