James Bond 007: Blood Stone review | minimme 

"Why are there sidewalks in Cars?" You've completely destroyed my mind

The twist where Bond knows that Joss Stone is a traitor is so hack that I almost respect it. There's no real foreshadowing or explanation, but Bond still figures it out. How? He's Bond. Fuck you. I love it.

The name is me, Minimme

You're terrible in an interesting way and that's why we love you Minimme.

FINALLY, someone talking about this game. Underrated.

Tony Hawk accidentally grinded on the blood stone and now he has to keep his heart beating really fast or else Shrek from Shrek 2 (2004) eats him up

"The Call of Duty Machine" sounds like a metal gear solid mech dude boss name its special power is consuming innocent little developers

The fact you still haven't reviewed Stranglehold, orthesimsontheds, is amazing: •Mediocre but fun game •Kind of movie tie-in •Third person shooter because that seems to be your thing now AND bullet time mechanic That just screams minimme review to me

"Bizzare creations, main known for racing games like *Project Gotham Racing*" *sad BLUR noises*

Couple of years ago a Fan sent me a ton of Bizzare Creations' assets he got ina liquidation auction. Not been able to open a few of them because of the weird format they're in, but a lot of them were marked "knightwing", so not sure if that was a Batman game they were working on, or something related to Project Gotham. But you should look at the James Bond games not based on movies, like Everything or Nothing and 007 The Duel, That and watch Doc Hollywood. :P

Just a recommendation: Speed Racer-The Videogame. Given that you clearly enjoy driving games, this one is... graphically impressive, especially the Wii version, although the PS2 version has a little bit more content. Either way, it is a pretty good game and those who played it, like me, remember it fondly.

The DS version of Blood Stone is surprisingly good.

The "ridiculous looking military seaplane" featured at 7:58 is an old soviet ground effect aircraft, designed to use little fuel to go long distances

2:18 "oh, no, i'm being shot by an helicopter. Better hide behing this wood cabinet"

I beat this one back in 2011 on PS3. When it was over I said to myself, “I hope they make another Bond game one day, because I want more.”

This is genuinely one of my favourite Bond games out there. None of the others have felt quite so... Bond in the set design and action sequences as this one did for me. It's also the only shooter I've ever played where I've finished it and gone "huh I really wanna try out the hard mode now", and really focused on mastering the stealth and headshots. Loved it.

Because of this, any time I see a friend with a knife I'll *KNOW* they're a double agent

Words can't describe how heartbroken I felt after hearing the Ravensoft game was cancelled. Great vid as always my guy 👌

My hobby is music production, so I really enjoyed that wave form enjoyment graph. Got a good laugh out of me

your reviews r very chill

I believe that “seaplane” is the ekranoplan, a weird boat plane mix. Dark Docs made a great video about it

I adored this game despite it's flaws, thrilled to see it being covered.

If I remember the story was pulled from the script of a movie they canned when the writers strike happened in 2009. They wanted to make another bond movie but had to put it all on hold. There was something with the game license and they basically chose to make it a game rather than a film

So confused Never heard of this channel Never heard of this game Yet I'm watching the vid Guess the algorithm works lol

To me this game seemed like a good introduction to gaming in general it gets you used to techniques in this simple environment.the shooting, driving levels, detective mode, simple stealth, using cover etc

Yo, Minimme, if you are still reviewing bond games, Id recommend looking at the PC version of Nightfire. it was made BEFORE the console versions, has different levels and gameplay, and it STILL has a multiplayer fanbase TO THIS DAY. Recommend checking it out at the very least.

I liked this game purely for the reason that it truly felt like a Daniel Craig bond game, it was fast paced with cool car chases, and pretty satisfying shooting and hand to hand takedowns. I always thought Daniel Craig was never very charismatic like the older bobds, but he absolutely nailed the action part of it

Ever thought about reviewing any of the mysims games? They're tie in games to the sims franchise but each has a widely different play style. I specifically remember playing mysims agents and sky-heroes as a kid.

I remember this being a solid game, although I feel ashamed that I remember the bland sewer level more than that crazy opening. Although I played it through to the end, I never felt any need to return to it again.

I love your reviews! It allows me to recap games I missed growing up. Please, never stop filming!

Your videos give me those "WAIT!!! I remember this!!" vibes

I wondered why I never played this game, then I checked my PS3 trophies. Apparently I did, even replayed it on 007 difficulty. I do not remember a single thing about this game and none of the footage looked familiar.

The third stage (casino) opening always make feel a nostalgic feeling for some reason dude its so beautiful .

Your voice soothes my soul in these rough times.

Incidentally I'd love to see you talk about The Club. I've only played a little of Blood Stone but seeing your video makes me want to dig it back up; The Club is a fantastic little arcade shooter (think Mario Kart, but with guns) and no one ever seems to talk about it. It's always nice to see you review a game you genuinely enjoy; it's a refreshing change of pace from all the bad games most RU-vidrs cover.

One of my favorite RU-vid channels! Love your insight man. One of these days I’d love to see you do a retrospective on Journey or Shadow of the Colossus

Weird Siberian sea plane is actually Ekranoplan -- you can find some good short documentaries here on RU-vid. It was another perspective war machine of cold war era and it's cool they inclided it. I watched one just days before and instantly recognized

Man was i happy to see this pop up in my notifications! Love the videos man, keep it up.

Your positive opinions on games (that sometimes don’t even deserve it) is actually really refreshing. Keep it up

I play this a couple of times and its pretty competent third-person shooter and a good Bond game overall. Thanks for the review minimme.

I always got the impression there was content missing from the story, and I’d kill to actually read the scripts or design docs for this game, I always really liked the story I’m this honestly

Oh my God I love this game when I was younger. I really should play it again

Judas Priest's Bloodstone hits my mind whenever I read that title...

Great video. Great editing. Absolutely loved that graph part of the vid.

Great review! It is a real shame that this studio got closed down: BLUR is still among the best racing games ever made!

I like how the unique features of Rak's knife are on the handle and the cutscenes only show the knife being held.

watching this video reminded me of how far you've come since that mafia review, your editing skills are stellar nowadays and you've gotten really good at script writing

I loved this game. Sucks that we'll never get a sequel

As someone who's been to istanbul, its a shame as its perfect setting for an actiob game with massive castles, underground chambers and tight streets. Anyway, whens everything or nothing?

i actually have a crazy amount of nostalgis for this game. i was just thinking about it a few weeks ago randomly and thought it was forgotten.

”Ridiculous looking plane" It's not a plane, it's an Ekranoplan and it existed in real lifem(and it worked).

Why has this channel not blowing up already? Such a great content.

Glad to see my country in the game. Love your vids bro. Keep up the good work.

Man, I’ve gotten into a binge of old bond games and found you mini. I wish we could figure out what was the best element of each bond game because I’d love to get a new bond game

The game that got me into james bond and was basically my childhood alongside ghost recon future soldier. Maybe it wasn't nintendo but I absolutely adored these types of games so thank you for taking me down memory lane.

Gotta say, the quality of your videos has skyrocketed over the last year

I can't think of another game that did racing as well as this, it must have cost a fair bit to script everything. Also, I have strong memories of eating a giant gobstopper while playing this game. Dunno why but I remmebered it just now. I don't think I finished the gobstopper before I finished the game, but it was a very large gobstopper.

The thumbnails are getting better, they pretty good! Haven't played this game!

Best Bond game after Goldeneye. Had a blast with this.

I enjoy your videos more than any other youtuber in this genre.

i loved this game and From Russia with Love as well

All of Bond's non-tux outfits make him look like Tom Hanks.

I loved the graphs at the end! A funny way to convey your point!

You and Colourshed are great and seem to work on a similar schedule so there's always two reviews I can look forward to.

Jesus I love this game. Which is more interesting because I'm not big JB fan. But the story, shooting and driving was for young me so great I felt in love with this game. I know there's a lot of nostalgia in this but I played it before Uncharted or Gears so everything was fresh to me

This game was fun back then and still fun to play

Watching this late at night in bed on my phone and boy jeepers does that digital flicker effect annihilate my eyes, even at the lowest brightness

I was waiting for this video since you upload the Quantum Of Solace's one. Thanks!

I remember playing this game over and over again. I also remember it looking good for its time and still does I guess. I might try and install it again, it was a fun game and a fun story, very 007. Wish we got more from the creators. I remember getting this and Batman: Arkham Asylum, couldn't complete Arkham (Until about a week ago) but I fell in love with Bloodstone.

I think that "ridiculous looking military seaplane" is the ekranoplan, a ground-effects craft en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

I love how you review almost all the best games from the 7th generation that were not that great but still so god damn fun! I loved both bloodstone and Wheelman but almost nobody talked about neither of them on RU-vid. Not to mention the great quality of voice, sound and gameplay examples...

Tony Hawk holding a gun in the thumbnail? My life is complete

Oh maaannn finallyyyyy!!! I've been waiting so long for this; brings back memories and surprisingly, exactly how i remember it. Looking forward to the last 2 game reviews.

The reason that there are sidewalks in Cars is that it takes place after the apocalypse where people have died off and what is left are the cities that they made and the AI cars that still roam them.

His movements on this game were incredibly well done, right down to the craig bond shooting one hand while running

Interestingly, rumours leading up to Blood Stone's official announcement constantly stated that this Bizarre Creations title would be a driving / racing 007 game (similar to the very poor 007 Racing on the PS1). Given their background in racing titles, this would make sense, and could explain why Blood Stone's racing segments are a highlight to an otherwise pretty generic 3rd person shooter.

You should definitely check out the DS version of this game. I remember playing it a lot as a kid, it was nuts

This was one of the only shooters I was allowed to play when I first got my 360 (I was kinda young.) I remember it being very fun.

Man, good to see you're alive. I don't have a lot of tolerence for many RU-vidrs, but you're a gem. Keep up the good work!

I really enjoyed this game back in the day, and before watching your video I played it again, and... Really enjoyed it, again

Those driving sections look fantastic.

I would like you to cover The Italian Job video games, as there were two released; one was based on the original 1969 film and developed by Pixelogic and published by Rockstar Games, and the other was based on the 2003 remake, developed by Climax Brighton and published by Eidos Interactive.

The driving in this game reminds me of my all time favourite racing game Motorstorm apocalypse. Mix that with the 3D aspect. My god, soooo good!

Hey Minimme, you should take a look at some of the Sims games on the consoles. O have oddly strong memories of The Sims 1 on the original Xbox, where you did like missions and it was kinda you controlling one person I think? There's also The Sims 2 (there was apparently like a story based one on the PSP), The Urbz in the City and the ones on the DS. I'd also say you should check out some of the really mediocre/odd late Xbox originals around 2005/2006 when the Xbox 360 came out. Stuff like Project Dark Zero, Total Overdose, Mashed, The Outfit, just these complete bizarro games that came out and no one ever saw again

I played this game for the first time last year and I loved every minute of it.

Bond knows about Nicole because when Rak is hanging from the scaffolding he notices he's wearing one of her watches - or a fancy watch at least. The connection is tenuous at best, but that's how he works it out. He sends the knife to her to essentially say "I know B, what you gonna do about it?"

I actually loved this game and when it came out I was about 15. Sure looking back the level design wasnt all that Impressive but for a licenced game during that time it was as good as it gets. I must of beat this game a dozen or so times and even speedrun it before i even knew speed running was a thing. Good memories

-Whe don't know what is the blood stone, it's like a phantom -Ms Stone die near an ocean Bizarre + (Phantom) Blood + Stone (Ocean) = is that a jojo reference ?

7:57 That's an Ekranoplan which is pretty rare in video games with the only appearances being in this game and World in Conflict Soviet Assault.

Can the enjoyment curve graph please return in every video? That was beautiful

I always enjoy your thumbnails 😅

Your thumbnails are the best

Thank you for this quarantine is killing me

The rumors of the 2009 to 2010 delay for Blood Stone were likely true, as Blood Stone was at one point planned to have a Wii port that was being developed by SuperVillain Studios that got cancelled due to this delay. To quote an SVS developer: "We were working on the Wii version of a major film license (although this particular game was not tied directly to the films). We were really happy with the work we had done, and it was looking amazingly good for a game that was tasked with mimicking high-end photo-real 360/PS3 visuals as best as the machine could. Unfortunately, there were major delays on the 360/PS3 version and the big bucks dictate that money is best spent focusing on those consoles with this type of game (3rd person cover/action shooter, think Gears of War-type gameplay). So the Wii version was eventually canceled. It happens quite a lot behind the scenes, especially these days with publishers being super careful with their money in the down economy. There are a ton of games that don't see the light of day." I originally thought this Wii port the developer was referring to was for another game (that game being Transformers: War for Cybertron) however after searching for some time i found out it was for Blood Stone instead, heck i was even able to find a couple of screenshots of the Istanbul level. Also speaking of War for Cybertron, are you gonna do a review on that game?

I think you've mentioned this game before in a video briefly but I would love to see your review on 2009s "Wheelman" with Vin Diesel being the main character. It came out for the PS3 and Xbox 360. I only ever played the demo.

This channel is filling such a weird niche that I'm always interested in. Thanks mininimiememie

RIP Bond girl Honor Blackman.

Man I wish Activision would put this back on Steam. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to hear that the console versions run well and all, but I’m just too much of a PC snob for my own good lol Also wish they’d ported Goldeneye Reloaded to PC as well. I heard they ported 007 Legends to PC but that port was disastrous on top of being a bad game

Made me remember my younger days playing From Russia With Love and Everything or Nothing on my PS2... Good times

Not sure if it's just my computer/browser, but the subtitles aren't displaying properly. The lines are layering on top of one another, such that you can only see one line at a time, and even that line is obscured by the letters behind it. That said, great video as always!