33 Brilliant James Bond Details in 007 First Light

Warning: spoilers for 007 First Light follow. Proceed with caution.

It whitethorn not astonishment you to perceive that 007 First Light has its just stock of spycraft Easter eggs. From deadly gadgets seen successful James Bond movies to much subtle nods to the satellite of real-life espionage, IO Interactive has layered successful treats for the astir casual and nerdiest of fans alike. We’re not pretending to person recovered adjacent to each of them here, but what we bash person is 33 superb small details from the satellite of Bond and beyond.

1. What amended spot to commencement than with 007 himself? James Bond’s facial scar is simply a item from Ian Fleming’s archetypal novels that has been borrowed for Patrick Gibson’s in-game model. Described arsenic a three-inch enactment supra the feature successful the books, it’s ne'er officially explained however helium came to athletics specified a feature. Incidentally, nary on-screen Bond has borrowed this item before, speech from Pierce Brosnan, who really has a akin scar supra his rima that helium gained portion filming Tomorrow Never Dies.

2. The astir evident Bond movie Easter eggs successful First Light travel nether the bequest collectibles banner. There are 9 to find, and immoderate are good hidden away, truthful we’ve lone discovered six truthful far. The archetypal 1 you tin find is during the Iceland prologue, wherever James tin prime up a golden cardinal with an oculus shape successful it. This is 1 of the keys from, you guessed it, GoldenEye, which are needed successful bid to motorboat the outer weapon.

3. Another is simply a brace of astute shoes with a crisp dagger hidden successful the sole of each. These are replicas of Soviet-turned SPECTRE cause Rosa Klebb’s signature limb from 1963’s From Russia With Love.

4. From the aforesaid era, a Trilby Hat tin beryllium recovered successful the wearables country of Q aboriginal successful the game. The archetypal on-screen Bond, Sean Connery, often sported this headwear implicit the people of his 7 films arsenic 007.

5. In Vietnam, you tin instrumentality a small other clip nosying astir Ramon Hernandez’s villa astatine The Pearl edifice and find a deck of Tarot cards. All portraying the Lovers, this is simply a notation to Live and Let Die and Roger Moore’s brushwood with tarot reader, Solitaire.

6. If you popular into the Kensington gala cafe for a speedy break, you tin besides drawback a poster for a performance featuring a Czechoslovakian cellist. This is simply a motion to Kara Milvoy from The Living Daylights.

7. Elsewhere successful First Light, you tin find a Blades Club Badge. The Blades is simply a fictional gentlemen’s nine from the novels that M is simply a subordinate of, arsenic good arsenic Hugo Drax, the villain of Moonraker.

8. Though not officially a bequest collectible, erstwhile wandering astir Aleph’s achromatic market, you tin find a container containing prosthetic golden fingers, belonging to Lenny Kravitz’s Bawma. This is evidently a notation to Goldfinger, and its large bad, Auric Goldfinger.

9. Another benignant of collectible is the playing cards recovered passim each level. These are Swiss-German, and of the aforesaid benignant James Bond played with his mother, Monique Delacroix, erstwhile helium was a lad successful the books.

10. Sticking with Bawma, helium besides owns a Jaguar Type 00. There’s a agelong lineage of Jaguar cars appearing successful Bond films, but interestingly, James has lone ever driven them connected 1 oregon 2 occasions. They astir exclusively beryllium to villains.

11. You’re overmuch much apt to find 007 down the instrumentality of an Aston Martin, arsenic happens doubly successful First Light. The Yellow DBS utilized successful the Slovakia ngo is simply a shout-out to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and the Valhalla equipped with instrumentality guns and missiles is from Daniel Craig’s last film, No Time to Die.

12. The Transworld Consortium is simply a fictional concern from the Bond books utilized arsenic a screen for MI6. It archetypal appeared successful The Man with Golden Gun novel.

13. Similarly, Universal Exports was the cardinal London screen gathering for MI6 successful the books until Blofeld learned each astir it, and they had to rebrand to Transworld. Universal Exports is inactive utilized arsenic the screen concern successful the movies, though.

14. Inside MI6, you’ll conscionable M’s secretary, Ms Ponsonby. She’s from a mates of the books wherever she's really Bond's idiosyncratic secretary.

15. Someone other you bump into astatine MI6 is Cressida Bright. She’s seemingly named aft Joan Bright Astley (Penelope Bright), who was an quality serviceman during WW2, successful a narration with Bond creator Ian Fleming, and reportedly inspired the quality of Moneypenny.

16. Q Lab is buried heavy beneath the offices of MI6, and present you’ll find galore nods and easter eggs. The archetypal you’ll apt spot is simply a telephone box. Although antithetic successful style, a telephone container trap tin beryllium seen successful GoldenEye, successful which an airbag incapacitates whoever walks inside.

17. A enactment connected a whiteboard mentions a jetpack, arsenic good arsenic a abbreviated speech being had by 2 technicians astir the dangers of a ‘60s one. This could good beryllium a motion to the Thunderball film.

18. Stay a small longer, and they’ll besides notation a one-man submarine disguised arsenic an alligator, which is from Octopussy.

19. And thirdly, the bizarre Bagpipe flamethrower from The World is Not Enough.

20. A definite notation to the movies is the On Her Majesty's Secret Service theme playing during the quarry motortruck chase. A infinitesimal guaranteed to nonstop a tingle down the spine of immoderate Bond fan.

21. A mates of different classical Bond moments see James sipping his archetypal Martini connected the vessel aft Isola makes him one.

22. And it wouldn’t beryllium a Bond communicative without 007 being placed successful a near-death trap. A classical successful the laser betwixt the legs scenario, which tin beryllium seen here, arsenic good arsenic astir famously successful Goldfinger.

23. It’s not conscionable the Bond movies being referenced, though, but different spy and enactment movies. At 1 point, James bluffs his mode done by utilizing the sanction Kittridge, a quality from the Mission Impossible series.

24. During the Aleph Auction, 1 of the bidders belongs to the Three Storms clan. Could this beryllium related to Big Trouble successful Little China?

25. And connected 1 sojourn to Q Lab, you tin overhear immoderate chatter astir an “adventurer archaeologist.” Steven Spielberg famously created Indiana Jones aft wanting to marque a James Bond movie of his own, but not getting the accidental to.

26. Also successful the lab, immoderate scientists close astatine the backmost tin beryllium heard talking astir an exploding conch and cigar. These are some expected Fidel Castro assassination attempts, arsenic they sermon their “cousins” astatine the CIA.

27. More real-life spycraft is alluded to successful the signifier of a poison-tip umbrella being the reply successful a crippled of hangman successful Bond’s apartment. This is simply a notation to the infamous “Bulgarian Umbrella” progressive successful the assassination of writer Georgi Markov during the Cold War.

28. Also from real-life, is societal media Khaby Lame, implicit with his well-known and well-memed look astatine this luxury Vietnam resort. We don’t cognize wherefore he’s here, either.

29. Similarly, British drum & bass stars Chase & Status tin beryllium seen and heard DJing astatine this tiny London club. This 1 makes a small much sense.

30. Sticking with music, erstwhile infiltrating Webb’s Antarctic facility, James tin tickle the ivories of a expansive piano. The opus helium plays? The End of the World by Skeeter Davis. Appropriate for a antheral who loves thing much than redeeming Earth from the brink of disaster.

31. And it wouldn’t beryllium an IO Interactive crippled without a fewer small winks to the camera astir the Danish developer’s different games. A vessel of Chateau de 47 vino tin beryllium seen successful the Carpathian Hotel manager’s bureau successful a motion to Hitman.

32. But that isn’t the lone Agent 47 Easter egg, arsenic a Rubber duck successful a Bond tuxedo tin beryllium spotted astatine Webb Industries.

33. And finally, it’s not conscionable Hitman getting immoderate love, but Kane and Lynch, too, arsenic boxes of K&L shoes tin beryllium recovered stacked successful Bond’s apartment.

That’s everything we’ve spotted successful 007 First Light, and determination are nary uncertainty galore different small secrets and details littered astir its expansive environments to question out. What did we miss? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.