James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a
Third Person Shooter released in 2004. Bond is
played by none other than Pierce Brosnan, marking his 6th and final appearance in the role in any medium.
The plot of the game follows
Dirty Communists Nikolai Diavolo and his associates plotting to take over Russia using metal eating nanotechnology developed by Dr. Katya Nadanova. James Bond travels all over the world in typical fashion to stop his various plots before confronting the madman in his home base. Surprisingly, the final product is better than it sounds.
Everything or Nothing was the result of EA attempting to move the Bond licensed games out of the
First-Person Shooter genre and hopefully out of the vast shadow of Rare's legendary
GoldenEye.
The move proved to be well received among gamers and critics, despite the game's flaws, due in part to the huge effort put into the game and something fresh for players having grown tired of a series of mediocre (
at best) shooters.
This game contains examples of:
- AKA47: Finally, averted! All the guns are known by their real-world names.
- Applied Phlebotinum: The Nanotechnology. Also the invisibility cloak.
- The Big Easy: One of the stages.
- Blondes are Evil: Katya Nadanova.
- Bond One-Liner: Numerous ones obviously, one of the funnier ones being "We played bridge together. He lost," in reference to Zorin from A View to a Kill.
- Brick Joke: In the mission "Mardi Gras Mayhem", you can take a shortcut over the Mardi Gras parade, freeing an enormous baloon of the sun. Several missions later, the balloon shows up floating over the causeway in "The Pontchartrain Bridge" mission.
- Continuity Nod: Diavolo is a student of Max Zorin's, mentioned in the above example. The premise of a mission in New Orleans seemed like it was going to be a nod to Live and Let Die, but this sadly wasn't the case.
- One of the buildings in the driving mission "The Big Easy" features the Phoenix Industries logo from Nightfire.
- The "Kiss Kiss Club" may or may not be a reference to Thunderball.
- Cool Car: Not only do you get to drive the Aston Martin Vanquish, you also get a Porsche Cayenne Turbo SUV and a couple of sweet motorbikes.
- Cutscene Incompetence: A rare example that harmfully affects the gameplay. If you are attempting to beat the Platinum mission (use no ammo) in "The Kiss Kiss Club", you must skip the cutscene halfway through where Bond enters the bar. During it, Bond fires two rounds of P99 ammo, which counts as you pulling the trigger and failing the mission!
- The Danza: Agent Mya Starling is played by R&B singer Mya.
- Dirty Communists: Diavolo's motivations are to restore the Soviet Union.
- Disney Villain Death: Both Diavolo and Nadanova. Nadanova falls down an elevator shaft in a jet, and Diavolo is thrown down a missile silo. As Bond put it: "They fell for each other".
- A careful glance at the cutscene after the hoverjet comes down reveals that Diavolo managed to eject just in time. The bastard.
- EMP: In (coin) grenade form.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Diavolo was so ruthless that the KGB tried to have him killed (while he was working for them no less).
- Evil Gloating: Diavolo can't resist this.
- Face Heel Turn: Katya Nadanova.
- Fair Cop: Agent Mya.
- Falling Chandelier of Doom: A falling lighting rig this time, but still.
- There is an actual chandelier in the mansion under which the facility Diavolo is having the nanobots manufactured in is. You can shoot it down and kill the enemies below just like in the above example.
- Fanservice: The Bond Girls. You can earn more fanservicey outfits for each of them.
- The woman that you must massage in order for you to sneak by undetected when infiltrating the Kiss Kiss Club can also count. Her bare back is shown and is very much enjoying a personal back rub from the hands that are about to snap a few necks in the next couple of rooms.
- Game-Breaking Bug: In the final mission, with the use of a cheat to have infinite battery life, one can use the nano suit to maneuver past every single guard even though your cover has already been compromised by the start of the mission. Doing this however, will cause the game to fail to spawn the rocket launcher guard that must be defeated in order to progress through the mission.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: The end of the helicopter chase in Egypt. A fairly straightforward flying sequence ends up with Bond slugging it out with a hyper-futuristic base hidden in the middle of the Nile. It's got shield generators and looks like a leftover piece of concept art from Rogue Squadron. Completely forgotten immediately after its defeat. Wait, what?
- Gory Discretion Shot: Not so much visual as auditory. When Bond infiltrates the platinum mine he is discovered by Dr. Nadanova and wakes up restrained to a wall with a drill machine advancing towards his chest. Failing to disable it before it pierces Bond will cause the screen to fade to black and Bond lets out a grunt with nothing on the screen but the words MISSION FAILED.
- Grappling-Hook Pistol: Bond's Rappel Gun, which allows him to walk up and down walls.
- Guide Dang It: It's not mentioned in the in-game tutorials but running straight without the slightest tilt will cause Bond to run much faster than he would at an angle. This is required to do in order to complete the bonus objective for "A Simple Exchange", which has the same objectives and enemies but as a Timed Mission.
- Hey, It's That Voice!: EVERYONE.
- Hollywood Acid: The Vanquish's acid slick is lime-green. Its upgraded formula catches fire.
- Hot Scientist: Twice!
- Inksuit Actor: Practically every main character. Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench & John Cleese are a given. But the game also features Willem Dafoe & the original Jaws himself Richard Kiel as villains and lastly Shannon Elizabeth, Heidi Klum and Mya as the games "Bond Girls".
- Implacable Man: Jaws, making his third appearance in the James Bond franchise. Diavolo also does this as he survives increasingly impossible confrontations with Bond.
- Getting far enough into the survival mode will get you melee-specific enemies that only die from headshots. You can shoot a sniper round into their chests and empty your shotgun within their attack range and they will just get right off the floor and jump you.
- Instant Sedation: The sleeper dart will bring any generic enemy to the ground in a second. It's explicitly stated that it only knocks them out for several hours but inspecting the enemy while in Bond Sense will register him as "dead" anyway.
- Its Always Mardi Gras In New Orleans: The mission is even called "Mardi Gras Mayhem."
- Large Ham: Willem DaFoe as a Bond villain? Yes please!
- Mnogo Nukes: The opening adventure is about a suitcase bomb.
- Mythology Gag: The Bond films are produced by Eon Productions. Cubby Broccoli, the founder, said Eon was an acronym for "Everything Or Nothing" - the cost of acquiring the rights to Bond would have bankrupted him if the first film had flopped.
- Nanomachines: A major part of Diavolo's plot.
- No Damage Run: Some missions have this as the bonus objective once you've completed the missions with a high-enough score on the highest difficulty. Sometimes they just require you not to exceed a certain amount of damage taken (which is always painfully low anyway).
- One-Man Army: Bond in almost every level kills hundreds of mooks, especially in the final one, where in every single corner there's at least ten armed guys ready to fight.
- Optional Stealth: Most shooting levels are like this. It is almost always possible to complete the levels all-guns-blazing, but it's often very punishing on the highest difficulty setting. You do carry silenced and non-lethal weapons, however, and you also have a few EMP grenades which can disable security cameras and alarm systems. Sneaky actions, such as disabling the alarms or killing the guards so it seems like an accident, often give you "Bond Moments" which unlock extra content.
- Racing The Train: Here, you have to race a train that carries the kidnapped Dr. Nadanova. You can choose between the Porsche Cayenne Turbo or the Chimera.
- Red Right Hand: Jaws' metal teeth (naturally) and Yayakov's Terminator-esque right hand, which may or may not be made of platinum.
- Refuge in Audacity: What else do you call a scheme that involves platinum plated tanks?
- What else do you call a scheme that involves platinum, metal-eating nanobots upgraded with spores from the Louisiana bayou, all of which is made in a high-tech plant concealed under a dilapidated plantation manor?
- Shiny Sense / Bullet Time: The Bond-Sense mode, which slows time to a crawl and illuminates callout points for Bond moves.
- Shoe Phone: Coin grenades. Two Pence = frag grenade; Fifty Pence = EMP grenade; Two Pounds = strobe grenade.
- Special Guest: Like Madonna in Die Another Day, R&B singer Mya (best known for her part in the "Lady Marmalade" remake) both sings the title song and has a role in the game.
- Take a Third Option: The whole point of (many of) the Bond Moves.
- Theme Tune Cameo: Agent Mya sings the game's theme song while undercover as a nightclub singer.
- Third Person Shooter
- Title Drop: "Yes, Katya... Everything... or nothing.
- Two Shots From Behind The Bar: After Bond crashes the Kiss Kiss Club, he automatically takes cover behind the bar and acquires a shotgun.
- Unwinnable Training Simulation: A literal example unlocked after you complete the game. It comes in two flavours; rounds with a single enemy type, and an early version of "Horde mode".
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