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As Ethan Hunt (point man for the IMF), you take on a variety of missions, such as sabotaging enemy equipment, rescuing hostages, and stealing sensitive information. Aside from skeletal plot elements, the game itself has very little to do with the movie, and if you have a good attention to detail the game retains movie humor. There are two difficulty settings: Possible and Impossible. Much like Goldeneye, the more difficult setting means you take more damage from enemies as well as added tasks you need to do to accomplish the mission.
Unlike Goldeneye, this is not a one-man show. Various team members accompany you on missions, but most of the time their role is limited to item exchanges. However, there are two levels where your team provides sniper support for you which is very, very cool. Donning disguises is also a rather groovy part of the game (just don't go tooling around with your piece still in your hand as the guards get mighty suspicious of an armed repairman). Stuff like this makes Mission: Impossible stand out from Goldeneye, but Infogrames needed to take these innovations a step further to make a truly distinguishable game.
Don't expect to go around with high-tech weaponry mowing down platoons of soldiers. Shooting is very limited in this game and most of the time you don't actually kill anyone. Don't count on shooting your way out of a jam either, as one wrong move will send guards to arrest you before you even have a chance to whip out your piece.
Although Mission: Impossible puts strong emphasis on espionage tactics, some of the puzzles you are required to solve are rather obtuse, resembling mindless busy work, while others are downright (forgive the pun) puzzling. You'll be muttering under your breath, "What the @!*#% else am I supposed to do?!" Frustration levels run high as some of the levels are large and one wrong move means starting the level over and repeating the same tasks ad nauseum.
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Published by MGM Interactive and developed by Black Ops, Tomorrow Never Dies is planned to be a 3D first person shooter. It is loosely based on the movie of the same name. The plot of the game begins where the movie ended, with Elijah Carver, brother of Elliot Carver, plotting world destruction. The game will have similar gameplay like GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64, but MGM Interactive promises a lot more. Examples include driving advanced cars, scuba diving, skiing, and more.
MGM says, "Tomorrow Never Dies integrates multiple game engines into one challenging adventure. Players will need to think and act like Bond to outwit enemy agents, fight off foes, and diffuse a new world destruction plan hatched by super villain Elijah Carver. . ." In order to play the game, one must pay attention to what the characters in the game say and do. This will be the way to piece together the post-Tomorrow Never Dies storyline.
From what has been available, though, Tomorrow Never Dies appears to be a top-notch game and fans of Bond who own the Sony PlayStation should be delighted with a game they can use on their platform.
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