James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing Title Screen (GCN) Release Date: 2004 Developer: EA Redwood Shores (TPS), EA Canada (Driving) Publisher: Electronic Arts Series: James Bond Game Platforms: PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube Genre: Third-Person Shooter

The third in the loose trilogy of Electronic Arts James Bond video games with original plots. James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing departs from 007: Agent Under Fire and 007: Nightfire by being a third-person shooter (the first since Tomorrow Never Dies). The game features a celebrity cast providing both voice and scanned faces that includes Pierce Brosnan as James Bond (his last role as the character and the sole time he provided both the face and voice of Bond in a video game outside of reused footage), John Cleese as Q, Judi Dench as M, and Richard Kiel as Jaws all reprise their roles from the films. They are joined by Willem Dafoe as antagonist Nikolai Diavolo, Heidi Klum as secondary antagonist Katya Nadanova, Shannon Elizabeth as American geologist and Bond Girl Serena St. Germaine, and Mya as NSA agent Mya Starling.

In addition to the main story, the game also features a unique co-op prequel campaign, starring the players' pick of two of four original, voiceless, "agents", and a competitive single screen "Arena" mode. No unique real-world weapons appear in either multiplayer mode, but the existing arsenal appears in different contexts.

Overview

All firearm models appear to be mirrored along the center, and as a consequence have ejection ports, selectors, safeties, etc. on both sides. Most firearms a given inaccurately low magazine capacities, but a demo on Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine Demo Disc 40 features the correct magazine capacities. This demo was released 5 months before the game's internal build date (Jan 9 2004), which suggests the change was made late in development. Unusually for a video game of its era, slides and charging handles aren't racked during reload animations, in large part because the animations don't interact with the gun's models and consist only of miming magazine changing motions.

As with the two previous games in the trilogy, the game features both shooting levels developed by EA Redwood Shores and driving levels developed by EA Canada. The shooting levels use an id Tech 3 derivative engine, while driving levels utilize EA's EAGL engine (primarily used for the Need for Speed games), functionally making them two separate games on the same disc. Accordingly, visual assets often differ between the two.

All real firearms appear under real names, but the credits don't mention the licensing arrangements (if any).

Weapons

P99

The Walther P99, at last appearing under its real name, appears in all TPS levels and several cutscenes. Bond starts with it in every level he starts armed, and a few guards carry one as well. It uses 10 round magazines, but used 16 round magazines in the demo. Like the previous two games in the trilogy, the P99 is given a quick detach suppressor that can be attached/removed during gameplay, but no thread to attach it to is present. Rather than the damage reduction typical of video games, the trade off to using the suppressor is a reduced rate of fire. Unusually for the franchise, the PPK never appears.

Walther P99 - 9x19mm

Animations while in cover exercise proper trigger discipline (if not grip), a relatively early example of it appearing in a video game.

Firing.

Arkady Yayakov (Keith Szarabajka) holds Mya hostage with a P99. In a continuity error, this was a Desert Eagle when the chase scene began in the previous level.

Franchi SPAS-12

The Franchi SPAS-12 appears as "SPAS 12" (TPS) and "Shotgun" (Driving). First obtained in the cold opening level Ground Zero. It holds 8 rounds during TPS levels, but it is always available during bike levels, where it has unlimited ammo without reloading. Unusually for a video game, the SPAS 12 is shown both without its stock and is used in semi-automatic mode. Reloading is mysteriously achieved simply by working the pump.

Franchi SPAS-12 with stock folded and butt-hook removed - 12 gauge

In the mission The Kiss Kiss Club, the SPAS 12 is automatically obtained and equipped when Bond jumps behind an unoccupied bar.

Bond holds a SPAS 12 in the title card for the mission Ambushed. Not only is it barely in this level, the platinum objective for it challenges the player to complete the mission without firing a shot.

The magazine tube has an opening for some reason. The modeler may have made the same mistaken as Half-Life 2, but at least it functions as a single barrel firearm.

Shotgun during driving mission.

The driving mission shotgun from the side.

Desert Eagle

The Desert Eagle appears as an oddly common handgun among enemies. It holds 6 rounds.

Desert Eagle - .50 AE

Diavolo holds a Desert Eagle in the title card for the mission Death of an Agent.

Diavolo holds 003 (James Arnold Taylor) with one hand and a Desert Eagle in the other.

Arkady Yayakov takes Mya hostage with a Desert Eagle. This becomes a P99 later during the same chase.

The Desert Eagle, alongside the SPAS 12 and Dragunov, is a common sight in the New Orleans levels. One wonders if VoloTech pays its minions in rare firearms.

MP5K

The MP5K starts in the player's inventory in the cold opening first mission Ground Zero. It uses 15 round magazines, but used 20 rounders in the demo, and is animated as though it were a handgun. Strangely, it does not share ammo with the P99. It appears in the hands of bike riding enemies in vehicle levels, but is not usable by the player during them. It has the highest rate of fire in the game, and doesn't lose accuracy even in a magdump, but ammo is quite rare so it's primarily useful for killing select foes quickly. In vehicle levels, it deals little damage, but the enemies using it are often difficult to kill or lose, allowing them continuously attack the player for long periods of time.

Henchmen on a motorcycles shoot at Bond on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which is inexplicably three lanes, inexplicably has the rising sun on the right when facing the city, and is inexplicably right next to vast amounts of empty Bayou. None of which matters, because this level is awesome.

AKM

A wood furnitured AK variant appears as the "AK-74". Despite the name, it's clearly not a 74 since it has a 7.62x39 magazine and no muzzle break. It holds 20 rounds and appears in the hands of henchmen on both sides of the Tajikistan nuclear sale, Egyptian "Weapons Research Laboratory" security, Tunisian militants, corrupt Peruvian police/soldiers, stockpiles in a secret cold war bunker/war room under the Kremlin, and Diavolo's official henchmen. All of these (except perhaps the Kremlin bunker, depending on its era of construction) would fit an AKM, so why it's named AK-74 is unclear.

If one looks closely, the barrel isn't actually connected to the gastube. Guess that's one way to avoid it being recognizable as a Type 56. This is even the case in the pre-rendered cutscenes!

SIG SG 552

The SIG SG 552 appears as "SIG 552". It is automatically in the player's inventory at the start of the game's first mission, and its usage is mandatory in the tutorial. It uses 30 round magazines. Compared to the AK-74, it is typically seen in the hands of "elite" enemies, such as rappelling soldiers and/or those equipped with body armor.

The SG 552 in the opening tutorial.

SVD Dragunov

Appearing as "Dragunov"

Non-player usable

ID needed

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