James Bond 007: The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough is a first-person shooter video game developed by Eurocom and based on the 1999 James Bond film of the same name. It was published by Electronic Arts and released on October 17, 2000 for the Nintendo 64, shortly before the release of its PlayStation counterpart. The game features a single-player campaign in which players take on the role of MI6 agent James Bond and must prevent a terrorist from triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul. It includes a split-screen multiplayer mode in which up to four players can compete against each other in various types of deathmatch and objective-based games. The game runs on an engine that has been adapted to take advantage of the strengths of the Nintendo 64. Although Eurocom has used the original production footage to recreate the movie's environments, the company has added elements to support the game design, including a mission that takes place in the London Underground. The game supports the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak, which offers enhanced graphics and visual effects, but a Controller Pak is required to save game progress. The World Is Not Enough received generally positive reviews from critics and was often compared to Rare's Nintendo 64 first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. It was also considered better than its PlayStation counterpart due to its level design and multiplayer mode. Critics generally praised the game's graphics and smooth frame rate, but criticized the weak and inconsistent artificial intelligence of the enemies. The game sold more than a million copies in the United States.
Story
The game closely follows the plot of the movie. MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Bilbao in Spain to meet with a Swiss banker and raise money for Robert King, a friend of M's, who has bought a secret report from the Russian Atomic Energy Agency. The report, taken from a dead MI6 agent, is said to contain information about terrorists who attacked King's oil pipeline in Kazakhstan. Bond asks the banker who killed the MI6 agent, but he is unexpectedly killed by an assassin. Bond escapes with the money and takes it to MI6 headquarters in London. A terrorist group then carries out an attack on the MI6 headquarters, whereupon Bond pursues the assassin through a London Underground station. Bond offers her protection, but she ends up killing herself by detonating a hot air balloon. MI6 traces the recovered money to a KGB agent turned terrorist named Renard, who previously kidnapped King's daughter Elektra. M assigns Bond to protect Elektra, who is to oversee the construction of an oil pipeline in Azerbaijan. During a tour of the planned pipeline route in the mountains, Bond and Elektra are attacked by a hit squad in armed snowmobiles with paragliders. Bond suspects that Elektra's security chief Davidov is behind the attack and decides to kill him before flying in his place to a Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. There Bond meets nuclear physicist Christmas Jones and learns that Renard has managed to steal plutonium from a nuclear warhead. To find out where Renard might be hiding, Bond visits a former Russian mafia associate, Valentin Zukovsky, who reveals that he received Elektra in exchange for the use of a submarine currently being run by his nephew. Jones realizes that if Renard were to insert the stolen plutonium into the submarine's nuclear reactor, the resulting nuclear explosion would destroy Istanbul and sabotage the Russian oil pipeline in the Bosphorus. In Istanbul, Bond and Jones are captured by Elektra's henchmen. Jones is taken aboard the submarine, while Bond is taken to Maiden's Tower. With the help of Zukovsky, Bond kills Elektra and boards the submarine. Eventually Bond finds Renard in the submarine's reactor and kills him before escaping with Jones.