| 1 | * AwesomeDearBoy: Despite his retirement, Creator/SeanConnery accepted the opportunity to play Bond again in this game because he wanted to give his version of the character one last send-off. |
| 2 | -->''I hate nothing more than being tied to only James Bond. But when they came to make the game and they asked me to do it I said yes. Regardless of anything, James Bond was good to me and made me a respected actor. I wanted a one last thing. And I didn't want someone else taking on my Bond film.'' |
| 3 | * CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/SeanConnery as Bond, of course. |
| 4 | * TheOtherDarrin: Most of the movie characters had to be recast for various reasons, death of the actor due to the 40 year interval between film and game being a big one. For example, Creator/BernardLee (M) is replaced by Peter Renaday due to the former having died in 1981. However the game in part traded itself on getting Creator/SeanConnery to not only let them use his face for James Bond, but voice the character as well. |
| 5 | * TheOriginalDarrin: Sean Connery returned as Film/JamesBond while previous video games of the franchise at the TurnOfTheMillennium had then-current Bond actor Creator/PierceBrosnan voicing the main role. |
| 6 | * RoleReprise: The game traded itself in part on having gotten Sean Connery to voice Bond, who retired from physical acting two years prior. It is the last time he portrayed Bond in any media, as he passed away in October 2020. |
| 7 | * ScrewedByTheLawyers: EA wasn't allowed to use the name SPECTRE for the antagonists due to a legal dispute over the film rights to ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'' between MGM/UA/Creator/EonProductions and now-deceased screenwriter/producer Kevin [=McClory=] (which wasn't settled until 2013 when Eon's producers bought the last remaining rights to [=McClory=]'s estate, ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' resulted from that). They had to replace them with the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute OCTOPUS. |
| 8 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: EA had originally planned to release a 007 game in 2005, internally called ''[=Bond6=]'', that would've once again used the likeness of Pierce Brosnan. This was dropped after Brosnan stepped away from the role, and the game was instead retooled as an adaptation of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' while the new Bond actor (who turned out to be Creator/DanielCraig) was being cast. |
| 9 | * YouLookFamiliar: Elizabeth Stark, the Bond Girl you rescue at the beginning of the game, is portrayed by British singer Music/NatashaBedingfield (of "Unwritten" fame). Bedingfield had previously contributed lead vocals for the opening song, "If You're Gonna Jump", from the previous ''Bond'' game, ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeRogueAgent''. |
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