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Most fans of the Bond video games may know the story; that Pierce Brosnan's likeness was originally intended to be used in 007 Agent Under Fire until being replaced with an original design. Carry over from its history as a remake of 007 The World is Not Enough or not, the fact remains that even John Cleese made it into early versions of Agent Under Fire until being replaced with a similarly generic/original design to James Bond himself. That can be seen clear as day in this screenshot:
It's difficult to find footage of a time when Brosnan's likeness was implemented, but trailers of the character in shadow may be evidence of them hiding the model before the new rendition was completed:
All that being said, for whatever reason Brosnan's likeness was in fact cut... but lately I've been digging into this game for my own enjoyment, and came to a bizarre conclusion.
The multiplayer map known as "Escort" features a unique match type where players go head to head to protect or eliminate a certain VIP. AI bots are unavailable here, even in the Gamecube and Xbox versions, but the VIP does take the form of an NPC character that boards and exits a train over and over. For years I saw this VIP as "some old guy," but recently I stopped to take a good look at his face. Hidden beneath the grey hair and black-framed glasses is something very interesting indeed.
...Is that Pierce Brosnan in disguise?
I used Photoshop to apply a quick blackness to the hair in the middle images, but even without it there is a slight resemblance in my opinion (at least from certain angles). The texture is even strangely realistic/detailed compared to all others in the game. My theory is this was the Brosnan face texture, but the team kept it in and tweaked it just enough to avoid the obvious connection. It wouldn't be the only face reused between characters; Zoe Nightshade and the Jackal actually have the exact same face, but recolored slightly.
I went as far as replacing the normal Bond face texture (seen top right) and making an Action Replay code (only Gamecube NTSC for now) to swap Bond's face on the Escort map:
Play as Pierce Brosnan? (P1)
266E-7XV1-FJ768
GH7Y-R5KQ-ZD0CD
XC3C-H7HZ-XTNC3
I'm in the process of making more codes for the game on my page, but this is just something really interesting I got sidetracked with. Curious to know what some of you think.
My other codes will be here, by the way:
Timeless Lunchbox
It's difficult to find footage of a time when Brosnan's likeness was implemented, but trailers of the character in shadow may be evidence of them hiding the model before the new rendition was completed:
All that being said, for whatever reason Brosnan's likeness was in fact cut... but lately I've been digging into this game for my own enjoyment, and came to a bizarre conclusion.
The multiplayer map known as "Escort" features a unique match type where players go head to head to protect or eliminate a certain VIP. AI bots are unavailable here, even in the Gamecube and Xbox versions, but the VIP does take the form of an NPC character that boards and exits a train over and over. For years I saw this VIP as "some old guy," but recently I stopped to take a good look at his face. Hidden beneath the grey hair and black-framed glasses is something very interesting indeed.
...Is that Pierce Brosnan in disguise?
I used Photoshop to apply a quick blackness to the hair in the middle images, but even without it there is a slight resemblance in my opinion (at least from certain angles). The texture is even strangely realistic/detailed compared to all others in the game. My theory is this was the Brosnan face texture, but the team kept it in and tweaked it just enough to avoid the obvious connection. It wouldn't be the only face reused between characters; Zoe Nightshade and the Jackal actually have the exact same face, but recolored slightly.
I went as far as replacing the normal Bond face texture (seen top right) and making an Action Replay code (only Gamecube NTSC for now) to swap Bond's face on the Escort map:
Play as Pierce Brosnan? (P1)
266E-7XV1-FJ768
GH7Y-R5KQ-ZD0CD
XC3C-H7HZ-XTNC3
I'm in the process of making more codes for the game on my page, but this is just something really interesting I got sidetracked with. Curious to know what some of you think.
My other codes will be here, by the way:
Timeless Lunchbox
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