- Original Release: 1985
- Developer: G. Christopher King
- Publisher: Victory Games
- Platform: Board Game
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This Victory Games James Bond board game is a departure from the previous three – this one is a solo game with completely different mechanics. This one challenges the player to make it through the maze from The Man with the Golden Gun, finding the Solex Agitator along the way.
There are four “boards” that make up the map, but you only start with one. The lighter blue spaces are rooms, while the darker spaces are walls. Rooms get filled with green cards. As you move through each room, you flip over a green card which will have something that startles Bond, you roll both dice, if you roll higher than the number, Bond will automatically shoot his gun. If you roll the same or lower, you can choose if you want to shoot.
After you or the dice have decided if you’re shooting or not, you then draw a blue card for the space. Some will just waste your limited bullets if you fire, while others (like mannequins) will shot you if you don’t shoot first, you have a limited number of hits you can take. In the second half of the cards are Nick Knack, Scaramanga and the Solex Agitator.
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Nick Knack will likely die if you decide to shoot, but if you risk not shooting, there’s a chance to roll to convince him to stand down (he will give you extra bullets). Scaramanga is a 50/50 chance of getting killed, which really shows just how much of this game is luck-based. There are also some “maze” cards that force Bond to move in a certain direction, but these can block the rest of the map and make it impossible to continue. The game doesn’t list this as a way to lose the game, but also doesn’t explain what to do in this situation.
It’s an interesting game as it does get the feeling of wandering through a confusing maze in a daze across, but it’s an entirely luck dependant solo game – even the choices you can make are just picking at random – which isn’t a lot of fun.
Where to get 007 James Bond: The Man with the Golden Gun
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