Check out Manta Sleep here: tinyurl.com/9n79ny6b and make sure to use code "minimme" for 10% off your order! Hello hi just a few small corrections: OHMSS is Lazenby's only 007 film (I accidentally typed Dalton's name on screen), James Bond Jr. also came out on SNES which is shown, and I mispronounced Blofeld at one point. I try to iron these things out but I put this vid together on the road so these slipped past, pls forgiv. Cheers :)
As a 41 year old Bond fanatic i was close to unsubscribing when i read that. Just kidding ;) Your videos of Games nobody talks about, i enjoy greatly. Sorry for bad English.
The funny thing about Kiel being credited, is that in Everything or Nothing alongside his likeness he also provided his voice for the various grunts Jaws makes in the game. The guy doesn't say a single word, but he got in the recording booth to grunt into a mic. Legend indeed.
If the game didn't pretty much ignore the dying hallucinations framework, that bit you're talking about could have been something neat instead of stupid
@cps1247 as far as I know development had only just started with the announcement that they were making it so probably another year or two off maybe more.
@@RyanArnoldif they goin for the complexity of hitman games (with inprovements) i guess its gonna take way more time. Whats weird to me that an entire console generation went by without a new 007 game 😮
This video really highlights why I love your content oh so much. Even when reviewing such a mediocre-at-best game there is a sense of respect for the product as it ended up regardless. No absurd hyperbole, no cursing out the developers like they shoved you in a locker and an honestly charming amount of praise and slack given to the game where it matters. I adore this, thank you!
I played 007 Legends on WiiU back when it came out and funniest thing ever in any game was when after shooting what felt like 1000 bad guys in Licence To Kill, I went around trying to find the optional objectives and one of the corpses leaning against the wall had Daniel Craig's face model. I laughed my ass off wondering did the game glitch when I died previously or was there some bad guy running around who was secretly Bond's clone
I remember seeing that, I felt like License to Kill’s stealth Sniper segment. The enemies were so badly placed, I couldn’t kill anyone without people noticing
Hitman World of Assassination felt more like a modern James Bond game then Acvision's James Bond it's cool IO the studio behind Hitman is making a Bond game.
@@jmp_frIt was announced a while ago and IO's last game Hitman 3 was released in 2021. They haven't announced any other games so my bet is they have been working on the Bond game for a couple years. Edit : In 2022 they said the game could be 3 years away. So next year most likely.
This is one of the best videos covering 007 Legends. Many videos go "Game bad, they choose the worst bond films for it haha" But you went more in-depth on each of those films, why they are unique, and why the game fails in capitalizing on their uniqueness. I'm not the hugest Bond fan, but now I wanna watch Goldfinger, Moonraker, and rewatch Die Another Day where the last time I did, I was a child and I remember it being WEIRD. I'm glad I sat through this while eating a pack of Sour Gummi Bears. That helped too, lol.
You know, the feeling of "playing someone's distant memory of the movies" is unintentionally very fitting in this case, since we are technically doing just that (as irrelevant as the whole "its bond having a flashback while drowning" part may be to the overarching plot).
A little note about the Skyfall DLC not being available anymore in digital stores. I never had this game on the PS3 as a kid/teenager, despite being a huge Bond nerd. I probably liked the PS2 007 games and Blood Stone better then all the other titles, that I never mind to have never played it. Beginning of last year, I started to rebuilt my PS3 collection with all the games I thought of worth buying. I bought the whole 007 game collection for the PS3, and soon after I started playing the 007 games. I played them according to release dates, so 007 Legends was last on the list. Anyway, in mid-2023 I finally booted up this game and started playing. Only to my surprise that I was able to download the Skyfall DLC without hassle. (Never redeemed a code for it, and never redeemed it in the PS store either.) Maybe Europe, or The Netherlands in particular is lucky to have it still available, or maybe I got somehow lucky. Who knows?! I tried to look up on multiple platforms for an explanation or similar experiences, but to no success. Has someone else also experienced this, or is this a "once in a lifetime" luck?
I had similar experience. I bought the game on launch for the PS3 but soon sold it without completing it. I bought it again in 2020 and to my surprise I was able to download the DLC. I’m certain I’d never previously downloaded it.
Goldeneye and Blood Stone got them too, I’ve only played Blood Stone. That has got to be the least talked about version of Goldeneye, even moreso than Rogue Agent.
Night fire PS2 was one of the best bond games ever made hands down. even the split screen multiplayer and bots customizability was WAY ahead of its time!
Hearing you talk at the end about how much you wanted to make sure you provided the context to these films and how much the series meant to you, I wanted to let you know that it was really felt. I found this very informative and fascinating. I've only seen maybe 3 or 4 Bond films but watching this and seeing your clips and hearing you talk about the ones I haven't seen makes me want to change that. Like I'm just sitting here remembering my first Theater Bond experience and thinking about maybe asking my dad to dust off his collection and show me some of these I haven't seen yet. You did a great job with this video. I really enjoyed it and maybe this is the push I need to get to know Mr. Bond a little better.
(referencing the bit at 24:10) my grandma also played a key role in introducing me to 007 - it's her fave movie series and I remember seeing Goldeneye and Goldfinger at home with her and Skyfall and Spectre in the theater with her. I guess grandma's introducing their grandkids to 007 was more common than I thought. great videos as always my guy, keep up the good work!
11:53 I can’t really remember how I reacted to this when the game came out, oddly enough, but I think it’s trying to ride on Craig’s first two films eschewing tropes with the whole “do I look like I give a damn?!” to the martini thing.
Blow-field? That's not how that's pronounced! :p Also, the Blofeld model is a deliberate combination of the different actors who'd played him - Donald Pleasance and Telly Savalas in particular. I didn't really spot much Charles Grey in there, thankfully.
I bought a WiiU last year and have slowly been picking up games. 007 Legends is one of them because I’m a HUGE Bond fanboy. I’ll actually toss it in tonight and play it for the first time :)
Quantum of Solace on the 360 generation was a very underrated game. Sure it borrowed a lot from Call of Duty but the switching between first and third party cameras was cool, and the fact the game covered both Casino Royale story and its sequel was great. Sometimes a game doesn't have to be groundbreaking or push the needle to still be a very good game. And while there were lots of COD clones, this was one of the better ones.
The NES James Bond Jr game is pretty decent in all honesty, it sadly just gets completely overshadowed by the absolutely dire SNES version. BTW speaking of games that killed developers, have you ever considered having a look at Haze on the PS3?
Btw, the way the plot is framed, with Bond on the verge of death hallucinating/reminiscing, is very similar to Hitman Contracts since the plot is basically that agent 47 is on the verge of death after a mission hoes wrong and starts having flashbacks to previous missions (some of which brand new, others remade from the first hitman game which to my knowledge was not released on console). And now Io interactive is working on a bond game lmao
I'll admit to having a soft spot for 007 Racing. The split-screen mode was pretty interesting, since it was in rounds, like a fighting game, so you couldn't pool your weapon pick-ups between wins.
I absolutely loved the overall Bond franchise context you included and Atari 50 comparison. Really highlighted the game’s missed potential as a cultural artefact.
First time finding the channel, really enjoy that video as a big JB fan. Will defo check out the other ones. I have never played this game, but apart of me just wants to really check out.
I never played the game, but I honestly never knew it even recreated scenes from the older movies until you compared them. I think it was extremely important to note what the movies were like in a general sense, it really helped point out how flawed the game's execution was to me. Great video man.
I personally find _Legends_ to be a slightly more enjoyable game than the _Goldeneye_ remake, namely because of the improved stealth gameplay and the myriad of gadgets the game gives you access to. Unlike in _Goldeneye_ you aren't limited to just using your smartphone here to solve every problem. Depending on your commitment to completing the stealth challenges, every other gadget you get will have a myriad of useful applications. The Radar Ping watch is very useful when trying to find enemies that you might have lost track of or can't see using your normal radar due to its dependency on sightlines. The EMP laser admittedly doesn't do much past the _Goldfinger_ section, but it does short-circuit radios and intercoms to help distract enemies during stealth sections. By the time you get the Pen Dart Gun in the _Licence to Kill_ section, the game really begins to open up in terms of its stealth sections and mostly leaves you alone to work your own way around enemies. The best gadget you get in the game by far is the aforementioned Pen Dart Gun, which not only gives you an effective "one-shot kill" weapon but it also gives you a myriad of choices on how to deal with enemies. You have the standard tranq darts for silent takedowns of single targets, shock darts which aren't silenced but can take out multiple targets in close proximity and distraction darts which let you manipulate the AI of the enemies and cheese your way around them. The fun of the gadgets and the game as a whole is in learning the applications of these tools and using them in creative ways to complete the stealth trials in every level. _Legends_ is at its best when you actively take part in the secondary objectives and level challenges the game is designed around, and if you rush through treating it like the Call of Duty games that it's based on your enjoyment of the game will be limited. The game is also a peak example of the future of game preservation with the _Skyfall_ missions thankfully preserved on the Wii-U version but lost to time everywhere else, but that's a topic for another day and I think I've talked for long enough. _007 Legends_ has a lot of issues, but it's definitely a game worth playing through at least once and I think you'll have a good time with it if you do.
Funny, the last two Craig movies (my least favourite movies in the whole official series) give me similar "007 Legends" feeling. Lifeless, not fun at all and feel like a fever dream after grounded and realistic Casino Royale. However, I like some some sci-fi, surreal and crazy stuff in the Bond media with a proper execution. And the concept of the "Legends" is kinda fun in this way. I love to think that the real James Bond (Connery) was killed in action in 1960's and MI6 extract his memories and personality and put it into another body. Every new guy thinks that he's the one and only James Bond. But sometimes new guys having some surreal flashbacks about the past life (like Craig in "Legends").
I know it’s an Apple Arcade exclusive and not by any means a major release but you should look into Cypher 007. It has a similar concept to 007 Legends where Bond revisits classic set pieces from the movies but it’s done surprisingly well. As a Bond fan I can’t get enough of it. Looking forward to you covering the Brosnan games. Those were my childhood.
I don't understand why Roger Moore Bond films are among people's least favourite, they were fantastical, larger then life adventures that had good humor, action and with locals and baddies that spark the imagination, Moonraker being among them.
I always felt like this was a terrible idea for a video game. Who wants to play six incomplete James Bond games? Especially 6 incomplete Bond games where Daniel Craig's serious vibe screws up the nostalgia of old campy Bond adventures. If you're not going to adapt Skyfall into a game there are two logical options 1 - Do another Blood Stone/Everything or Nothing where you just make up an original Bond adventure. 2 - Do another Goldeneye Wii-style remake of an old Bond movie that commits to re-imagining the plot as if it were a Daniel Craig movie. Tomorrow Never Dies would be my prime candidate for that because those themes got VERY relevant in the years of its release. It would be so easy to update it from "evil newspaper mogul" to "evil social media tech bro."
I only picked this up on PS3 a couple of years ago, and streamed it last year, and I was able to download and play the Skyfall level off the PSN Store. Maybe it’s a regional thing, maybe I should go double check on a different account and report back in…
The online multiplayer was really good. It was pretty easy to find a match online for Wii U and XBox for 3 or more years. There are many online multiplayer videos on my channel and other players channels from the community showing what online multiplayer was like. It was similar to online multiplayer in Goldeneye Wii, but unique on its own too.
3:24 “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” is George Lazenby’s only bond film not Dalton. Although Dalton only got 2 and both Lazenby and Dalton are super underrated lol.
32:00 Fun fact: That office chair is actually existing, it's an Interstuhl Silver 191S and the Interstuhl Silver product line is a futuristic designed one, these chairs cost thousands of bucks each. I've also seen them on TV in some DSDS (German adaption of Pop Idol) seasons the Jury sat in these. It's amazing how some anniversary releases get screwed up, the date is more than forseeable, I guess the problem is rather to start not to early with the development but also not too late.
I feel a big reason why this game wasn't able to be good was Eon's obsession to only have the current bond be in these games which forced the devs to have to recreate the series of events with a different style and look instead of trying to recreate the locations exactly how they were in the moives with their appropriate bond. Instead we got this weird mashup that didn't work. This of course wouldn't have fixed everything, Activision only giving the devs a year to devlpoment the game is insane in the modern industry, I can't imainge how awful it was to work on this game at the time with Activision and Enon breathing down your neck.
I have the same nostalgic spot for Die Another Day, the space laser following bond over the ice lives in my head rent free to this day. So the driving segment in the game with generic avoid-the-artillery-markers mechanic really cuts the wrong way...
Ok, i'm a Wii U collector, well, not %100 and i was always curious about this game, and now i think that i will get it, the Gamepad use sounds fun, as i had fun with king of Zombis in Zombi U.
Sounds like you had a similar introduction to Bond as me! Would love to see you talk about the From Russia with Love game. I adored this game as a kid and thought the multiplayer mode was actually very well constructed. Still play it split-screen every now and then. Can’t wait for project 007 but IOI need to give us an update!
Man, I remember the car chase in Die Another Day was such a pain for me. Just kept failing and failing for no discernible reason until it eventually worked. Something I do want to point out though since it was glossed over in this video - the laser room fight scene was against Mr Kil in the movie, not Xiao.
I remember during the build-up to this game where the developers said the stories will be connected with an overall arch which turned out to be Bond drowning and either remembering or hallucinating the entire game.. I suppose the writing was on the wall when that started
The best thing about the whole dream thing is after Moonraker, it fades to black, then you play a scene BEFORE the gunshot, and the whole dream thing is ignored.
Would love to see you take a crack at either Everything or Nothing, the OC Brosnan game in the vein of Blood Stone or the From Russia With Love adaptation. Such a strange Bond movie to adapt.
I’ve played the first little bit of this game, real shame that the apparently best part was so deep into it because I didn’t even bother sticking around long enough to discover it. Maybe when I get around to watching Moonraker I’ll give it a go
The graphics I was okay with, but I feel like this game had some bad segments, there were huge stealth fails because you could take out enemies, but you could not move their bodies or disappear. So stealth was soooo hard because of this, they couldn’t even do the move the body like Konami did in Metal Gear Solid 2 or 3, or they could have tried Deus Ex’s move mechanic at the very least
Everything or Nothing was such a bombass game, I still hum the theme song to myself every now and then. I pretend Die Another Day never happened and consider EoN to be the final Brosnan film And Dalton is really the most underrated Bond; his movies were everything the Craig films tried to be. Craig really was the worst "Bond", since his Bond films didn't feel like Bond films at all, just generic spy movies
great video! Everything or Nothing is my personal favorite bond game, especially trying to complete the co-op campaign with my brothers. (here’s hoping you’ll cover the 2005 From Russia With Love game as well!)
This game is only playable on XBOX360. There it feels great. On ps3 framerate has terrible dips and PC version has broken controls with both controller and a mouse.
The choice of movies to play thru outside of LTK and Skyfall are very much among my least favorite Bond films. Moonraker was literally remade as Nightfire a decade before and already had levels in Goldeneye based off the film... The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and Diamonds Are Forever should've been chosen as missions.
