James Bond 007 (1998 video game)

James Bond 007
European cover art
Developer(s)	Saffire
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platforms	Game Boy
Release date(s)	EU 19980129January 29, 1998 NA 19980209February 9, 1998
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

James Bond 007 is an action-adventure game starring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Released in 1998, the game features a story featuring characters from multiple James Bond films, such as Oddjob and Jaws. It also incorporates gambling minigames, such as Baccarat and Blackjack.

Gameplay

The gameplay of James Bond 007 is presented from a top-down perspective. As James Bond, the player controls an arsenal of weapons and items. Playing more like The Legend of Zelda game than the Goldeneye 007 game for the Nintendo 64, James Bond must use items at the appropriate place and time to either sneak past impossible odds or to solve a mission. Players can save up to three games and/or delete them like Zelda games. Without weapons, player can either result to fists or karate moves. It was covered in a 1998 issue of Nintendo Power being one of the last Game Boy games to be released in the 20th century. The title is in black and white; meaning that it was meant to be played on the original Game Boy.

Plot

James Bond is doing a karate move against one of his opponents.

The game begins with Bond in a Chinese village ruled by a female martial arts warlord called Zhong Mae. After Bond infiltrates her dojo, steals the plans given to her and defeats her, Bond escapes the ninja clan by speedboat and returns to London. M, head of MI6, tells Bond that the plans are for a secret weapons cache somewhere in an unknown part of the world. Bond then heads to Kurdistan to find 008, who is missing in action. Bond manages to rescue 008 after killing Iqbal, who rules the town. 008 instructs Bond to go to Marrakech to find one of Bond's old enemies, Oddjob, who is working for someone that is smuggling the weapons.

After a little bickering within the black market, betting at a casino, and meeting the Rat Man, Bond receives a sleeping dart gun which he uses on Oddjob's henchman. After stealing the henchman's room key, Bond is ambushed by Oddjob inside his hotel room and taken to the Sahara Desert. A traveler gives Bond a canteen, which Bond uses to sustain himself as he goes through the desert, which slowly begins to kill him. Bond makes it to a nearby airport, which has been instructed by M to take him to Tibet, where he must scale a mountain, defeat Sumos and get captured by Oddjob again.

While awaiting torture in the secret weapons base, Zhong Mae arrives and tells Bond that she has changed sides, stating that she was only trying to aid her village financially. With her help, Bond defeats Oddjob and interrogates him on who is behind the plot. Oddjob gives the name: General Golgov, a top general in Russia. Oddjob tells Bond to return to Kurdistan where he finds Golgov's two associates, Saddam and Khatar, while Zhong Mae tells Bond to find her friend, Mustafa. After Bond defeats Khatar and Saddam, Mustafa thanks him for stopping the war that destroyed Iqbal's village and then gives him a mirror. With aid from a guide, Bond makes it to the edge of Golgov's base which Bond manages to infiltrate. Inside, Bond kills Jaws and then begins to unravel the general's true intentions: a nuclear holocaust with the general emerging as the ruler of the world. Bond uses a bazooka to destroy the General in his robot and then aids Zhong Mae in shutting the down the base. Bond and Mae then take a boat out to sea where a British sub rescues them and congratulates Bond.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score Aggregator Score GameRankings 62.14%

The game received an average score of 62.14% at Game Rankings, based on an aggregate of 5 reviews.

See also

• Outline of James Bond

External links

• James Bond 007 at MobyGames
• James Bond 007 at GameFAQs