James Bond 007 (1998 video game)

James Bond 007 is an action-adventure game featuring James Bond. The game was developed by Saffire and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.[1] Released on February 9, 1998,[2] the game features a story that includes characters from multiple James Bond films, such as Oddjob and Jaws.[3]

James Bond 007
European cover art
Developer(s)Saffire
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Platform(s)Game Boy
Release
  • EU: January 29, 1998
  • NA: February 9, 1998
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The gameplay of James Bond 007 is presented from a top-down perspective.[1] As James Bond, the player controls an arsenal of weapons and items. Bond must use items at the appropriate place and time to either sneak past impossible odds or to solve a mission. The player can save up to three games and/or delete them. The player can perform fist and karate moves. The game is played across 11 levels,[3] and incorporates gambling minigames, such as Baccarat and Blackjack. The game is presented in black and white, as it was developed for the original Game Boy.

Plot
James Bond is doing a karate move against one of his opponents.

The game begins with Bond in a Chinese village,[3] ruled by a female martial arts warlord called Zhong Mae. After Bond infiltrates her dojo, steals the plans given to her and defeats her, Bond escapes the ninja clan by speedboat and returns to London. M, head of MI6, tells Bond that the plans are for a secret weapons cache somewhere in an unknown part of the world. Bond heads to Kurdistan to find 008, who is missing in action. Bond manages to rescue 008 after killing Iqbal, who rules the town. 008 instructs Bond to go to Marrakech to find one of Bond's old enemies, Oddjob, who is working for someone that is smuggling the weapons.

After a little bickering within the black market, betting at a casino, and meeting the Rat Man, Bond receives a sleeping dart gun which he uses on Oddjob's henchman. After stealing the henchman's room key, Bond is ambushed by Oddjob inside his hotel room and taken to the Sahara Desert. A traveler gives Bond a canteen, which Bond uses to sustain himself as he goes through the desert, which slowly begins to kill him. Bond makes it to a nearby airport, which has been instructed by M to take him to Tibet, where he must scale a mountain, defeat Sumos and get captured by Oddjob again.

While awaiting torture in the secret weapons base, Zhong Mae arrives and tells Bond that she has changed sides, stating that she was only trying to aid her village financially. With her help, Bond defeats Oddjob and interrogates him on who is behind the plot. Oddjob gives the name: General Golgov, a top general in Russia. Oddjob tells Bond to return to Kurdistan where he finds Golgov's two associates, Saddam and Khatar, while Zhong Mae tells Bond to find her friend, Mustafa. After Bond defeats Khatar and Saddam, Mustafa thanks him for stopping the war that destroyed Iqbal's village and gives him a mirror. With aid from a guide, Bond makes it to the edge of Golgov's base which Bond manages to infiltrate. Inside, Bond kills Jaws and begins to unravel the general's true intentions: a nuclear holocaust with the general emerging as the ruler of the world. Bond uses a bazooka to destroy the General in his robot and aids Zhong Mae in shutting down the base. Bond and Mae take a boat out to sea where a British sub rescues them and congratulates Bond.

Reception

The game received an average score of 62.14% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 5 reviews.[2]

Monica Wilbur of IGN praised the character designs and the inclusion of the James Bond Theme, as well as the score used for the game's casino area, but she criticized the sound effects, and the lack of a "decent" map system for the game's maze-like levels. Wilbur concluded that the game felt too short, but stated that the inclusion of card games was a "nice touch."[4]

See also

References
  1. "James Bond 007 - Overview". AllGame. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
  2. "James Bond 007". GameRankings. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  3. "James Bond 007". Nintendo.com. Archived from the original on 1998-02-05. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  4. Wilbur, Monica (1999-06-23). "James Bond 007". IGN. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.