“Earn the number,” says the promotional tagline for 007 First Light, the first major James Bond video game released in well over a decade. 007 Legends—the last major release to feature everyone’s favorite martini-swilling superspy—came out in 2012. It featured the likeness of Daniel Craig, whose five-film tenure as James Bond would hit its apex later that year with Skyfall—then and now, the only 007 film to hit the fabled $1 billion threshold at the box office (though Amazon, the franchise’s newest steward, surely has its sights set on eclipsing that number). Here’s another way to think about it: When 007 Legends was published, Barack Obama had just been reelected president of the United States, and Donald Trump was still incoherently ranting about his birth certificate. Neither Theresa May, nor Boris Johnson, nor Liz Truss, nor Rishi Sunak, nor Keir Starmer had ever been prime minister. The “Brexit” referendum—which led to the United Kingdom isolating itself from the rest of Europe, no Bond villain required—was nearly four years away. The Covid-19 pandemic, which rattled the …