An Inside Look at 'Everything or Nothing'
Written by John Lambert (aka: Johnboy007)
Everything or Nothing is easily the best game EA has created with the 007 license. The 3rd person point of view provides a refreshingly different vantage point. The levels are longer and more difficult than in EA’s previous outings. The enemy AI improved dramatically from Nightfire. All of this combined with excellent scans of the actors, and the use of their actual voices makes Everything or Nothing one the greatest James Bond games ever.
James Bond has returned to console, and more stylish than ever. Sean Callery’s opening music hurls you right into the mayhem! You are thrown right in the middle of a firefight, with nuclear materials to recover. After mercilessly blowing away adversaries, James Bond makes his escape in to an awaiting Harrier jet. Cue in Mya’s title song, and prepare to be blown away.
Bond is shipped off to Egypt. His mission, find the (treacherous) nano-technology researcher Katya Nadanova (Heidi Klum), and rescue her from Max Zorin’s KGB prodigy Nikolai Diavolo (Willem Dafoe). One jump off a burning building, motorcycle ride, brawl with our old toothy friend Jaws (Richard Kiel), and a helicopter chase, Bond catches up with St. Germaine, and delivers her back safely.
003 has suddenly gone missing, and has failed to report to Mi6 for several days. 003 was investigating Diavolo in Puerto Viejo, Peru.
M ships our 007, equipped for the first time, a gadget laden Porsche Cayenne Turbo SUV, in search of 003. James Bond finds 003’s hideout. While searching through, the telephone rings, with geologist. Serena St. Germaine (Shannon Elizabeth) calling to meet with 003. Bond and Serena make their escape out of the city, to begin investigating Diavolo’s platinum mines.
007’s investigation within the mine soon turns in to a fight for his life. Bond ends up in a firefight with numerous enemies throughout a series of ruins. Bond finds 003, who had been shot by Diavolo, and dies not long after he is found. Bond begins to make his exit, running up the stairs of a tower in the mine. Bond makes it out of the mine, but faces a daunting cliff. To make matters worse, Serena has been captured, and been thrown off of the cliff. Bond rappels off the cliff and while dodging machine gun toting adversaries and large protruding rocks, Bond rescues Serena from death.
Bond and Serena make their exit in true 007 fashion, a commandeered tank! Bond and Serena blast their way through patrols, back to 003’s hideout. They find a more practical vehicle to end the journey, a new Triumph Daytona. With little time before the aircraft to take them home leaves, they speed away, and board at the last possible moment.
Bond makes his return to New Orleans for some Mardi gras mayhem. Bond roams the streets for the second time in the more traditional Aston Martin with all the usual refinements. Bond is sent to NSA Agent Mya Starling (Mya Harrison) in the Kiss Kiss Club. Bond stealthily enters the club, and eliminates a few unsuspecting guards. A shootout within the club ensues, with chairs, tables, and beer bottles in play.
Agent Starling is captured and whisked away to the crematorium. Bond blasts out and into the graveyard.
No easy walk in the park for 007, as gunfire soon roars through the cemetery. After tagging a few snipers, Bond enters (for once) through the front door. Bond comes face to face with Mya’s captor and battles him, with Mya dangling towards the crematorium’s fierce flames. Bond disposes his adversary and unhooks Mya from her cable. Bond and Mya hit the streets to her apartment, avoiding enemy cars. They of course, make it back unharmed. Together, they “unwind” after a rough night.
Bond is next taken to an old mansion on the outskirts of the Big Easy. Bond infiltrates the mansion, to find out what Diavolo’s men are planning. Bond stumbles into an underground factory. Diavolo has begun production of thousands of nanobots that plan to eat into the levees around New Orleans to flood the city. Bond destroys the factory, but not before a truckload has been taken out, driven by your orthodontist’s favorite patient, Jaws.
The game is now on to its most exciting level. Aboard the Triumph, Bond is in hot pursuit of Jaws’ tanker truck bound for New Orleans, in an effort to dodge pursuers Bond jumps bridge construction to the other side in to incoming traffic. Bond swerves back in the correct lane, and begins to flatten his Triumph under a soon to explode innocent tanker truck. Bond comes away unscathed and takes a clear path at Jaws. Bond disables the truck, thwarting Diavolo’s plans in New Orleans.
EoN is still not finished.
Bond returns back to Peru to try and meet Diavolo uninvited. Bond. In an effort to meet Diavolo, Bond finds that should he win the local road rally, he would dine with Diavolo that evening.
Bond penetrates the hotel where the drivers are staying, and replaces one of the drivers. Bond finishes as usual, in 1st.
The dinner does not go as planned. Serena has once more been captured by Diavolo’s thugs, and you have to rescue her. Bond battles through the carnage inside the hotel, and find his way in a secret passage under the hotel where Bond frees Serena. Bond once more finds himself in the rally car, the escape Diavolo’s forces. Bond ditches Serena with the rally car, and rides the Triumph once more. A bike chase not unlike Tomorrow Never Dies’ ensues in the streets, with Bond finding his way back to Diavolo’s mine. Bond’s discovery within the mine is utterly disturbing. Diavolo plans to use his metal destroying nanobots to destroy the armed forces of Russia, and take over the government, putting Communist rule back in place.
Bond is sent to Russia to stop Diavolo’s final plan. Diavolo plans to explode a bomb under the Kremlin, which would release toxic gas, and kill Russia’s leaders. Bond commandeers one of Diavolo’s platinum tanks to seek out and destroy the bomb. Bond annihilates the bomb and makes his exit out of the Kremlin.
Bond begins search for Diavolo in a secret underground military base. Bond’s search is hampered by laser sentries, and that pesky indestructible Jaws! Bond defeats Jaws for what is now hopefully the last time. Bond finds himself going against invisible machine gun toting adversaries still in search of Nadanova and Diavolo.
At last they are found,
standing at a control panel ready to fire nuclear missiles with additional nanobot warheads. Bond destroys the controls, stopping the missiles from firing. Nadanova and Diavolo have begun their escape through the escape shaft in a Harrier Hover Jet. The Hover Jet is destroyed but Diavolo still manages to get away.
Bond and Diavolo begin a one on one intense battle through a warehouse. Diavolo has begun to launch one last rocket. Bond fires several rockets in to the missile, destroying Diavolo and the rocket, once and for all.
James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing – Reviewed
There are so many reviews out there. Which site do you trust? [collected by Devin Zydel – aka: Qwerty]
- AJB007.co.uk
- UniversalExports.net
- CNN.com
- CurrentFilm.com
- Film.Guardian.co.uk
- FutureGamez.net
- GamerArchive.com
- GameInformer.com
- GameInfoWire.com
- GamePlanet.co.nz
- GameShark.com
- GamePro.com
- GamePower.com.au
- Gamer-Talk.net
- GamesAreFun.com
- TotalVideoGames.com
- VideoGameLife.com
- VideoGameReview.com
- VideoGameTalk.com
- WorthPlaying.com
- xvgn.com
Soon after its release, Everything or Nothing became “Game of the Month” in many paper publications and on-line game sites. And the game continues to go strong… perhaps to earn the title of “Game of the Year?”


Choose between the ultra fast Chimera motorcycle (to the right) or the slower but studier Porsche Cayenne (to the left). Use your weapons to destroy enemy vehicles. [Bond moment — take out the helicopter before you reach the temple.]. [Bond moment — at the temple (Cayanne) jump the pillar on the left or (Chimera) power slide under the pillar on the right.]. [Bond moment — right before you catch the train look for the remains of a statue to the right and hit the jump near it.]. which also puts you on the tracks behind the train.
Wait for Jaws to attack (he’ll either pull out of the of pillars and throw it at you or bull-rush you). After he’s pulled our at least one pillar, he’ll expose a stream of electricity. When his attack is finished, push Jaws toward the electricity. After three hits he’ll stagger backward, if you got him close enough to the electrical current he’ll take damage. Also id you stand so that the path of his bull-rush attack aims towards the electricity, he’ll run right into it. Two jolts of electricity will subdue Jaws.
At the beginning [Bond moment — use the sleeper dart to take out the two guards.]. [Bond moment — use stealth moves to take down the guards outside the starting room.]. When you enter the temple ground head to the right to find a ledge and use the grappling hook [Bond moment — reach the top.]. There’s a hidden room with an armor vest and sniper rifle. Take out the guards with the rifle (note the guard with the rocket launcher hidden in the alcove). Head to the back of the grounds. There’s a mine cart lift on the wall, rappel up to the top. Follow the path through the ruins to the mine construction with a crate suspended above it. Use the sniper rifle (note the guard with the rocket launcher) and deal with the guards. Press the button on the mine shaft to drop the crate and break open the barrier leading into the tunnel. Drop into the mine shaft. Hit the button on the wall to start the mine cat rolling along the tracks. Follow the cart. Watch out for enemies! When the cart tips over at the end of the line, shoot the dynamite it was carrying to blast an opening in the wall. Run through the opening.
Follow the tunnel into the interrogation room with 003. [Bond moment — send a Q-spider into the small opening in the wall near the start of the level and drop it onto the three guards, taking them out.].
After the cut scene, run off the cliff to chase after the falling Serena. Avoid ledges, walkways and other obstacles as you fall. Hitting some will kill you; others will just slow your descent but will likely end you mission as you’ll have lost too much time to speed up to successfully catch Serena. [Bond moment — shoot the gas tanks to take out the guards.]. [Bond moment — looks for the shortcut between a ledge and wooden walkway and fall through it.]. Catching up to Serena completes the level.
The front door is locked and Bond isn’t on the guest list. Look for the open second story window and rappel up into the club. [Bond moment — take a moment to give the lady in the room a massage.]. Use sleeper darts to take out the guards on the second floor without sounding the alarm. In the control room press the button on the panel to open a door on the first floor.
Before engaging La Rouge run to the conveyor controls in the middle of the room and stop Mya’s advance towards the furnace. La Rouge’s crossbow fires explosive arrows; whenever he pops out to fire at you dive to one side to avoid the damages. [Bond moment — target the gas tanks behind La Rouge to damage him.]. La Rouge may run to the controls to restart the conveyor, whenever he does this you’ll need to stop it again quickly before continuing to fight him.
In the room to the right of the entrance hall [Bond moment — deploy a Q-spider into the vent shaft to find an armored vest.]. Detonate the spider near the sniper guarding the entrance hall. Use the rappel to reach the attic (look up at the ceiling). [Bond Moment — avoid detention and take out all of the enemies on the ground floor without stealth.]. Find the hold in the attic floor to drop down into another area of the mansion. You’ll enter the ballroom, a large room with a chandelier. [Bond moment — use Bond sense to target the chandelier. Shoot it to drop down onto the guards below.]. At the base of the grand staircase, you’ll find two rooms, each with a switch. Activate both switched to open a security door on the second floor. On the first landing of the staircase you can rappel back into the attic. Drop into the next area though the hole in the floor and follow it to enter Yayakov’s lair.
This stage is a straightforward race to catch Jaws in his tanker truck before he reaches the city. While in the bayou area before reaching the highway [Bond moment — jump the gate, as opposed to blasting though it.]. [Bond moment — blow up the shanty house.]. Once on the highway, keep and eye out for the construction vehicle [Bond moment — use its flatbed as a jump.]. There will be a short clip of a gas truck crashing and then [Bond moment — use the motorcycle’s power slide maneuver to go under the truck instead of around it.]. When you catch up to Jaws’ tanker, get along side it and use the flame thrower on all four tires to blow them out, the tanker will crash.
No Bond adventure is complete without 007 being captured and place into some sort of nefarious, slow acting deathtrap. So here, Bond is held in place while a drilling machine slowly advances on him. To escape, activate the EMP grenade and use it to disable the drill and free Bond from the cuffs. Bond’s equipment in on a nearby table.
Before rappelling down the lift shaft find the rocket launcher near the stack of crates. On the way down the shaft destroy the automated sentry guns in the walls. At the bottom, when the lift platform stops, find the two lift controls in the adjacent room and use them to reactivate the lift. [Bond moment — detonate a Q-Spider near a group of guards.].
The last exhaust vent is blocked. In the room with the control panel find the vent shaft in the wall and send a Q-Spider into it. At the end of the shaft you’ll see a wrench lodged against the mechanism. Return through the main room and exit through the doors near where Mission 28 started. You’ll run into more cloaked enemies (use thermo vision).
Electronic Arts newest James Bond video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is very similar to the Roger Moore Era (1973-1985). Below I will talk about all of the similarities I found between Roger Moore’s Bond films and the extraordinary new game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing.
Pierce Brosnan as… Bond, James Bond
Willem Dafoe as… Nikolai Diavolo
Shannon Elizabeth as… Serena St. Germaine
Heidi Klum as… Dr. Katya Nadanova
Mya as… Agent Mya Starling
Richard Kiel as… Jaws
John Cleese as… Q
Judi Dench as… M
Misaki Ito as… Ms. Nagai
Q Spider

Prior to assisting Q, Ito has done modeling work and been featured in calendars in Japan where she’s posed in bikinis. She’s also acted in the Japanese horror movie Ju-On, which was written by the same screenwriter as Ringu, a movie later updated in America as The Ring.


