Product Description

In James Bond 007: Nightfire, all-new scenarios and gameplay complement an original storyline that delivers all-out Bond-style intensity. As Bond, players will operate in the high altitude Austrian Alps and a zero-gravity space station as well as underwater in the South Pacific in order to defeat the evil criminal mastermind Rafael Drake, who is bent on ruling the world. The game is primarily seen through a fast-paced first-person perspective, but will switch to a dynamic third-person perspective to show off dramatic interactive moments. Each of the more than 10 exotic locations around the world and beyond in Nightfire will contain a generous offering of challenging missions and objectives filled with furious action and stealth, gorgeous women, exotic locales, and sophisticated spy-craft gadgetry that Bond fans expect. Moreover, players will have the option to upgrade many of the numerous Q-lab gadgets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5561 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2003-08-01
• Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.co.uk Review
You can't keep him off the telly on a bank holiday and nowadays he seems to be almost as prevalent in the gaming world. That's right: James Bond is back on your consoles in 007 NightFire--and ready to endorse a bottle of vodka near you.

Games companies are weird. This release comes in the same year as the 40th anniversary of James Bond, as well as Die Another Day, the 20th film to feature the loveable old womanising drunk. So what do EA, proud bearers of the 007 games license, do? They make a game based on an amalgamation of all the Bond movies, with their own "original" story line, then go and stick Pierce Brosnan's face and a bunch of clips from Die Another Day in it. Whaaaat?

Bizarre marketing decisions aside, this could finally be the game to come out from behind the shadow of the seminal N64 classic GoldenEye. Which means, of course, that this is a stealthy first-person shooter (with a few car-racing levels thrown in for good measure) bolted onto a cracking multi-player mode. Following on from GoldenEye is a bit like being asked to make Citizen Kane 2, but EA have sensibly gone back to the spirit of the original and NightFire is much more strategic than their last attempt, the rather shallow Agent Under Fire. Once again you can learn a pathological hatred of security cameras as you use an even wider array of Q gadgetry to kill people without them even noticing.

The multi-player mode is also good, with meatier weapons than last time, including a particularly fun remote-control missile launcher. People are always crooning about nobody doing it better than Bond, but in the gaming world that's not always been true; with this game, though, it looks like he's taken the ejector seat straight to the top of the first-person shooter pile. --David Jenkins

P2 Magazine
"Fast-paced and varied, with a lot to keep Bond fans happy. 8/10."

Computer and Video Games Magazine
"Not quite GoldenEye, but Bond is definitely back. 8/10."

Customer Reviews

EA's best bond yet
I played this for a few days with some mates, and I was expecting it to be a bit rubbish. However, I was very impressed. The game overall is the best bond other than GoldenEye, and a worthy partner to the new James Bond film hitting the screens at this same time. The graphics are similiar to Agent Under Fire, but more detailed, and bond actually looks like Pierce Brosnan(despite not sounding like him). Gun controls have also been improved, with nearly all weapons having two different actions (eg:a certain pistol has both semi automatic fire or burst fire)this adds lots more variety and fun.
The multiplayer is a great laugh, with up to four people meeting up and, well, shooting each other to the death. The locations and characters in the multiplayer are from both the game's story and other Bond films, like Fort Knox from Goldfinger and Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me.
And, despite still being an FPS at heart, there are some on rails and driving missions to boot. NightFire doesn't bring anything new or revoloutionary to the shoot 'em up genre, but it's pure fun and pure bond... and isn't that what counts?

Best bond game so far
I've had this game since last year and it is class. This is a great bond game. Graphics: The graphics are amazing. Bond himself just looks exactly like he does in the film. The other girls in it also look like the kind he normally has in the films, very exotic. The enemys such as drake and rook look quite good although there not in the films (i think) but they still look very detailed. The cars, the vanquish looks so realistic and its speed is also amazing. The bullets it fires look good and the smoke it makes. EA obviously spent alot of time on the cars and people. The guns look quite good aswell and so do the explosions. The environment looks good as it sits in the background. The graphics are 10/10. Audio: Pierce Brosnan recorded his voice into the game (i think, again) which makes it better because then at least it sounds like the real bond. The missiles, gunshots, cars and explosions sound quite real. Sometimes the sounds are a bit dodgey. Audio equals 9/10. Gameplay: The gameplay is brilliant. There are 12 missions just like all the others but some are quite challenging this time. You can drive a few differrent cars such as the vanquish and a police car but you drive/control over things such as a plane, tank and a little snow bike sort of thing. There are many things you can use against your enemys such as Bonds normal gun but when you kill others you can take their weapons and use it. They have machine guns, snipers and grenade launchers and many more. There are many guns, alot are machine guns. You carry some of the gadgets Bond does such as the watch laser, stunner, dicrypler etc. Is it a four player game where you take you and others and there are mutiplayer options such as normal arenas where you just play with first to kill how many you choose (it goes up to 120). There is capture the flag and demolition and many more. On the screen you choose your weapon set and which characters you want to have in the game. There are quite alot. I recommend this to you.

James Bond is back on PS2
James Bond Nightfire is a huge improvement on it's predescesor (Agent under fire). The graphics are much better, the levels are more challeging and bigger, the multiplayer mode is also excellent as usual.

Nightfire features 12 levels, (the same as Agent under fire), loads of weapons and gadgets, 10 multiplayer levels which feature several good and evil charecters as well as unlockable charecters including Oddjob and Scaramanga. Multiplayer mode also includes several weapon sets and you can also control 2 mini vechicles and fixed gun positions as an option in all levels apart from the last. Also this time around EA games have used Pierce Brosnans' face which makes the game feel more realistic than other James Bond games.

Ther are not really any major downsides about this game except that the weapon sets are not fully customisable in multiplayer mode as they are in Agent under fire which I doubt that anyone would have a problem with.

Overall a brilliant game but still could never beat the quality of Goldeneye on the N64 but it is much better than Agent under fire and the disapointing james bond PS1 era. This game is ideal for people who liked Agent under fire and anyone who is looking for a decent game to spend their hard earned cash on.