James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

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Everything or Nothing
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Developer(s)	Electronic Arts
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Release date(s)	February 17, 2004
Genre(s)	Third-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T), PEGI: 12+
Platform(s)	PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance
Media	DVD-ROM

Everything or Nothing is a 2004 third-person shooter video game, where the player controls Ian Fleming's master spy, James Bond. Bond is modeled after and voiced by the then-current James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan. Electronic Arts developed and published Everything or Nothing for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and the GameCube. The Game Boy Advance version was developed by Griptonite Games. Everything or Nothing also marks the last performance of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Plot summary 3 Cast & characters 4 Weapons and Gadgets 4.1 Weapons 4.2 Gadgets 5 Vehicles 6 Trivia 7 External links

Overview

Everything or Nothing is the second Bond game played in the third-person and is the first Bond game to feature a two-player cooperative mode. However, unlike its modern predecessors, Everything or Nothing lacks a true deathmatch multiplayer mode, a popular staple in Bond games since 1997's GoldenEye 007.

The game received high praise from some quarters, some critics calling it "the Bond movie for 2004" due in part to its high production values. For the first time in any James Bond game, Electronic Arts hired many actors to model the characters after as well as for their voice talents. In addition to Pierce Brosnan this includes Judi Dench and John Cleese from previous Bond films and adds well-known actors Willem Dafoe, Shannon Elizabeth, and Heidi Klum.

Everything or Nothing is also the second James Bond game to have its own original theme song but the first to be sung by a well-known singer: R&B artist Mya who also has a part as a Bond girl in the game. In addition, the soundtrack was composed by Sean Callery best known for television's 24 and Nikita. The soundtrack features a new rendition of the famed James Bond music by Callery.

The game was penned by screenwriter Bruce Feirstein who wrote the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and co-scripted the Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough.

Everything or Nothing includes 29 missions as well as 4 unlockable bonus missions, numerous gadgets supplied by Q and the return of the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish from the 2002 film Die Another Day.

Plot summary

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing opens in the mountains of Tajikistan where an arms trade is about to begin. The merchandise is a nuclear suitcase-bomb that was stolen from a stockpile of old Soviet Union weapons. James Bond is tasked with making sure that the trade is not completed. After Bond completes the mission, he is extracted via helicopter outside of the military base.

Afterwards, a Russian female scientist, named Dr. Katya Nadanova, of the Oxford Department of Microtechnology is kidnapped by a terrorist cell and is taken to their headquarters in southern Egypt. Her invention, a new kind of microtechnology used to enter electrical wires and repair damage at microscopic level, is also stolen. James Bond is once again called in to action. He destroys the stolen technology and chases after the terrorist's train managing to board stealthfully. Aboard, Bond has a confrontation with his old enemy: Jaws. The two fight, and Bond wins after electrocuting the assassin. Arriving at an helipad-vagon, Bond sees Nadanova handcuffed to the vagon. The general escapes by helicopter with the nano-technology and blows up a bridge, putting Bond and Nadanova into a trap. But there's still a helicopter, so they manage to escape before the train falls down the valley. They fly through the Valley of the Kings until Bond finally shoots the general down, destroying the nano prototypes.

Bond drops off Katya at a nearby military complex, although unbeknownst to Bond, Katya meets with a Russian ex-KGB special officer turned businessman, named Nikolai Diavolo - the former protege of Max Zorin. During the meeting Katya delivers a small vial containing the few remaining nanorobots to Diavolo. Diavolo says that with them, he will get everything. Or nothing. It is also learned that Jaws, in his typical fashion, survived the train crash.

Later, MI6 loses contact with 003, sent to investigate the mining of newly-discovered platinum reserves in western Peru. Bond is sent to a town on the Northwestern Peruvian coastline, located high above the Pacific Ocean on a series of cliffs. Bond learns that 003's last contact was with an American geologist named Serena St. Germaine. They meet and she takes him to the mining complex near ancient Incan ruins.

Once there, Bond discovers 003 had been violently questioned by Nikolai Diavolo. Bond makes himself known to Diavolo and after shooting 003, Diavolo orders the guards to chase him through the mining complex and ruins. When Bond reaches 003 he tells Bond that Diavolo sets his plans in New Orleans but dies.

At the end of the mining tunnels, Bond reaches a cliff where a helicopter appears with Katya Nadanova in it, holding Serena hostage. She throws Serena out of the copter, and Bond dives off the cliff after her. Dodging obstacles and enemy fire, he finally catches Serena and fires a grappling hook into the cliff wall.

After escaping in a tank and returning to the town, Bond and Serena are met with military forces who are being paid off by Diavolo to protect him. Bond quickly returns Serena to 003's hidden cottage in the dense forest, and goes on to reach the extraction point. Bond drives into a moving plane just as the military catches up with him.

MI6 had learned that Diavolo had employed an Interpol-sought war criminal named Arkady Yayakov. Yayakov secretly owns a night club in New Orleans along with the local crime ring. Bond goes to New Orleans during Mardi Gras and stealthfully enters the night club where he meets Mya Starling, an National Security Agency agent assigned to spy on Yayakov.

Chaos erupts when Bond enters the main lounge of the club and Agent Starling's cover is blown. Yayakov kidnaps the NSA agent and leaves the club. Bond fights the thugs and chases Yayakov through an underground tunnel system that was used to traffic drugs and suchlike.

Yayakov, Starling and Bond arrive in a gigantic 19th century graveyard. Yayakov hands over Agent Starling to Jean Le Rouge, a local mobster. Le Rouge and Bond run through the graveyard until they reach a crematorium where they have the final fight. Bond kills Le Rouge and saves Starling. After destroying Diavolo's base in New Orleans, Bond returns Starling to her apartment.

Bond is then sent to a remote area further north outside of New Orleans. At a secret lab inside an old, run-down plantation, Bond discovers that Diavolo is using Yayakov to manipulate the purpose of Dr. Nadanova's microtechnology. They have managed to create a brand new weapon of mass destruction: nanobots, infused with a natural chemical compound found only in the bayous of Louisiana, that literally eats away at all kinds of metal - save for platinum.

Bond destroys the lab, killing Yayakov in the process but Jaws suddenly appears and smashes through the old plantation, driving a platinum tanker truck filled with the metal-eating nanobots. Jaws' orders are to crash the truck into the levees that surround New Orleans and let the nanobots go to work destroying the levees, thus flooding New Orleans. Bond hops onto a motorcycle and chases Jaws across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and finally rams the truck off the bridge and into the lake below.

Later, MI6 learns that the operation in New Orleans was meant to be a test run for the metal-eating nanobots. James Bond returns to Peru to investigate what Diavolo plans to do with his new weapon. With the help of Serena St. Germaine, Bond infiltrates Diavolo's personal estate and covertly enters himself in a rally car race. The reward for coming in at first place is dinner with Diavolo. Naturally, Bond wins.

However, Diavolo has already caught on to Bond's snooping around, and has both Bond and Serena captured. Bond breaks loose and manages to rescue Serena, killing a large number of Diavolo's henchmen in the process. Back together, Bond and Serena escape through the front door only to be outgunned and out numbered. Bond then detonated the Porche Cayenne. The only way to escape was to hijack one of the rally cars and speed through town. Bond wants to see Diavolo's platinum mines first-hand so he took his Q-bike to the rooftops of Peru and entered the mines.

Once inside, he is tranquilized by Nadanova and placed into one of Diavolo's traps. Diavolo tells Bond that he plans on using his metal-eating WMD's to destroy those who destroyed his Soviet homeland. Bond manages to escape both the trap and the mine, destroying it in the process. Leaping through a hole in the rock where Serena is waiting in a helicopter, he manages to get on board just as the entrance is destroyed.

Now in Russia, Diavolo has begun to use his platinum army to break through the Red Square in Moscow so he can release toxic gas into the Kremlin. Bond knocks out one of Diavolo's soldiers and hijacks a tank. After taking down a significant number of Diavolo's ground forces, Bond breaks into man-made caverns under the Red Square, and manages to destroy the canisters with the toxic gas.

After foiling Diavalo's plan, Bond finds out that there is a decommissioned nuclear bunker under the Kremlin, and there, Diavolo has replaced the nuclear warheads on the missiles with payloads of his metal-eating microtechnology.

After Bond rappels down a large elevator shaft filled with Lasers, Jaws attacks him using a flamethrower but Bond disables it and then escapes as the damaged elevator tumbles and explodes down the shaft presumably taking Jaws with it.

Once in the lower levels of the bunker, Bond manages to deactivate all the missiles in the control room. While returning to the surface, Diavolo and Nadanova attack Bond in an old Yak-38 VTOL jet. Bond shoots it down, and the nanobots dissolve the elevator platform, causing the plane to fall to the bottom of the shaft. The aircraft explodes, killing Nadanova, but Diavolo ejects just in time. Bond soon realizes that Diavolo is not dead when a manual override takes over the bunker.

Diavolo beats Bond to one final missile and begins to launch it manually, targeting London. After fighting his way through Diavolo's army of men, Bond makes it to the launch pad. There Bond kills Diavolo, firing a rocket at Diavolo's control hub. Before dying, Diavolo manages to press the launch button and is thrust into the missile silo just as the missile takes off. Bond fires three more rockets at the lone missile loaded with the microtechnology, and it explodes in a huge fireball over Moscow.

The game ends in the way of the celluloid Bond; 007 has saved the day, killed the bad guy and got the girl.

Cast & characters

Further information: List of James Bond characters in Everything or Nothing

• James Bond — Pierce Brosnan
• Nikolai Diavolo — Willem Dafoe

An ex-KGB agent, mentored by Max Zorin. He wants revenge on Bond for Zorin's death. He plans on using an army of tanks made from platinum and nanobot loaded missiles to take over Russia, and then the world (the platinum is immune to the nanobots.) He dies when Bond fires a missile at the control tower he is in. The tower begins to collapse, but Diavolo manages to launch his missile before plunging down the silo and being incinerated.

• Katya Nadanova —Heidi Klum

An Oxford scientist, she has a large knowledge about nano-technology, making her more than a little useful to her boyfriend, Diavolo. She dies when Bond blows up her and Diavolo's plane, although Diavolo ejects just in time.

• Serena St. Germaine — Shannon Elizabeth

An American geologist whose expertise allows her to help Bond in Peru. She is an experienced helicopter pilot and a computer hacker. She nearly dies when Katya Nadanova throws her off a cliff in Peru when she and Bond are first acquainted. Thankfully, in the mission "Leap of Faith", Bond catches up with her and saves her by shooting a rappel wire into a cliff and they descend slowly to the ground. She is a smart, strong and beautiful young woman and Bond finds her a dependable ally and a good friend.

• Mya Starling — Mya

A NSA agent and singer at Kiss Kiss Club, this beautiful woman helps Bond to investigate Yayakov. She is nearly incinerated in the graveyard before Bond saves her.

• Q — John Cleese
• M — Judi Dench
• Jaws — Richard Kiel
• Miss Nagai — Misaki Ito

A new character, Miss Nagai is the assistant to Q and introduces most of the guns and gadgets to Bond at the game.

• 003 ("Jack")

One of Bond's fellow agents, who is also his friend. He is killed by Diavolo.

• Arkady Yayakov

A Russian war criminal, Yayakov runs a club in New Orleans known as the Kiss Kiss Club and owns a mansion in the Louisiana bayou. When Bond destroys his lab Yayakov is crushed by a large metal sphere.

• Jean Le Rouge

A New Orleans mobster who tries to get rid of Mya Starling in a crematorium. Bond arrives and saves her. He finishes Le Rouge with a bullet to the chest.

Weapons and Gadgets

Weapons

• Walther P99 (silenced or unsilenced)
• Desert Eagle
• Golden Gun (unlockable by a cheat code)
• Platinum Gun (unlockable by a cheat code)
• SPAS-12
• Heckler & Koch MP5K
• SIG 552
• AK-74 (The AK-74 is the 5.45mm version of the AK versus 7.62mm of the original AK-47/AKM.)*
• Dragunov (A sniper variant of the AKM)
• AT-420 (Actually is a M202 FLASH (supporting weapon)

• NOTE: Although the game calls it an AK-74, the weapon model is actually that of the AK-47/AKM.

Gadgets

• Fragmentation Grenade (disguised as coin)
• Thermovision (See Thermography)
• Strobe Grenade (disguised as coin)
• EMP Grenade (disguised as coin)
• Q-Spider (remote controlled robot)
• Dart gun
• Nano Suit (invisibility)
• Network Tap

Vehicles

These are the vehicles that are used throughout the game. Some of them can carry more or stronger weapons if the player earns enough gold medals during the course of play. These upgrades have been put in parentheses.

• Chimera Motorcycle — Missiles
• Porsche Cayenne Turbo — Missiles, machine guns, invisibility (Cluster bombs, laser machine guns)
• Helicopter — Missiles, bombs and flares (Double missiles)
• RC Car — Low-range laser.
• Peruvian Tank — cannon, machine guns (Laser machine guns)
• Triumph Daytona 600 — Missiles, flamethrower, shotgun (More range both to flamethrower and shotgun)
• Aston Martin V12 Vanquish — Missiles, machine guns, electromagnetic pulse, acid slick. (Laser machine guns, fire acid slick)
• Diavolo Tank — Cannon, plasma gun, nano shells("Warmer" cannons, platinum armor)
• Limousine — Smoke Screen
• Volotech Truck
• Subaru Impreza WRX Rally Car

Trivia

• There is a large plot hole in the final level: when James blows up the missile carrying the nanobots, when it exploded nanobots should have been blown across Moscow and destroyed it.
• To date, EA has not resolved the fate of Jaws at the end of the game.
• It is the first Bond game to use the voice of the then-current James Bond, Pierce Brosnan. It was also his final performance as Bond before stepping aside in 2004.
• Everything or Nothing was long thought to be the name of the production company behind the James Bond films, EON Productions, and Electronic Arts had to wait through a lengthy period to ensure that there were no film plans using the title before it was officially revealed that EON was just a name and did not stand for anything specific.
• Everything or Nothing's game engine evolved from the engine used in Agent Under Fire. Like its predecessor, the driving sections were developed using a separate engine by EA Canada. Erik Strickland and Louis Gascoigne were the lead engineers on the 3rd person action portion of the game.
• On the mission Vertigo, at the very beginning cut, Bond tranquilizes two patrolling guards with his dart gun but the second guard to be shot begins to fall before Bond shoots.
• On the mission Mardi Gras Mayhem there is a building with the Phoenix Logo and company name from the preceding game Nightfire. This homage to Nightfire is a recurring feature in the EA James Bond games, in Nightfire there is a sunken ship with Malprave Industries written on it. Malprave Industries was a fictitious company from Agent Under Fire.
• The name of the night club in New Orleans, The Kiss Kiss Club, refers to the night club of the same name that appears in the film Thunderball, and not to the nickname that James Bond is sometimes called, contrary to popular belief.
• In the level "The Pontchartrain Bridge" Bond must stop Jaws, who is driving a semi truck loaded with Diavolo and Katya's metal eating nanobots over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, from reaching the city of New Orleans and destroying the levees, which would allow the city to be flooded. Coincidentally, this is the same disaster that occurred during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, about one and a half years after the game was released.
• Also in the level "The Pontchartrain Bridge", Jaws rams another tanker truck, making it slide and block the road. One of the ways Bond can find through the truck is going under it, using the counter-weigh feature of the motorcycle, which will give the player a Bond Moment. Although all the action is shown as a cut, the player is still able to fire and cycle through the weapons. The player can also use the motorcycle's flamethrower to eliminate an enemy who travels in the air above him.
• When Bond first arrives in Louisiana, he is listening to a briefing about Nikolai Diavolo. In the second picture of Diavolo shown, a man standing behind him is shown. The man slightly resembles Valentin Zukovsky, a KGB agent who appeared in Bond movies Goldeneye and The World is Not Enough. It is possible the man in the picture is Zukovsky due to the fact that Diavolo was also a KGB agent.
• When Bond is nearing the end of "The Pontchartrain Bridge" bridge level, it is possible to see a sun shaped balloon over the left hand side of the bridge. This is the same balloon that Bond releases by crashing into the Mardi Gras celebrations in the "Mardi Gras mayhem" level, 6 levels earlier.

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