| Brosnan's Final Bond In 2003, Pierce Brosnan made his final EON appearance as 007.
An original story written by Bruce Feirstein (who worked on the screenplays for GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies), Danny Bilson and Paul Demeo, Everything or Nothing centers around Bond dealing with the use of nanotechnology as terrorism. It is the second Bond game played in third-person after the Tomorrow Never Dies game, and is the first Bond game to both feature a two-player cooperative mode and lack deathmatch multiplayer mode (a popular staple in the series). The game also features returning actors such as John Cleese (in his last appearances, as "Q"), Dame Judi Dench as "M," and Richard Kiel as "Jaws." Other actors include Willem Dafoe as Nikolai Diavolo, the game's primary antagonist and an ex-KGB agent, Heidi Klum as Katya Nadanova, an Oxford nano-technology scientist who is later revealed to have affiliations with Diavolo, and Shannon Elizabeth as Serena St. Germaine, an American geologist and helicopter pilot whose expertise allows her to help Bond in Peru. The game also contains the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish from Brosnan's final Bond film, Die Another Day (so yes, there's more "cloak of invisibility" hijinx going on). 
The story revolves around "nanobots," first tried by EON in an abandoned Timothy Dalton film. Like the films, the story opens with a pre-title teaser sequence. This starts in Tajikistan, where Bond intevenes during the illegal sale of a suitcase bomb stolen from a stockpile of old Soviet Union weapons, as Dench's "M" bosses him around remotely. Bond destroys the stronghold, kills everybody and escapes with the suitcase. The story-proper opens with Bond detonating a research facility in Egypt, with the intent of destroying a nanobot stolen by terrorists that is capable of repairing damaged nuclear reactors without danger to humans. Rescuing its inventor, Dr. Katya Nadanova (Heidi Klum) of the Oxford Department of Microtechnology (shades of nuclear physicist Denise "Christmas Jones" Richards!), Bond dispatches her captors, including Jaws (Richard Kiel).  Bond drops off Katya at a nearby military complex, but Nadanova is not what she seems. She delivers a vial of her nanobots to Nikolai Diavolo (Willem Dafoe), a former KGB agent with ties to Max Zorin (the villain in the film A View To A Kill). 007 is then sent to investigate a Peruvian platinum mine, where agent 003 (James Arnold Taylor) was last seen. Enlisting the aid of an American geologist, Serena St. Germaine (Shannon Elizabeth), Bond finds 003--only for Diavolo to mortally wound 003, who mentions "New Orleans" before dying. Bond fights his way out of the mining tunnels, and reaches a cliff, where a helicopter appears with Katya Nadanova inside, holding Serena hostage. Katya 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. 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 a local crime ring. Bond goes to New Orleans during Mardi Gras and stealthfully enters the night club where he meets NSA double agent Mya Starling (Mýa). When 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. 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. They track Diavolo's operations to an abandoned plantation in Louisiana. Bond infiltrates the facility and discovers Diavolo has altered Nadanova's nanobots to eat through all metals but platinum. Destroying the laboratory, Bond finds a tanker of nanobots which is being driven by Jaws (Richard Kiel) to the levees, with the intent of flooding New Orleans. Bond destroys the truck before it can reach the levees. 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 NASCAR-like race. The reward for coming in at first place is dinner with Diavolo. Naturally, Bond wins, but then finds he has captured Serena. He rescues Serena, but that allows Diavolo to escape to the mines. Bond enters the mines, but is captured by Nadanova, and learns of her treachery. Diavolo explains that he intends to use the nanobots to destroy the Kremlin and use his army of platinum tanks to control Russia, and from there overthrow Europe. He shackles Bond in the path of a mining drill. However, Bond breaks loose and manages to kill a large number of Diavolo's henchmen. Bond escapes the mine, leaping through a hole in the rock where a helicopter is waiting -- piloted by Serena.  Following Diavolo to Moscow, Bond prevents the release of the nanobots in Red Square and heads for a missile silo hidden under the Kremlin. Battling Jaws again, Bond finally succeeds in deactivating the nanotech missiles, Bond then shoots down a Soviet jet containing Diavolo and Nadanova, killing the latter. Ejecting from the jet, Diavolo reaches a control tower; Bond detonates it, but Diavolo reactivates a missile before falling into the missile silo. The final scene has Brosnan's Bond destroy the missile as it launches, and then embrace Shannon Elizabeth's Serena outside the Kremlin.  Unlike most of Brosnan's films, and despite being linked to characters from the most critically reviled episodes in the Bond series, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing received positive reviews from the critics (although Salon.com said Brosnan "sounds hung over at best and bored at worst"). Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 2 version 84.75% and 84/100, the GameCube version 84.41% and 84/100, the Xbox version 83.10% and 83/100, and the Game Boy Advance version 69.58% and 73/100. GameSpot gave it an 8.8, calling it "a really great game, perhaps the best James Bond game ever made." IGN said "EA shakes things up and gives us a fresh new perspective on how good Bond can be."   |
