@@WH250398 Fun, random fact: Takayoshi Sato, the artistic director for Silent Hill 2 and cutscene director/ animator for both the first and second games, worked on Rogue Agent. It was one of the last high profile creative gigs he had prior to a ton of contract labor with the American military.
Yeah and they did too people remember the games rather than the movies. It shows that video games brought a lot of attention than its movie counter parts. Let’s hope that io interactive will make the best James Bond as possible.
I remember being young and getting one of those xbox demo discs with Xbox Magazine. It had a demo of this game which included a few missions, including the jaws one. I was hooked. My brothers and I replayed that mission over and over and over until eventually years later we finally got the game. Still one of my favorites, along with the other 2 good console bond games of that time. (Nightfire + Agent Under Fire)
I absolutely loved this game as a kid, and personally feel it's an indirect precursor to the Uncharted series between the third person action, stealth, melee and set piece gameplay blend, and as such I've been wanting for years for Naughty Dog to get a shot at the licence and an original Bond game like this instead of the meh movie tie-ins we've had since the 7th gen.
There's plenty of behind the scenes of John Cleese talking about the games and he most certainly does love voicing Q and I'll say it right now...this game is a better Bond than what we'll see in Bond 25. And Walken played a great psychopath in Seven Psychopaths! And I'm convinced Peirce Brosnan took this role just to go out on a higher note from Die Another Day, God bless him.
Knew with the announcement of who was doing the title song and a handful of promotional stuff I'd seen that No Time to Die was in trouble. Connery, Craig, Brosnan, and Moore seem to have all gone out on bad Bonds.
Timothy Dalton & George Lazenby got lucky in a sense :P - though its hard to say about No Time to Die until it comes out! You never know, it may surprise everyone.
The highway motorcycle mission was the mission that blew my mind. I didn't have games with sequence like this back then. I'd fail on purpose to replay over and over again.
Same, I also like to do that with the free falling mission, Bond actually reacts to just barely hitting a ledge on the way down and tumbles through the air. There was so much attention to detail in this game.
I loved to play this level, but I equally loathed having to dodge every car. However this level came in clutch in improving my response times for high speed chases in other games. This is the first Bond I played and finished. Though Nightfire was the 1st introduction to Bond as a franchise, before the films
You are one of the most complete and accomplished UA-camrs GMan... I commented about how great your Bond Compilation video was and secretly thought Everything or Nothing was missing and low and fucking behold you delivered big time with this. I am honored to be your sub! Keep it up
Haven't even watched it yet but I'm feeling validated as hell , I've been saying this for years. Edit: Cool to finally see the coop mode beyond the second chapter. That shit was ruthless and it was hard to find a partner that would commit.
He is immortal. Much like the Macho Man Randy Savage;his voice (by most standards) being extensively archived for future cultural appreciation means he will never die.
@Astropathix XIII He is still alive. From what I understand, he does go inactive from time to time in order to keep a minimum of privacy (which seems to be hard since he is constantly recognized on the street, in shops, etc). Apparently, he won big at the lottery and ... well, you should it for yourself. His most recent video was posted last December I believe.
I actually beat the co-op thing with my little bro back in the day. Really felt a sense of accomplishment for something I did ages ago with your remark there.
It was insanely hard to beat and seeing this footage just gives me flashbacks of all our failures. That game mode caused less fights with my brother than the non coop multiplayer in the other games, though.
The scene chasing jaws on the highway will never leave my mind. The night before my dad had to deploy to Iraq back in like 04 we sat up playing the demo nonstop together.
@@goobin9125 Lol That's a weak excuse. Then don't go into the army. Officials, politicians, leaks and army vets themselves all formed a coalition and literally said THERE WAS NO REASON TO GO INTO IRAQ. Besides the oil and gold, the oldest surviving city in the world, burned to the ground.
I might just have to get this on my ps2. Big fan of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and William Dafoe as the villain is just perfect. I also think Die Another Day isn’t as bad as people say it is. Sure, it’s OTT, but that’s what makes it so good. Plus, there are some incredible scenes, like the car chase.
The prologue was really good, and Bond being tortured in a North Korean prison during the title sequence was pretty unique and cool, but then the movie went into the self-parody direction, which worked for Diamonds are Forever and all of Moore's career. DaD unfortunately came out right after the entire Austin Powers trilogy, which is the exact reason why the Craig movies went for the grittier, down to Earth approach. tl;dr: the movie has a problem with tone. It's just all over the place
From Russia with Love always felt like a more polished version of this game. I really liked that one while Everything or Nothing was always really difficult for some reason.
I was able to play thru the whole campaign of Everything or nothing during my teenage years, but I could never beat the last level, which had a massive difficulty spike compared to the rest of the game for some reasons...
I feel as though growing up without UA-cam and high end media made me think I had stumbled upon some "hidden gem" with this game but I utterly love this game and it's one of the very few games I tried over and over again to get the platinum medals at the end of each mission. It makes me happy to grow up and see that other people loved this game too.
The amount of hours I put into this game as a child was insane. My mom being a huge bond fan this was the only shooter she would let me get as a kid lol
This game got me into gaming and thank you for covering it, as a kid I was a big fan of Bond my uncle even had a Bond watch that he eventually gifted it to me. Also I remember how well it was received by the PS2 magazine and how much they were praising those fall sequences especially the free fall one, these were all ahead of their time. The Bond moments were something really unique too, like little challenges to emulate the badass feeling Bond was giving off in the movies. I never got to finish it sadly cause I couldn't get past the stealth mission with the dart gun.
Something interesting about this game - it had seperate executable files for the shooting and driving levels. When you finished a shooting level the game would effectivley close then boot up the second .exe (or whatever the consoles format was) for the driving
One final fun fact, this game was supposed to be Brosnan's final bond MOVIE! but due to budget cuts and issues with production, they opted for a video game instead.
The co-op mode was ungodly difficult. Even when you learned the best cover spots to camp, the times when you want to bait out the rocket launchers then fall back, the timed double stealth takedowns, and the times when the auto aim would be off and where to manually adjust for specific enemies...... ALL THAT, and it still comes down to some luck... as seen at 16:00, you are just there to be shot at without any way to fight back until you hit the ground. You might get chewed up or the enemies might miss, but there are many sections in that part of the level like that. My dad and I beat it on Gamecube, I did become a doctor, so theres that XDDDD
The coop in this game is unbelievably hard lol. Playing on 007 difficulty that coop was one of the hardest things I ever did in gaming as a kid. I have to agree that everything or nothing was an awesome bond game which was brutal to its player base. Very hard game on the higher difficulties especially getting those platinums. I hope the new bond game goes back to something like this.
I remember the only scene I really hated was when James Bond destroyed that sweet looking Porsche Cayenne. I can assure you, Q wasn't the only one who was upset that day.
Back in 2004, I played this game on Xbox and was challenging, but manage to finish the campaign a couple of times. A couple of weeks back, nostalgia got the best of me and I tried to play it again, and the game chew me up and spit me out. Nostalgia turned out to be the realization that I am old. Having said, that the game is pretty fun and I recommend it.
Amazing video! I remember achieving platinum rank in every single level from the campaign. Some of the platinum objectives made want to jump off a bridge head first, but after completing them all and unlocking all the cheats, it felt good. In the co-op mode, my brother and I completed all three chapters without losing any lives. In the end it all came down to enemy spawn knowledge, trial and error and John Wick-like accuracy. It may seem like a lot, but we somehow managed to complete it 100%. Despite the frustration in some levels of both single and multiplayer, I absolutely love this game and remember it as the best Bond game I've ever played. Thank you for the video.
You missed the coolest bit - it was the first game I remember that went to slow motion when you were choosing weapons/gadgets. Not only is this a nice idea for time-limiting how long you could spend switching guns, I used to have it on for ages and just marvel as bullets and rockets leisurely whizzed by.
Funny you remark "Bond's not Bruce Lee" because George Lazenby was actually a student and good friend of Lee. In fact, when Lee died, he was on his way to have dinner with Lazenby.
I think this has been the most complete Bond game that had released. It has its flaws and it’s not a perfect game but there was effort out into it. A star studded cast, great action sequences, fun racing levels, stealth sequences.
Thanks for giving the co-op the attention it deserves. It's the highlight of the game, without the tacked-on variety of the single player. Friend and I almost completed all the side challenges, like "lose no lives" and "don't be seen". I hope to one day have kids just so I can play it in 4K on Dolphin Emulator and bag the last unlock points!
You didn't mention the museum mode you got to explore after beating the game. You could walk around and look at various set pieces and items of the game, like Jaw's teeth and flamethrower! I always loved that.
Man I have fond memories of this game. My only gripe was that the final level upped the difficulty to the point where I don’t remember if I even finish the game. It went from a challenging games near impossible
Every time i think about this game i always think of it as an open world JAMES BOND game for some reason because this game had such a huge potential to be so
I don’t think me and my friends ever beat that co-op mode. It was very frustrating at times but man at the same time it was that era where the challenge was just so appreciated. I remember those co-op games so vividly. Very fun. 11/10 would torture myself again.
Without hyperbole, this is my favourite game of all-time. (Though I still despise the lack of checkpoints in the campaign missions.) People tend to rank 007 NightFire above this one, but for me Everything or Nothing was always the superior one... singleplayer wise. I just pray that IO Interactive's 007 project game will be atleast _half_ as good as this one. James Bond games have been gone for far too long now.
Yes! I was so hoping you would cover this. I remember playing the absolute sh*t out of this as a kid! Willem Dafoe deserves another go at being a bond villain, but this time in the movies I remember also enjoying the spiritual sequel to this: From Russia with Love, wherein Sean Connery reprised his role as Bond
I remember playing this and Nightfire from start only a few years like something between 2-4 back again. It took weeks to get every mission platinum. There was a bit frustration of course, but the feeling of completing these 2 games including MP of this here with a friend was just so satisfactory. Before that I also 100%-ed NfS Underground up to Carbon.
This was my fave Bond game. I don’t think I ever beat it though. I was stuck in the Moscow level with the tanks. As you mentioned, the lack of check points was super frustrating, having to go all the way back to the beginning of the mission sucked! But Shannon Elizabeth was definitely the perfect choice for the Bond Girl.
Seeing such a recognizable render of this game, paired with a title like that, filled me to the brim overwhelming joy. Thnak you. *Thank you* for higlighting 007: EoN like this, it means the world to me. :D
Tip for combat: Bond only locks onto enemies he's facing, whether or not the camera faces them. If someone starts shooting behind you, or comes from an angle, just turn to where they come from and lock on. Bond sense also let's you lock onto enemies, which is useful if, again, someone's behind you. Something else about Bond sense: if you highlight a weapon, face the camera at an enemy, you can just tap L and Bond locks of with the weapon now pulled out (so you don't have to exit it to switch to the weapon you want). Ik lock on is considered dated at this point but the games designed around it in every way, on top of being able to do refine your aim. If anything it's better they went lock on because enemies will come at you from every corner, and the cover system isn't Gears. When Gman says calling it a shooter doesn't do it justice he's right. The gunplay is fun and challenging, but think of the guns as items Bond uses. It's more an action game vs a shooter (same way we don't call GTA or Deus Ex shooters).
Nightfire and Everything or Nothing are genuinely better than a lot of real Bond movies. I'd like to believe those games are canon to Pierce Brosnan's Bond timeline.
For anyone curious, the multiplayer arena mode was an average (at best) take on Power Stone. Featuring single screen pseudo-isometric combat with a completely different combat system to the main game. If I recall it lacked the lock-on targeting of the campaign and was exclusively free aim (i.e. shoot in the direction you're facing). It was a weird distraction if nothing else.
i really really loved all the bond games, since they tried to implement so much different stuff like driving and shooting, stealth sections and shooter like areas. there was so much various types of gameplay in these games. also all those hidden areas and secrets, which supports the replayability. i'm especially thinking of games like nightfire or the prequel of it, also tomorrow never dies on psone. god so much good stuff.
Noalgia Levels are getting critical! This is one of the most played PS2 Games on my List and damn well deserved that Spot. I mean even by today Standards the Story was great and the Soundtrack ... my god the Soundtrack! So good! Also as far as i heard it this Games Story was actually put into a Movie but it got scrapped and EA took it anyway and made this Game, but dont know itf its actually true, was just a rumor back then when the Game came out.
Yeah that he was to old never worked,cause connery Never say never again and roger moores a view to kill prove that it could work and they were much older. And pierce was in the november man where he proves he still could do it verry well.
So glad to see this game getting love. I always go on about it when people talk Bond games but no one seems to remember it. I don't usually play 3rd person games much but I loved this when it came out.
Friendly reminder that Gmanlives has almost reached the Patreon goal of regularly reviewing games outside of the FPS genre. He's at 98%. Also, I had wondered why this game was called the best of the bunch. Looking at the gameplay and production values, there's a solid argument here. The only bond movies that I've sat down, watched, and remembered were sadly 3 of the Craig movies and maybe that very first one that was a Blaxploitation?(I barely remember it, so I don't count it sometimes)
Pretty much all Bond games felt meh to me since Golden Eye... that was until Everything Or Nothing. This is to this date the best Bond game I've ever played, it's not even based off any movie yet the story fits perfectly for a Bond game and the cast is just "chefs kiss"
Oh man, the co-op in this game provided literal days of entertainment for me. Combined with Rainbow Six Vegas (ps3), me and my buddy pulled a loooot of all-nighters. The difficulty was brutal, but when you're a kid you can somehow magically ignore being stuck in one place for hours and still have fun. Gamecube had a ton of amazing couch co-op games.
I really enjoyed the difficult missions dotted around, it made the game feel refreshed in places and normally it was at the end of a locations use so ot closed the chapter on say the new Orleans section
Ah yes, the very first game I ever got a strategy guide to. Still have it to this day. Countless Summers were spend with this game. For years my Cousin was the only one who could get the Platinum on the Bridge level which personally was way too stressful for me. 17:32 My Sister and my Cousin went through the entire game on Co-op and even did some of the impossible challenges. Unlocked all the characters and Arenas.However they didn't go on to become great inventors. As for 18:04 are that is exactly what you get. There is a small section where Bond congratulates you for making it this far. I didn't think anyone could miss it. This game also houses my greatest gaming achievement, the Platinum Gun. I just wanted to see the Museum as well as play with all the guns on infinite ammo. However I did what I thought was impossible. I'm really happy I have footage for the Platinum gun. Very few have seen it. One last thing, it appears you are doing a lot of Bond reviews. If you are interested I am heading up a Goldeneye Mod called "The Spy Who Loved Me 64". It's far from complete but would you have any interest in reviewing it?
Oh man, I had so much fun playing this game! I didn't know until today, but it doesn't surprise me AT ALL that Visceral Games alumni were behind it. That motorcycle section gave me future heart troubles that I'm sure I will start suffering any day now. But I enjoyed every moment of it... Except that multiplayer.
My only major complaint is that the difficulty, even on the easiest setting, is pretty insane. It's one of those games with health pick ups so getting a checkpoint on low health can really doom you.
RIP Visceral Games, you had some interesting work before EA gobbled you whole, stripped you down and Thanos'ed you out of existence.
Imagine cancelling a Star Wars game by Amy Hennig.
Just like Westwood and all the other studios destroyed by it.
EA is for videogames what Disney is for franchises.
@@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370
Activision has also destroyed many a franchise.
@@phoenixzappa7366 they too.
thats real fucked up why you want them to rest in piss? they did good work before the were corrupted
Everything or Nothing is insanely underrated, I'd kill to see a remaster
I'd love to see all EA Bond games remastered, but the painful fact is that these games are a licensing nightmare.
@@WH250398 Yeah, it's a big shame. Nearly, if not all the EA Bond games are really great.
@@HairyHog77 Goldeneye Rogue Agent is a bit crap, but the rest is quality.
@@WH250398 Fun, random fact: Takayoshi Sato, the artistic director for Silent Hill 2 and cutscene director/ animator for both the first and second games, worked on Rogue Agent. It was one of the last high profile creative gigs he had prior to a ton of contract labor with the American military.
@@WH250398 Even that I enjoyed, but I was a child when I played it so it's probably nostalgia.
I remember reading previews of this game and the devs talked about wanting to make a Bond game that was as good and memorable as the movies.
They succeeded imo
Yeah and they did too people remember the games rather than the movies. It shows that video games brought a lot of attention than its movie counter parts. Let’s hope that io interactive will make the best James Bond as possible.
@@Mankey619 io is the perfect team to make a new Bond game.
@@Mankey619 i don't think they can make another all or nothing.
Ironically, I say this game's story is just as good as Goldeneye's story
That motorcycle level chasing after Jaws has you going to ludicrous speed
So much fun!
Fun fact: Motorcycles can be quite fast
I remember being young and getting one of those xbox demo discs with Xbox Magazine. It had a demo of this game which included a few missions, including the jaws one. I was hooked. My brothers and I replayed that mission over and over and over until eventually years later we finally got the game. Still one of my favorites, along with the other 2 good console bond games of that time. (Nightfire + Agent Under Fire)
Lightspeed is too slow.
We're gonna have to go right to... ludicrous speed!
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Love that movie, it’s one of the funniest movie i’ve seen tbh
Such an excellent bond game. Great video
Lol, get yer beard back.
@@TommyMatson it’s already back
@@epicmealtime praise Jesus! Thank you for years of entertainment!
I didn't take you guys for being fans of video games.
Wtf Epic Meal Time is here????
There are Bond movies worse than this Bond game, story-wise. That's a pretty solid achievement
It genuinely has better writing than Quantum of Solace
I rewatched every single Bond film during quarantine, and yeah, Quantum of Solace was THE most forgettable story out of all 25 films.
@@Jesse__H It barely has one. It's a pissed of bloke going through hyperactively edited action scenes with 007 slapped on it.
@@Jesse__H QoS was hurt badly by the writers' strike.
@@Ganondorfdude11 Definitely.
I absolutely loved this game as a kid, and personally feel it's an indirect precursor to the Uncharted series between the third person action, stealth, melee and set piece gameplay blend, and as such I've been wanting for years for Naughty Dog to get a shot at the licence and an original Bond game like this instead of the meh movie tie-ins we've had since the 7th gen.
You're right it really has lots of Uncharted vibes in its gameplay
I agree with precursor to uncharted. Lot of similarities
That free-falling section still looks great.
How in the fuck
Hiiii from watch dogs modding server 😄
@@mirukuteea Oh hello :D
Yeah, but plays horribly.
This game was so fun I had it on the gamecube and it was such an improvement
"He sounds so uninterested and snide, but that's a part of the character"
That's also a part of John Cleese
Precisely
There's plenty of behind the scenes of John Cleese talking about the games and he most certainly does love voicing Q and I'll say it right now...this game is a better Bond than what we'll see in Bond 25. And Walken played a great psychopath in Seven Psychopaths! And I'm convinced Peirce Brosnan took this role just to go out on a higher note from Die Another Day, God bless him.
Knew with the announcement of who was doing the title song and a handful of promotional stuff I'd seen that No Time to Die was in trouble. Connery, Craig, Brosnan, and Moore seem to have all gone out on bad Bonds.
Timothy Dalton & George Lazenby got lucky in a sense :P - though its hard to say about No Time to Die until it comes out! You never know, it may surprise everyone.
@Trainwreck727 nah the bond movies will never end
@@AssaulteedOne They keep delaying it and frankly no one will give two craps about it anymore at this rate.
Sad that he was completely deleted from the series and replaced by a generic computer nerd
Pierce is so lucky. He got to be on n64, GameCube, and pc within his era
Don't forget the PSX. I'm pretty sure that was his voice in 'Tomorrow Never Dies'...
He's the gamer's Bond.
Us gamers are the truly lucky ones. He was THE Bond as far as I'm concerned.
Second best bond after Sean Connery
@@QJ89that was tomorrow never dies
I remember being blown away by the graphics on the GameCube. One of the best looking games on there imo
Same here as a kid I though that graphics couldn’t get any better
Truely ahead of its time
Between the main story and the co-op mode, I put so many hours into this game as a kid. Holy shit.
Same
Same but for me it was co op with my cousin lol, the difficulty spikes prevented us from beating it co op.
The highway motorcycle mission was the mission that blew my mind. I didn't have games with sequence like this back then. I'd fail on purpose to replay over and over again.
This is my favorite level in the whole game!
Same, I also like to do that with the free falling mission, Bond actually reacts to just barely hitting a ledge on the way down and tumbles through the air. There was so much attention to detail in this game.
I loved to play this level, but I equally loathed having to dodge every car.
However this level came in clutch in improving my response times for high speed chases in other games.
This is the first Bond I played and finished. Though Nightfire was the 1st introduction to Bond as a franchise, before the films
You are one of the most complete and accomplished UA-camrs GMan... I commented about how great your Bond Compilation video was and secretly thought Everything or Nothing was missing and low and fucking behold you delivered big time with this. I am honored to be your sub! Keep it up
Haven't even watched it yet but I'm feeling validated as hell , I've been saying this for years. Edit: Cool to finally see the coop mode beyond the second chapter. That shit was ruthless and it was hard to find a partner that would commit.
YOOO my and my homeboy would retry the last level like 40 times then get pissed and pop in halo 2
I never knew there was more than a first chapter 😳
My cousin and I played the co op as kids and I don't think we ever managed to get past the courtyard in Chapter 1 after the bomb defusing mission.
Me and my brother couldn't beat the co-op in this game for shit lol. It's brutal.
Glad to see Tourette guy voice still being sampled
BOB SAGET!
I think one of GmanLives' earliest videos was a mod for the original Left 4 Dead that replaced the Boomer's voice with Tourettes Guy's voice lmao
He is immortal.
Much like the Macho Man Randy Savage;his voice (by most standards) being extensively archived for future cultural appreciation means he will never die.
@Astropathix XIII He is still alive. From what I understand, he does go inactive from time to time in order to keep a minimum of privacy (which seems to be hard since he is constantly recognized on the street, in shops, etc). Apparently, he won big at the lottery and ... well, you should it for yourself. His most recent video was posted last December I believe.
@@Zurin_Arctus_ What? I thought he's been dead for ever. Decade easy.
"One of the few third person games in the franchise along with Tomorrow Never Dies and From Russia With Love"
Blood Stone: Am I a joke to you?
Quantum of Solace PS2 also says hello 👋
Is a joke for all.
Blood Stone was solid
@@SolidSnake240 of course. It was a stone.
@@Cesly-mo3uf Lmaooo
11:19 Holy SHIT that sound design
That particular mission is hard as hell, but it is the COOLEST part of the game by far. The sense of speed is amazing.
The silenced P99 is a thing of beauty as well.
@@BucklingSwashes Am I remembering correctly that the camera shakes quite a bit as you reach those high speeds making it tougher?
Visceral sound design is S tier. Ala-Dead Space.
Too bad they removed the music kick in from the demo when sliding under the tanker. Was the best bit
I actually beat the co-op thing with my little bro back in the day. Really felt a sense of accomplishment for something I did ages ago with your remark there.
Respect you two. Gamers till the end. 👍
Man I owned this on GameCube and didn't realise what I missed out on!
Because that shit was extremely hard 😂.
It got sweaty asf trying to complete that co-op 😂😂😂😂
It was insanely hard to beat and seeing this footage just gives me flashbacks of all our failures. That game mode caused less fights with my brother than the non coop multiplayer in the other games, though.
you're gonna have to do "From Russia With Love" now... It's a pretty fun one !
Russia with love on Gamecube was so fking good, I have very fond memories of that game
Good game. A re-skin/expansion of Everything or Nothing dress like a new game but fun.
@@blabo6427 I felt that the gameplay mechanics and overall gunplay feel were better in FRWL compared to EON
The scene chasing jaws on the highway will never leave my mind. The night before my dad had to deploy to Iraq back in like 04 we sat up playing the demo nonstop together.
Sounds like a great dad.
@@DIEGhostfish If only he wasn’t slaughtering innocent people in Iraq
@@sultanjelle9168 how do you know he was?
@@sultanjelle9168 im arab but he cant help where he is deployed, you got to blame the politicians
@@goobin9125 Lol That's a weak excuse. Then don't go into the army. Officials, politicians, leaks and army vets themselves all formed a coalition and literally said THERE WAS NO REASON TO GO INTO IRAQ. Besides the oil and gold, the oldest surviving city in the world, burned to the ground.
I remember the From Russia With Love game being really fucking good
Yeah, and it randomly came out in 2004 or something haha
It's a simplefied Everything Or Nothing basically. Also a very fun game.
And it had Sean Connery reprising the role that made him a household name.
That one is extremely good too
It’s a lot of fun.
I might just have to get this on my ps2. Big fan of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and William Dafoe as the villain is just perfect. I also think Die Another Day isn’t as bad as people say it is. Sure, it’s OTT, but that’s what makes it so good. Plus, there are some incredible scenes, like the car chase.
The prologue was really good, and Bond being tortured in a North Korean prison during the title sequence was pretty unique and cool, but then the movie went into the self-parody direction, which worked for Diamonds are Forever and all of Moore's career. DaD unfortunately came out right after the entire Austin Powers trilogy, which is the exact reason why the Craig movies went for the grittier, down to Earth approach.
tl;dr: the movie has a problem with tone. It's just all over the place
It’s Willem
Needless to say, the theme song for this game is amazing. Definitely one of the best James Bond theme songs.
From Russia with Love always felt like a more polished version of this game. I really liked that one while Everything or Nothing was always really difficult for some reason.
I was able to play thru the whole campaign of Everything or nothing during my teenage years, but I could never beat the last level, which had a massive difficulty spike compared to the rest of the game for some reasons...
Why was there never a game based on Diamonds are forever. That movie is a living video game
I feel as though growing up without UA-cam and high end media made me think I had stumbled upon some "hidden gem" with this game but I utterly love this game and it's one of the very few games I tried over and over again to get the platinum medals at the end of each mission.
It makes me happy to grow up and see that other people loved this game too.
“More Syphon Filter” so Syphon Filter Retrospect confirmed?
Would love to see a new Syphon Filter for PS5!
The amount of hours I put into this game as a child was insane. My mom being a huge bond fan this was the only shooter she would let me get as a kid lol
8:15 "Whoever thought pressing two buttons at a time to counter is an idiot."
*Street Fighter 5 sweats in the distance
This game got me into gaming and thank you for covering it, as a kid I was a big fan of Bond my uncle even had a Bond watch that he eventually gifted it to me.
Also I remember how well it was received by the PS2 magazine and how much they were praising those fall sequences especially the free fall one, these were all ahead of their time. The Bond moments were something really unique too, like little challenges to emulate the badass feeling Bond was giving off in the movies.
I never got to finish it sadly cause I couldn't get past the stealth mission with the dart gun.
By far my favorite Bond game ever. Felt exactly like playing a Bond film. Great cast too.
For me it’s this game and “From Russia with love” these games were so freakin good
Any game where the leading lady sports a metallic body-suit has to be a winner.
Well, except for 'Other M,' but still...!
Something interesting about this game - it had seperate executable files for the shooting and driving levels. When you finished a shooting level the game would effectivley close then boot up the second .exe (or whatever the consoles format was) for the driving
Everytime Gman reviews a game I played from one of the older console eras, reaffirms the fact I had good taste in games as a kid.
One final fun fact, this game was supposed to be Brosnan's final bond MOVIE! but due to budget cuts and issues with production, they opted for a video game instead.
The co-op mode was ungodly difficult. Even when you learned the best cover spots to camp, the times when you want to bait out the rocket launchers then fall back, the timed double stealth takedowns, and the times when the auto aim would be off and where to manually adjust for specific enemies...... ALL THAT, and it still comes down to some luck... as seen at 16:00, you are just there to be shot at without any way to fight back until you hit the ground. You might get chewed up or the enemies might miss, but there are many sections in that part of the level like that. My dad and I beat it on Gamecube, I did become a doctor, so theres that XDDDD
Got my landlord to play it and he watched my back but we got wasted each time .
I see gman post, I click. Simple as that sonny jim.
The coop in this game is unbelievably hard lol. Playing on 007 difficulty that coop was one of the hardest things I ever did in gaming as a kid. I have to agree that everything or nothing was an awesome bond game which was brutal to its player base. Very hard game on the higher difficulties especially getting those platinums. I hope the new bond game goes back to something like this.
It definitely is. Me and my mate got our ass kicked.
I always remember the villains name (M. Sappho) because I had heard M say it so many freaking times when we would die and restart
I remember the only scene I really hated was when James Bond destroyed that sweet looking Porsche Cayenne. I can assure you, Q wasn't the only one who was upset that day.
James Bond: So how are you still standing?
Villain: Nano-machines son
200% MAD
Borrow the neighbor's kids
Back in 2004, I played this game on Xbox and was challenging, but manage to finish the campaign a couple of times.
A couple of weeks back, nostalgia got the best of me and I tried to play it again, and the game chew me up and spit me out. Nostalgia turned out to be the realization that I am old.
Having said, that the game is pretty fun and I recommend it.
007: *sets bomb for 7 seconds* heh niice
001: FU!___ *bomb goes off*
Lmao that's good
Amazing video! I remember achieving platinum rank in every single level from the campaign. Some of the platinum objectives made want to jump off a bridge head first, but after completing them all and unlocking all the cheats, it felt good. In the co-op mode, my brother and I completed all three chapters without losing any lives. In the end it all came down to enemy spawn knowledge, trial and error and John Wick-like accuracy. It may seem like a lot, but we somehow managed to complete it 100%. Despite the frustration in some levels of both single and multiplayer, I absolutely love this game and remember it as the best Bond game I've ever played. Thank you for the video.
The shooting in EoN made me ill. It's amazing that EA didn't rip off Max Payne 2's gunplay.
A remake or remaster of this would be great.Maybe they could fix the clunky hand to hand combat and the multiplayer.
They should've made a Bond game based off the Dalton Bond movies :)
James Bond: The Duel has Timothy Dalton on the cover.
I agree. My favorite Bond era and perfect for a shooter set in the 80s.
I remember reading in a gaming magazine after Russia With Love released, that there were plans at the time for a License to Kill game.
Yeah cause Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton are my favourite bonds.
Sadly dalton wasnt liked by the audience back in the day.
I miss this game, I spent so many hours as a kid specifically playing this. It never got old every time I made a new playthrough
The Billy Madison scenes are perfect!
You missed the coolest bit - it was the first game I remember that went to slow motion when you were choosing weapons/gadgets. Not only is this a nice idea for time-limiting how long you could spend switching guns, I used to have it on for ages and just marvel as bullets and rockets leisurely whizzed by.
HYPE FOR ANCIENT GODS PART 2
Funny you remark "Bond's not Bruce Lee" because George Lazenby was actually a student and good friend of Lee. In fact, when Lee died, he was on his way to have dinner with Lazenby.
Back when EA treated their franchises with respect
I think this has been the most complete Bond game that had released. It has its flaws and it’s not a perfect game but there was effort out into it. A star studded cast, great action sequences, fun racing levels, stealth sequences.
The one, the only:
GOLDENEYE
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🐍 no step on SNEK! 🇺🇸🇭🇰
Thanks for giving the co-op the attention it deserves. It's the highlight of the game, without the tacked-on variety of the single player. Friend and I almost completed all the side challenges, like "lose no lives" and "don't be seen". I hope to one day have kids just so I can play it in 4K on Dolphin Emulator and bag the last unlock points!
Another Gman video where he doesn't mention blood stone. Feels bad man :(
You didn't mention the museum mode you got to explore after beating the game. You could walk around and look at various set pieces and items of the game, like Jaw's teeth and flamethrower! I always loved that.
Ahh nanobots. After the release No Time to Die it sounds different
Man I have fond memories of this game. My only gripe was that the final level upped the difficulty to the point where I don’t remember if I even finish the game. It went from a challenging games near impossible
graphics are truly impressive. looks like 5 years ahead of its time. how come I#ve never heard of this game
Only made in ps2 . I forgot and tried buying it again till i looked it up .
@@speedracer1945 I played it on GameCube
Such a great channel. Reviews of that kind of older games is something I'm missing out on UA-cam...
Will you review Blood Stone next?
From Russia with love as well
@@MajerHawk yes, From Russia With Love was loads of fun
By far the best Bond game from Activision.
Every time i think about this game i always think of it as an open world JAMES BOND game for some reason because this game had such a huge potential to be so
Seems like a missed out on this gem.
Yeah. Definitely. There's no Bond game that's topped this one to date.
Thank you for covering this amazing game :) The final story mission is also insane, it just pisses you off enough to keep trying for hours.
Movie games are best when they bring their own story, and developers can make the game with its own pace.
I don’t think me and my friends ever beat that co-op mode. It was very frustrating at times but man at the same time it was that era where the challenge was just so appreciated. I remember those co-op games so vividly. Very fun. 11/10 would torture myself again.
Without hyperbole, this is my favourite game of all-time. (Though I still despise the lack of checkpoints in the campaign missions.)
People tend to rank 007 NightFire above this one, but for me Everything or Nothing was always the superior one... singleplayer wise.
I just pray that IO Interactive's 007 project game will be atleast _half_ as good as this one. James Bond games have been gone for far too long now.
Yes! I was so hoping you would cover this. I remember playing the absolute sh*t out of this as a kid! Willem Dafoe deserves another go at being a bond villain, but this time in the movies
I remember also enjoying the spiritual sequel to this: From Russia with Love, wherein Sean Connery reprised his role as Bond
I remember playing this and Nightfire from start only a few years like something between 2-4 back again. It took weeks to get every mission platinum. There was a bit frustration of course, but the feeling of completing these 2 games including MP of this here with a friend was just so satisfactory. Before that I also 100%-ed NfS Underground up to Carbon.
This was my fave Bond game. I don’t think I ever beat it though. I was stuck in the Moscow level with the tanks. As you mentioned, the lack of check points was super frustrating, having to go all the way back to the beginning of the mission sucked! But Shannon Elizabeth was definitely the perfect choice for the Bond Girl.
Seeing such a recognizable render of this game, paired with a title like that, filled me to the brim overwhelming joy.
Thnak you. *Thank you* for higlighting 007: EoN like this, it means the world to me. :D
Co-op was absolutely brutal for my brother and I as kids but now that I see all you get as a reward is a static splash screen, I don’t think I mind.
Tip for combat: Bond only locks onto enemies he's facing, whether or not the camera faces them. If someone starts shooting behind you, or comes from an angle, just turn to where they come from and lock on. Bond sense also let's you lock onto enemies, which is useful if, again, someone's behind you.
Something else about Bond sense: if you highlight a weapon, face the camera at an enemy, you can just tap L and Bond locks of with the weapon now pulled out (so you don't have to exit it to switch to the weapon you want).
Ik lock on is considered dated at this point but the games designed around it in every way, on top of being able to do refine your aim. If anything it's better they went lock on because enemies will come at you from every corner, and the cover system isn't Gears. When Gman says calling it a shooter doesn't do it justice he's right. The gunplay is fun and challenging, but think of the guns as items Bond uses. It's more an action game vs a shooter (same way we don't call GTA or Deus Ex shooters).
William Dafoe as the villan was a genius idea! This game was its own movie in a way. They had a good James Bond theme song as well (for its time)
Nightfire and Everything or Nothing are genuinely better than a lot of real Bond movies. I'd like to believe those games are canon to Pierce Brosnan's Bond timeline.
For anyone curious, the multiplayer arena mode was an average (at best) take on Power Stone. Featuring single screen pseudo-isometric combat with a completely different combat system to the main game. If I recall it lacked the lock-on targeting of the campaign and was exclusively free aim (i.e. shoot in the direction you're facing). It was a weird distraction if nothing else.
People went insane over Keanu in Cyberpunk, imagine if this game gets a remaster.
This should’ve been Brosnans 5th Bond movie! Don’t know why they got rid of him after die another day..
that motorcycle freeway chase is still one of my top 10 gaming moments. i played that level over and over again.
All I remember is driving a cayenne in a made up Puerto Rican town and driving a Ducati off a sky scraper
Or was that tomb raider?
i really really loved all the bond games, since they tried to implement so much different stuff like driving and shooting, stealth sections and shooter like areas. there was so much various types of gameplay in these games. also all those hidden areas and secrets, which supports the replayability. i'm especially thinking of games like nightfire or the prequel of it, also tomorrow never dies on psone. god so much good stuff.
Noalgia Levels are getting critical! This is one of the most played PS2 Games on my List and damn well deserved that Spot. I mean even by today Standards the Story was great and the Soundtrack ... my god the Soundtrack! So good! Also as far as i heard it this Games Story was actually put into a Movie but it got scrapped and EA took it anyway and made this Game, but dont know itf its actually true, was just a rumor back then when the Game came out.
I wish they made Everything or Nothing into an actual bond film it would of been the perfect outing for Pierce Brosnan as 007.
Yeah that he was to old never worked,cause connery Never say never again and roger moores a view to kill prove that it could work and they were much older.
And pierce was in the november man where he proves he still could do it verry well.
So glad to see this game getting love. I always go on about it when people talk Bond games but no one seems to remember it. I don't usually play 3rd person games much but I loved this when it came out.
Friendly reminder that Gmanlives has almost reached the Patreon goal of regularly reviewing games outside of the FPS genre. He's at 98%. Also, I had wondered why this game was called the best of the bunch. Looking at the gameplay and production values, there's a solid argument here. The only bond movies that I've sat down, watched, and remembered were sadly 3 of the Craig movies and maybe that very first one that was a Blaxploitation?(I barely remember it, so I don't count it sometimes)
Thank you for covering this. This game has the most nostalgia to me. My favorite level was the motorbike highway level
The only bond game i know with actual licensed weapons
I credit 2 rather obscure games with my love for video games nowadays
1. Is this game
2. Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death
Pretty much all Bond games felt meh to me since Golden Eye... that was until Everything Or Nothing. This is to this date the best Bond game I've ever played, it's not even based off any movie yet the story fits perfectly for a Bond game and the cast is just "chefs kiss"
Oh man, the co-op in this game provided literal days of entertainment for me. Combined with Rainbow Six Vegas (ps3), me and my buddy pulled a loooot of all-nighters. The difficulty was brutal, but when you're a kid you can somehow magically ignore being stuck in one place for hours and still have fun.
Gamecube had a ton of amazing couch co-op games.
Love this game, not only one of the best licensed games but genuinely one of my favorite games ever.
One of the things I use for aiming is the weapon select that slows down time it actually helps in most cases.
I really enjoyed the difficult missions dotted around, it made the game feel refreshed in places and normally it was at the end of a locations use so ot closed the chapter on say the new Orleans section
Fuck, that coop gameplay brings back Flashbacks
Ah yes, the very first game I ever got a strategy guide to. Still have it to this day. Countless Summers were spend with this game. For years my Cousin was the only one who could get the Platinum on the Bridge level which personally was way too stressful for me. 17:32 My Sister and my Cousin went through the entire game on Co-op and even did some of the impossible challenges. Unlocked all the characters and Arenas.However they didn't go on to become great inventors. As for 18:04 are that is exactly what you get. There is a small section where Bond congratulates you for making it this far. I didn't think anyone could miss it. This game also houses my greatest gaming achievement, the Platinum Gun. I just wanted to see the Museum as well as play with all the guns on infinite ammo. However I did what I thought was impossible. I'm really happy I have footage for the Platinum gun. Very few have seen it. One last thing, it appears you are doing a lot of Bond reviews. If you are interested I am heading up a Goldeneye Mod called "The Spy Who Loved Me 64". It's far from complete but would you have any interest in reviewing it?
Oh man, I had so much fun playing this game! I didn't know until today, but it doesn't surprise me AT ALL that Visceral Games alumni were behind it. That motorcycle section gave me future heart troubles that I'm sure I will start suffering any day now. But I enjoyed every moment of it... Except that multiplayer.
RIP Yaphet Kotto aka Mr. Big.
My only major complaint is that the difficulty, even on the easiest setting, is pretty insane. It's one of those games with health pick ups so getting a checkpoint on low health can really doom you.