GODDAMN YES. And they can do silly things for Bonds lovemaking, like they’re insinuating something saucer is going on but the camera pans in and they’re fooling around with a unicycle and juggling. XD
You know, Another Way To Die makes a great alarm. Because when you hear it first thing in the morning, you're so desperate to switch it off that you're up and awake instantly.
Man it feels so weird reading all these comments dunking on AWTD because it's straight up one of the first bond themes I got addicted to listening, I didn't hear You know my Name at the time. Maybe I have more tolerance to the song because I listen to a lot of noise music.
Hear me out: LEGO James Bond. Possible level names: The Spy Who Bricked Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Studs, Moonbricker, Goldbricker, LEGO Never Dies, The Bricks Are Not Enough, Thunderbrick to name a few.
One of the strangest things I found about this game is that they motion captured Gemma Arterton (Strawberry Fields) but she never appeared in the game? I know because in a behind the scenes video for the game they literally showed her head being scanned.
They probably scanned her in case they needed Fields but ended up not needing her. Similar to how Camille gets quite a lot of screen time in the film but isn't in the game too much.
I just noticed how the car chase at the beginning of game was actually better done than the actual scene on which it's based. I remember seeing Quantum opening night and I couldn't remember the chase five minutes after it happened.
This was last bond game I enjoyed playing although I never got round to Bloodstone. Nightfire is by far my favourite. Hope they do another Bond game in the future.
The PS2 version was superior to the X360/PS3 version. You got to visit the Haitian Docks and you got to have a shootout with Elvis (which for some reason was ridiculously hard). I still go back to it whenever I get my PS2 out.
Honestly, the Sheriff Pepper skit and the psychotic killing of Marc Forster (I suddenly feel inclined to purchase this game) have brought this review straight into my top 5 videos of yours. I may have to re-edit the montage I did for you.
Who knows, maybe one day you might be tasked with a mission concerning protecting a VIP who bore a resemblance to Martin Campbell or Guy Hamilton. And the gunmen were actually led by Tamahori. That would be interesting!
+Cyburgin LOL Yes. It made think how much better the Craig movies would be if he kept running into Sheriff Pepper every film. Casino Royale, Bolivia, Scotland... and then it turns out Pepper is Blofeld in Spectre.
I'm looking forward to your Bloodstone review. While I have issues with it, it's still a lot of fun and it's a shame it didn't get a sequel...and 007 Legends happened instead.
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This was the first James Bond video game I ever played. It was the first game I ever finished all the way through, and I still love it to this day. I didn't know what was going on though, because Quantum and Casino Royale were among the few Bond films that I hadn't seen at that point.
Great review as always. i have a special nostalgia for this game. It was pretty much my first FPS (on my Wii no less, which also has local multiplayer)
Hey Calvin! Nice review :) You've reminded me of the diminishing market of 007 games.. Especially the flop of Legends. Do you think a future video game will arise? Such a new storyline like nightfire? I wonder if another game company will buy the license? And omg at the length of this video!! I'm surprised you didn't do a part 2! ;)
Calvin Dyson Here is a link that I though you might be interested in reading.www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/gaming-jbwoe-james-bond-world-of-espionage-launched?t=&s=&id=03931 It is nice to see that James Bond video games are continuing, in some form since Activision lost the license.
Almost at the 100th video mark Calvin !! Pepper impression was great, the real one probably would set off an explosion for something interesting to do !! :)
Loving your reviews Calvin. I've been watching everything on your channel non stop building the hype for SPECTRE. Are you going to review GE, TWINE, TND and 007 Racing at anytime?
I played this game before ever watching the movies. The quantum parts were very hard to follow, but I noticed that I Understood the Casino parts pretty easily. I still haven't seen casino, but I get the story. Yet I have seen quantum, and I still get lost sometimes.
Awesome review! Totally agree. Game is fun and well worth playing. Feels light on the cinematics and Bondy feel. Here's hoping that Spectre (which looks more fantastical than previous Craig films) will inspire something new and interesting in Bond games. I love everything you do. Keep up the good work!
Hello Agent dyson, and fellow Agents in chat or viewers, here is my secret message. Being a james bond fan hardcore i would say like star wars fans, i really liked aspects of the game and some not so much, are these videos getting monetized, i liked that we get more of the locations of these films that we watched, i wonder if they are accurate to what the locations looked like, the action felt to hollywood action movies in that everything blows up and alot of gun fire my ears were dead, or i cant hear in one ear like real life incident with bruce willis in die hard, but thats what games are now, so i get it parts dont make sense, like the opera music is going even though things are blowing up, and gunfire, i thought i would hear audience screaming but i guess nothing, i like that they kept the fashion choices from the movie. Is there a difference between this call of duty/ goldeneye n64 gameplay or the ps2 first person shooter game, cause this looks better than the ps2 one or the pc one, So that was great to watch, not a big fan of the bond song, but the car chase that accompanies it was okay, I like that this had the best moments of the film, and tried to make it into the story, which was great, they should have just called it Casino of Solace or Quantum Royale. Like the change the title a little bit since its a magnum of bits of the movies, i like alot of aspects and the gunfire and things blowing up they were great if played but as a viewer, it was boring at some parts and repetitive. Is there a part 2? And man does bond look great in the suit in this game alot of batman vibes or drakes uncharted such as walking on planks and going up buildings and walking across, i wonder if drakes uncharted was first in that, or bond, if so thats interesting. Some differences but they are okay, i missin bond movies so watching these old games and reliving those experiences thanks for posting also to have more fun with this idea for bond hardcore fans, think of these mission as operations bond has to complete, maybe it will change your viewpoint. Also when bond takes cover and shoots his shooting style reminds me of niko belic in gta 4, when he would raise the gun to shoot, i mean craig does look a little like belic so. I agree with aspects you talked about, and there should have been more scenes from the movies, but for what they got it was okay, it would have been great if we could have shot in a plane.
This game is a SACK OF SHIT on the Wii. Trust me... I did a letsplay of it on my old channel, and don't even get me started on how shitty the multiplayer is!
If you want a Bond game for driving get Blood Stone, It was made by Bizarre Creations, a team that exclusively made fantastic racing games and little else (no surprises that you drive the Aston Martin a lot more than shoot baddies behind cover). This was made by Call of Duty devs Treyarch and it shows that they used that formula to play safe with nonstop shooting,and Quicktime Events. Fantastic review, looks like it was a lot of fun to make and its great to see a review for Bond fans over the casual player and pointing out the references to the movies.
Maybe J.W. was really in Bolivia to help track down the "little white water hog" Dominic Greene. Pepper seemed to show quite a hatred for other water hogs in Golden Gun.
The reason there was more Casino Royal levels was because the game was supposed to be a Casino Royal game but they didn't finish it in time to they added in the Quantum levels and changed its name.
Are you sure? I heard differently. Apparently it was always meant to be a Quantum of Solace game, but since the Quantum was constantly being re-written during the writer's strike, the game devs didn't have enough of the story to reliably make levels so they, in desperation, started making Casino Royale based levels to fill out the game.
EA were due to make a Casino Royale game but were clearly not going to make the release date so it was cancelled and that was part of the reason the rights were moved away from them. Maybe some of that work went into Quantum.
The PS2 version of Quantum of Solace is definitely worth playing as well, it's actually a bit more like Bloodstone minus the driving levels. The entire game is entirely in 3rd person and despite some similarity in the levels, it is for the most part a completely different experience that I personally enjoyed more than the XBOX 360/PS3 version, especially cause you are able to carry as many weapons as you find.
Great review Calvin! I bloody loved this game. It was first FPS and my first bond game and I played it to death. I still really like it. I loved the parts where it switched to third person!
WARNING: Very long comment as these are my thoughts from throughout the review. 2:42 I also hate this feature, I don't care if it's more "realistic" to only being able to carry a certain amount of weapons, gets annoying, I hate it more when you can't trade in certain guns like your P99 in GoldenEye Wii/Reloaded game, fine I'll deal with trading guns but let me get rid of the P99 pistol for an automatic gun please! 9:55 That is a better way to do Quick Time Events, what I hate isn't that it's just a button press during a cutscene, it's that it's so limited. It's always either "Press this or the game won't continue" or "Press this or you'll get hurt/will die" making more like those combat games like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat where you had multiple options and multiple posibilities would've made QTE's so much better because then it would be like you're actually playing except you can't move around and with awesome animations. 10:22 OMG YES! I don't care if smartphones are used all the time these days, gadgets are so much cooler to use, I hate how in Craig's films and games (not his fault though) that the smart phone is pretty much the only thing he uses. 007 Legends changed it up a little by giving his watch some cool features, but it isn't as big of a variety as say GoldenEye or Nightfire. Plus the gadgets were a huge part of Bond and just spy movies. When you hear the term "Spy" or "Secret Agent" these days, you think of a cool and good-looking man with grenades that look like common household things, hidden weapons in your clothes, etc NOT a man that uses his smartphone for everything and is only different physically and mentally and doesn't have any cool-looking and original tools. 13:00 You can argue that aiming with a Sniper rifle was always a little difficult with it moving around, in GoldenEye for the N64 the Sniper Rifle would move around a bit, but it never was as bad as it is now. >_< 15:22 Really? I figured it would be like one or two flash back levels, not half of the game. In that case, why not just start with the Casino Royale levels first and then go on to the QoS ones, like a two Bond films in One game sort of things or something. Be less weird that what they did here. lol 18:10 Oh, I was expecting to be just like CoD where it gets red with those vain marks appearing, that's actually a cool take on the modern health system, but it could've been done so much better since it makes it hard to see when you're low on health. :P 19:47 Shut up and take my money1 22:50 ...not sure what to say other than that's a pretty cool and unique level design. 23:36 brhaahahha! Now that is going to be one of my favorite parts of this review. xD 27:05 Holy shit, maybe that's why there weren't more cutscenes, they spent all the budget on her model! XD In all seriousness that really is an amazing Judy Dench model. Anyways I thoroughly enjoyed this review (like always lol) and I can't wait for the next one. :D
The reason they don't start with Casino Royale is because the flashback cover s up the giant chunk missing from the QoS levels. It skips from the sinkhole (end of the movie's first act) straight to the hotel (third act) which would be super jarring.
Played this on the PS2, and mostly remember it because the sinkhole level offered one of my fave moments of poor AI in gaming; BADDY: "I'll get him!" *pulls out grenade and throws it* *it misses, bounces off the wall and lands at his feet* *baddy looks down* BADDY: "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" *BANG*
I would just love to say your welcome and thank you for both the thanks.../shout out in the video, didn't realise you were going to thank each of the donaters out loud in person, and also for all the content you have and hopefully continue to produce. You can definitely tell that the quality is much much better. The three exclusive reviews as well as this one are great. Also for the multi-player, I have also found that I have never been able to get into a match for lots of the Craig/PS3 games, so maybe could a good idea to play the multi-player with a load of your viewers so that you get to review all, or most of the multi-player, I know you focus mainly on single player. Anyway loving all your videos, can't wait for the next one!!! (:
I like the gunbarrel interpolation with the story. Nice callback to Casino Royale and it reminds me of the edit that made Bond’s killing shot on Mitchell the gunbarrel of the film. Of course, that edit came way after this game and after this very video, but it’s a neat to think about what could’ve been
Another way to Die is honestly one of my favourite Bond songs. Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but I always enjoy it. The instrumental is really good in particular.
Aw you forgot the MI6 gallery, where you can see artwork and in game character models, even the Aston Martin. Sad there isn't driving levels in this game, but great game none the less.
Loved the review! In-depth as always, an I couldn't help but laugh at the hotel receptionist trying to explain the dullness of the hotel! And yes, you did pronounce my name (almost) correctly! Congrats on that impressive feat! ;)
For me, the PS2 version of Quantum of Solace was much better as it was a 3rd person shooter and it was at least creative with the limitations that you could do for a Bond game based on the Craig era. However whenever I am bored I feel like playing a game for half an hour, I would pop this one in occasionally with its somewhat arcade like feel to it and I am not a fan of first person shooters, but I am just as big of a fan of Bond as you are. Also your reaction to the title song of this game replicates my exact reaction to it, lol.
iamsuperbatman1993 Haha happy to hear other people reacted to the song the same way! I haven't played the PS2 version but I may well have to dig it out and give it a whirl!
im shocked you havent touched quantum of solice on ps2 and only touched on ps3 version lol its way better on ps2 btw its a 3rd person shooter and much better
Great review! The game looks good but indeed the lack of vehicle chases makes the game not one of the best. I'm surprised that some people still play this game, because GoldenEye 007 Reloaded servers are almost empty right now. The local multiplayer/split screen in GE 007 Reloaded is great, I still play it around twice a month with friends, it's awesome :-)
I know this comes a little bit too late but if you noticed it, the AK-47 / assault rifle in Madagascar is named "FRWL", this is an Easter egg, a short for "From Russia With Love".
Also They mess up Camille's character models clothes Because if you remember in the movie Camille wears her black dress In the scene in the cave where she and bond found The water underneath The sinkhole The sinkhole of Bolivia Where they at And Camille wore a tank top and Jeans in the final battle But in the game she's wearing her final battle outfit and her black dress in the final level of the game.
You just gave me a brilliant idea: Q gives Bond a bow-tie that also functions as a PS controller.EDIT: Second idea--Q also gives him a watch with a "digitizer" in it. He points the timepiece at a weapon or item, presses the button, and _yoink!_ it's safely stored in a digital inventory. Caveat: It doesn't work on living matter.
I absolutely adore this game! I just played it again, after last playing through it 12 years ago. I wasn’t sure it was going to hold up, but it absolutely did.
They should make a Lego James Bond game. In multiple parts of course.
yes
i love lego.
@Benjamin Callinicos yeah but Bond movies are still pretty tame compered to most action franchises like Rambo or Terminator
GODDAMN YES. And they can do silly things for Bonds lovemaking, like they’re insinuating something saucer is going on but the camera pans in and they’re fooling around with a unicycle and juggling. XD
As much as I would LOVE that, names like Octopussy, Pussy Galore, holly Goodhead, etc. might be a bit of an issue
I love how, in the game, the sinkhole level is just called... "Sinkhole/" And the level where Bond gets drugged is called "Dirty Martini."
You know, Another Way To Die makes a great alarm.
Because when you hear it first thing in the morning, you're so desperate to switch it off that you're up and awake instantly.
Beats the shit out of that Sam Smith tune they had for Spectre, that's for damn sure.
I love AWTD
I actually set it as an alarm once by accident. I can confirm your thoughts are correct.
Man it feels so weird reading all these comments dunking on AWTD because it's straight up one of the first bond themes I got addicted to listening, I didn't hear You know my Name at the time. Maybe I have more tolerance to the song because I listen to a lot of noise music.
Hear me out: LEGO James Bond.
Possible level names: The Spy Who Bricked Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Studs, Moonbricker, Goldbricker, LEGO Never Dies, The Bricks Are Not Enough, Thunderbrick to name a few.
To chip in i have some suggestions too
Lego Royale
LegoEye
Build Another Day
Live And Let Build
For Your Bricks Only
One of the strangest things I found about this game is that they motion captured Gemma Arterton (Strawberry Fields) but she never appeared in the game? I know because in a behind the scenes video for the game they literally showed her head being scanned.
They probably scanned her in case they needed Fields but ended up not needing her. Similar to how Camille gets quite a lot of screen time in the film but isn't in the game too much.
I just noticed how the car chase at the beginning of game was actually better done than the actual scene on which it's based. I remember seeing Quantum opening night and I couldn't remember the chase five minutes after it happened.
Watching these video game reviews come out every couple months we’re some of my fondest memories as a kid
goldeneye reloaded review please?
This was last bond game I enjoyed playing although I never got round to Bloodstone. Nightfire is by far my favourite. Hope they do another Bond game in the future.
For some reason I love Another way to Die. The drums in it are incredible and it sounds very bond to me. Personal preference
Do you plan on reviewing the PS2 version as well? I only have the PS3 version, but apparently the PS2 version was a third person shooter.
Delicious Don't Look Now reference snuck in there. Only just discovered this channel and I'm really enjoying your work, good stuff.
The PS2 version was superior to the X360/PS3 version. You got to visit the Haitian Docks and you got to have a shootout with Elvis (which for some reason was ridiculously hard). I still go back to it whenever I get my PS2 out.
Honestly, the Sheriff Pepper skit and the psychotic killing of Marc Forster (I suddenly feel inclined to purchase this game) have brought this review straight into my top 5 videos of yours. I may have to re-edit the montage I did for you.
Cyburgin I must say... Being tasked with taking out any other Bond director wouldn't have been nearly as satisfying... Except maybe Lee Tamahori ;)
Who knows, maybe one day you might be tasked with a mission concerning protecting a VIP who bore a resemblance to Martin Campbell or Guy Hamilton. And the gunmen were actually led by Tamahori. That would be interesting!
+Cyburgin LOL Yes. It made think how much better the Craig movies would be if he kept running into Sheriff Pepper every film. Casino Royale, Bolivia, Scotland... and then it turns out Pepper is Blofeld in Spectre.
I'm looking forward to your Bloodstone review. While I have issues with it, it's still a lot of fun and it's a shame it didn't get a sequel...and 007 Legends happened instead.
I didin't see quantum of solace before I playd the game(I still haven't seen quantum of solace)
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This was the first James Bond video game I ever played. It was the first game I ever finished all the way through, and I still love it to this day. I didn't know what was going on though, because Quantum and Casino Royale were among the few Bond films that I hadn't seen at that point.
Great review as always. i have a special nostalgia for this game. It was pretty much my first FPS (on my Wii no less, which also has local multiplayer)
Hey Calvin! Nice review :) You've reminded me of the diminishing market of 007 games.. Especially the flop of Legends. Do you think a future video game will arise? Such a new storyline like nightfire? I wonder if another game company will buy the license? And omg at the length of this video!! I'm surprised you didn't do a part 2! ;)
Aaron c I'd love more original story Bond games! I dunno about future console games... It's alarming they haven't had one out for Spectre...
Calvin you are the best thanks so much for starting the series of activision bond games
Calvin Dyson Here is a link that I though you might be interested in reading.www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/gaming-jbwoe-james-bond-world-of-espionage-launched?t=&s=&id=03931 It is nice to see that James Bond video games are continuing, in some form since Activision lost the license.
Almost at the 100th video mark Calvin !! Pepper impression was great, the real one probably would set off an explosion for something interesting to do !! :)
The rappy part of the song was the best part for me it had the classic spy movie music in that and the music was great
Loving your reviews Calvin. I've been watching everything on your channel non stop building the hype for SPECTRE. Are you going to review GE, TWINE, TND and 007 Racing at anytime?
I played this game before ever watching the movies. The quantum parts were very hard to follow, but I noticed that I Understood the Casino parts pretty easily. I still haven't seen casino, but I get the story. Yet I have seen quantum, and I still get lost sometimes.
I enjoy the quicktime fights in this game after the fights in 007 Legends, those were ugh...
Awesome review! Totally agree. Game is fun and well worth playing. Feels light on the cinematics and Bondy feel. Here's hoping that Spectre (which looks more fantastical than previous Craig films) will inspire something new and interesting in Bond games. I love everything you do. Keep up the good work!
Weird the ps2 version was 3rd person if my memory is correct
Liked this game. Still want to try out the Ps2 version of this game as it was 3rd person and included car chases.
I like this review Calvin. Great game , i played it several times. Did you play 007 Legends?
TheBondFiles I did indeed! Review will come after Bloodstone and GoldenEye Reloaded!
Calvin - Bond Reviewer you should review 007 legends not really worth the time but be nice to see it :)
the opera level reminds me of a clockwork orange trailer, classical music and killing everyone
Kinda nice touch, all of the non Walther weapons are references to other Bond films
8cat = octopussy
FRWL = from Russia with love
Etc.
Have you played the ps2 version of Quantum of Solace? It's actually a lot better than the ps3 version!
Ps2 quantum is 3rd person all the way through. While ps3, 360, pc, and wii versions were 1st person and 3rd person. Which do people seem to prefer?
Great video Calvin loved the mid-sketch xD I like the game Quantum of Solace its a mixed bag but overall a great fun game
"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" i love that
Calvin, I don't know if you played the DS version of this game. If you did, what do you think about it?
I actually enjoyed the film tbh
Such a shame, the films original ending was gonna be a level in the game but they scrapped it after the film did.
I have Quantum of solace on my xdox 360 and on ps3 once in Turkey and I have got it on the ds to play it on the go on my Nintendo dsi and Nintendo 2ds
This game was my childhood, never got past saving Vespa, on the Wii that was tough shit for a 10 year old
Hello Agent dyson, and fellow Agents in chat or viewers, here is my secret message. Being a james bond fan hardcore i would say like star wars fans, i really liked aspects of the game and some not so much, are these videos getting monetized, i liked that we get more of the locations of these films that we watched, i wonder if they are accurate to what the locations looked like, the action felt to hollywood action movies in that everything blows up and alot of gun fire my ears were dead, or i cant hear in one ear like real life incident with bruce willis in die hard, but thats what games are now, so i get it parts dont make sense, like the opera music is going even though things are blowing up, and gunfire, i thought i would hear audience screaming but i guess nothing, i like that they kept the fashion choices from the movie. Is there a difference between this call of duty/ goldeneye n64 gameplay or the ps2 first person shooter game, cause this looks better than the ps2 one or the pc one, So that was great to watch, not a big fan of the bond song, but the car chase that accompanies it was okay, I like that this had the best moments of the film, and tried to make it into the story, which was great, they should have just called it Casino of Solace or Quantum Royale. Like the change the title a little bit since its a magnum of bits of the movies, i like alot of aspects and the gunfire and things blowing up they were great if played but as a viewer, it was boring at some parts and repetitive. Is there a part 2? And man does bond look great in the suit in this game alot of batman vibes or drakes uncharted such as walking on planks and going up buildings and walking across, i wonder if drakes uncharted was first in that, or bond, if so thats interesting. Some differences but they are okay, i missin bond movies so watching these old games and reliving those experiences thanks for posting also to have more fun with this idea for bond hardcore fans, think of these mission as operations bond has to complete, maybe it will change your viewpoint. Also when bond takes cover and shoots his shooting style reminds me of niko belic in gta 4, when he would raise the gun to shoot, i mean craig does look a little like belic so. I agree with aspects you talked about, and there should have been more scenes from the movies, but for what they got it was okay, it would have been great if we could have shot in a plane.
This game is a SACK OF SHIT on the Wii. Trust me... I did a letsplay of it on my old channel, and don't even get me started on how shitty the multiplayer is!
What if J.W Pepper was brought back in the new Craig continuity?
Underrated online for sure.
If you want a Bond game for driving get Blood Stone, It was made by Bizarre Creations, a team that exclusively made fantastic racing games and little else (no surprises that you drive the Aston Martin a lot more than shoot baddies behind cover). This was made by Call of Duty devs Treyarch and it shows that they used that formula to play safe with nonstop shooting,and Quicktime Events.
Fantastic review, looks like it was a lot of fun to make and its great to see a review for Bond fans over the casual player and pointing out the references to the movies.
Great review mate.
I hope you review bloodstone soon
Have you played blood stone
WHo want to play On xbox360?
Calvin is the greatest of all time
I HAVE THIS GAME ON WII, it looks here a lot bete, BTW nice video
18:46 Carlos Decameron was American? I thought he came of as eastern European or Arabic.
20:48 I agree 100%
You should do a top ten video games
can you do GoldenEye reloaded
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That JW Pepper impression was perfect! Still my favourite TH-cam channel!
Oliver Hayhoe It was a lot of fun to do I must say :D
Calvin Dyson Couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not with some of the things you said about this game. Great video, Calvin
Maybe J.W. was really in Bolivia to help track down the "little white water hog" Dominic Greene. Pepper seemed to show quite a hatred for other water hogs in Golden Gun.
Hudson Digre Sorry, but he already made a top 10, and there's at least 100 henchman overall!
I honestly didn't realise it was JW Pepper until he mentioned being a sheriff
The reason there was more Casino Royal levels was because the game was supposed to be a Casino Royal game but they didn't finish it in time to they added in the Quantum levels and changed its name.
Are you sure? I heard differently. Apparently it was always meant to be a Quantum of Solace game, but since the Quantum was constantly being re-written during the writer's strike, the game devs didn't have enough of the story to reliably make levels so they, in desperation, started making Casino Royale based levels to fill out the game.
EA were due to make a Casino Royale game but were clearly not going to make the release date so it was cancelled and that was part of the reason the rights were moved away from them. Maybe some of that work went into Quantum.
The PS2 version of Quantum of Solace is definitely worth playing as well, it's actually a bit more like Bloodstone minus the driving levels. The entire game is entirely in 3rd person and despite some similarity in the levels, it is for the most part a completely different experience that I personally enjoyed more than the XBOX 360/PS3 version, especially cause you are able to carry as many weapons as you find.
***** It's a lot better than the PS3 and 360 version
The PS2 game feels way more Bond-ish. I just hate the wonky controls.
I noticed that too :o i got it for PC and also PCSX2. Totally different games
the ps2 version feels more like splinter cell conviction
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Splinter Cell conviction feels more like a Bond game than Splinter cell.
Great review Calvin! I bloody loved this game. It was first FPS and my first bond game and I played it to death. I still really like it. I loved the parts where it switched to third person!
The Gargantuan Apple Yeah the cover system was really great!
@@calvindyson 8:10 hell I want to play Bond crashing a plane in the middle of the desert
Holy shit Calvin a 43 minute review, I feel like you deserve a medal or something
all his game reviews are very in depth.
Great content. He needs way more likes
Nolan North, Troy Baker and Graham Mactavish are all in this game. It blew my mind when I watched the credits and saw the extra voices.
WARNING: Very long comment as these are my thoughts from throughout the review.
2:42 I also hate this feature, I don't care if it's more "realistic" to only being able to carry a certain amount of weapons, gets annoying, I hate it more when you can't trade in certain guns like your P99 in GoldenEye Wii/Reloaded game, fine I'll deal with trading guns but let me get rid of the P99 pistol for an automatic gun please!
9:55 That is a better way to do Quick Time Events, what I hate isn't that it's just a button press during a cutscene, it's that it's so limited. It's always either "Press this or the game won't continue" or "Press this or you'll get hurt/will die" making more like those combat games like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat where you had multiple options and multiple posibilities would've made QTE's so much better because then it would be like you're actually playing except you can't move around and with awesome animations.
10:22 OMG YES! I don't care if smartphones are used all the time these days, gadgets are so much cooler to use, I hate how in Craig's films and games (not his fault though) that the smart phone is pretty much the only thing he uses. 007 Legends changed it up a little by giving his watch some cool features, but it isn't as big of a variety as say GoldenEye or Nightfire. Plus the gadgets were a huge part of Bond and just spy movies. When you hear the term "Spy" or "Secret Agent" these days, you think of a cool and good-looking man with grenades that look like common household things, hidden weapons in your clothes, etc NOT a man that uses his smartphone for everything and is only different physically and mentally and doesn't have any cool-looking and original tools.
13:00 You can argue that aiming with a Sniper rifle was always a little difficult with it moving around, in GoldenEye for the N64 the Sniper Rifle would move around a bit, but it never was as bad as it is now. >_<
15:22 Really? I figured it would be like one or two flash back levels, not half of the game. In that case, why not just start with the Casino Royale levels first and then go on to the QoS ones, like a two Bond films in One game sort of things or something. Be less weird that what they did here. lol
18:10 Oh, I was expecting to be just like CoD where it gets red with those vain marks appearing, that's actually a cool take on the modern health system, but it could've been done so much better since it makes it hard to see when you're low on health. :P
19:47 Shut up and take my money1
22:50 ...not sure what to say other than that's a pretty cool and unique level design.
23:36 brhaahahha! Now that is going to be one of my favorite parts of this review. xD
27:05 Holy shit, maybe that's why there weren't more cutscenes, they spent all the budget on her model! XD In all seriousness that really is an amazing Judy Dench model.
Anyways I thoroughly enjoyed this review (like always lol) and I can't wait for the next one. :D
The reason they don't start with Casino Royale is because the flashback cover s up the giant chunk missing from the QoS levels. It skips from the sinkhole (end of the movie's first act) straight to the hotel (third act) which would be super jarring.
That is not fun..... THIS is fun to be allinear and open... Every game should be fun
You sir should review the PS2 version of Quantum of solace! Completely different game!
Played this on the PS2, and mostly remember it because the sinkhole level offered one of my fave moments of poor AI in gaming;
BADDY: "I'll get him!"
*pulls out grenade and throws it*
*it misses, bounces off the wall and lands at his feet*
*baddy looks down*
BADDY: "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
*BANG*
Destroying Mr White's wine-cellar... was it really Safin who visited his house and traumatised Madeleine or was it Calvin?
I would just love to say your welcome and thank you for both the thanks.../shout out in the video, didn't realise you were going to thank each of the donaters out loud in person, and also for all the content you have and hopefully continue to produce. You can definitely tell that the quality is much much better. The three exclusive reviews as well as this one are great.
Also for the multi-player, I have also found that I have never been able to get into a match for lots of the Craig/PS3 games, so maybe could a good idea to play the multi-player with a load of your viewers so that you get to review all, or most of the multi-player, I know you focus mainly on single player.
Anyway loving all your videos, can't wait for the next one!!! (:
I like the gunbarrel interpolation with the story. Nice callback to Casino Royale and it reminds me of the edit that made Bond’s killing shot on Mitchell the gunbarrel of the film.
Of course, that edit came way after this game and after this very video, but it’s a neat to think about what could’ve been
Wow 40 mins!! Nice effort man. Im with you, the game is just okay, Blood Stone was much better but EON is still my fav.
TheGamerThing Thanks, mate! Will be doing Bloodstone very soon hopefully :)
Calvin Dyson Looking forward to it.
Calvin Dyson What is actually your favorite Bond game? Mine is Everything or Nothing.
Another way to Die is honestly one of my favourite Bond songs. Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but I always enjoy it. The instrumental is really good in particular.
Modern day? That's been standard since 2001. Even when this review was posted it was over a decade since Halo standardized having 2 weapons
Aw you forgot the MI6 gallery, where you can see artwork and in game character models, even the Aston Martin. Sad there isn't driving levels in this game, but great game none the less.
Wol1427 Yeah, I felt like the video was too long as it is so I cut that bit out. In hindsight I should have just gone to 50 minutes!
Sheriff JW impersonation
Lollllll
I wish the James Bond games would have backwards compatibility on newer consoles like Xbox One and PS4
Loved the review! In-depth as always, an I couldn't help but laugh at the hotel receptionist trying to explain the dullness of the hotel!
And yes, you did pronounce my name (almost) correctly! Congrats on that impressive feat! ;)
Corneel Vanfleteren Phew! That's a relief!
For me, the PS2 version of Quantum of Solace was much better as it was a 3rd person shooter and it was at least creative with the limitations that you could do for a Bond game based on the Craig era. However whenever I am bored I feel like playing a game for half an hour, I would pop this one in occasionally with its somewhat arcade like feel to it and I am not a fan of first person shooters, but I am just as big of a fan of Bond as you are.
Also your reaction to the title song of this game replicates my exact reaction to it, lol.
iamsuperbatman1993 Haha happy to hear other people reacted to the song the same way! I haven't played the PS2 version but I may well have to dig it out and give it a whirl!
Played this endlessly on Wii online! Loved it!
Same, this is a cherished part of my childhood
I like these videos, but you whine too much to be a double-0 agent.
im shocked you havent touched quantum of solice on ps2 and only touched on ps3 version lol its way better on ps2 btw its a 3rd person shooter and much better
Would you prefer Forever, I am all yours instead of Another Way to Die?
Goodness yes! I'd take frying pans being clattered together over Another Way to Die
you imitating bond crying in bed had one issue. You should have said "*crying* Nobody loves me except Vesper......but she's dead *crying*"
Actually, I like both of Another way to die, When nobody loves you.
Anyways, Nothing but the second best
8:10 hell I want to play Bond crashing a plane in the middle of the desert
Great review! The game looks good but indeed the lack of vehicle chases makes the game not one of the best. I'm surprised that some people still play this game, because GoldenEye 007 Reloaded servers are almost empty right now. The local multiplayer/split screen in GE 007 Reloaded is great, I still play it around twice a month with friends, it's awesome :-)
Great review as always Calvin, a decent game, but not much else really. Thanks for the mention, you're welcome. :-)
Dean Jones Oh no, thank YOU! :)
I know this comes a little bit too late but if you noticed it, the AK-47 / assault rifle in Madagascar is named "FRWL", this is an Easter egg, a short for "From Russia With Love".
There are several others as well, such as the TND-16 (Tomorrow Never Dies) GF-18 (Goldfinger), A3 Raker (Moonraker) and CR 1911.45 (Casino Royale)
Calvin's accent changes so many times in this video 😂
Uh oh. Am I the only one who liked another way to die?
I love the MI6 communications.
The likeness of Daniel Craig looks like a grown up Jimmy Hopkins in this game
Also They mess up Camille's character models clothes Because if you remember in the movie Camille wears her black dress In the scene in the cave where she and bond found The water underneath The sinkhole The sinkhole of Bolivia Where they at And Camille wore a tank top and Jeans in the final battle But in the game she's wearing her final battle outfit and her black dress in the final level of the game.
You should talk about the ps2 version it's Worth as well there is a diffence
For No Time to Die there better be a Sheriff J. W. Pepper scene with Craig.
You can only carry 3 guns- bullshit!
I like 007: Quantum of Solace
You just gave me a brilliant idea:
Q gives Bond a bow-tie that also functions as a PS controller.EDIT: Second idea--Q also gives him a watch with a "digitizer" in it. He points the timepiece at a weapon or item, presses the button, and _yoink!_ it's safely stored in a digital inventory. Caveat: It doesn't work on living matter.
23:00 It's like Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy from Yoshi's Island!
27:56 Clearly the hotel was built solely for The Proclaimers.
I absolutely adore this game! I just played it again, after last playing through it 12 years ago. I wasn’t sure it was going to hold up, but it absolutely did.
I'd say definitely get hold of the PS2 version if you've never played it! You'll probably like it much more than this one.
Love the videos. Agree with many other comments, give the PS2 version a try if you haven't already