Looking back at....James Bond Everything or nothing!

After the succes of Goldeneye on the N64 a lot of developers have tried to get close to that succes, often by going for the first person experience like Goldeneye. But Everything or nothing went for the third person shooter experience, but also by making it more like you're playing in a Bond movie instead of just shooting yourself from point A to point B in first person. It's not that you won't be having a lot of shooting ahead of you but there is a story and there is some actual interaction with other characters. What's also cool is that the actor who played Bond (Pierce Brosnan) at that time actually did the voice for the character and some more Hollywood actors gave their voice to some of the characters in the game. That gave Everything or nothing a more movie experience and less of a shooter, but getting back to business it's still you playing as Bond and killing a lot of enemies. So maybe it's not that different?


Bond!


You play as James Bond and you kick ass! Well in a more sophisticated style of course but it still comes down to you killing every person that shoots you or tries to shoot you. In third person it's actually pretty cool, because not only did Pierce Brosnan do the voice for Bond but the Bond character in the game also looks like him which gives you more the idea that you're playing in a Bond game instead of just another third person shooter. The idea is still simple where an insane man is threatening the world and only Bond can stop him, of course with a lovely female companion alongside him. So you do have the feeling that you play as Bond, it's just getting used to the third person perspective.


Succes?


As the title says it's everything or nothing with this Bond title, at least for the developers (Electronic Arts and Visceral Games), because after some less quality Bond games they really wanted to give the fans what they wanted. But that would be Goldeneye 2 and that game wasn't a great succes either, so can you really please the fans? I guess they decided to do something else and came up with the third person shooter experience and made it more a like a movie, which is actually not bad and I must admit that I enjoyed playing this game. Especially after going through some lame Bond games in the past after Goldeneye. This is definitely something new and refreshing in the series of first person shooter Bond games and also fun to play!


Worth checking out.


If you've never played Everything or nothing and you still have a Playstation 2, Xbox or Gamecube then it's a game you might want to get because it's a fun Bond experience. Sure it's no Goldeneye and no the story doesn't blow you away, but as a Bond fan you're in for a good time and eventhough the game isn't that difficult it's still worth to check it out. Especially since the game is now available, if you still know where to get it, for a low price.

Reacties

Een reactie posten

Populaire posts van deze blog

Button bashing

It seems that more and more games want you to smash on the buttons of the controller, which seems like fun but knowing that this weak piece of plastic can´t handle much it´s not the smartest way to handle your controller. In the good old arcade days I could smash on buttons, ok nothing too crazy but at least those machines had a lot more resilience than these weak controllers we have now. You have to pay a small fortune for one of them and they fall apart with the slightest bit of force you use. After smashing a couple of controllers out of frustration I learned to be careful with them, but when games force you to be an agressive button basher it doesn´t really help. Button bashing is nothing new but I do seem to see it in more and more games, even games that could easily do without this abusive way of treating your controller. Instead of button bashing people came up with the idea to press a certain series of buttons in a sequence, I first saw this in God of War which was fun. But s...
Meer lezen

Movie Monday: Mr & Mrs Smith

There are movie that might not look good at first, when you hear about it, but once you see the movie then you know that it's a fantastic movie. What really made Mr & Mrs Smith so good was the acting of the two main stars in the movie, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They had so much fun making this movie that it's an absolute joy to watch the movie. Which is good news for people that are looking for a fun movie to watch! Married to a spy? The story of Mr & Mrs Smith is pretty simple, a man is a spy and marries to a woman not knowing that she's a spy too. Apparently both of them are unaware of eachothers activities until their paths cross in their spy life, which leads to a lot of fighting and explosions. It's really not the action that makes this movie so much fun to watch but it's the humour. Mr & Mrs Smith is the type of movie that shows that a movie can be ten times better when the actors are actually enjoying themselves making this movie, instead ...
Meer lezen

Sinful Sunday: Why are you so serious?

When I play a game I don't want to be serious, I just want to have fun and relax. Honestly real life is serious enough and I don't need that in games. Who cares who wins or who loses, just have fun and that already makes it great! Unfortunately there are gamers that take certain games way too serious, so serious that they literally forget to have fun which is quite frustrating to deal with. These kind of players are so serious that they probably left the fun behind when they started the game. Sigh... Serious gamers are lame gamers? There is nothing wrong about being serious, but I think there is a time and a place for everything. When I play a game with my friends then I'm not being serious nor am I serious when I start up some random multiplayer match. Sure it's nice to win but it's not everything! Things become more serious when there is something at stake, for example in ranked matches or during a tournament. I understand that things are more serious there an...
Meer lezen