0 to Z of Playstaion 1 Games - 007 Tomorrow Never Dies

007: Tomorrow Never Dies is a third person shooter developed by Black Ops Entertainment and published by EA, the game was released exclusively on the Playstation 1 and is based on the 1997 movie starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. the game was released 2 years after the film in 1999 this was the first James Bond based game published by EA since they acquired Bond licence.

Like the 2000 release 007 Racing the lead character is not voiced by Pierce Brosnan life the aforementioned game Adam Blackwood voices James Bond for the game.

Unlike GoldenEye 007’s first person shooter formula that made it so popular Tomorrow Never Dies  breaks away from that formula instead opting for a 3^rd person shooter and leaving out the multiplayer portions of the game, due to the fairly modest response to the game Tomorrow Never Dies would be the only attempt at a 3^rd person shooter with the James Bond licence until 2004, also additional levels and a two player mode were removed from the game during the development of the game

Tomorrow Never Dies was originally intended to be a continuation of the story from the 1997 film with the president of MGM Home Entertainment saying they did not see the benefit of closely following the 97 scripts and wanted more freedom however a focus group survey wanted to see more familiar scenes from the film

The game has ten missions one of the missions features a driving section with the player taking control of the BMW 750i the car from the movie, the game also has two missions which must be concluded by completing a skiing section the game takes the player to Saigon, Beijing, and a Russian military base.

Critic ratings for Tomorrow Never Dies are a varied bunch, the heights for the game was an 88/100 from Game Vortex who in spite of having issues with the controls cited that the effort put into the mission designs and Bonds abilities proving big highlights in the game.

GamersMark were another review outlet that found plenty of good points in the game giving it an 8/10 sadly that site no longer exists so what exactly they found good about the game is lost in the ether, another review site that has sadly been lost is Absolute PlayStation who gave the game a 75/100 the sites last review was back in 2004, there were several other above average reviews for the game Game Informer awarded the game a 7.25/10 gamingmaxx gave it a 7/10 while GameFan gave it a 70% score.

At the other end of the spectrum like 007 Racing, Edge gave this Bond game a dismal score handing the movie tie in a 2/10 amazingly this was not the worst review score Tomorrow Never Dies received, that would be a 0.5/5 which equates to a 1/10 like several reviews for this game Independent Gamer no longer exists so the reasons for their low score are an unknown,

 the remainder of the reviews for this game are situated around the average 5 to 6 out of 10, the games aggregate score with GameRankings is at a fairly average 62.44%.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com,  eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific but from a podcast I listen too I have heard they have a huge stock of older games.

So lets get down to business we may as well start with Gamedude looks quite a common title with Gamedude paying just 25 cents for a copy of the game, while it will set you back $3 to buy a copy from them which equates to about £2.27

RetroGames.co.uk sadly does not have a copy of the game available plenty of James Bond games but no Tomorrow Never Dies so moving on next up is eStarland.com.

eStarland has two versions of a used copy of Tomorrow Never Dies the complete version with case and manual (as well as disc of course) will set you back $3.38 which comes to about £2.25 here in the UK (assuming you have a PS1 capable of playing US software, eStarland also have a used copy without a manual for $2.44 which is about £1.84 the site also has a used copy of the Official Strategy Guide for $2.63.

Amazon.com at the time of writing this has 157 copies of Tomorrow Never Dies on sale the cheapest coming in at $1 but once you add in the shipping cost the general minimum you will be paying for the game is $5.

With varying quality from acceptable up to used like new, also available is a used like new copy that has apparently a new case and professionally resurfaced disc this will set you back $24.99 of cause this is 1 cent below the $25 minimum for free shipping.

If you are in the market for a new copy of the game there are currently six new copies of the game on the market on Amazon with shipping you are looking at a minimum of $30 which is about £23 up to about $42 or £31 for the most expensive new copy on sale

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P J Gibbon