Do you have what it takes to be Bond?
- NA release: 18th November 2002
- EU release: 29th November 2002
- JP release: N/A
- Developer: Eurocom
- Publisher: EA
- NGC Magazine Score: 72%
- Mods Used: None


With Agent Under Fire doing well for EA without having to be an adaptation of a Bond film, EA carried on with making new adventures for Bond, this time with Eurocom, who made the fantastic The World is not Enough on N64. There’s also a greater feeling of “legitimacy” due to the use of Pierce Brosnan’s face (although not his voice). It does a really good job at capturing the tone and style of the films, but how does it play?

Thankfully, it plays great. Nightfire is a solid first person shooter, with a bit of stealth mixed in (which works better than stealth in previous Bond games), and in quite a few instances, you’re prevented with a few ways to progress, which goes a long way into making you feel like Bond, as you need to spot these opportunities for yourself. There’s also a good mixture of fast-paced action and slower objective and stealth-based missions to keep things interesting.

Vehicle missions return and, while they’re more linear than Agent Under Fire, feel amazing. The driving is good enough that they could have mage a great racing game out of it, and there’s still bit of variety in it, with one car mission focused on using guns and another letting you drive the Vanquish as a submarine, something the actual Bond driving game failed to do despite having the actual underwater Lotus Elise.

Nightfire is a really solid all-round adventure and one of the best Bond games, which says a lot as there’s some very strong competition. It’s defensibly not as ground breaking as GoldenEye was, but it’s still a wonderful experience.

Fave
Perhaps we’re being a bit too harsh. But despite the obvious bells and whistles – and occasional flashes of real excitement that creeping around a new area, or racing through city streets, or firefighting in a Tokyo manor engender – this is really just a spit and polish of Agent Under Fire. Sure, it’s been improved considerably and is a demonstrably better game, there’s a grander sense of occasion, and true-to-form innuendo is slathered liberally all over the place, but underneath all the gloss it’s not really that different from Bond’s first GameCube title.
Jes Bickham, NGC Magazine #75
Remake or remaster?
A remaster would be amazing, along with a version of the test facility level that was in the PC/GBA games.
Official Ways to get the game
There is no official way to get Nightfire.
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