James Bond 007

aka: 007 , James Bond
Moby ID: 11400
Commodore 64 Specs
Buy on Atari 5200
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In James Bond 007 you control James Bond in his multi purpose craft. This craft can travel on both land and sea, can jump over danger, or fire at enemies on the many different levels. Each horizontally scrolling level in the game is loosely based on a different James Bond movie. The levels included are Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, and For Your Eyes Only. Each level has a variety of enemies trying to destroy you, and a unique goal that must be accomplished to continue on (for example, you may have to land on a hidden oil rig to stop Seraffino, or find Stromberg's undersea laboratory and destroy it). If you can complete all the missions, you win the game! Good luck, Mr. Bond.

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Average score: 45% (based on 6 ratings)

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Average score: 2.5 out of 5 (based on 25 ratings with 1 reviews)

Not bad, but more Moon Patrol than Moonraker.

The Good
An innovative concept -- take a combination car/plane/submarine through four different episodes representing four different bond movies, each with its own enemies and tasks that need completing. The game mechanic itself isn't bad either, giving it replay value as the later levels remain challenging even after practice.

The Bad
Unfortunately, much of the challenge comes from making some half of your enemies invulnerable. A helicopter dropping bombs on you? It's invulnerable! A supertanker in the way? Invulnerable! An aircraft taking a passing shot as it goes over? Invulnerable! There is a section of the game which consists of letting the same vehicle pass over you again and again, taking potshots at you while you can do nothing but dodge. Being the pigeon in a shooting gallery may be fun for some but didn't do it for me.

But my biggest complaint is that -- although it's a passable side-scroller -- it simply isn't Bond. There's nothing in the gameplay itself to make you feel like Bond. Your "airplane"-car simply means that it can jump. The "Submarine" component means that it can dive down in water using the exact same parabola as the "airplane" jump. The "Las Vegas" sequence turns out to be driving over flat, near-featureless desert as barren as the moon. The glitz, the glamour, the dash and excitement that made Bond one of the phenomena of western moviedom is simply missing.

The Bottom Line
An average action game that plays much like Moon Patrol, but without moon patrol's pretty mountain and city backgrounds. Better espionage games of the same era would include Elevator Action and Spy Hunter.

Atari 5200 · by Brian Pendell (17) · 2004

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Game added by Servo.

ColecoVision added by Trixter. SG-1000 added by Kabushi. Atari 8-bit added by Terok Nor.

Additional contributors: formercontrib, Gamestorian.

Game added December 20, 2003. Last modified September 27, 2023.