007: Nightfire

aka: James Bond 007: Nightfire
Moby ID: 7804
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You take on the role of James Bond and must save the world. The Phoenix International Corporation is focused on dismantling nuclear warheads throughout the world, but later evidence has been found that the CEO of the corporation, Raphael Drake, is using his company's concept as a means to find and use the warheads for his own purposes. Because his plans are so well hidden, it is up to Bond, with the help of Q and his gadgets, to stop Drake at whatever cost.

Throughout the game, you will be taken to more than ten exotic areas, reaching all areas of the globe, confronting the beautiful Bond women. In your quest to stop the Phoenix Corporation, you have a variety of weapons available to you, from your trusty Walther to more advanced and prototype machinery.

There are twelve total missions, all of which combine stealth, combat, and Q's trusty gadgets, such as your laser watch and X-ray eyeglasses.'

There are five levels that take place in your Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, and other exotic but deadly sports cars. These missions aren't available in the computer version of the game, instead the Windows version has some other bonus missions.

On the multiplayer side of things, there are over ten multiplayer modes, some of which include characters and settings from previous Bond moves.

Spellings

  • 007 ナイトファイア - Japanese spelling
  • 007 나이트파이어 - Korean spelling
  • 詹姆斯邦德007:暗夜之火 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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James Bond, 007, James Bond Gun and Iris Logos and all other James Bond properties © 1962-2002
  • Danjaq LLC
Aston Martin V12 Vanquish used under license from
  • Aston Martin Lagonda Limited
  • Ford Motor Company
Shelby, the CS Design, and the design/shape of the Cobra 427 are the trademarks and/or trade dress of
  • Carroll Shelby and Carroll Shelby Licensing Inc.
Cobra and the Cobra Snake Designs are registered trademarks used by Shelby under a worldwide exclusive license with
  • Ford Motor Company
Pierce Brosnan name and likeness used under license from
  • Kilkenny Productions Inc.
"Nearly Civilized"
  • Esthero (performed and written by)
  • Paul Alexander Campbell (written by)
  • Henry Priestman (written by)
  • © 2002 EMI April Music [Canada] Ltd./Stinyminky Music [SOCAN]/EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Broughton Park Music.
  • All Right for Stinkyminky Music controlled and administered by EMI April Music Inc.
  • All Right for Broughton Park Music controlled and administered by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. [BMI]
  • All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission.
  • Recording courtesy of Reprise Records Under license from Warner Special Products
"James Bond Theme"
  • Monty Norman (written by)
  • © 1962 Renewed 1190 United Artists Ltd.
  • All Rights Controlled and Administered by EMI Unart Catalog Inc.
  • All Rights Reserved.
  • Interational Copyright Secured.
  • Used by Permission.
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Average score: 79% (based on 38 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 77 ratings with 6 reviews)

The game is Bond - James Bond.

The Good
I am a die-hard James Bond fan and so my expectations on this game were high. You can't imagine my joy when I booted this game up and it started right with the Bond eye sequence and then ofcourse the introductory "5 minutes warmup" scene every Bond movie has to have. This scene consists of full motion video sequences (very cool looking!) and player interactivity - first, you need to shoot some enemies from a helicopter and then you need to take over the steering wheel and drive a lady home safe ;) After the intro scene was done, well, what to expect? Yes - there is no Bond movie without the colorful and often weird "women-dancing-with-guns" sequence where the credits are displayed. Sure enough the game sports this and with an original song too!

After user creation, you'll be dropped right into the action. The game consists of three gameplay modes: first person shooter, rail shooter and driving. In the first mission, you need to get into a castle in Austria and steal some chip from the safe, then escape with your fellow woman spy. It's almost dark outside, snow is falling, and the guards are on alert. Here you can use your Bond gear and weapons. You start with the Walther PPK but you'll get a sniper rifle and submachine gun quickly. In this mission, you'll also need to use your watch laser to open a safe and cut some wires (beware: cutting the wrong wires like I did results in alert).

After some shootouts, you'll escape with the female spy in a gondola down the mountain where you'll be attacked by a bad guy in a helicopter. You will need to shoot it down with your rocket launcher ;)

Next on is a railshooter segment where the lady spy is driving a snow mobile down the mountain and James is at the gun, shooting everything that moves. These are very well designed sequences with lots of speed and great full motion video - you feel like you're watching a Bond movie.

The third mode was imported straight from the EA game "Need for Speed" - you need to drive the Bond car and accomplish the given mission.

Most of the sequences will be shooting scenes, but they will be alternated with railshooter and driving scenes so it doesn't get boring. There is always action on the screen, be it hard shooting stuff or tense sneaky intruding into buildings. There also are 10 different locations in various countries.

All movie sequences, be it in game or full motion video, are very nice modelled and of course with full speech. James Bond himself is spoken by the current movie actor Pierce Brosnan.

Ok, so now after all this gibberish I need to tell you what I liked ... well, I liked that it's like a Bond movie. EA didn't do the mistake and waste this license on some stupid shooting game without a proper story, they really put effort into it, wrote a story which is like a typical Bond movie story (crazy dude wants atomic war etc.). They made great movie sequences, used the original actor to speak Bond, created interesting missions with pretty graphics, let you use new and classic gadgets... well - it's a Bond movie! They even designed a sidekick to the bad guy who really looks and talks like Oddjob or his likes, and pretty (!) girls. Even the dialogue is really typical Bond style - on the party in the first mission, the bad sidekick approaches Bond, grinning like a shark, and asks with a threatening voice: "Do you enjoy the party, Sir?" :)

Yes, thank you - I did!



The Bad
The controls are a bit unprecise and the speech is too low - you often can't hear a thing (but there are subtitles). I also found the guards in the first mission were way too dumb - they never even walked around a corner (in later missions they get better though). Also, the sound the guards make are not well positioned - it always sounds like they stand next to you, but they often enough are far away.

The Bottom Line
If you like James Bond movies and action games, it's the one for you! There never was anything more authentic to the original movies than James Bond Nightfire. Hell, there was never a better movie licensed game (apart from Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza, but that was for the PC only I think).

PlayStation 2 · by phlux (4295) · 2002

As good as the original Goldeneye for N64

The Good
The multiplayer mode is a lot of fun. much better than agent under fire's. Its just fun to play it by yourself with bots. The single player mode is pretty cool especially the driving missions.

The Bad
There is no way to customize the weapon sets on multiplayer and there arn't many missions in the single player mode.

The Bottom Line
It's a good party game for a lot of people and also fun in single player but the missions get really hard... when trying to get platinums that is. Its a lot of fun and if you liked the original goldeneye for n64 you should definatly buy it

GameCube · by Alex Reynolds (1) · 2003

Talk About A View To A Kill

The Good
The James Bond games have always been fun to me! Nightfire is a good game, and should be remembered The graphics are actually really good! The story line will constantly have you at the edge of your seat. The game has a variety of guns and gadgets. Lovely level designs and and great CG graphics. I also love the multi-player in this game! Though the game sounds flawless, its not.

The Bad
Perhaps the programmers should have made Bond just a tad bit more durable. Bond dies way to easily in the game. Or perhaps the game designers should have made the level designs less confusing. Players will find themselves going into the same lobby/room/etc. This is especially frustrating in the level "Night Shift". And it could have also been better if the car was supplied with a little more ammo. Ammo is very very limited in the "Vanquish" mission. Those are the flaws I find most important to point out.

The Bottom Line
The game is fine! You'll have lots of fun destroying your friends in multi-player or just battle some enemy bots when alone. The games story line is great. I used the "View To A Kill" reference because that's one of my favorite Bond movies,and NightFire is one of my favorite Bond games.

PlayStation 2 · by TwoDividedByZero (114) · 2010

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Trivia

Development

After work was finished on 007: The World is Not Enough, Electronic Arts decided to unlink the games from the films since it was very hard to get the game finished simultaneously with the film. They wanted Eurocom Entertainment Software to make a game based on one of the old movies, but updated as in a remake. Keeping the original 60s setting was brought up several times, but always rejected.

After going through the movies, the decision fell on the Bond film You Only Live Twice, but EA preferred Moonraker. Eventually the remake idea was dropped and Nightfire being something of a mash-up of both films. For example, Raphael Drake, the game's villain, closely resembles Moonraker's Hugo Drax. Moonraker also featured narrow escapes from shuttle exhaust, villains fleeing into space and a laser battle on an orbital platform.

Guns

With the exception of some of the more far-out guns (such as the laser rifle), most of the guns in this game are real world weapons (in fact many of them also featured in Counter-Strike). However, to avoid royalty issues with the gun manufacturers, the game gives them all slightly altered names. For example, Bond's famous Walther PPK has now become the Wolfram PP7, and the Fn PN90 from Counter-Strike and Stargate SG-1 has become the Munitions Belga PDW90.

References

The ending credits feature the famous cinematic phrase, "James Bond Will Return."

Additional information contributed by Sciere and Terrence Bosky

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Game added by JPaterson.

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Game added November 24, 2002. Last modified March 12, 2024.