James Bond 007: Nightfire
The PC version of James Bond 007: Nightfire was developed by Gearbox Software while Eurocom developed the home console version. It is mostly the same except for the removal of driving sections used in home…
James Bond 007: Nightfire is a shooter developed by Gearbox Software, released 28 November 2002 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What James Bond 007: Nightfire is
James Bond 007: Nightfire is a shooter game developed by Gearbox Software and released in 2002. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GoldSrc.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game's prologue mission starts in Paris, France, with James Bond helping French Intelligence operative Dominique Paradis evade a gang chase while chasing a truck with a stolen nuclear weapon, before continuing in his car. After stopping the truck from blowing up the Eiffel Tower, Dominique and James celebrate New Year's Eve. The British Government sends Bond undercover to a party in industrialist Raphael Drake's Austrian castle. M believes that the party is a cover for the exchange of a missile guidance chip between Raphael Drake and Alexander Mayhew, who manages the Japanese branch of Drake's industry, Phoenix International, and had stolen the chip from the United States. Phoenix is…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the James Bond series
James Bond 007: Nightfire is the 23rd of 44 entries we hold in the James Bond series. The next entry was 2 Games: Tomorrow Never Dies / The World Is Not Enough in 2002. Its critic score of 57 is 11 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is GoldenEye 007 at 88.
How it was received
James Bond 007: Nightfire holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
James Bond 007: Nightfire launched on 28 November 2002, within three weeks of Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.
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