007: Nightfire
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007: Nightfire
(2002 on
Windows, 2004 on
Macintosh)
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007: Nightfire
(2003 on
Game Boy Advance)
Description official descriptions
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
Groups +
- 3D Engine: EngineX / EngineXT
- Automobile: Aston Martin Vanquish
- James Bond licensees
- Nintendo Player's Choice releases
- PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
- PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
- Setting: City - Paris
- Setting: City - Tokyo
- Setting: Space station / Spaceship
- Weapon: OICW
- Xbox Platinum Hits releases
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Promos
Credits (PlayStation 2 version)
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| James Bond, 007, James Bond Gun and Iris Logos and all other James Bond properties © 1962-2002 |
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| Aston Martin V12 Vanquish used under license from |
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| Shelby, the CS Design, and the design/shape of the Cobra 427 are the trademarks and/or trade dress of |
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| Cobra and the Cobra Snake Designs are registered trademarks used by Shelby under a worldwide exclusive license with |
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| Pierce Brosnan name and likeness used under license from |
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| "Nearly Civilized" |
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| "James Bond Theme" |
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Reviews
Critics
Average score: 79% (based on 39 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 83 ratings with 6 reviews)
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
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
This game ranks up there with Goldeneye, the only other good Bond game.
The Good
The storyline is bad, but neither is it good. Some of the missions seem lacking in point. The multiplayer is what makes this game so good. In my book the secret to a good multiplayer, which also in my opinion is why games should exist, is that they should have massive interactive levels, lots of game play options, and a ton of weapons. This game has all of these and even more than that. The levels are incredibly large, almost always with two different sides. The gadgets in the multi. mode are actually used, I have used the grapple to escape on many an ocasion. There are a control scheme for every bond movie and for the game, which is probably the easiest to use. The AI can be horrible or incredibly smart and well capable of you. I have practiced against these AI so much that my friends will no longer play with me because I always .
The Bad
The way that too many elements are introduced to the same game. Leave stealth to Splinter Cell, and driving to Gran Turismo.
The Bottom Line
You should buy this game for its multi.
Xbox · by Jester236 (34) · 2004
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.
GameCube, PlayStation 2 added by POMAH.
Additional contributors: Alan Chan, Unicorn Lynx, Corn Popper, Patrick Bregger, Plok, Zhuzha.
Game added November 24, 2002. Last modified February 11, 2025.