‘Can you believe trying to experience this thing backwards?’

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE that you deciphered that!!

@FatNorthernBigot

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering what it was... You win the comments section.

@SB992REBORN

2 жыл бұрын

@@calvindyson Give liscence back to EA for the continue of phoenix story!!

Nothing says "stop all my Saturday plans and jump on KZread" like a Bond game review from Calvin

So 003's final words were argh-k-k... Basically, he died trying to do a Popeye impression.

It’s an absolute pipe dream, but my ultimate Bond game would be a quasi-RPG with a loose, branching mission structure based around a variety of classic Bond plots from the films and Fleming. The MI6 HQ and Bond’s Chelsea flat as a base between missions; a Bond customisable with different classic suits, tuxedos, and other outfits; upgradable gadgets and cars with driving levels; gambling and card games available at Blades (with a mission to stop Drax cheating, naturally)…perfection!

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

I would absolutely adore that. If Rockstar ever got the licence we'd be in for something special but I'm aware that's very much a pipe dream too

@Gabriel-wk3hz

2 жыл бұрын

@@calvindyson Hey, considering how IO's games are, we might get exactly that

@TheMI7G

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gabriel-wk3hz I've got all of my fingers crossed!

@Indians-dl3to

2 жыл бұрын

Have you heard about Alpha Protocol ?

@TheT3rr0rMask

2 жыл бұрын

Thought Legends was gonna have a story like this- one original plot but the classuc moments and locations, some characters linking them together. Then the later trailers came out and smashed those dreams

With the GBA link connected to the Gamecube version, the GBA would show you "hints" in the form of screenshots of where Bond Moments were hidden in a nearby area. That's the extent of it. I worked on EoN and the designers were adamant that we couldn't lock any gadgets or perks behind that GBA link feature. No "pay to win" allowed. Sadly, future games didn't keep that philosophy.

@WH250398

2 жыл бұрын

What exactly did you work on for the game?

You should do Quantum of Solace on the Nintendo ds, because the last level does not take place in the hotel in the desert, but the speculated deleted ending.

@jamj59

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@WH250398

2 жыл бұрын

Really? Awesome!

I remember the dark days before youtube, when videos on the internet were only grainy low res 30 second snippets 🤣 Hey, unlike Nightfire this one's blood drip actually had the squiggle! xD

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

Very true about the blood! At least that aspect improved!

Jaws is throwing Barrels? Fitting. They got a shark confused with a guy and King King confused with the Donkey variety!

“Can you believe trying to experience this thing backwards?!”

Love watching Calvin do Bond game reviews. He always goes in amazing details that i would have missed. Calvin admits to not being a "pro gamer" but sometimes being a casual gamer but a huge bond fan makes entertain videos.

The toaster gag destroyed me! 😂😂😂 Thanks for brightening up my Sunday!

@vitorafmonteiro

2 жыл бұрын

That one's great, but young Calvin going "MUM!, what does it mean «to make full love with your heart as well as your body»?" was my high point.

Looks a great game for the time Calvin. Still appears rather playable.

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I definitely had fun revisiting it for sure!

That Cubby Broccoli clip will never stop being funny.

Great video as always, one day I would love to see what you make of the origional James bond 007 gameboy game from 1998. It is played from a top down perspective and includes alot of puzzle mechanics in its gameplay. I played it to completion when I was about 11 and I remember it being pretty frustrating in places.

Love whenever there’s a look at a Bond game that I haven’t played!

Rich guy kinda looks like agent under fire bond

Absolutely died at the backwards voice track!

22:28 I’ve never been able to discuss the trauma of having read 16 John Gardner Bond novels with anyone so thank you for making me feel less alone 💀

Never tried this, but loved the home console version. I must give this a go!

I remember this being pretty good! Very difficult though.

Those short skits here and there are just perfect!

15:40 ACTUALLY the game references 003 and has him in the game............BUT in the Cold Open for A View To A Kill, Bond is recovering a Microchip off 003's corpse. So honestly this game pretty much confirmed the 00 Theory

Great review Calvin as always can’t wait what other bond games you do next

Crouching Tiger Tanaka, Hidden Drake.

I wasn’t expecting Lady Cassandra to make an appearance, “Moisturize me!”

I always enjoy watching your videos.

Your videos are always top-notch, my friend!!!

Wow, I actually do remember playing this game quite a bit on my Gameboy Advance on long plane trips to and from China. Also, I actually do prefer the more over the top and almost Sci-Fi Bonds for video games, simply because they add a lot of variety to the gameplay. I did enjoy Goldeneye Reloaded and Blood Stone a lot, but the problem is both games were made in the pre-Skyfall Craig era, and therefore lacked the gadgets for the driving and shooting sections which made the gameplay in the EA Bond games more fun.

I like to think if Cubby was around to defend Die Another Day and Brosnan game science fiction (DON'T YOU DARE!...) elements he would just be stuck in a loop repeating "SCIENCE FACT!..." with echo effect like Calvin's "Moonraker" video until interviewers changed the subject.

Hilarious video as always - your comedy skits are awesome! Everything or Nothing is still my all time favorite James Bond video game - But I have never had any of the handheld systems so have never played - or even seen - most of these games you are showcasing for us. But as clunky as this looks - I guess it really doesn’t seem too bad at all! But for me - the problem is that that screen still looks so small and blurry - there is no question it would most certainly give me a major headache as I played! Meanwhile, as we all wait for that highly anticipated announced next gen Bond game - I would love to see something simple like this that we could just play on our Phones. (After all - they are now much bigger than these handheld systems) I just happened to search on my IPhone and there is absolutely nothing except some terrible cheap Spy game imitations. Seems like a big waste - I bet there would be a nice audience for one. Just another example how they really are neglecting younger Bond fans!

You would love the james bond game for the original gameboy, really.

I too miss the instruction manuals of the old games! Even when I sell a game I will still often keep the manual that came with it 😂

3:55 some were even in color, it was amazing!

Great review Calvin!!!

Hehe young Calvin is back! 👍👍

Faceball 2000 on the original, black and green Game Boy had 16-player link cable multiplayer, imagine thinking that was ever gonna happen!

Hey Calvin about the GBA/Gamecube connectivity I don't know if mGBA has a mac port for you but if you're interested in showing that in a future review if you run both mGBA and Dolphin at the same time they now offer emulation on the connectivity feature of both consoles.

I remember this game actually! I think I had a lot of fun with it - also we have the same Gameboy Advance!!!!

@MatthewHarkin

2 жыл бұрын

aghh-kk

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

That's cool! Mine's in quite a bad way now... Lost the battery cover ages ago and the start button only works half the time... I still just can't bear to let it go though!

@MatthewHarkin

2 жыл бұрын

@@calvindyson Oh wow, I didn't know it was your childhood one? That's awesome! My battery cover went missing ages ago too hahahaha. I feel the same way, just can't bear to let it go. Amazing memories of Pokemon Crystal. Iconic!

Fun review Calvin. That M is the stuff of nightmares.

Do find it funny how 'Everything or Nothing' is a sort of sequel to 'A View To A Kill' released 19 years later given the villain is Zorin's prodigy out for revenge [Bond on Zorin 'we played bridge together, he lost!].

My first exposure to the Bond Franchise ever. Not the movie, not the novel, but this exact game! And it holds up even today 🙂 Great video, Calvin!

@adamoconnor8964

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Playing the PS2 game was my introduction to the Bond series

I'm holding on to hope that we'll get an avgn episode on the James Bond games.

You are fantastic and I love your channel ❤️

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Jeremy! Very much appreciate it :D :D

10:48, 10:57 - 003's final words are his lame impression of Popeye's chuckle? Not the most dignifying way to die in such a dire situation...

Having discovered your channel recently I have been very interested in some of the James Bond related posts but I also noticed you also talked about other spy franchises and was wondering why you have never talked about the brilliant 60s TV show The Avengers considering how many connections that there are between that and the James Bond films.

This is another gold dust Calvin video game review that I’ll cherish forever wow well done Calvin I did own this game I played it and completed it and I had great fun! I am still laughing about that dream sequence on the Nightfire one guard yells “somebody kill him!!!”

I always knew of the GBA version because the back of the GCN box said you could use the link cable but never looked into it What delightful harmless gba game thanks for sharing I do rather love the bits with rich party bloke and the two punch clock villains its little things like that give games charm ha ha

The character sprites from Nightfire. Make me wonder if Nightfire on the Game Boy Advance was planned to have isometric gameplay like this game instead of the first-person shooter that we got instead.

Charming fun and very comprehensive.

The sad part about all this science fiction stuff is that if they wanted to put Bond into space they could have done it in a more realistic sense. The Soviet Almaz space stations were literally manned satellite reconnaissance missions and were equipped with anti-satellite cannons. The USAF had something similar planned with their cancelled Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, ironically one of the spacesuits from that program was name tagged "007".

The game boy game 007 James Bond was a Zelda esc RPG. You have to review it, I spent so so many hours on it as a kid

I remember those instruction booklets

Hi Calvin, please do a video regarding the new premier date and you expectations :) So excited that its finally happening. we ll deserve it.

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough I'm JUST putting the finishing touches on a video for upload tomorrow on just that very topic right now :D

I had this on PS2. From my memory, it was one of the best. It also had a great co-op mode that my friends and I loved to play through

@MrTBoneSF

2 жыл бұрын

Based on the server numbers, you are in very rare company playing the co-op. I'm really glad you liked it, but that PS2-only co-op mode was the reason the game missed the critical Christmas season. Marketing insisted at the last minute we add it (and only on the PS2- which made no sense because of how few people had the broadband adapter) because they said the game wouldn't be competitive with STARCRAFT GHOST- which marketing had "inside info" would ship soon. Of course, every engineer knew Starcraft Ghost was nowhere near ship (and in fact, never shipped) but marketing wouldn't hear any of it. So we had three months of extra crunch tacked onto the schedule (myself and others were working on Thanksgiving day) to add co-op. And what did marketing do when the game's sales were lower than projected (because we missed Christmas)? Blamed it on the dev team for being "late" even though we were on track to ship until they insisted during final beta we add co-op. The funny part was, literally nine months earlier we asked if maybe we should add multiplayer because Xbox Live was taking off. Marketing said "online isn't gong to be a big deal for years". To add insult to injury, the day EoN released, marketing decided to announce "Coming Soon: Goldeneye 2". Then they wondered why sales for EoN were lower than expected? EA's own marketing essentially said "Don't buy this game. The REAL Bond game you've been waiting for is coming soon". So many people did save their money- only to be waiting until Christmas for a generic shooter that had nothing to do with GoldenEye and didn't even star Bond. Yep. EA marketing sucked (it may still, I don't work there anymore).

@godzilla2721

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTBoneSF That's crazy. I never knew

@jamesatkinsonja

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTBoneSF Thanks for sharing. A big shame given EON is a fantastic game and GRA feels like a rush job.

That's funny you bring up the science fiction science fact because a year ago was when I saw that moonraker review and laughed so hard when he says it's not science fiction it's infact science fact hahahaha

Thx for the vid.

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasuer, Shameer! I hope you enjoy! :D

Calvin's method of toasting is pretty novel

I played all the levels back in the day

Would be nice to see a video of all the 4 players playing together how he described but I haven't found photos or videos of gamers doing that together yet...

Never even heard of this one. Somehow I think the 3D of Nightfire was much better. I just finished beating From Russia with Love (Ps2) - first time I'd ever played it. I must say I had a right laugh with all the 'Sch' sounds in the script. Connery sounds perky and perhaps a continuation of his Never Say Never character. He certainly puts a lot more effort in than most of Brosnan's games.

I have not recorded this game yet in a playthrough. The main reason was because I was held back by other projects such as Papa Louie 2 melee only and The gun game 2 covert ops challenge.

What a great way to get some Bond action on the go!

My Bond entertainment of choice on long car journeys back in the day was listening to the Best of Bond… James Bond album on my MP3 player (the version that ended with a rather naff cover of the Bond theme by John Arnold). I blame my repeated listening of that album on car trips for the fact that all the Bond theme lyrics are now etched into my brain - maybe if I’d kept that space free for more important information I would’ve done better in my A-Levels. But hey, if there’s ever a blindfold-karaoke night I’m set! While I never had a GBA, I did have a DS, and for whatever reason I never played the Nintendo DS Bond games. I suppose I didn’t want to waste my allowance when there were other games I wanted to play more. Maybe I might go back and check them out while we wait for Project 007.

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, I also had very little experience with Bond on the DS during that whole era. I'll get to covering them on the channel sometime but at the time I was a student and with limited funds so I'd obviously opt for the home console versions of each title and just assumed the DS versions would be somewhat watered down. Still, looking forward to testing that theory soon!

Please consider reviewing the Alex Rider TV series.

I don’t know why, but 1:15 gave me a decent chuckle

Calvin is a treasure

I really enjoyed this game. Are you gonna review the Nintendo-DS-versions of GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, QoS, BloodStone & GoldenEye (2010) too?

@GamerGuysReviews

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the PS2 version of QoS!

@MovieGuy1998

2 жыл бұрын

@@GamerGuysReviews Yeah, right! I played it once on PS2 when i was a kid. Wasn't bad!

This is hilarious Calvin 😂😂😂😂

Now that you’ve mentioned Cassandra I would love if in the GBA version of TWINE Electra calls her a bitchy trampoline when she captures M

So what's next? From Russia With Love on the PSP or some of the DS games?

Looks like a cross between Metal Gear Solid GBC (minus all the neat Easter Eggs Kojima LOVED to throw in) and Spy-Hunter (classic Midway game). I like. I wouldn't mind finding a GBA version of this (or Nightfire tbh). Speaking of Metal Gear and Spy Hunter, ever think of looking at Bond inspired video games like you do movies? Not just those two (MGS 3: Snake Eater has the most James Bond influence). But there is also Perfect Dark (spiritual successor to Goldeneye by Rare), The Operative: No One Lives Forever, Hitman, and Splinter Cell.

I played EON's multiplayer on the gba not officially of course but via an emulator and it was fine there were only a few game modes and you played pallet swaps of bond tho they aren't referred to as Bond they are referred to as agents each of these agents you could pick colors for each agent/player that was available there were also I think 5 or 3 maps a buddy of mine gave it a go on an emulator and it was a distracting decent fun time waster tho it does feel tacked on considering its lack of content but there you go, Calvin, a full insight of gba eon multiplayer stay classy dude

@calvindyson

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! Interesting stuff, hope to play it myself someday!

@ahjuprime78

Жыл бұрын

@@calvindyson Not a problem also tho I am sure someone else has said this but I'll just reiterate when you connect again not officially your gba copy of Eon to the GameCube version it showed hints and stats like how many shots you fired enemies killed and current time of how long you've been playing the level for anticlimactic for me at least cause I thought it was gonna be something juicy unseen bond content related but hey my curiosity was settled hope yours is too now.

@razorchance6976

Жыл бұрын

By any chance does playing the multiplayer mode play different music, as I did get in contact with ian stocker *the composer of this game* and I was wondering if one of the tracks *it was a battle track* was only exclusive for multiplayer 🙂🤔 that being said, pretty cool that you tried the multiplayer, the game as a whole is fun, and I love the ost for this game

When will you review James Bond 007 for the game boy :)

@simonorourke4465

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I p,ayed thatnone back when it came out, i know its obscure and vague in its difficulty and its puzzle mechanics, but my 11 year old self played it to completion and enjoyed it.

I wish I could like videos twice

CALVIN.. do you have any advice on recording yourself on video/audio? I'm quite a confident person however I've recently begun recording myself for my job and I find it really difficult and nerve racking. Any tips would be really appreciated. Thanks, Grant.

Hey Calvin, what do you think of the Bond inspired title sequence to Deadpool 2? (Yeah this came out of nowhere, but I wanted to how it compares to the Bond sequences)

@jamesatkinsonja

2 жыл бұрын

The Deadpool 1 title sequence was hilarious [Directed by an overpaid tool] but that was even better.

@mat-har5057

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesatkinsonja True Lol!!!

You should review James Bond on the original game boy, it's a classic

10:07 is that Dr Who's Tardis?

“Why just have one villainous base when you can have twelve?!” I feel like Live & Let Die had this problem.

Still waiting, on the quantom.of solice PS2 review lol also have you tried the GB bond rpg? It's pretty indepth and amazing too

You have to try out QoS for the Nintendo DS.

I honestly have not played a computer game since I was about 11. Not judging anyone who plays them as adults but its funny hearing people talk about games whose voices have broken.

You should review the Bond Game on the original Gameboy.

Please do the PC Version of Nightfire. :) My family couldn’t afford to a PS2 or the like, so I played that version for *hours.* I’d play the console version at a friend’s house, and now I have both a console and still play on PC too (you can get it online, and people still do multiplayer.) I like them both for different reasons.

How can i reload my gun in GBA ?

Was it just me or did anyone else put their hand over the screen when the GBA was shown? Just a gut reaction thinking I could see the screen better, but forgot it was a video.

Would be cool to see you do a play through of the ps2 version

@coldmountain1997

Жыл бұрын

He did

13:35 😂 💀

@boldsports6989

Жыл бұрын

Your cutaway gags are hilarious

Its Totalrecall reference (Holografic James Bond)

@nekusakura6748

Жыл бұрын

"TWO WEEKS!"

Hey Calvin, have you ever played or covered the Gameboy game James Bond 007? (literally the game is just called James Bond 007)

''He was alive when i found him.'' ''Did he say anything?'' ''All he said was..''Aghh-kk..''

the kid impression is funny

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

I can confirm, it's highly accurate!

@captainAlex258

2 жыл бұрын

@@calvindyson haha

Boa noite amigo lindo video

If you truly want to play something impossibly difficult, try James Bond The Duel for the Sega Megadrive. I have the game for my Sega, and even the first level took me some serious effort to get through.

This game gives some real Metal Gear vibes.

@strawberrykicker2

2 жыл бұрын

No time to FoxDie

The Gameboy version of Everything Or Nothing was my childhood! Played it non-stop on holidays and car journeys! I want to play the console version now.

@calvindyson

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I had a big hankering to play the console version again after recording this!

@Benji568

2 жыл бұрын

@@calvindyson If I can find a copy for a good price, I'll play it myself someday as well as GoldenEye Reloaded and Blood Stone.

Whenever Hedi Klum wanted to play as herself in the game, I wonder if EA gave her a copy of the Gameboy Advance version as a constalation prize lol.

Keep an eye on that Young Calvin...he looks like a real troublemaker!

Play some James Bond romhacks

NO TIME TO DIE HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN DELAYED IN Australia due to current DELTA outbreaks! The Tentative Date so far is 11 November 2021! So, brace for further delays Bond fans!