Game Informer's Paul Anderson scored the game a 7 out of 10. Reception Ġ07 Racing received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. In North America, 007 Racing was released in November 2000. The game features voice acting, including John Cleese as R. 007 Racing uses a modified version of the game engine that was developed for EA's Need for Speed games. It includes objectives and vehicles based on those featured in the James Bond films. Bond then goes to the Baltic Sea with his Lotus Esprit and after infiltrating opponent's underwater base he destroys the plane transporting the virus.Ġ07 Racing was developed by Eutechnyx, which worked with MGM to create the game's storyline. He manages to escape and finds the stolen BMW, after which he pursues and destroys the boat driven by Jaws.īack in New York, Bond downloads the files from four limousines with his BMW Z8 and discovers that Litte's real plan is to release a deadly virus that will kill millions. Bond then engages in race with Xenia Onatopp and her Ferrari F355 after which he gets captured and taken to Louisiana. He is trying to track Zukovsky and once he manages, he finds out that behind everything is Dr Hammond Litte, Cherise's father, and that her rescue was just a decoy mission aiming to distract him from the freighter. Bond then goes to Mexico with his BMW Z3, to where he was pointed by questioning the transporter driver, the henchman Whisper. He intercepts the transporter with his Aston Martin. Bond jettisons the car in the Hudson River.īond continues on with finding the electromagnetic pulse device that was stolen and destroying ten computers in distribution center from which a car transporter carrying the smuggling cars. Upon arriving in New York he is informed by a villain that a bomb has been planted on his car and that any attempt to defuse it or slow down the vehicle will cause it to explode. His mission takes him to New York City, where he is met by his friend from the CIA Jack Wade. Upon his return to London he is informed by M that a freighter carrying top secret NATO weapons including laser-guided surface-to-air missiles, long-range missiles, missile shields, latest GPS technology and Q equipped BMW 750iL bound for Halifax was intercepted in the Labrador Sea, south of Greenland. The story opens with Bond rescuing Cherise Litte from an Eastern European country (presumably Estonia) and getting her over the border in his Aston Martin DB5. The gamer is supplied with several gadget-filled cars from the Bond universe to thwart the villain. As Bond, it is up to the player to stop him. In 007 Racing, a high ranking European diplomat and businessman plans to hijack a shipment of NATO weapons and smuggle them to international terrorists inside cars that roll off the assembly line of his automotive plants. Each car is equipped with all the usual gadgetry and weapons issued by Q, the Quartermaster of a special branch of MI6 referred to as Q-Branch.
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Cars include the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in its initial appearance in Goldfinger, the Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only, and the BMW Z8 that briefly appeared in The World is not Enough as well as seven other automobiles. In 007 Racing the player takes on the role of British secret agent James Bond, behind the wheel of several of his vehicles from the then-19 official films.
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