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really good Bond game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a review for the Playstation version of The World Is Not Enough.

Unbelievable. That's all I have to say after reading one negative review after another for this game. I HIGHLY disagree with all the people who hate it. Let's sort through all the reasons people put the game down, and see if they're actually true:

- No multiplayer. Big deal. It wouldn't hurt anyone to play a game by themselves for a change. Let's all bash Super Metroid too, because it's only one-player. Give me a freakin' break.

- Horrible play control. WRONG! It's *exactly* the same as Medal of Honor and Quake II. Okay, sometimes when going around a turn you might get stuck on an imaginary object on the side of the hallway (and stop moving completely until you straighten yourself out) but I can seriously think of a bunch of games that are MUCH worse off than this. Try Duke Nukem: Time to Kill for the ultimate example of "bad play control". Leave this game alone, for crying out loud. I can move Bond around through the game perfectly almost 100% of the time. Even if it feels weird the first time controlling Bond in a first-person shooter, you'll adjust with time.

- Weak animations from guards dying. ANOTHER huge exaggeration. NOT TRUE. When you shoot and kill a guard in The World Is Not Enough, they actually copy some of the spectacular-looking animations from Medal of Honor. How the heck can people criticize this? I'm not sure. Okay, sometimes the guards move around a little blocky, but what can you expect from a Playstation One game? Besides, it feels like an arcade game this way.

- Short levels, short game overall. Yes, I can agree with this... to an extent. But putting down a video game because of its length is overrated anyway, unless it's EXTREMELY short (like, if a game takes less than 1 hour to complete). However, The World Is Not Enough takes at LEAST an hour and a half to finish. Let's not forget about that darn blackjack game where you have to make $100,000 in order to progress to the next level. It might take you a long time to win that much money.

- Repetitive music. This is a gigantic mystery to me. Each of the 11 levels have at least four different theme songs (memorable ones, too). It's not just ONE theme song throughout the entire game like so many reviewers seem to believe. I have no idea what people are complaining about. I really don't.

- Having to sort through items and weapons. This isn't a problem either. There's two ways you can do this. You can either hit the Square or Triangle buttons and skim through everything you have, or, for people who hate sorting through things, you can simply press the Start button and scroll down to where it says Inventory, and find what you're looking for right there (easily and conveniently). There is not a single problem sorting through weapons in this game.

- Too many unnecessary gadgets. Not really true. Everything you carry in your item list has a purpose. Sometimes you might experience a bit of overkill when it comes to having to use some of these items on several occasions in order to finish a level (Level 5 especially) but other than that, it's not a big enough deal to complain about it.

- Not enough shooting. Again, not really true. Sure, compared to Medal of Honor's 20-some levels filled with plenty of guards, this game probably feels a little empty. Not comparing The World Is Not Enough to anything and just accepting it the way it is reveals a really good action-packed game. You use stealth probably only two or three times in the entire game. The rest of the time is spent shooting.

You know something cool about this game nobody even mentions? You have the option to PUNCH guards and knock them out if you run out of bullets. I ran out of tranquilizer bullets in Level 5 for example, and had an absolute blast going around punching everyone to death. This is a nice extra touch to an already above average game.

Like I said to a friend the other day- the only reason people are bashing this game is because it's not at the same level of brilliance as Goldeneye on the N64. Big deal. Do you really think it's possible to surpass such an awesome game? Yeah it's possible, but it hasn't happened that much, I can tell you that. Only about 10 games in the last seven years managed to surpass Goldeneye's amazing gameplay. The World Is Not Enough was never intended to be "the number one most influential game". It was intended to satisfy fans of Bond games and fans of first-person shooters and in that respect, the game works just fine.

The variety of levels in this game is, for the most part, pretty good. It's surprising to me that the very first level requires you to quietly move around guards and cameras and NOT be seen by them. Most games start off with a basic shooting level. Not this game. However, your urge to shoot everything you see will come in handy as soon as Level 2. You will be shooting guards left and right, and the guns you can carry are really spectacular to watch, and effective on dangerous guards. There's a nice selection of guns overall.

The games difficulty ranges from really easy and short (Levels 1 and 2) to EXTREMELY hard (the last two levels of the game). The only inconsistent level in the game would be Level 3, because the end of that level is pretty tough. This is the skiing level. By the way, this is actually a pretty fun level. It's not mindlessly going down a snowy hill like some people will try and tell you- you have to ski the right way in order to collect bullets that are located on the ground, and while doing this, you have to either shoot or dodge guards who are hiding behind crates. Not mindless at all.

I love this game. I don't know what's wrong with the people who hate it. You really have to stop comparing everything to Goldeneye. Time to move on. The only possible problem I can find with this game is when you reach the end of a level, and the final obstacle isn't always clear what you have to do. You can find those answers on the internet though, so it's not a big deal. Great game. I'm glad I own it.

If you're gonna do a 1st person shooter...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

OK, I admit I haven't gotten far enough in the game yet to give a complete & fair assessment, but it has been frustrating so far. I actually rather liked Tommorow Never Dies (the game moreso than the movie--The World is Not Enough was a better movie than TND but neither top GOLDENEYE in Film or game format) myself... but if you're gonna do a 1st person shooter; SHEESH! The makers of The World is Not Enough could have taken a few lessons from the creators of Medal of Honor and MoH Underground for starters...much smoother weapons control in those 2 games; it took me awhile to get used to the all-digital control of this latest 007 game and left me longing for the inovative analog-digital combination of the MoH series...they DID however, adopt one convention from MoH that is annoying...namely the terrain is not nearly as destructable as it was in Tommorow Never Dies...no more blasting out full plate glass windows, overhead lighting, etc...at least not if the 1st mission in Bilbao, Spain is any indication. I LOVED that feature in Tommorrow Never Dies and similar games like Syphon Filter 1 & 2. Blowing things up was half the fun of Tommorow Never Dies...I feel robbed! Anyway, I may change my mind after I get along further in the game, but for now this latest James Bond game is a big disappointment.

Fun Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My husband and son love this game. They have rented it. I would like to buy this game for Christmas

Great, but coulda been betta

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has excellent graphics, character models, and level layout. But the things that disappointed me the most were the limited number of animations for the enemies (in their death throes, they look extremely jerky), the shaky enemy AI (sometimes they were hard to defeat, other times they would simply stand there and take bullets) and the lack of a multiplayer mode. The inclusion of a multiplayer deathmatch mode like in Goldeneye007 or Medal of Honor would have given this game 5 stars instead of 4.

Movie comes to life...on video game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This video game is good, I played it at my cousin's house, and he won 2 levels, but I just get killed. I give this a **** (4 out of 5).

TWINE sucked on PS1!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Nintendo 64 version was much better-It had better controlls,Better graphics and Most of all had MULTIPLAYER!,Everything in the PS1 version just simply sucked apart from it had better Audio.
But don`t get me wrong neither versions stood up to Goldeneye,and to this day no Bond game does(Latest Bond game is From russia With love).

TWINE(PS1):5.2-MEDICRE
TWINE(N64):8.4-GREAT
GOLDENEYE:9.3-SUBPERB
Perfect Dark:9.5/10-Better than Goldeneye!

A slap in the face to James Bond

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

With difficult controls,lousy graphics and repetitive music,this game is a mockery of the great James Bond.Don't waste your money on this worthless shooter-if you want REAL James Bond,buy the movies instead.

The worst game I ever played!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played several 007 games and this one is the worst.Tomorrow Never Dies is alot more fun.There are several things you can not do in The World Is Not Enough that you can do in Tomorrow Never Dies. You can not do stunts and stealth attacks
you can not shoot out windows and blow up things,the enemies do the same thing every time you kill them,the levels are not very detailed and they are very hard and worst of all,there are no good cheat codes for this game.I do not reccomend this game to anyone!

Not what I expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Like Tommorow Never Dies, this James Bond game is just not good enough. I bought the first one and was completly dissapointed. I thought maybe this one was like GoldenEye. Well the good thing is that you have a lot of cool gadgets and stuff and huge levels, but the graphics are just horrible! I mean you can shoot a person fifty time on different parts of the body and he'll do the same thing and die the same way. The World is Not Enough doesn't even have multiplayer! I would recommend Medal of Honour : Underground if you want a good shoot 'em up game.

OK

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Its a good game but not as good as Goldeneye.I reccomend you rent it first.Its a good FPS though.

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