007 First Light trailer shows off a fan-favorite feature from an old James Bond game and a new mission type

IO Interactive has released a new gameplay overview trailer, called Rules of Spycraft, for 007 First Light, and showcased a slew of new features players can expect at launch.

First Light is the first James Bond video game in over a decade, and it looks to be a blend of some of the best features from the franchise’s past. There’s also a noticeable mixture of elements from other stealth games, with Hitman being an obvious inspiration, that should provide a deeper layer of gameplay for players to experience.

That starts with the new Tac Sim missions, which the new 007 First Light trailer dove deep into. Tac Sim is a new mode led by Dr. Selina Tan that lets you complete missions under specific conditions and with different restrictions, forcing you to dig into your bag of tricks as an MI6 agent. You’ll have access to several types of missions, all of with varying tiers of difficulty that come with new challenges and rewards.

Your performance in these missions will then be pitted against those of other 00 agents across the world. Tac Sim features an online leaderboard that showcases the best results for each mission from the entire player base. There’s no word yet on what the top performers on the leaderboards might get as a reward for being the top agent in a particular Tac Sim mission. For all players, though, completing Tac Sim missions earns you XP that you can spend on upgrades for Bond in 007 First Light.

This might remind you of Hitman’s Escalations mode, which is basically the same premise as Tac Sim. If IO Interactive follows the same roadmap as Hitman and its Escalation Contracts, though, we can expect even more Tac Sim missions to arrive post-launch.

Regardless of what Tac Sim mission you’re grinding through, though, you’ll need to make use of some of the new mechanics 007 First Light has to offer. The Rules of Spycraft trailer showcased a few of these, but the one that looks the most intriguing is a time-dilation feature.

This was an incredibly popular feature from previous James Bond games, namely the 2003 hit “Everything or Nothing,” widely regarded as the best title in the franchise. The time-dilation feature allows you to slow down time during the middle of combat and target specific areas of an enemy to ensure you inflict the most damage possible. Time dilation could also be a factor in certain parts of the story that require you to dodge objects or bullets, but the trailer didn’t go into that aspect of the feature.

Finally, the new trailer hinted at some post-launch content coming after the release on May 27, 2026. While nothing was made official, the trailer stated that “At IO Interactive, the launch of a game is only the start.”

You can expect plenty of updates and new content to be added down the line, and this might even include a multiplayer mode in 007 First Light. The Rules of Spycraft trailer ends with a cryptic statement: “Finally, one last unwritten rule might be that an agent is never as good as when surrounded by allies, a team ready to give its all in the field, and companions to defend. But we’re pretty sure you’ll figure out this part yourself when the time comes.”

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Vampire Crawlers offers different Gems for you to obtain on your run, and you can use them to modify the cards in your deck. They’re obtained randomly, but some of them will dramatically change how your drafted deck works.

You can use this guide to keep track of how every Gem works before you choose one on your run.

All Gem effects in Vampire Crawlers

The table below has a list of every Gem along with its in-game effects.

Name	Effect
Amount	Adds the number of projectiles.
Area	Adds the area effect of a card.
Armor	Adds Armor.
Armor Strike	Deal Armor as damage when played.
Bombard	Adds an explosive bomb.
Coin Card	Creates Coin Shards.
Copy	The card is copied when used.
Countdown	Mana cost reduces when not used.
Crawler Caller	Summon all Crawlers to Hand.
Decimate	Deals 10% of enemy’s health as damage.
Destroy	The card gets destroyed, but you get coins in return.
Double Damage	Hits twice as hard.
Drain	Heals when the card kills an enemy.
Draw	Draws an extra card.
Duration	Increases Duration stat.
Easy Combo	The card always benefits from combo.
Echo	Replays the previous card’s effect.
Evolution	Evolves the card into a more powerful weapon.
Greed	Increases Greed stat.
Growth	Increases Growth stat.
Increase Mana Cost +1	Mana cost is increased by 1, so it can be used in a higher Combo.
Increase Mana Cost +2	Mana cost is increased by 2, so it can be used in a higher Combo.
Kill Count	Deal current kills total as damage to a random enemy.
Leader	Attacks deal extra damage while the card is in your Hand.
Magic Hat	Beckons a dove from above.
Magnetic	Draws another of the same card, if you have one in your deck.
Mana Rebate	If the card would reduce Mana to 0, receive double Mana instead.
Midas	Playing cards earn coins while this is in your hand.
Might	Increases Might stat.
Mug	Earns coins when the card kills an enemy.
Nduja	Deals spicy damage.
Purple Trigger	Adds Purple color trigger.
Quick Draw	The card is always drawn first at the start of an encounter.
Rainbow	Adds all color triggers.
Recycle	Card skips the Discard pile.
Reduce Mana Cost -1	Mana cost is reduced by 1.
Reduce Mana Cost -2	Mana cost is reduced by 2.
Refund	Refunds Mana to play.
Restore HEalth	Recovers health after an encounter.
Retain	When the card is drawn, it stays in Hand until used.
Return	Returns to hand after playing.
Reverse Combo	Allows the next card to continue the combo while breaking the base rule of increasing mana ascendancy.
Triple Damage	Does three times the base damage.
Wild	Makes the card Wild.
Yellow Trigger	Adds a Yellow Color trigger.
Yin Yang	If you’re on even mana, you’ll gain 1 mana. If you’re on odd mana, you’ll draw 1 card.

When drafting in a Gem, you should always pay attention to the character that you’re using in your deck. Vampire Crawlers offer 21 characters to unlock and equip, and they have their unique strengths. Also, pay attention to the weapon combinations and evolutions since the effectiveness of a specific Gem will depend on your existing deck components.

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