My brother just rented one of the best video games I've seen in a long time. The new James Bond game for P2, Xbox, or Gamecube entitled "Everything or Nothing" from EA games. It's pretty damn good. They hired a full cast of actors to do motion capture and voice acting for the game including Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Shannon Elizabeth, Mya, Heidi Klum, Willem Dafoe, and even Richard Kiel (the original Jaws). The graphics and sound are phenomenal, about as real as you can get these days, and the control and the gameplay is tight and realistic. The game has some great features like "Bond sense" (a Matrix bullet-time like slowdown which helps you find game secrets), awesome gadgets courtesy of "Q", every vehicle imaginable (So far we've done car, motorcycle, helicopter, and train. All decked out with missiles and cloaking devices, etc). For pulling off really cool moves (like rappelling down a cliff and shooting all the guys coming down behind you, or shooting a steam pipe that blows and burns several of your enemies) you get bonuses called "Bond Moments", which are essentially moves that Bond would actually pull off in the movies. The game has extrordinary details like an interactive environment, intelligent enemies, realistic character movements, hand-to-hand combat when you are to close for guns that actually has you blocking, counter-attacking, and slamming guys faces into the wall or tossing them off a cliff instead of just knocking them out. I would definitely give it a rent and check it out for a few days. I think my bro is considering buying it. If you're interested in seeing more, check out some of the game video, video previews, or screenshots from the website.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 10:51 AM