It’s an absolute pipe dream, but my ultimate Bond game would be a quasi-RPG with a loose, branching mission structure based around a variety of classic Bond plots from the films and Fleming. The MI6 HQ and Bond’s Chelsea flat as a base between missions; a Bond customisable with different classic suits, tuxedos, and other outfits; upgradable gadgets and cars with driving levels; gambling and card games available at Blades (with a mission to stop Drax cheating, naturally)…perfection!
Thought Legends was gonna have a story like this- one original plot but the classuc moments and locations, some characters linking them together. Then the later trailers came out and smashed those dreams
You should do Quantum of Solace on the Nintendo ds, because the last level does not take place in the hotel in the desert, but the speculated deleted ending.
With the GBA link connected to the Gamecube version, the GBA would show you "hints" in the form of screenshots of where Bond Moments were hidden in a nearby area. That's the extent of it. I worked on EoN and the designers were adamant that we couldn't lock any gadgets or perks behind that GBA link feature. No "pay to win" allowed. Sadly, future games didn't keep that philosophy.
Love watching Calvin do Bond game reviews. He always goes in amazing details that i would have missed. Calvin admits to not being a "pro gamer" but sometimes being a casual gamer but a huge bond fan makes entertain videos.
I remember the dark days before youtube, when videos on the internet were only grainy low res 30 second snippets 🤣 Hey, unlike Nightfire this one's blood drip actually had the squiggle! xD
Great video as always, one day I would love to see what you make of the origional James bond 007 gameboy game from 1998. It is played from a top down perspective and includes alot of puzzle mechanics in its gameplay. I played it to completion when I was about 11 and I remember it being pretty frustrating in places.
Hilarious video as always - your comedy skits are awesome! Everything or Nothing is still my all time favorite James Bond video game - But I have never had any of the handheld systems so have never played - or even seen - most of these games you are showcasing for us. But as clunky as this looks - I guess it really doesn’t seem too bad at all! But for me - the problem is that that screen still looks so small and blurry - there is no question it would most certainly give me a major headache as I played! Meanwhile, as we all wait for that highly anticipated announced next gen Bond game - I would love to see something simple like this that we could just play on our Phones. (After all - they are now much bigger than these handheld systems) I just happened to search on my IPhone and there is absolutely nothing except some terrible cheap Spy game imitations. Seems like a big waste - I bet there would be a nice audience for one. Just another example how they really are neglecting younger Bond fans!
15:40 ACTUALLY the game references 003 and has him in the game............BUT in the Cold Open for A View To A Kill, Bond is recovering a Microchip off 003's corpse. So honestly this game pretty much confirmed the 00 Theory
Wow, I actually do remember playing this game quite a bit on my Gameboy Advance on long plane trips to and from China. Also, I actually do prefer the more over the top and almost Sci-Fi Bonds for video games, simply because they add a lot of variety to the gameplay. I did enjoy Goldeneye Reloaded and Blood Stone a lot, but the problem is both games were made in the pre-Skyfall Craig era, and therefore lacked the gadgets for the driving and shooting sections which made the gameplay in the EA Bond games more fun.
That's cool! Mine's in quite a bad way now... Lost the battery cover ages ago and the start button only works half the time... I still just can't bear to let it go though!
@@calvindyson Oh wow, I didn't know it was your childhood one? That's awesome! My battery cover went missing ages ago too hahahaha. I feel the same way, just can't bear to let it go. Amazing memories of Pokemon Crystal. Iconic!
I like to think if Cubby was around to defend Die Another Day and Brosnan game science fiction (DON'T YOU DARE!...) elements he would just be stuck in a loop repeating "SCIENCE FACT!..." with echo effect like Calvin's "Moonraker" video until interviewers changed the subject.
The sad part about all this science fiction stuff is that if they wanted to put Bond into space they could have done it in a more realistic sense. The Soviet Almaz space stations were literally manned satellite reconnaissance missions and were equipped with anti-satellite cannons. The USAF had something similar planned with their cancelled Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, ironically one of the spacesuits from that program was name tagged "007".
Hey Calvin about the GBA/Gamecube connectivity I don't know if mGBA has a mac port for you but if you're interested in showing that in a future review if you run both mGBA and Dolphin at the same time they now offer emulation on the connectivity feature of both consoles.
Do find it funny how 'Everything or Nothing' is a sort of sequel to 'A View To A Kill' released 19 years later given the villain is Zorin's prodigy out for revenge [Bond on Zorin 'we played bridge together, he lost!].
The character sprites from Nightfire. Make me wonder if Nightfire on the Game Boy Advance was planned to have isometric gameplay like this game instead of the first-person shooter that we got instead.
Would be nice to see a video of all the 4 players playing together how he described but I haven't found photos or videos of gamers doing that together yet...
Yeah I p,ayed thatnone back when it came out, i know its obscure and vague in its difficulty and its puzzle mechanics, but my 11 year old self played it to completion and enjoyed it.
That's funny you bring up the science fiction science fact because a year ago was when I saw that moonraker review and laughed so hard when he says it's not science fiction it's infact science fact hahahaha
Never even heard of this one. Somehow I think the 3D of Nightfire was much better. I just finished beating From Russia with Love (Ps2) - first time I'd ever played it. I must say I had a right laugh with all the 'Sch' sounds in the script. Connery sounds perky and perhaps a continuation of his Never Say Never character. He certainly puts a lot more effort in than most of Brosnan's games.
Having discovered your channel recently I have been very interested in some of the James Bond related posts but I also noticed you also talked about other spy franchises and was wondering why you have never talked about the brilliant 60s TV show The Avengers considering how many connections that there are between that and the James Bond films.
My Bond entertainment of choice on long car journeys back in the day was listening to the Best of Bond… James Bond album on my MP3 player (the version that ended with a rather naff cover of the Bond theme by John Arnold). I blame my repeated listening of that album on car trips for the fact that all the Bond theme lyrics are now etched into my brain - maybe if I’d kept that space free for more important information I would’ve done better in my A-Levels. But hey, if there’s ever a blindfold-karaoke night I’m set! While I never had a GBA, I did have a DS, and for whatever reason I never played the Nintendo DS Bond games. I suppose I didn’t want to waste my allowance when there were other games I wanted to play more. Maybe I might go back and check them out while we wait for Project 007.
Funnily enough, I also had very little experience with Bond on the DS during that whole era. I'll get to covering them on the channel sometime but at the time I was a student and with limited funds so I'd obviously opt for the home console versions of each title and just assumed the DS versions would be somewhat watered down. Still, looking forward to testing that theory soon!
I played EON's multiplayer on the gba not officially of course but via an emulator and it was fine there were only a few game modes and you played pallet swaps of bond tho they aren't referred to as Bond they are referred to as agents each of these agents you could pick colors for each agent/player that was available there were also I think 5 or 3 maps a buddy of mine gave it a go on an emulator and it was a distracting decent fun time waster tho it does feel tacked on considering its lack of content but there you go, Calvin, a full insight of gba eon multiplayer stay classy dude
@@calvindyson Not a problem also tho I am sure someone else has said this but I'll just reiterate when you connect again not officially your gba copy of Eon to the GameCube version it showed hints and stats like how many shots you fired enemies killed and current time of how long you've been playing the level for anticlimactic for me at least cause I thought it was gonna be something juicy unseen bond content related but hey my curiosity was settled hope yours is too now.
By any chance does playing the multiplayer mode play different music, as I did get in contact with ian stocker *the composer of this game* and I was wondering if one of the tracks *it was a battle track* was only exclusive for multiplayer 🙂🤔 that being said, pretty cool that you tried the multiplayer, the game as a whole is fun, and I love the ost for this game
I have not recorded this game yet in a playthrough. The main reason was because I was held back by other projects such as Papa Louie 2 melee only and The gun game 2 covert ops challenge.
This is another gold dust Calvin video game review that I’ll cherish forever wow well done Calvin I did own this game I played it and completed it and I had great fun! I am still laughing about that dream sequence on the Nightfire one guard yells “somebody kill him!!!”
Looks like a cross between Metal Gear Solid GBC (minus all the neat Easter Eggs Kojima LOVED to throw in) and Spy-Hunter (classic Midway game). I like. I wouldn't mind finding a GBA version of this (or Nightfire tbh). Speaking of Metal Gear and Spy Hunter, ever think of looking at Bond inspired video games like you do movies? Not just those two (MGS 3: Snake Eater has the most James Bond influence). But there is also Perfect Dark (spiritual successor to Goldeneye by Rare), The Operative: No One Lives Forever, Hitman, and Splinter Cell.
Based on the server numbers, you are in very rare company playing the co-op. I'm really glad you liked it, but that PS2-only co-op mode was the reason the game missed the critical Christmas season. Marketing insisted at the last minute we add it (and only on the PS2- which made no sense because of how few people had the broadband adapter) because they said the game wouldn't be competitive with STARCRAFT GHOST- which marketing had "inside info" would ship soon. Of course, every engineer knew Starcraft Ghost was nowhere near ship (and in fact, never shipped) but marketing wouldn't hear any of it. So we had three months of extra crunch tacked onto the schedule (myself and others were working on Thanksgiving day) to add co-op. And what did marketing do when the game's sales were lower than projected (because we missed Christmas)? Blamed it on the dev team for being "late" even though we were on track to ship until they insisted during final beta we add co-op. The funny part was, literally nine months earlier we asked if maybe we should add multiplayer because Xbox Live was taking off. Marketing said "online isn't gong to be a big deal for years". To add insult to injury, the day EoN released, marketing decided to announce "Coming Soon: Goldeneye 2". Then they wondered why sales for EoN were lower than expected? EA's own marketing essentially said "Don't buy this game. The REAL Bond game you've been waiting for is coming soon". So many people did save their money- only to be waiting until Christmas for a generic shooter that had nothing to do with GoldenEye and didn't even star Bond. Yep. EA marketing sucked (it may still, I don't work there anymore).
I always knew of the GBA version because the back of the GCN box said you could use the link cable but never looked into it What delightful harmless gba game thanks for sharing I do rather love the bits with rich party bloke and the two punch clock villains its little things like that give games charm ha ha
I honestly have not played a computer game since I was about 11. Not judging anyone who plays them as adults but its funny hearing people talk about games whose voices have broken.
Please do the PC Version of Nightfire. :) My family couldn’t afford to a PS2 or the like, so I played that version for *hours.* I’d play the console version at a friend’s house, and now I have both a console and still play on PC too (you can get it online, and people still do multiplayer.) I like them both for different reasons.
Hey Calvin, what do you think of the Bond inspired title sequence to Deadpool 2? (Yeah this came out of nowhere, but I wanted to how it compares to the Bond sequences)
CALVIN.. do you have any advice on recording yourself on video/audio? I'm quite a confident person however I've recently begun recording myself for my job and I find it really difficult and nerve racking. Any tips would be really appreciated. Thanks, Grant.
Was it just me or did anyone else put their hand over the screen when the GBA was shown? Just a gut reaction thinking I could see the screen better, but forgot it was a video.
If you truly want to play something impossibly difficult, try James Bond The Duel for the Sega Megadrive. I have the game for my Sega, and even the first level took me some serious effort to get through.
The Gameboy version of Everything Or Nothing was my childhood! Played it non-stop on holidays and car journeys! I want to play the console version now.
NO TIME TO DIE HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN DELAYED IN Australia due to current DELTA outbreaks! The Tentative Date so far is 11 November 2021! So, brace for further delays Bond fans!
