The 10 Most Satisfying Villian Deaths in James Bond Video Games
10. Bernin-Blood Stone
Let's start things off with the demise of a minor character from the often overlooked 2010 James Bond game, Blood Stone.
Whilst looking for the missing Dr. Malcolm Tedworth in Turkey, 007 discovers that the scientist was tortured and killed after revealing some very important information to a gangster by name of Bernin.
This leads to James Bond gunning down much of Bernin's men leading to a car chase after the assailant through the streets of Istanbul. After passing on the information to a helicopter pilot in the area, Bernin gets interrogated by Bond in order to find out who the gangster is working for and it soon revealed that the name of his employer: Stefan Pomerov.
As Bond turns his attention away to grab a cell phone that's ringing on the ground, the gangster pulls out a gun and attempts to kill him only for 007 to shoot the gun out of his hands; Bernin then pleads to Bond to let him go as his no longer any use to him, to which the M16 agent responds "You got that right" and kicks the gangster off the ledge where he plummets to his death...a badass kill that feels right up 007 alley.
9. Arkady Yayakov-Everything or Nothing
A Russian war criminal who's armed with a robotic looking prosthetic hand, Arkady Yayakov is seen as the owner of the Kiss Kiss night club and a henchman working for the game's main bad guy, Nikolai Diavolo.
After the cover of Mya Sterling (an NSA agent working with Bond) is comprised, Yayakov kidnaps her and asks one of his goons to take care of her and 007, but his unsuccessful.
Eventually Bond finds the criminal inside his laboratory on an abandoned bayou in Louisiana before a massive gun fight ensures resulting in parts of the lab collapsing all over Yayakov and killing him in the process.
While the character didn't have much screen time in the video game, his death was memorable enough to make it onto this list.
8. Rafael Drake-Nightfire
James Bond has taken on slew of insane tycoons and businessman over the years and Nightfire's main antagonist, Rafael Drake is no exception.
The head of Phoenix International, Drake becomes a crusader against nuclear weapons and pushes for environmental causes but in reality, he takes many of these nuclear weapons as part of his masterplan nicknamed: Nightfire.
Similar to Hugo Drax from Moonraker, Drake's plan centers around eradicating much of mankind from the comfort of a space station and reshaping it in his own image except for Drake he refers to his plot of destroying parts of the world as a "Corporate Takeover" among other business related terms.
In the final mission of the game, Bond foils Rafael's plan of using ballistic missiles on Earth and after causing the space station to go critical, Drake has a boss fight with 007 outside of the exploding station but much like Hugo Drax before him, Rafael is shot by Bond as his body ends up flying away into the cold, dark void of space... never to be seen again.
Everyone remembers how the gold obsessed businessman meets his end in the 1964 classic, but few are aware how he dies in the spinoff (or cash grab depending on who you ask) video game known as Goldeneye: Rogue Agent.
The game sees you playing a disgraced former double 'O' agent who is now under the serves of Auric Goldfinger and you execute tasks for him during his rivalry with SPECTRE agent, Dr. Julius No who is also the person responsible for your character getting one of his eyes shot out and replacing it with a new golden one.
After killing Dr. No in a boss fight, Goldfinger calls to inform you that you've outgrown your usefulness and the rest of the game sees you tearing through enemies until you encounter your former boss who traps you inside a glass chamber before monologuing about his plans to use his new weapon: the Organic Mass Energy Neutralizer aka the OMEN.
However, unbeknownst to Goldfinger your character has uploaded a virus that activates the OMEN resulting in the businessman and his goons getting vaporized all while your character smiles from the comfort of his chamber.
While this game is often considered the worse 007 video game of all time, the death of Auric Goldfinger is at the very least one of it's redeeming qualities.
6. Carla the Jackal-Agent Under Fire
A notorious assassin whose background is as shadowy as her assignments, Carla the Jackal is first seen in the 2001 video game 'Agent Under Fire' attempting an assassination plot on 007 who had previously stolen some important vials from Carla's employer.
It isn't until later on in the game when you encounter Carla again in the level known as "The Night of the Jackal" which sees the assassin and a group of thugs break into the British Embassy in Romania while holding many of the occupants inside hostage.
After dispatching the many of Carla's goons, you then head into a warehouse where you confront the Jackal in a final showdown that sees you either shooting her down with your gun or in a more satisfying way to end the assassin's life, you can operate a nearby crane and knock Carla off her platform as she falls into a large fan where she gets grinded into green dust and meets her demise.
Of course as crazy as that is was, Carla isn't the only villain who suffers an over-the-top death in this game.
5. Nigel Bloch-Agent Under Fire
During Bond's mission on the Cyclops Oil Facility in the Red China Sea, he encounters Nigel Bloch the head of Identicon Corporations and right hand man to the game's main antagonist, Adrian Malprave.
After falling off the top of a tower in the facility, you then chase after Bloch whilst riding a monorail inside an underwater laboratory before engaging in a run and gun fight with him inside the base's reactor core ending with Bloch falling into a pit of lava.
However, by the third act of the game, you learn that the Bloch you killed at the underwater lab was a clone and you now have to fight the real one (who's equipped with a jetpack and a grenade launcher) inside Malprave's headquarters that a rigged to self destruct.
It all ends with James Bond shooting Bloch through a stain glass widow in Malprave's office and escaping on a well-timed jet as the main baddie and her base blows up in flames.
4. Xenia Onatopp-Goldeneye 007 Reloaded
While the character in this game isn't voiced by actress Famke Janssen and she doesn't show off her ability to kill people with her thighs, Xenia Onatopp from Goldeneye 007 Reloaded is still a good antagonist for parts of the game.
You first encounter Xenia as an undercover waitress working for Russian gangster and nightclub owner, Valentin Zukovsky before she shoots him dead with your previously confiscated gun and framing you for his murder.
Throughout the game, Onatopp continues to kill many of your allies and even one of her own at one point before you finally have a boss battle with her in the third act of the game which culminates in 007 firing a missile at a helicopter that Xenia is connected to via a harness and rappel cable.
She's then dragged away off the platform you're both standing on but not before Bond delivers a nice quip at Xenia as she lands in the flaming helicopter before it explodes killing her in the process.
3. Nikolai Diavolo-Everything or Nothing
Portrayed by the legendary Williem DeFoe, Nikolai Diavolo is a notorious Russian Industrialist/former KGB agent who looks to create a mechanize army and use some redesigned nanobot technology that'll eat through all metal (except for platinum) in order create a new world order while also getting revenge on James Bond after killing Diavolo's mentor, Max Zorin all those years ago.
A more flushed out villain compared some of the other antagonists in the 007 video games, Diavolo's proves himself to be as nefarious as well as egotistical as seen in a moment in the game when a 60-foot tall platinum statue is being lowered in the middle of Moscow after believing that his nanobots has eat away most of the metal in Russia.
Upon breaking into his facility and causing the place to blow up (as only 007 can do), Bond gets into a boss fight with Diavolo and his female assistance inside a jet where it appears that the villains have met their doom, except Nikolai manages to escape the jet by way of an ejector seat.
In the final level of the game, Bond heads to the surface of the facility where he sees Diavolo activating a missile that contains some of his nanobots which will be heading to London when another boss battle ensures, but this time there's no escape for the former Russian agent as he falls off his control tower before landing inside the rocket silo as it prepares to take off, killing the bad guy almost instantly.
2. Makiko "Kiko" Hayashi-Nightfire
During your investigation in the second level of this game, you'll first encounter this mysterious woman who claims that she's waiting for someone, but it's not until you head to Japan when you discover that her name is Kiko and that she's the bodyguard for Alexander Mayhew, a former employee of the space obsessed industrialist, Rafael Drake.
After an assault on Mayhew's Japanese estate which sees him perishing at the end, Bond breaks into the Phoenix International building where he acquires some info on Drake's plans when he encounters Kiko again on route to escaping the building, however it's soon revealed that she's a double agent working for the rich egomaniac and during your face-to-face meeting with Drake on the roof of the Phoenix building, Kiko kicks your ally and fellow agent Dominque Paradis off the building leading to her death.
In the second to last mission of the game, Bond rushes onto one of the launch silos inside Drake's control base where Kiko deactivates the platform sending Bond right near the blast chambers of a shuttle that's about to take off but thankfully you manage to escape.
The same can't be said for Kiko as 007 soon leaves her stuck in the same situation he was in previously after deactivating the landing platform near a shuttle that's about to take off; Kiko rushes to hide inside a room that'll protect her from the blast but she's too late and she ends up getting incinerated upon the shuttle's ignition thus getting revenge over Dominque's death and giving this treacherous agent a taste of her own medicine.
1. Donald 'Red' Grant-From Russia with Love (The Video Game)
In this video game adaptation of the famous bond movie of the same name, James Bond has to deal with everything from espionage to shadowy characters to an enemy organization with a long-abbreviated name including that organization's bleach blonde agent of death, Red Grant.
Similar to the film, Grant pretends to be an agent working for MI6 when he encounters James Bond on the Orient Express but unlike the film Grant doesn't keep the facade on for too long as he engages in a brawl with 007 on the train before making his getaway.
During a fire fight on the train station, Grant mentions how he previously killed Bond's ally, Karim Bay on the Orient Express before shooting at Grant leading to him falling onto the train tracks and meeting his presumed demise.
Of course, Grant survives the previous ordeal and returns in the final level of the game to get another pop at Bond in a boss fight that sees the player taking on the SPECTRE agent inside a mechanical octopus like thing before it's completely destroyed.
Bond then passes the flaming wreckage to find a snarling Grant laying on the floor believing that Bond doesn't have what it takes to kill him however just as Grant reaches for his gun to have one final shot, Bond fires a shot right at Grant...killing him before quipping with the line: "That was for Karim".
A kill that is just as cold blooded as it is well deserved, Red Grant's death in this game is my pick for the most satisfying villain death in a James Bond video game.
What do you think was the most satisfying death for a bond villain in a video game and what were your favorite 007 video game growing up? Leave your thoughts down below.
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