YMMV / Everything or Nothing

• Awesome Music:
  • The title song by R&B singer Mýa.
  • Not to mention the steamy jazz version.
  • And the remix version heard during the end credits, and while playing the bonus levels after beating the game.
  • Also Sean Callery's score.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Diavolo. Fire a few rockets at his tower, avoid his missiles, and shoot down the nano-warhead. The exhaust from the warhead provides a little more of a challenge.
• Best Level Ever: The Pontchartrain Bridge. Bond hops on a motorcycle and powers his way across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, the longest bridge in the US in about 3 minutes flat, and the game does an amazing job of convincing you just how suicidally fast you're going. Over the course of the trip, you've got the chance to power slide under a fuel tanker and ramp over the watery divide to drive against traffic. Throw in motorcycle-riding henchmen, the ability to dispatch them with a shotgun, and Jaws driving a rig containing the nanobots that will destroy New Orleans' levies and flood the city, and you've got an amazingly badass level.
  • Escaping Diavolo's villa using only Good Old Fisticuffs is Nintendo Hard in the very best way. The Badass music is just gravy at this point.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • Any enemy with a SPAS-12, especially if they get into close range, where they'll shred your health from full to zero in just a few blasts. Though fairly uncommon early in the game, they start showing up in greater numbers later on.
  • Near the end of the game, you start encountering invisible enemies, that you often won't know are there until they start shooting at you. Even worse if they're armed with a SPAS-12 (see above) or show up alongside guards wielding them, which they more often than not will.
• Harsher in Hindsight: One of the missions involves Bond preventing Diavolo from using his nanobots to destroy the levees in New Orleans. Keep in mind that this game came out in 2004, one year before Hurricane Katrina.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Diavolo's plan to take over Russia involves platinum-plated tanks, since that metal is invulnerable to Nadanova's nanobots. Presumably they'd be unaffected by metalbending as well.
  • The Big Bad using nanobots as his main weapon predicted the plot of No Time to Die.
• Narm / Narm Charm: In the usual spirit of the Bond One-Liner, you either enjoy a few but one too many bad puns test the average player's limits. This game has so many of them you're either groaning every time you hear a new one or laughing at the fact the writers added this amount of bad puns into a single game.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: While it didn't achieve the legendary status that GoldenEye (1997) did, it is still regarded as one of the best Bond games ever made and one of the finest third-person shooters of the sixth-gen.
• Paranoia Fuel: Using the nano suit after enemies have already engaged you will make cause them to nervously look around for you. Walking while crouched makes your movement silent so you can go anywhere without being seen or heard (until your batteries die, that is).
  • "I just saw something!"
• Sequel Difficulty Spike: Harder than NightFire, as Bond can be very fragile, stealth isn't as easy, and there are plenty of obstacles in the way!
• That One Level: "Escape through wall" in the very first mission has probably resulted in "controller through television", at least the PS2 version, as no clues - visual or otherwise - suggest that the way to accomplish this goal is to return to the location where you started the mission. The training level that follows also qualifies if you happen to hit the PS2 glitch that makes it impossible to shoot the targets after you crouch.
  • The final level itself, Everything or Nothing. Tasked with making it to the other side of the map because Bond won't vault over a fence, you have to deal with whole rooms filled with enemies ready to ambush you. But the meat of this level is the container yard that's filled with enemies around every corner with assault rifles and shotguns ready to end you. Alongside that, you got snipers and invisible enemies thrown into the mix that you need to watch out for. God help you if you didn't open the armory back in Dangerous Descent since you'll most likely need all it can give.

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