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James Bond 007: Nightfire

007: Nightfire is a first-person shooter featuring the character of the British secret agent James Bond and a sequel to Agent Under Fire. The game marked Pierce Brosnan's fourth appearance as James Bond before…

58 18 November 2002

James Bond 007: Nightfire is a shooter developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software, released 18 November 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What James Bond 007: Nightfire is

James Bond 007: Nightfire is a shooter game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and released in 2002. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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…
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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, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the James Bond series

James Bond 007: Nightfire is the 22nd of 44 entries we hold in the James Bond series. It arrived a year after James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire. The next entry was James Bond 007: Nightfire in 2002. Its critic score of 58 is 10 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is GoldenEye 007 at 88.

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How it was received

James Bond 007: Nightfire holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Players rate it 66, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

James Bond 007: Nightfire launched on 18 November 2002, within three weeks of Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion and Gothic II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion, Gothic II.

Cheats and codes

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When did James Bond 007: Nightfire come out?
James Bond 007: Nightfire was released on 18 November 2002 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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