THE 'ALL BONDS' CHARACTERS:

At one time in Goldeneye's development, you could actually choose the former James Bond actors as characters for Multiplayer. In addition to Pierce Brosnan, you could also select Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton. These former Bonds were removed from the game before it was completed though.

To the right, is Sean Connery's tux from a Goldeneye advertisement. He appears to be holding two ZMGs. The background is the pause screen. I don't think he actually was on the pause screen. He was likely just pasted into here from somewhere else for this promotional graphic.

The only part of 'All Bonds' that remains in the game, are the character select photos for Multiplayer, which can be activated with Gameshark or Action Replay.
The suits that belong to the characters seem to be long gone.
This screenshot was created with a Gameshark, by replacing the photos of existing characters with photos of the former Bonds.

In this shot, each of the Bond characters has their real name below. It's unclear as to whether each Bond would have his actual name, or whether each of them would be simply referred to as 'Bond'.

Goldeneye 007 Demo Video

Thanks to a Wal-Mart promotional video I received from SubDrag, I've been able to post new screenshots from pre-release Goldeneye. The clip show's the title screen, but the word 'Goldeneye' is missing the red ring around the 'E' that's found in the final version.
But of course the most interesting part of the video, is the fact that four different photos of the James Bond actors appear on the game folders. This would have been a neat detail, had these characters not been removed from the final game.

Each Bond has their own folder, and you get to see a closer image when you select a file. This was likely just done for detail. But is it possible that some of the old Bonds may have been intended to star in bonus missions?...

Here we have the camera showing off the Dam, the game's first mission. I haven't noticed any differences. We get the same view of the starting area, then the camera closes in on James Bond.

Immediately after the cinema introduction to the Dam mission, the message "Objective D: Completed" appears on screen. Bond has completed an objective without even doing anything... Having an objective completed like this was probably not intended for the final version of the game, and would have likely just have been done with the Debug menu, for testing purposes.

Once again, many thanks to SubDrag for sending this cool video clip.

For Your Hands Only...

We've seen only a handful of pre-release screenshots that actually show Sean Connery's white tux. But a Gameshark code has been found to unlock another piece of this mystery...

This code changes Bond's arms in the Dam mission. You won't notice anything different about Bond himself though... But you will when you hit pause, or use your Remote Mine detonator. Even though Bond isn't wearing a white tux, his hands are shown wearing white sleeves.

This "new" sleeve isn't used by the final game, but it's still here in the game's memory. Could this be a clue that the Bond characters were considered for the solo missions?

Gameshark Code
Modify Bond's arm in the Dam, by Stone Code
800D337F 00XX
Replace XX with
00 blue suit
01 tux
02 jungle bond
03 boiler bond
04 snow bond
05 white cuff
06 tux bond (black cuff)
07 tux bond (black cuff)
08 tux bond (black cuff)
09+ invisible arm (blue suit on bond)

In addition to that white cuff, there's another strange occurrance... The game's memory has Connery's white cuff, plus three black cuffs...

Sleeves for Dalton, Moore, and Brosnan?

Goldeneye 007 Instruction Booklet

Most players eventually came across this screenshot, found on page 20 of the Instruction Booklet. We can clearly see a character wearing a white tux with a rose corsage, in the Complex arena. This character was nowhere to be found in the final game. It was the hope of Gameshark hackers that the suit could somehow be found in the game's memory.
To the right, is Sean Connery wearing the suit in Goldfinger.

That screenshot wasn't the only evidence of Sean Connery found in the Instruction Booklet... On page 21, we see a character select screen. To the far left, we can See Connery's select photo. It's the same photo that can be accessed with a Gameshark.

Here are screenshots of Dalton's tux and Brosnan's tux. When we compare Brosnan's tux to Dalton's, we don't see any white like in the booklet screenshot. We can see the white material in the photo of Dalton's suit though.

Thanks to Connery_Bond for pointing this out.

So, the lone Multiplayer screenshot from the booklet shows not only one, but two of the 'All Bonds' characters. If the only two visible characters are Bonds, chances are that the other two characters are Bonds as well.

'Beta' Video Clip

A promo video, recorded before the game was released actually shows Connery's white tux. Connery appears through a doorway, and dodges a few bullets that Oddjob fires at him.

Connery makes sure to show his face to the camera, and then narrowly avoids being shot. Just as he dashes away, player four picks up a Blackhawk Magnum.

This video is full of juicy 'beta' tidbits, including the original KF7 Soviet. It's strange how such a short video can show so many 'beta' things. The 'white tuxed' Bond almost seems to dance and show off his costume.
Could Rareware have intentionally made sure that we'd see these things before they were removed?

You can download the movie clip from the Video Downloads section.

There are rumors that Rare originally planned to have the former Bond characters in the extra missions. Both of the hidden missions feature things from past Bond films. So, playing these missions as one or more of the previous Bond actors could have definitely been a possibility.

To the left, is Bond's face from the regular missions. To the right, is the face that Bond has during the extra missions. They're completely different heads. The head from the extra missions bears a resemblance to a young Sean Connery, don't you think?

The All Bonds... In Perfect Dark

Two years after the 'All Bonds' suits were removed from Goldeneye 007, Rareware released Perfect Dark. Many people gave referred to this new game as the sequel to Goldeneye, calling it "Goldeneye 2". Shortly after the game's release, gamers discovered something after completing 7 Combat Simulator Challenges...

Four different James Bond tuxedos appeared in Perfect Dark's Combat Simulator. The characters don't have default heads, and they don't have names. They're simply labeled"Dinner Jacket". If you use a Gameshark or Action Replay, you can find a character called "djbond" in Goldeneye's memory. DJBond (Dinner Jacket Bond) is the suit that Bond wears for Multiplayer.

All four of the 'All Bonds' have a reunion in the Felicity arena, which most of us know better as the Facility. They aren't actually the Bond actors, but getting to choose their famous tuxedos is as close as we're going to get.

Bond Suits and Actors

Each of the tuxedos worn by the 'All Bonds' characters were actually modeled after a suit that each of the actors wore when they played James Bond.
Pierce Brosnan's tux is of course from GoldenEye.
Sean Connery's famous white tux with the rose corsage is from Goldfinger.
The suit designed for Roger Moore is from Moonraker. Shown here is Moore's tux from For Your Eyes Only, which is similar to his suit from Moonraker.
And finally Timothy Dalton's tux, which is from License to Kill.

Thanks to Yud for sending in these DVD screenshots.

All Bonds Hoax:

This could quite possibly have been the biggest scam in Goldeneye's history. In a gaming magazine's April Fool's issue, they posted what they called the "All Bonds Cheat". The 'cheat' also featured George Lazenby, who played James Bond in only one film.

It was quite believable, especially since the completed cheat menu had an uneven 23 cheats, leaving a single blank space at the bottom.

To earn this cheat, you were supposed to complete the Aztec Mission, on 007 difficulty, in under nine minutes. If this wasn't tough enough, you had to have the enemy settings on the highest possible difficulty.

Here's the screenshot that the a magazine published. It shows four Bonds in the Temple.

And now, a screenshot from the final game where I tried to line up the characters in the same positions as in the other screenshot... I could not position the characters at the same angles like the other screenshot.

And here are two more shots from the magazine. One shot of the 'All Bonds' in the cheat menu, and another shot of the Bonds on selection in Multiplayer. The photos here are different than the ones that are accessed with Gamesharks.
The 'All Bonds (Multi)' text doesn't look right either. If you look closely, you can tell that it's slightly different than the rest of the cheat text.