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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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*
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!
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!!! (:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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! ;)
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".
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.
I m writing a novel right now and one of the characters is a Tourist kind person ... 28:00 this is that character! Calvin apears in my novel as the tourist who saw nothing really during his holiday..
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.
I first thought that the music from the Opera level was very similar to one of the musical pieces featuring Kara or the opera scene from The Living Daylights. I actually had to put the movie in and listen to those scenes to figure out that they aren't the same music, but share some similarities. On another note, I also like how they incorporated the very rare Walther WA2000 sniper rifle Dalton fired in The Living Daylights into the Quantum game. As always, you gave an excellent and entertaining review that was well worth the better part of an hour watching. Keep up the great work!
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.
If you pause this at 30:44, you can see another building, I thought 500 miles would be a long distance, but it appears that in video games 500 miles is more like 10-15
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 :-)
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 agree the Casino Royale thing is a bit abrupt. They probably should have just played the game in chronological order instead of making it a flashback. I think it's kind of clear it was meant to be a Casino Royale game and Quantum of Solace ended up being tacked in later. I've really been enjoying your channel. Can't wait for future Bond game reviews.
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.
That statement at 02:45 ...... I hear ya Calvin,and I feel your pain! As for the game,an "open world" character would've been better all the time instead of certain cut scenes. ✌🏻️
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.
Great review, mate. I have to say, you do the best, and most in depth Bond reviews I've seen on TH-cam. 40 minutes plus! Wow ! I enjoyed this game, but well, I finished it the same day I bought it. Took only a single afternoon! It's OK. Blood Stone is a little better
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)
That played scene at (from) 28:00 min is so funny and critical towards all the plotholes the movie upholds (wished he would have done it in His Quantum movie review) however he plays so funny and over the top however theater convincing in some kind of way..it s like watching an Englisch comedy series scetch I watched it over and as a Bond fan I laughed every time. Great! Another example you can make a scene out of "nothing really" however it makes sense in how silly that movie base thing was.
ok, at first I was just as heartbroken as James Bond was the moment Vesper Lynd died, but after knowing that Vesper was about to double cross Bond anyhway, the more I was like, "How dare she?"
Huh, I'm guess I shouldn't be surprised explosions would sound good considering who was making those sounds for this game. I know other games where Berlongieri worked on both music and sound fx and I guess his music just stood out more to me... but those games did tend to have pretty punchy explosion effects too. :)
Won't lie Calvin, I was wondering what you'd make of this having watched your earlier Bond game reviews! I agree with you on the cutscenes being a little lacking - although, I like the idea of us being able to see events from CR and QOS from the MI6 perspective... I think the game makes for a much better Casino Royale video game than Quantum - but then as you pointed out, they had more material with Royale. I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts on 007 Legends - keep the good stuff coming!
Hey Calvin, I've been a massive fan of your work for nearly two years and its amazing to see that you keep producing quality reviews. I have to ask though, have you ever played or even heard of the Bond Game "007: The Duel" its was for the old school Sega Megadrive where you play as Timothy Dalton. I will happily send you a copy of the game and a Megadrive to play it on if you would like to give it a shot. Thanks for all the time you've put into your videos. Anthony from Newcastle :)
Anthony Howie I may well take you up on that, Anthony! Not for a while though. I'm going to round out the latest era of Bond games and then I'm going to work my way backwards through the timeline! I expect some of the earlier ones may prove tricky to find...
This is unrelated to Bond completely, but have you played the game Wolfenstein: The New Order. That game was released in 2014 and it reinstated the trope of you being able to carry a whole arsenal of weapons, all of which you can dual wield. It's nothing to do with Bond, but if you love that aspect of FPS's, definitely check it out.
Another great video Calvin as always. I wanted to know what you thought about the movie Kingsman. It makes me think of a 60's Bond in a 21st century setting.
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 !! :)
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.
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!
I love how, in the game, the sinkhole level is just called... "Sinkhole/" And the level where Bond gets drugged is called "Dirty Martini."
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
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.
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.
Another Way To Die is great in my opinion! Much better than Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall crap
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
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
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.
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
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*
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
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!!! (:
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.
Destroying Mr White's wine-cellar... was it really Safin who visited his house and traumatised Madeleine or was it Calvin?
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
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.
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
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
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.
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!
Watching these video game reviews come out every couple months we’re some of my fondest memories as a kid
8:10 hell I want to play Bond crashing a plane in the middle of the desert
You sir should review the PS2 version of Quantum of solace! Completely different game!
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)
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!
I m writing a novel right now and one of the characters is a Tourist kind person ... 28:00 this is that character! Calvin apears in my novel as the tourist who saw nothing really during his holiday..
goldeneye reloaded review please?
I wish the James Bond games would have backwards compatibility on newer consoles like Xbox One and PS4
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 No Time to Die there better be a Sheriff J. W. Pepper scene with Craig.
I first thought that the music from the Opera level was very similar to one of the musical pieces featuring Kara or the opera scene from The Living Daylights. I actually had to put the movie in and listen to those scenes to figure out that they aren't the same music, but share some similarities.
On another note, I also like how they incorporated the very rare Walther WA2000 sniper rifle Dalton fired in The Living Daylights into the Quantum game.
As always, you gave an excellent and entertaining review that was well worth the better part of an hour watching. Keep up the great work!
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.
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.
If you pause this at 30:44, you can see another building, I thought 500 miles would be a long distance, but it appears that in video games 500 miles is more like 10-15
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.
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!
When you see a Orbit gum ad in Quantum of Solace and your chewing Orbit gum.
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.
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.
23:00 It's like Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy from Yoshi's Island!
27:56 Clearly the hotel was built solely for The Proclaimers.
For some reason I love Another way to Die. The drums in it are incredible and it sounds very bond to me. Personal preference
30:49 I always thought it was a hotel specifically for Quantum members...
The likeness of Daniel Craig looks like a grown up Jimmy Hopkins in this game
Delicious Don't Look Now reference snuck in there. Only just discovered this channel and I'm really enjoying your work, good stuff.
At 29:58 Love that part: Hydrogen cells! *BOOM!* LOL! 🤣🤣🤣
I didin't see quantum of solace before I playd the game(I still haven't seen quantum of solace)
25:00
Was that a reference to Don't Look Now? Sounded like you said Don Sutherland.
Calvin's accent changes so many times in this video 😂
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
Weird the ps2 version was 3rd person if my memory is correct
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 :-)
love the review Calvin thanks. I can't wait to see the Blood Stone and Goldeneye reviews
I've been waiting for MONTHS for your review of this game :D
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.
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.
Sheriff JW impersonation
Lollllll
In 2006 they were going to do a CR game but didn't. When QOS was being developed they released as one package
I agree the Casino Royale thing is a bit abrupt. They probably should have just played the game in chronological order instead of making it a flashback. I think it's kind of clear it was meant to be a Casino Royale game and Quantum of Solace ended up being tacked in later.
I've really been enjoying your channel. Can't wait for future Bond game reviews.
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.
That statement at 02:45 ...... I hear ya Calvin,and I feel your pain! As for the game,an "open world" character would've been better all the time instead of certain cut scenes. ✌🏻️
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.
That hotel in the desert doesn’t sound so bad now does it.
Great review, mate. I have to say, you do the best, and most in depth Bond reviews I've seen on TH-cam. 40 minutes plus! Wow ! I enjoyed this game, but well, I finished it the same day I bought it. Took only a single afternoon! It's OK. Blood Stone is a little better
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)
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! :)
28:18 is that supposed to be Charlton Heston?
Actually, I like both of Another way to die, When nobody loves you.
Anyways, Nothing but the second best
I love the MI6 communications.
I enjoy the quicktime fights in this game after the fights in 007 Legends, those were ugh...
That played scene at (from) 28:00 min is so funny and critical towards all the plotholes the movie upholds (wished he would have done it in His Quantum movie review) however he plays so funny and over the top however theater convincing in some kind of way..it s like watching an Englisch comedy series scetch I watched it over and as a Bond fan I laughed every time. Great! Another example you can make a scene out of "nothing really" however it makes sense in how silly that movie base thing was.
ok, at first I was just as heartbroken as James Bond was the moment Vesper Lynd died, but after knowing that Vesper was about to double cross Bond anyhway, the more I was like, "How dare she?"
Played this endlessly on Wii online! Loved it!
Same, this is a cherished part of my childhood
8:46 "The pursuit over the rooftops of Vienna". Are you sure ? 😁
Huh, I'm guess I shouldn't be surprised explosions would sound good considering who was making those sounds for this game.
I know other games where Berlongieri worked on both music and sound fx and I guess his music just stood out more to me... but those games did tend to have pretty punchy explosion effects too. :)
Won't lie Calvin, I was wondering what you'd make of this having watched your earlier Bond game reviews! I agree with you on the cutscenes being a little lacking - although, I like the idea of us being able to see events from CR and QOS from the MI6 perspective... I think the game makes for a much better Casino Royale video game than Quantum - but then as you pointed out, they had more material with Royale. I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts on 007 Legends - keep the good stuff coming!
Hey Calvin, I've been a massive fan of your work for nearly two years and its amazing to see that you keep producing quality reviews. I have to ask though, have you ever played or even heard of the Bond Game "007: The Duel" its was for the old school Sega Megadrive where you play as Timothy Dalton. I will happily send you a copy of the game and a Megadrive to play it on if you would like to give it a shot.
Thanks for all the time you've put into your videos.
Anthony from Newcastle :)
I'll take it jk
Anthony Howie I may well take you up on that, Anthony! Not for a while though. I'm going to round out the latest era of Bond games and then I'm going to work my way backwards through the timeline! I expect some of the earlier ones may prove tricky to find...
Calvin Dyson No bother, just give me a buzz when you're up for it ;)
This is unrelated to Bond completely, but have you played the game Wolfenstein: The New Order. That game was released in 2014 and it reinstated the trope of you being able to carry a whole arsenal of weapons, all of which you can dual wield. It's nothing to do with Bond, but if you love that aspect of FPS's, definitely check it out.
Another great video Calvin as always. I wanted to know what you thought about the movie Kingsman. It makes me think of a 60's Bond in a 21st century setting.
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?
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 opera level reminds me of a clockwork orange trailer, classical music and killing everyone
Great video mate, look forward to them all the time, but have to ask why was this not uploaded on the 7th as per tradition?
Liked this game. Still want to try out the Ps2 version of this game as it was 3rd person and included car chases.
Funny you say the game's song sounds like Ellie Golding since she is being considered to do the song for the new movie coming out.
Kinda nice touch, all of the non Walther weapons are references to other Bond films
8cat = octopussy
FRWL = from Russia with love
Etc.
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.
i beat this game the first time only using blind fire lol, i had no idea that you could look out of cover.i just didnt think i could for some reason
I actually really enjoyed the multiplayer on this game but as you said it doesn't feel like James Bond.
DarrenC1888 Indeed, it is a swell mode though. Might even be my favourite multiplayer of this era of games.
Calvin Dyson It was oddly satisfying killing your opponent with a nail gun.
I have the PS2 version and I enjoyed it as a kid. Haven't played Bloodstone or 007 Legends. Will you be playing that as well?
you imitating bond crying in bed had one issue. You should have said "*crying* Nobody loves me except Vesper......but she's dead *crying*"
Calvin, I don't know if you played the DS version of this game. If you did, what do you think about it?
500 miles indeed. That might as well be the width of the country.
"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" i love that
Hey. Have you played Bloodstone? And do you think you'll do a review of it?
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!
You should talk about the ps2 version it's Worth as well there is a diffence
18:46 Carlos Decameron was American? I thought he came of as eastern European or Arabic.
What if J.W Pepper was brought back in the new Craig continuity?
I would like to hear your Input on Goldeneye PS3. It's alright, but it's not like the movie tho