 SPOILER: During an MI6 Interlude scene early in the game, Bond  learns from M that Nikolai Diavolos teacher was Max Zorin, to which  he replies "Yes, we played bridge together. He lost." This is in  reference to the climatic scene in the James Bond film  _View to a Kill, A (1985)_ (qv) where James Bond fights the films  villain, Max Zorin, atop the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco,  resulting in Zorin falling from the bridge to his death.