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Sean Connery stars as James Bond and much more... From Russia with Love is a video game featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond developed by Electronic Arts and released on November 1, 2005 in North America. The game is based on the 1957 novel and the 1963 film From Russia with Love. The game follows the storyline of the book and film, albeit adding in new scenes to make the game more action-oriented, as well as changing the affiliation of the main villains. Additionally, it features many elements of earlier Bond films to recreate the feel of the era such as the rocketbelt from Thunderball (1965) and the Aston Martin DB5 that debuted in Goldfinger (1964). From Russia with Love is also notable in that it is the first video game to use Sean Connery's likeness as James Bond and the first to include all new voice work by the actor (although Connery sounds nothing like he did 40 years ago).

Character	Likeness	Voice
James Bond	Sean Connery	Sean Connery
M	Bernard Lee	Peter Renaday
Miss Moneypenny	Lois Maxwell	Karly Rothenberg
Q	Desmond Llewelyn	Phil Proctor
Tanya Romanova	Daniela Bianchi	Kari Wahlgren
Rosa Klebb	Lotte Lenya	Karly Rothenberg
Red Grant	Robert Shaw	Brian McCole
Kerim Bey	Pedro Armendáriz	JB Blanc
Elizabeth Stark	Natasha Bedingfield	Natasha Bedingfield
Eva Adara	Maria Menounos	Maria Menounos

Plot summery:

One of the most obvious changes to the story for the video game is the absence of villainous organization SPECTRE, who played a vital role in the film version, but not in the novel version of From Russia With Love. Due to legal issues that have plagued the James Bond-series of films since 1963, the organization was renamed as OCTOPUS and appears to lack a central leader in the same vein as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The SPECTRE name was tied up in a long-running dispute over the film rights to Thunderball, between United Artists/MGM and the now-deceased writer Kevin McClory.

The game begins with a standard pre-title sequence in which Elizabeth Stark, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's daughter, is kidnapped by OCTOPUS while attending a party. Fortunately, Bond was assigned to attend the party for just such an event, and he defeats OCTOPUS and rescues Stark.

Similar to the film, OCTOPUS has conceived a plan to embarrass British secret service agent 007 for the death of Dr. Julius No from the film, Dr. No, in which Dr. No was an agent of SPECTRE. The plan involves the theft of a Soviet encoding machine know as the Lektor with the help of a defecting Soviet agent, Tatiana Romanova. Romanova, however, is being used by OCTOPUS to lure James Bond into a trap; their goal is to let him obtain the Lektor and then ambush him for it, killing him in humiliating fashion as well. Romanova is sent by Rosa Klebb, an agent of the KGB (in both the novel and film, an agent of SMERSH) who has secretly defected to OCTOPUS. Her immediate subordinate, Donald "Red" Grant, protects Bond through the first half of the game and attacks him in the second. The game ends with a final assault on OCTOPUS headquarters.

Weapons:

Pistols

• Walther PPK (called Wolfram PP7 for copyright reasons)
• Wright Magnum
• Golden gun (multiplayer only)
• Platinum gun (multiplayer only)

Automatics

• Kronen SMG
• Assault rifle

Explosives

• Grenade
• Bazooka

Other

• Bosch shotgun
• Sniper rifle
• Armor piercing rifle
• Radioactive gun (multiplayer only)
• Minigun (enemy only)
• You also get to dress like Connery did in the movies you get to collect his dinner jacket and other attire.

Gadgets

Serum gun	Sonic cufflinks
Laser watch	Briefcase turret
Q-copter

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