Review by ron on 08 Dec 2015 (Rating: 1)
A dog's breakfast of a game. Clunky controls, slow, graphically lacking, laughably bad speech. About all that can be said for it is that it has variety, and the intro is reasonable.
1985 Domark Ltd (UK)
written by: a lot of people, apparently!
The 007 movie licensed game. By this time I was completely hooked on the theme song written by Duran Duran. I remember loading this game just to listen to that song. Now I can't find the song in any of the emulated versions!! Bollocks!
Anyway what can I say about this game?
For starters, I had no instructions, so I never could have guessed that the cloud-looking-object hanging around the maze was in fact Mayday hanging in a parachute (the spy you had to catch, and played by Grace Jones in the movie).
That said, the only good thing I had to say about this game until now, was it had a nice loading screen, nice presentation, nice covered song and... well, that's it!
Nowadays thanks to emulation and the variety of sources about every game ever released, I was finally able to explore this game a bit deeper.
The only section of the game I played was the Paris Chase, the first one, which is undoubtedly the worst. Looks bad, plays awful. You have to catch Mayday using a cab, while she hangs on a Parachute and tries to land on the outskirts of Paris.
The other two sections look a lot better, not amazing but better, but still play awful.
Part two, which is called City Hall, sees Bond trying to pull himself and Stacey out of a burning building.
Using the menu system, you can move Bond from room to room, take action, such as searching, use or drop an object or give commands to Stacey which is trapped inside an elevator.
And finally part 3, which is called The Mine and is set in the caverns of Silicon Valley.
Like in the previous level you have to make use of objects you find in your way. There is a bomb about to explode somewhere in the mines that will cause a major earthquake in San Francisco. Bond has to defuse it before it's too late, and he will count with the help of Mayday, which turns against Zorins (the movie villain) insane plan.
There are lifts to use, ropes to climb and jumping routines to get you thru the mines different levels.
This is probably the most action level of the bunch but not that interesting.
The game itself is not the least interesting, and is still on my list of worst movie licensed games ever.
