You can customize the weapon set that everyone will have access to and can even turn on things like grapple points and controllable vehicles. In terms of weapons, you have at your disposal every single weapon in the main game. You’ll be shooting your friends in all sorts of exotic locales like Fort Knox, Atlantis, and the king of kings itself, Skyrail.
So if you feel really masochistic, you can go up against a high-level omnipotent Bond aided by nothing but a greedy Nick Nack who just steals all the weapons and dies immediately after, what a shitter. There’s four-player splitscreen and you can also set up bots, along with their traits and difficulties. To take people from all walks of life and unite them in one common cause against James Bond Tuxedo, James Bond Mission Suit, and Pussy Galore. This is the thing that will bring people together. Who would’ve thought that acclaimed alcoholic James Bond would drive in such an irresponsible manner?īut no discussion on Nightfire would be complete without touching on the multiplayer aspect. Though not a long title, Nightfire is a well-crafted and consice game. Whenever you start pining for something different, the game will throw you into an underwater car-submarine sequence. The pace of the game is pretty steady the entire way through. While the Japanese estate will have you run in guns blazing, frequently running out of ammo and having to pick up the guns of enemies. The shipyard outside a nuclear power plant will see you sniping foes from long range. And every level has a unique flavor due to the gimmick. Almost every level takes place in a different part of the world or out of it. In a James Bond film, the stand-out stars of the movies are the locations and Nightfire does not disappoint in this respect.
So, same purpose, but it’s less like using sights and more like James Bond is squinting his eyes really hard. Instead, in its place is a sort of zoom-in where your view gets tracked forward a few feet and you can more carefully aim. This means there’s little to no recoil and no ability to aim down sights. The game goes for an arcade-like style of gunplay. These are used much less frequently but oftentimes using them will lead to a secret cache of weapons or a 007 emblem for points. You also have a wristwatch laser, a grapple, and other gadgets available whenever the opportunity to use them arises. Each weapon you find has a secondary fire option that ranges in utility. Pistols with togglable silencers and whatever level-specific weaponry that the enemies drop will define your playthrough. You have at your disposal a whole gaggle of weaponry and gadgets. The gameplay in Nightfire is on point if a bit simplistic. Hopefully you enjoy scenic Japan more than Sean Connery enjoys actual Japanese people. Which, coincidentally, is perfect for a video game. So expect a lot of nonsensical action, flat characterizations, and crazily-obtuse world-ending devices. As you can guess from that description, the tone of Nightfire is squarely in the vein of late 90’s and early 00’s Bond flicks. You’ll infiltrate a crime lord’s mansion party before escaping from said party in a machinegun-touting snowmobile. The set pieces you would expect from the man of mystery are here.
Instead, this game is a sort of smorgasbord of a whole bunch of movies, with inspiration drawn from several pieces of 007’s catalog. Nightfire doesn’t follow the plot of any of the movies. The thing that really makes that experience special is the voice, the suit, and that kick-ass theme. Because you can shoot things and drive around in any ho-hum video game. This really helps sell Nightfire as a Bond game. Maxwell Caulfield is a great stand-in for the man though, so you won’t miss ol‘ Thomas Crown much. As you can see up there, Pierce Brosnan provided his likeness for the go, though not his voice. Shoot, stealth, and drive through a whole lot of exotic locations in order to stop an evil dude from using an evil weapon to evidently do evil things. James Bond 007: Nightfire is an action-espionage FPS for the sixth generation of consoles. This is the likeness of the man who would go on to sing ABBA’s “SOS” in order to woo Meryl Streep.
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