One of the joys of being a gamer is knowing that when you watch a good film, you will be able to relive it as the hero once it has been released on your favourite console.

Whether you’re an action fan saving the world as John McClane in Die Hard or using the force in Star Wars, nothing quite beats the feeling of being the star and controlling the movie from home. Heartbreakingly enough however, I still couldn’t save Mufasa from dying when playing The Lion King on my Sega Mega Drive.

So it’s no exception that one of Britain’s most significant icons, Mr Bond, has his own series of games.

* 007 Legends, XBox 360 – £19.89, available from Amazon.co.uk This is the latest game in the series and if you want to play as James Bond without being too bothered about which film you’re in, it’s the game for you.

Legends is a first-person shooter game that collaborates the best of Mr Bond’s 50 years on our screens with missions taken from Goldfinger (Sean Connery), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (George Lazenby), Moonraker (Roger Moore), Licence to Kill (Timothy Dalton), Die Another Day (Pierce Brosnan) and, most recently, Skyfall (Daniel Craig).

The reason why I like this so much is because in my opinion it’s not your typical Call of Duty or Gears of War type shoot-em-up. The enemies in the game are very intelligent and challenging without it being so hard that you risk breaking the television.

Not only that but it’s not just about deciding which type of gun you’re going to use to destroy your enemy. It’s about playing with gadgets and experiencing what it would be like to power a laser through your wristwatch or to have a pen that can propel three different types of dart. That’s what I call living the dream.

007 Legends got bad reviews for being too much like Call of Duty and other first-person shooters, which is probably the biggest irony in gaming history due to the fact that it was another little Bond game released in 1997 that is still widely considered today to be responsible for the creation of such games...

* Goldeneye 007, Nintendo Wii – £14.99, available from Amazon.co.uk

Yes, that’s right. Goldeneye 007, the third best-selling game ever on the Nintendo 64 was a first-person shooter taking elements of the classic game Doom and making it feel more real for the person playing due to the new development of 64-bit 3D graphics.

I, as well as thousands of others, believe that this game is responsible for the gaming style of today and it is still seen as a classic.

It was so popular that a 2010 remake was released for the Nintendo Wii and a handheld version for the DS, followed by Goldeneye 007: Reloaded for PS3 and Xbox 360. Even 007 Legends follows the general storyline of Goldeneye 007.

The game introduced moves such as stealth and sniper rifles. In fact, when I was playing Sniper Elite V2, a remake of the 2005 classic for Xbox, I had a little flashback to the days of Goldeneye 007 and remembered how revolutionary it was.

So you can see the irony when 007 Legends got criticised for being too much like Call of Duty when it was arguably its predecessor that invented the latter.

In my opinion, although Goldeneye was and still is one of my favourite games, I’d prefer to play a Bond game in a real Uncharted or even Tomb Raider style strategy third-person shooter.

The way graphics and control have developed in recent years to the point that you can really live the game means that I can really imagine playing a Bond game and feeling LIKE I AM James Bond. And who doesn’t want to feel that...?