Interactive movie.

If you’ve been playing video games for any length of time, those two words must strike fear into your heart, and paralysis into your gaming fingers. Coders (and marketers, to be fair) have been attempting to make interactive movies for years and years, in the belief that they would make for the complete ‘entertainment experience’. Unfortunately, they’ve nearly always been shite. Night Trap, anyone?

An interactive movie. Girls in pyjamas. They don’t make ‘em like this any more.

These days, more-powerful systems make ‘interactive movies’ a bit more plausible, but even then we’re forced to play troubled, moody bastards out for revenge, like Max Payne or him in The Getaway. If only we could play as a cool character. If only we could play as James Bond, like we were in the movies or something…. Oh and it has to ‘not be shit’ unlike every 007 outing before, and then after, Goldeneye on the N64.

Fortunately, Everything or Nothing delivers a fantastic Bond game that really does make you feel like you’re in the movie. I was shocked, how did they manage that? Firstly, it’s not a FPS for a change, so that helps….

What we’ve got here is a Bond movie that you play. You get action, loads of action and impossibly dangerous stunts too. You get tons of great gadgets. You get to drive great vehicles (in sequences coded by the ace Need for Speed team). You get corny lines. You get the girls. And…. you get to fight Jaws, the best Bond villain ever. Holy shit! We’re in the movie!

Super spies get to shag women like this. You don’t. Better get the game, then.

Everything or Nothing is even structured like a Bond movie. You’ll throw yourself off a dam, shooting bad guys as you rappel your way down in one level - then at the bottom it’s into your car to chase the escaping baddies. This is a constant thrill ride that pans out exactly like the films do. This is the gaming equivalent of a popcorn movie, and it’s none the worse for it. It’s short sure, but it’s enormous fun all the way through, and once you’ve finished it you can go right through it again and enjoy it just as much.

It’s raining men. Umm, Hallelujah?

This IS an interactive movie, and for once there’s no need to be ashamed of that. It takes balls and money to even attempt a game this ambitious – and this game is the perfect example of EA swaggering around with their knob out, going “Look at me!” To be fair, we all know theirs is the biggest, but James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing proves they know how to use it too. If you’ve ever sat around with your dad on a Bank Holiday, drinking beer and watching a Bond, you’ll get a huge, exciting, happy, kick out of this game.

PAULEMOZ, February 2004.

RODENT CASH RATING - £40

"Right fer impressin' yer bird."

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Everything or Nothing (PS2) - £29.99 (free delivery)

Everything or nothing (Gamecube) - £29.99 (free delivery)

Everything or Nonthing (Xbox) - £29.99 (free delivery)

(Prices correct at 27th February 2004)