17. 007: Everything or Nothing (2004) – GC
I was totally blown away when I first plopped this one into my Gamecube. Everything or Nothing is the 5th Pierce Brosnan Bond film that never happened, and it has everything you would expect in a Bond picture. Even the title itself is a nod to EON Productions, the company behind the franchise. The script for the game was written by Bruce Feirstein, who wrote GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough: this man knows how to write a Bond film. The cast is composed of the staples, Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, and Judi Dench, but adds to this an all-star lineup of Willem Dafoe, Shannon Elizabeth, Heidi Klum, and franchise favorite Richard Kiel (reprising the Jaws role). All together, this is a winning formula, and it makes for one compelling game experience, with a story that is superior than many bond films (Moonraker I am talking to you).
The game is played in the 3rd person perspective. This is important because you will be doing a lot more than shooting. The story opens with the requisite pre-title sequence and blows up into a typical theme song and dance routine, with music by someone named Mya. Then things really get going. You infiltrate a dam, complete your objective, but then bombs go off and the concrete is ready to burst. Hey, I never said it was original: just fun and very well-suited to the Brosnan Bond. You then have to repel down the dam in a terrifically tense sequence. At the bottom, you grab either your car or a motorbike and race away into a canyon as water rushes behind you and all the walls and buildings you pass crumble and fall as you come under attack by a flurry of anonymous henchmen in a variety of vehicles. It’s a blast. As you progress, there will be opportunities to pilot a helicopter, a remote controlled car, go skydiving for your girlfriend, and, of course, many more car and motorbike chases, the pinnacle of which is a high speed pursuit around heavy traffic on the Pontchartrain Bridge.
There is so much excitement here, you never know what you are going to do next, but it’s always totally over-the-top and endlessly fun.
I was totally blown away when I first plopped this one into my Gamecube. Everything or Nothing is the 5th Pierce Brosnan Bond film that never happened, and it has everything you would expect in a Bond picture. Even the title itself is a nod to EON Productions, the company behind the franchise. The script for the game was written by Bruce Feirstein, who wrote GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough: this man knows how to write a Bond film. The cast is composed of the staples, Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, and Judi Dench, but adds to this an all-star lineup of Willem Dafoe, Shannon Elizabeth, Heidi Klum, and franchise favorite Richard Kiel (reprising the Jaws role). All together, this is a winning formula, and it makes for one compelling game experience, with a story that is superior than many bond films (Moonraker I am talking to you).
The game is played in the 3rd person perspective. This is important because you will be doing a lot more than shooting. The story opens with the requisite pre-title sequence and blows up into a typical theme song and dance routine, with music by someone named Mya. Then things really get going. You infiltrate a dam, complete your objective, but then bombs go off and the concrete is ready to burst. Hey, I never said it was original: just fun and very well-suited to the Brosnan Bond. You then have to repel down the dam in a terrifically tense sequence. At the bottom, you grab either your car or a motorbike and race away into a canyon as water rushes behind you and all the walls and buildings you pass crumble and fall as you come under attack by a flurry of anonymous henchmen in a variety of vehicles. It’s a blast. As you progress, there will be opportunities to pilot a helicopter, a remote controlled car, go skydiving for your girlfriend, and, of course, many more car and motorbike chases, the pinnacle of which is a high speed pursuit around heavy traffic on the Pontchartrain Bridge.
There is so much excitement here, you never know what you are going to do next, but it’s always totally over-the-top and endlessly fun.
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