007: Everything or Nothing

aka: 007: Alles oder Nichts, 007: Todo o Nada, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, James Bond 007: Quitte ou Double
Moby ID: 12211
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A nanobot has been stolen from the work of a world-renowned scientist, Dr. Katya Nadanova, of the Oxford Department of Microtechnology by a man known only as "the General", who has kidnapped Dr Nadanova as well. James Bond races to rescue both the scientist and to retake the nanobots, and kills the General along with the nanobot samples. Bond returns Katya to a nearby base, but it turns out the scientist has not been so faithful to Oxford. Katya meets up with Nikolai Diavolo and gives him a hidden vial of the nanobots. Before long Bond is yet again called into action when MI6 loses contact with 003. And so Bond is off to Peru...

Everything or Nothing is the second of the James Bond third-person shooters, after Tomorrow Never Dies for the Playstation. The game features new guns and a new and improved aiming system which allows you to strategically hug walls and fire around or crouch behind cover. New gadgets allow Bond to go invisible, disrupt electronics, or control mechanical spiders which allow him to access new areas. Everything or Nothing is also the first game where Pierce Brosnan actually supplies his voice for the likeness of his character. Many other actors from the Bond film series such as Judi Dench and John Cleese do likewise.

The game features a campaign with over 30 missions and a brand new co-op game where you take the roles of newly recruited MI6 agents on investigations of their own. EON also includes a same-screen deathmatch that allows for up to four players to play.

Spellings

  • 007 에브리씽 오아 나씽 - Korean spelling
  • 詹姆斯邦德007:谁与争锋 - Simplified Chinese spelling
  • 007 エブリシング オア ナッシング - Japanese spelling

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James Bond
Q
Nikolai Diavolo
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Katya Nadanova
Serena St. Germaine
Q Assistant
Jaws
Mya Starling
"Everything or Nothing" Performed by
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Executive Producer
Senior Producer
Producer
Associate Producers
Senior Producer
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Senior Development Director
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Critics

Average score: 83% (based on 47 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 60 ratings with 1 reviews)

As action-packed as the movies!

The Good
Wow. That was the first thing I said when I started playing this game. Wow.

The presentation is beyond slick. The game starts immediately when you run it the first time with a pretty turbulent mission that throws you in medias res but explains the controls at the same time. After completing this short but action-packed mission (which involves an exploding jet, blowing up tanks, and shooting a lot of guards within a few minutes), the intro movie starts - which really looks like the intro of a movie.

And the casts looks a lot like that of a movie too - Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Willem Dafoe - they all lent their voices to their digital counterparts. And after this intro, the game starts with a slower-paced tutorial mission. Once again, just like the Bond movies - after a kinetic prologue that does not have a lot to do with the actual bulk of the plot, a few quieter moments set the scene.

Many of the following missions are incredibly dynamic - you rappel down a building with thumping explosions (and the game is THX-certified, make sure your sound system has a decent sub-woofer!), you drive at incredibly fast speeds with a car through glass doors and barriers with rockets exploding all over the place - the pace of this game is fantastic. The best part is however that you never get lost in the midst of it all - even though all hell is breaking loose around you, you still have a clear view over what's going on. Kudos to the game designers - that's a masterpiece.

Let's compare this game to the previous installment, 007: Agent Under Fire. The improvements are humongous. First of all, the perspective has changed to a true third-person perspective, making the game easier to grasp. The controls have been totally revamped, are extremely intuitive and work wonderfully. The enemy AI is frighteningly smart and looks very convincing. The graphics are much better, and this time EA had the license for the characters themselves, so all Bond and Q look and sound just like in the movies.

There are scenes in which you control vehicles (cars, motorcycles, tanks, helicopters), and the physics feel very good for each type of vehicle. Of course, you get to crash your car through countless marketplaces, tons filled with water, and there are lots of items that work as makeshift ramps and allow for cool jumps.

Another new feature is Bond Sense - when changing your weapons, you can switch to bond sense mode. This will slow the entire game down to an almost complete stop... almost. Things are still moving a little bit, you can see bullets fly past you at very relaxed speeds, all sounds are pitched down, a slow, psychedelic version of the Bond tune plays... and as a bonus, important parts in the world (enemies, objectives, pick-ups) are highlighted.

There are very good particle effects, so the game is full of smoke, rain, dust, water, and debris. And of course plenty of other nice effects, like infra-red vision, the aforementioned bond sense, and very nicely rendered movies. It just looks very good.

To top it off, there is a very good multi-player mode with its own storyline, where players can (and have to) cooperate - some doors require two agents to open, in other missions one player has to defuse bombs while the other one has to watch that agent's back.

Finally, there's a little bonus system. If you score enough points in a mission, it will be marked Gold, and each Gold award entitles you to a bonus, like concept artists' sketches or production stills of the cast recording their lines. If you finish a mission in Platinum mode, you'll get a cheat, like one that gives you the infamous golden gun.

The Bad
Sounded really good so far, huh? Well, of course there are some downers.. let's go through them...

The missions are sometimes a tad bit too long. Not that they're boring - this game barely ever is - but as with many games, failing a mission requires you to restart it from the very beginning. To make it worse, some missions include cut-scenes that sometimes can't even be aborted. Besides, some sections just require you to wait. So you see a guard approaching, you hide behind a wall, wait for the guard to turn around and then sneak up on him and kick his ass. Takes 10 seconds... that's all good, unless you already had to restart this mission 15 times in the last hour!

The aiming system is OK, but has issues. You hold L1 to lock on a target, tap L1 to change targets. Sometimes, the game makes a very uninformed guess as to whom to lock on... so you'll end up locking on some little bozo hiding behind crates while two other people are busy filling you with lead. There is no way to manually aim (other than with a sniper rifle).

The collision system has problems. Yes, I know, the collision system a very complex thing to write, but still... I ended up solving a helicopter mission by involuntarily flying outside the world boundaries and circumventing the entire level. In rare cases, I found myself stuck somewhere. It's not so bad as to mess up the gameplay, it just randomly bugs you a bit.

The multiplayer game is nice, but very hard, even the first few missions. I tried them after completing the single-player mode, and I still had a hard time. In some missions, neither player may die or the mission is over. It's really tough.

The save system also sucks. Whatever happened to auto-save? That would have been a nice feature. But even without auto-save, the code is badly written. Every time you want to save, you have to select Save -> Slot 1/2 -> Save slot -> Name -> Overwrite?! -> Now saving. Between some of these steps, the system re-checks the memory card, and some steps require you to do more than one button press. That could have been solved in a so much more elegant way.

The bonus system with the Gold and Platinum missions is kinda cool... but one thing threw me off: Usually, you play the game in the standard difficulty mode. That's ok. Now, after completing the game, you might want to get all the Platinums. Well, to be eligible for Platinum, you first have to finish a mission in the hard difficulty mode. THEN you can play it and go for Platinum. So you'll have to play that mission several times, which is totally unnecessary in my opinion. I wanted to go for Platinum, and I absolutely didn't feel like playing a mission twice to get Platinum.

The Bottom Line
I loved it. There's worlds between this game and the last 007 game. As you can see in the credits, there was a large team behind this, and you can tell: This is a huge, slick production. Yes, a few things bugged me, but they don't spoil the game at all.

If you're a 007 fan, you have to have it. If not, it's still a very good game to have.

PlayStation 2 · by EboMike (3094) · 2004

Trivia

Eon

The company that Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, the original producers of the James Bond series, set up to produce the films was called Eon, which was rumored to be an acronym for "Everything or Nothing." However, sources inside the Bond camp over the years have denied that "Eon" stood for anything.

Mya

R&B Diva Mya performs the opening theme to James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing and also appears in the game as Bond girl Mya Starling.

Multiplayer server shutdown

The multiplayer servers were shut down on 13 January 2006.

Originality

Not the first bond game with an original story; but was the first bond game to feature actual actors who could be realistically cast as their characters. It's also the first Bond game to use Pierce Brosnan's voice.

Awards

  • GameSpy
    • 2004 – #9 GameCube Game of the Year

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Game added February 23, 2004. Last modified November 10, 2024.