Pandora's Box: The Ultimate GameCube Tier List

#67: 007: Everything or Nothing

Rating: T

Players: 1-2

Price Range: ~$14 USD

A third-person shooter based on James Bond 007.

Already, given that the early 007 games were of shockingly high quality, the very low price should encourage any Bond fan to go out and perchance this game.

However, let me describe it.

It is a cover shooter. In fact, one of the first to my knowledge before Gears of War popularized it, and the mechanics around it are...okay. Like all genres, one of the first games of a future style of gameplay is never going to be fully polished, and this is no exception. Regardless, the gameplay is good enough, what with Bond's gadgets and such.

However, surprisingly, there is a multiplayer mode. However, the Arena mode is locked by default, with the only way to unlock it being to play the coop mode in which you have to go through legions of enemies and get to the end with a stock of shared lives. This is incredibly difficult, even with a combined set of twenty live shared amongst me and another, and we get wiped each and every time. Given that I bought the game primarily for the multiplayer, it was definitely as hard as rocks, but the campaign is decent Bond fare.

However, like all licensed games, it has a limited appeal to a specific audience. Even then, the Bond games always exceeded standard experiences and are anything but cheap, at least the earliest ones in the 2000s.

You get some healthy content here for a shockingly low price, so there are minimal risks involved, so if you want a taste of early cover shooters, James Bond, or both, then you could not do any wrong with this purchase.