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13-Aug-2007, 21:55
<a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/find/Games/all/all/1">Games</a> > <a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/find/Games/PS2/all/1">PS2</a> > <strong>James Bond 007: Nightfire (2002) PAL Retail CD</strong>
<font size="1">added on August 13, 2007, at 21:55 by bki</font><br /><br /><table><tr valign="top"><td>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 <I>007 NightFire</I>--and ready to endorse a bottle of vodka near you. <p> Games companies are weird. This release comes in the same year as the 40th anniversary of James Bond, as well as <I>Die Another Day</I>, 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 <I>Die Another Day</I> in it. Whaaaat?<p> Bizarre marketing decisions aside, this could finally be the game to come out from behind the shadow of the seminal N64 classic <I>GoldenEye</I>. 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 <I>GoldenEye</I> is a bit like being asked to make <I>Citizen Kane 2</I>, but EA have sensibly gone back to the spirit of the original and <I>NightFire</I> is much more strategic than their last attempt, the rather shallow <I>Agent Under Fire</I>. 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.<p> 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. --<I>David Jenkins</I></td><td><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-5821412950245701";google_alternate_color = "F5F5FF";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;google_ad_format = "336x280_as";google_ad_type = "text";google_ad_channel = "0725529317";google_color_border = "F5F5FF";google_color_bg = "F5F5FF";google_color_link = "22229C";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "333333";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="15"><tr align="center"><td valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54560/james_bond_007_nightfire_2002_pal_retail_cd/front"><img src="/image_system/covers_th/0/0/00dafea530c45fad737dfc744822f96e.jpg" border="0"></a><br><strong><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54560/james_bond_007_nightfire_2002_pal_retail_cd/front">front</a></strong><br><font size="1">3221 x 2160 px</font></td></tr></table>
<font size="1">added on August 13, 2007, at 21:55 by bki</font><br /><br /><table><tr valign="top"><td>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 <I>007 NightFire</I>--and ready to endorse a bottle of vodka near you. <p> Games companies are weird. This release comes in the same year as the 40th anniversary of James Bond, as well as <I>Die Another Day</I>, 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 <I>Die Another Day</I> in it. Whaaaat?<p> Bizarre marketing decisions aside, this could finally be the game to come out from behind the shadow of the seminal N64 classic <I>GoldenEye</I>. 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 <I>GoldenEye</I> is a bit like being asked to make <I>Citizen Kane 2</I>, but EA have sensibly gone back to the spirit of the original and <I>NightFire</I> is much more strategic than their last attempt, the rather shallow <I>Agent Under Fire</I>. 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.<p> 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. --<I>David Jenkins</I></td><td><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-5821412950245701";google_alternate_color = "F5F5FF";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;google_ad_format = "336x280_as";google_ad_type = "text";google_ad_channel = "0725529317";google_color_border = "F5F5FF";google_color_bg = "F5F5FF";google_color_link = "22229C";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "333333";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="15"><tr align="center"><td valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54560/james_bond_007_nightfire_2002_pal_retail_cd/front"><img src="/image_system/covers_th/0/0/00dafea530c45fad737dfc744822f96e.jpg" border="0"></a><br><strong><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54560/james_bond_007_nightfire_2002_pal_retail_cd/front">front</a></strong><br><font size="1">3221 x 2160 px</font></td></tr></table>