James Bond 007: Nightfire Video Review
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Gaming Pastime reviews James Bond 007: Nightfire for PC and Xbox.
Developed by Eurocom and published by EA, Nightfire was released for Xbox in November, 2002. Gearbox Software developed the PC version which was also released in November, 2002. The console version of Nightfire is one of the best games in the series. Unfortunately, the PC version is a mess.
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Such a great Bond game. Arguably the best next to Goldeneye of course. Anyone remember Everything or Nothing for ps2? That's another gem.
it was for all platforms, yes, that game was the best bond game to me
Some dont wait for no one when your standing there getting caught in the rain WHAT IS LOVE WITHOUT NAME WHATS A ROSE WITHOUT A FACE IN THE EVERYTHING OR NOTHING
Still have em both
Everything or Nothing and From Russia With Love so godlike.
Agent under fire?
Nightfire's PS2 split screen was pretty much my first contact with MP-shooters. l tried the game at a friend's birthday party in elementary school and after getting my ass kicked, asked my mom to get Nightfire for Christmas and l got it. l absolutely destroyed everyone at the next year's party. We played almost exclusively Skyrail.
Nice. Had the multi tap for ps2 specifically for this game and a few sports games. Multiplayer was almost as great as the goldeneye days. Too bad it wasnt more popular.
Best map by miles! Me and my mates were addicted to that, hours travelling up and down that ski lift haha
Ah the memories, my friend would come over and we would play night fire and do sniping battles, having all the AI enemies try to kill us, remote controlled rocket battles, man this game was awesome! Also the campaign was sick and I love the missions where you have to sneak around the Phoenix headquarters
Imho PS2 era Bond titles are one of the most soulful games ever released.
Honestly. Felt just like a good bond movie.
I played 007 games on either Xbox or GameCube
late to the party, but for ps2, gamecube, and xbox were the bond games.
I really enjoyed Nightfire.
The console version, at least.
Bud, your critiques are awesome! I can't even begin to fathom how you're able to publish so frequently, given the depth and detail of your work. Your channel deserves more subscribers and views than it's getting.
Keep it up!
You can say that again, a much better review than the one GGGmanlives gave 3 years ago. He didn't even talk about the multiplayer of "Nightfire" at all, he just sounded like he was pissed his girlfriend or wife didn't give him some quality time in the bedroom and he took he's frustrations into his "Nightfire" review. Which resulted into an half-ass review.
I have countless hours spent on this game. I got it with my PS2 for Christmas one year. Me, my cousins and brother would play multi with bots on the snow map allll the timeee. Also OddJob was OP because you could throw his hat.
Bond actually originally had his Agent Under Fire Appearance. (They even left in a few cutscenes in the gameboy version using that model.) changing his face is quicker than getting all the voice acting re-done.
Seem strange, hadn't Brosnan already done his last Bond movie? And wasn't a bit of a flop?
@@jamstonjulian6947It was never a flop. It earned almost half a billion and earned mixed-to-positive reviews upon release. Don't believe the word of the revisionists.
Reports vary, but the voice acting debacle was reported to be both a time issue and contractual/legal issue. It depends on which key person says what. Safe to say, though, that they immediately managed to get Brosnan to do the voice work for 'Everything or Nothing' just before both his final film premiered and 'Nightfire' was released.
The pc version ran in Goldsrc the Half-Life 1 engine. it's not a port but a standalone game.
That era of gaming in the 2000s and early 2010s was really weird and tedious. Before the PS3/360 era, PC versions would either be a separately developed game like Nightfire, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and the infamous Spider-Man 2, and during the PS3/360 era PC ports would be just the PS2/last gen version of said game. For all the issues the current gen of gaming has, I'm glad the PC isn't getting the short end of the stick nowadays.
@@Nachy ya i bought Gun on 360 recently because the PC version is a PS2 port with no widescreen support.
@@chrisrichfield8906 Oh yeah forgot about Gun, that was another annoying port, and iirc the PC version was even hard-capped at 30fps
@@Nachy its just best on 360. The models and textures are much better on 360 than PC.
Yeah, the enemies have hitscan in that engine which is why they hit accurately
When i first played in 2007 it was my second FPS after Perfect Dark and seeing so much similarities (the weapons secondary functions, the Ronin similar to the Lapton Gun) it keep me so entertained. I love this game so much.
Nightfire + multiplayer + bots + skyline = countless hours of nostalgia
I always felt that Nightfire was a better game than Agent Under Fire. Thanks for the review.
Damn, I have pretty fond memories of this game. I had it on the GameCube and played split screen a lot with my older brothers. This was probably more than ten years ago. I happened to find the scratched game disc and case today, in an old box of collected junk.
The sound of the Phoenix Gun... Pure nostalgia!
Damn, you deserve a lot more views and subs
I just realized how good nightfire was. I played it on xbox. I remember these secrets with 007 medal. I was messing with the bots on multiplayer for hours also those reflections on vehicle missions are well made. great review as always!
"Gearbox software developed the PC version"
*Kisses fingers*
The signs were always there....
Crapbox Software also made Halo 1. Guess which version was utter trash? They were too inept to get the "invisible" shader effects on NPCs to work. Now they went "transparent" instead. Armchair Developers at its finest!!
Gearbox is one of the most overrated studios out there. The only good games they made are Opposing force for Half life and Borderlands. Everything else they touched was shit.
@@MarkoUntitled is overrated cause of Borderlands and the ideas for a new planned but sadly cancelled new title on the Brothers In Arms series were wasted in both Borderlands and also Battleborn.
Looking back at it, you could show me 3 seconds of fps gameplay from the xbox and pc versions and its so noticeably different because of the different engines
Always found it funny how the bosses in this game are just people who can take a lot of bullets for no reason. Like, one's a ninja which for some reason means he can just eat shots and shrug em off. Never knew Ninja's could do that.
That ninja can be killed with one shot or 2 shots to the head with the sniper rifle if you can find it before facing him. Armitage Rook can be taken down with a few headshots from the AIMS-20. Drake can be finished with one blast of the lasers secondary fire.
BROOO HOW IS YOUR CHANNEL SO UNDERRATEDDDD?!?! The amount of detail you go into and the editing and just time time and effort put into your vids. Youre masterful and i love your approach, dont stop doin what yuh doin.
You should do a review on 007 Everything or Nothing for the PS2
I was actually looking for this yesterday after watching your Agent Under Fire review, seeing that you were coincidentally also working on this one made my day. Thanks for the upload, I love your videos ❤️
Maybe consider calling reviews of old games "retrospectives", they tend to get more views
Drop the PC version. The console version is absolutely stellar. No one expects it to be perfect, but the packaging, delivery, experience and value in this game are top shelf. Wish I still had a functioning ps2 to play it on. One of my favourites and easily one of the most defining games of my early teens. The music mix in the menu is the sexiest ever. That jazz trumpet life with the keyboard punches. Can't touch that.
You are amazing, keep maintaining this classics alive dude
I think the PC Version is pretty good, and is still one of the best Bond games on PC. I just wish they would have ported the levels 1:1 instead of building new ones. If I didn‘t know that there was a console version, the PC version would be amazing.
comrade
3:46 LOL Did you get killed by a shutter!? By the way, you should try Nightfire on the Dolphin emulator (so Gamecube port) with mouse & keyboard controls. It's a real treat. Glad you enjoyed this one, it's second only Goldeneye (N64, not the crappy GoldenEye: Rogue Agent) with Everything or Nothing following very closely behind.
How hard is that to set up? I know emulators can be kinda quirky.
@@_trashPANDA Actually pretty easy these days emulators are almost click and play. You just need pretty good hardware emulators are demanding even on great specs.
@@_trashPANDA You'll need to mess with some config files but if you're comfortable with that sort of thing, it's more about the time you'll need to commit to get it to feel right rather than difficulty in setting everything up.
Glad I'm not the only one who enjoyed the console version more then the PC version, the PC one is just very janky. I grew up playing the console version and only just recently tried the PC version, glad I grew up with the GC version.
That's alot of version.
I think the problem with the cutscenes is that they were designed with 4:3 in mind. Even some enemies only react when you move the camera within a 4:3 area. Probably the 16:9 was added at the last minute and they didn't fix this flaws.
I miss NOLF 1 and 2. The best Bond games ever, even if they don't have Agent 007 in them.
Enjoyed the review! Is the PS2 version 60 fps or 30?
I wish an HD version would come to Switch
Nightfire on the OG xbox was where I started. Dumped so many hours playing splitscreen with both of my stepbrothers.
One of the best 007 games next to golden eye. I loved the Xbox version in 2002 I loved it as a kid. I would kill for both agent underfire & nightfire on the Xbox one.
Great review as always man. Are you guys planning on reviewing Dusk again now that it's out of early access?
This game is so forgotten about what a gem.
Not sure if it's the best bond game but it's definitely my favourite it's so polished on the ps2 and game cube the multiplayer is also legendary. Your content is great man keep it up.
Nightfire on Xbox was the best ! Thanks for this nice callback :D Awesome video, keep them coming! I can't wait for xqemu to be fully stable to pop that baby in with a nice resolution bump! Next year hopefully ^^
i know i am extremely alone with my opinion, but i actually prefer the pc version. i just love how it's built with the goldsrc engine and i prefer the first person levels that the pc version added in place of the driving mission of the console version. i do agree the console version is way more polished but i grew up with the pc version so nostalgia might have a major influence on my opinion. both versions are extremely fun tho and i love how we have got two versions to choose from.
I'm not sure I prefer the PC version, but I don't think it's bad at all. I had a lot of fun playing both the story and the multiplayer back in the day. The online multiplayer on PC was absolutely top notch too.
You are not alone
Never head that problem with unofficial patch, the PC version is still better than Legends
Nightfire was my childhood. I used to play hundreds of hours playing the multiplayer with my brother. We had to ban the golden gun because it was so cheesy. It was also pretty fun disabling all guns except for explosives. Shame about the PC version.
The good news is by now there is a much better built PC version of this game or so ive heard people have even made a great Goldeneye PC game might still be able to be found downloaded and played it had MP included into to it for multiple people to play together
Best played on the console versions, and the multiplayer is just as amazing fun as always!
I have it on Xbox and I always go back to it because it’s that good
The ps2, GameCube, Xbox, and gba era is the golden age of gaming.
Not really, you're leaving out the real golden era of gaming which started with the SNES and continued with the PS1 and ended with the PS2.
I've gotta play this at some point. I'd rather play the console version (first time I've EVER said that) but it looks more entertaining imo (granted I can use mouse and keyboard. I'm not a mouse and keyboard elitist, but I physically cannot play a FPS with a controller and get past level 1). I'd still like to try both.
You guys should review the gamecube exclusive Geist. It's a fun overlooked FPS games with action and paranormal elements.
Awesome review brother!
You have a new sub
Nightfire is so much fun with friends.
My favorite 007 game.
The pc version of this was way to stupid hard. Knowing this I played this game on classic Xbox as a kid around 7-9 years old
If this game supported Xbox live it would’ve been perfect, the multiplayer has so many features
One of the last EA games that was actually good.
Untrue, EA made tons of great games during the 6th generation of consoles
I still own my copy as well as from Russia with love both for the ps2
8:56 I think the PC version starts with all skins and modes unlocked for multiplayer.
What about 007 goldeneye rogue agent?
Still got it for ps2
Bad AI on the PC version... That's Gearbox alright!
By the way thank you for the 007 about 2 years ago I had a james bond phase and I tried to watch all the movies and look at all the games.
* 007 content
One of my most played ps2 games. The MP was so good for this. Pretty sure we only ever played on Skyrail haha.
Who remembers Oddjob's hat in multiplayer that could insta kill you in one hit? lmao
The only thing I hate about PC version is that driving missions were removed. I mean who doesn't wants to drive Aston Martin ? Am I the only who felt sad & frustrated that we PC gamers didn't got to drive Aston Martin ?
Screw you Gearbox.
1 YEAR LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?
to be fair the ps2 stealth missions in the sky scraper was a way cooler setting
Great review. May I recomend the PS2 version of Quantum Of Solace also Developed by Eurocom. It was surprisingly better than the PS3 and XBOX360 versions developed by Treyarch. Just check Metacritic.
Hey, maybe there was a typo in the PC code that broke the AI. Wait, no, Gearbox couldn't do anything that incompetent.
Nightfire the best 007 game in my opinion
Great in-depth review , for a second i thought i was watching Gggmanlives video and that's a huge positive
I tried playing it with dolphin emulator as i played the pc one....though it was lagging like shit....one thing i was convinced......the console one is really better than the PC counterpart. Also i am still waiting for your review/thoughts on Painkiller supernatural 2.0 and great video again.......
Dwaipayan Mukherjee Odd, Nightfire ran perfectly fine for me, glitched up cutscenes notwithstanding. Really fun, especially since save states meant the limited lives and long checkpoints nonsense could be bypassed.
What settings did you use?
@@gameragodzilla By settings you mean my specifications??.....although i meant lagging on both of them.....the emulation one and the pc original......but somehow i saw that the console version was nicely presented rather than the pc.....though i have to admit....quick saves were a boon for the pc....
@@dwaipayanupadhyay766 Well yeah, but also your Dolphin settings. See if there's something you're doing wrong. It works really well for me and save states function well as quicksaves.
@@gameragodzilla i tried the settings.....and unfortunately it's lagging like shit......especially when doing full-screen.....the mouse especially
Dwaipayan Mukherjee I see. That sucks. Well play around with the settings a bit and see if it helps. Renderer or software/hardware mode might change enough.
Ammunition fed rail gun? Dude that's the gun from Deep Rising, I'm sure of it.
Hehe suppressor he corrected himself haha I love this dude!
How are you running NightFire on your pc? Mine runs on windows 10, but crashes as soon as I try to change graphics settings.
I have three versions of this
Xbox gamecube and PC
Your channel's icon looks like the Gregg's bakery logo
I remember at the time this and the Halo PC port made me a bit skeptical of Gearbox. And then years later they'd outdo themselves with Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Do you like this game more than Goldeneye 007 on N64?
I do enjoy Goldeneye 007 but I prefer Perfect Dark for the improved control and superior level design. That framerate though! Yuck.
I spent countless hours in multiplayer - getting one shot by Odd Job AIs wasn't fun, but tripmining them was funny.
Damn son where'd u find this??
PC nightfire SUUUUUCKS!!!!!! PS2 is were the fond memories come from
How to save game, how to save?
I think I know why thr PC version was a mess....
It was running under the outdated GoldSrc engine, yes, that engine.
That's why Gearbox developed the PC version, they did Half Life: Opposing Force, and Half Life: Blue Shift.
F**k Gearbox.
Fuck Randy Pitchford as well
@@ChaseMC215 Is he the CEO of that company ?
@@Indians-dl3to
I don't know, and I don't care, he ruined Duke Nukem for everyone
@@ChaseMC215 Are they out of business ?
LOL, Bond lands on his back then flips himself over to mount that girl!
10:22 ps2 version was the worst of em all. it could only have 2 players splitscreen and max 4 bots, while the nintendo gamecube(maybe the xbox too) could have 6 bots at once + 4 players splitscreen. 10 players on 1 map overall
Why didn't they just port the console version to PC?
It was the lazy PC port era.
I had this on gamecube. It was to me like the pc version. Too hard. Could not get off thw first level, quickly loss interest and traded game at gamestop. Everything or Nothing was great, even the multiplayer. Rhe one on Ps 3 was good too.
How do i make it work? My game crashes, i downloaded pirated copy(its good), installed unofficial patch, and game crashes after new game. Win 10.
Right click and set to run as admin. Make a shortcut of the exe to start.
There is a reason why the pc version is so clunky
And it is because it uses the gold source engine (the same engine games like half life and counter strike used)
PC game was good,just good
This and No One Lives Forever was my childhood :)....and Sonic the Hedgehog.
So nobody says anyrging about Bond needing more sex interactive plays to be more faithful to the real experience?
You can play the GameCube version with Mouse and Keyboard in Dolphin, it pretty great :)
It supports other games like Die Hard, MoH, Timesplitters 2 / FP.
github.com/carnivoroussociety/MouseInjectorDolphin
"guns will solve most of your problems"
USA in nutshell
Damn straight.
FOR ENGLAND JAMES????
no, for me.
@@cambreaKer took 4 months before someone answered that :( but thanks for doing it
Nah fam, gba version's where it's at.
Crossbow and RPG are basically the ones from half life lmao
Can you look at Godzilla Video Games?????????
Yes. All in time.
Im early
before activision took over and fucked it all up...
First? (Whoa)