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shaken not stirred

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: November 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent! Me being a big Bond fan immediately found this game attractive. It is a big improvment on the first PS Bond game (Tommorow Never Dies), changing from a 3rd person to a 1st person game. With tons of new Q gadgets this game is a action packed thrill ride. If your a Bond fan with a PS do yourself a fovour a get this game. Bond,James BOND

Great game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun. I really liked how it incorporated clips from the movie and how much it really follows the plot line of the movie also. Cool gadgets, not much thinking involved, though. It's a great game for someone who just wants to veg out and shoot people with a silenced walther ppk. Or if that's not your bag, then you could always try out one of the few different machine guns. I would have liked to see more guns.

Bond is back, and better than ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Last year when Tomorrow Never Dies was released I was incredibly upset w/ the piece of junk that black ops put out for PSX. However, black ops did an excellent job on the world is not enough! I absolutly love this game, the guns, levels, enemies, and music are all great! This game is great also because it's back in the 1st person perspective like Goldeneye was in. All in all a very worthwhile buy.

Definately not GoldenEye

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: November 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although this isn't a bad game, this game is a far cry from Nintendo 64's GoldenEye. It has no multiplayer mode, a limited arsenal and presents no real challenge. So if you've never played GoldenEye, you'll probably like it. But if you have, don't expect the same level of game play ( i recommend renting first)

007 is back!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

007 is back with more action and trust me that's not the end. More levels more guns more bad guys more Natyla. In this game saving the day is just another day. Buy this.

Not up to the usual standards for Commander Bond

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's fun but that begins to wear thin after a while. It lacks real depth and imagination. It obviously was packaged and marketed to coincide with the film. Unfortunately the product should have been properly developed to meet the needs and expectations of 007 fans. This is quite a letdown for Commander Bond.

"Bond............James Bond!!"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"The World is not Enough" is a true James Bond game as it has high speed action all throughout as u follow the adventures of the world's top secret agent. The game follows the storyline of the movie and even has superb clips from the movie before and after each level of the game as an extra bonus.The graphics are also great for a ps-one game and it exceeds the expectations I had of it.The game offers over 20 high-teach, way cool gadgets from Q's lab. There is also an improved AI from the other James Bond games as characters have more realistic features which make them seem more human-like.This game is one of the best games on the ps-one console and as usual I hope - JAMES BOND WILL RETURN

The game is just enough...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

"The World Is Not Enough" (TWINE) is a good game...not a great game but it has its fair share of thrills and spills and mayhem. GOOD POINTS: Bond is as slick as ever. The voice talent is top notch for the main characters and the whole game is tied together nicely with movie clips. Several features make game play easier such as auto targeting, easy control patterns and simple interactions with items (a green grid appears with objects you are to interact with). There are also a huge array of cool gadgets that you get to play with throughout and use of these objects is fully explained. Missions are carefully explained and easy to follow. There is a wide variety of tasks at hand...everything from stealth missions, black jack, hostage resue and missions where you are not only permitted, but expected to basically mow down everyone in sight. Lets face it...while its not Bond's style to enter a room guns a-blazin' everyone knows that is what makes action/first person shooter games fun. But, the variety makes it more interesting and the backgrounds are very nicely put together and attention to this detail is evident. Weapons, ammo and gear are ample and easy to find which makes it easy to blow things away...uh, I mean it makes it easy to reach your objective... BAD POINTS: While the backdrops are nice, the characters that you interact with are usually choppy and square. There is also alot of breakup when you get close to objects which can seriously interfere with gameplay. Also, while the main voice talent is good, some of the other characters basically repeat the same thing over and over. For example, in one mission you will hear "Ahhh, good afternoon Doctor Arkoff" about 20 times and God forbid that you die and have to listen to that over and over again. Also, the music, which is the main Bond theme, is looped and plays non-stop throughout the game. Believe me, it makes you want to scream after about 15 minutes of gameplay. Turn down the volume if you want to save your sanity. The biggest problem with the game is the alarmingly short levels. You can easily finish the game in one sitting and replay value is seriously limited as a result.

In conclusion, TWINE is a good game. It's fun to sneak around and kill things with cool gadgets and weaponry. Missions are clear cut and easy to follow and the game, which is tied into the movie, moves along at a quick pace...but that is also part of the problem...the game moves along a little too quickly. This game will never be considered one of the best actioin/first person shooter games but I don't think it was ever meant to be...if it was meant to be fun and entertaining then it has suceeded.

Very enjoyable but flawed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After a foray into the third person shooter genre that received mixed responses, EA brought Bond back into the first person with a game based on The World Is Not Enough. What they ended up with is an enjoyable yet flawed game. While it's unfair to compare it to Goldeneye for Nintendo 64, perhaps the definitive Bond game, most people who have played Goldeneye will probably see this as a somewhat unsuccessful attempt at recreating the success of that game...perhaps a "Goldeneye lite". In fact, the Playstation version could even be considered "The World Is Not Enough lite" as it's lacking the multiplayer feature found in its Nintendo 64 counterpart. However, reviewing it on its own merits rather than a comparison to other Bond games or versions for other platforms reveals it to be a fun and entertaining game.

Graphically and sonically speaking, things are pretty good. The level graphics are fairly good and have some nice aesthetic touches, although the textures are maybe a bit blocky at times. The character graphics are quite decent for the Playstation, despite the fact that most of the enemies in any given area have the same clothes/faces. The cutscenes are full, beautifully digitized scenes taken directly from the movie. The music in the game fits the James Bond theme well. The voice acting is fairly good despite the fact that the voice actor playing Bond does a fairly laughable impersonation at times. The sound effects were generally good, too.

The controls are nice and intuitive, although the use of two buttons to cycle through your weapon/item inventory can be a bit tedious. Basically, though, everything is here...auto aim, strafing, using R1 to zoom in and aim using crosshairs... The only other complaint I have is that hit detection on items you can use is sometimes a bit off. When you walk up to an item you can use, it will have a red box around it that will turn green when you're facing it correctly. However, it sometimes requires a few seconds of adjusting your angle to get the box to turn green, which can be troublesome when you're trying to do something like bug a telephone and take off before the patrolling guard comes back.

The gameplay is a mixed bag. The game definitely does a nice job of providing variety, with levels ranging from standard shooting to sneaking around placing bugs to photographing secret documents to protecting your allies from enemy fire to sneaking around to save hostages to playing blackjack and more. However, most of these levels are fairly short, linear, and overly simple. The skiing level is especially disappointing, with skiing basically amounting to nothing more than clumsily following a narrow linear path while shooting the occasional enemy. Many gadgets are also incorporated into the game, however usually fairly poorly. The end of many levels involve certain timed situations where you have to use an item or gadget aimed at a small target to escape, get somewhere, or do something before time runs out. More often than not, these timed situations seemed to leave me saying "okay, what the heck am I supposed to do here?" and failing the mission once or twice before finally figuring it out. Another of the frustrating factors of the gameplay is that most objects are impervious to gunfire, including windows. It would be awesome if you could sneak up and take out certain guards through a window, but shooting at a window is basically the same as shooting at a wall.

The AI do a lot to both add to and detract from the gameplay. The AI do a decent job of fighting/dodging, trigger alarms when they see you, and even use radios to alert other AI to your presence. However, their responses are usually fairly predictable. They're also quite flawed, especially when it comes to using the stun gun or tranquilizer gun on them. The stun gun only knocks out enemies for about 30 seconds for some reason, yet you can sit there and stun the same enemy for an hour and he never questions why he keeps waking up on the floor every 30 seconds. There are some levels where if an AI sees you and alerts the other AI, you automatically fail the mission. However, if you can stun the AI before he gets a chance to radio the others, he'll wake up on the floor 30 seconds later and it'll be like he never saw you and nothing happened. It's actually quite amusing but sort of kills the whole realistic AI factor.

The game is also fairly easy, largely due to the linear gameplay and short levels. It more or less involves plowing through a level over and over until you beat it, not an overly challenging task even on the hardest difficulty level. The replay factor involves 2 different difficulty levels and cheats that can be unlocked by beating certain levels within a certain amount of time. It's also fun to go back every once in a while and play through the levels, especially more creative levels like the hostage rescue and telephone bugging levels. However, with no multiplayer and no real secrets or bonus levels, there's not a whole lot left after you finish the game.

Overall, the game is quite fun despite its flaws. Most of the levels are very enjoyable. The game basically plays a digitized scene from the movie that cuts right into the next level, based directly on the corresponding scenario from the movie. Then, when you finish the level, it ends with a digitized scene that picks up right where the level ends. This really gives you the feeling that you're playing through the movie. In fact, even people who were in the room when I was playing were actually entertained just from watching it. It's definitely worth buying (although those looking for multiplayer action might want to consider the Nintendo 64 version instead).

Not Goldeneye, But Still A Great Game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After last years kind of disapointing tomorow never dies for the playstation comes the world is not enough. This game is a vast improvement. One reason it is good is because it is a first person shooter. I have always preferred that over third person which is what TND was. The only thing about the game I do not care for is there is not enough levels and the levels aren't that challenging. This was a big problem for TND which has almost no replay value. However this game does have replay value because it is very entertaining.

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