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Nightfire PC Demo: Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 27 / 33
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Despite the review above which states that EA can't make FPS, this new Bond adventure for the PC will possibly be the best Bond game since our beloved "Goldeneye". Remember those days? I do, boy that game was amazing. I've downloaded the PC Demo for Nightfire and I was shocked.

THE PROS:

*Amazing graphics-Gearbox has really gone beyond expectations. The models are perfect, clear, crisp, and just plain sexy. The enviroments are incredible, lighting is perfect, and shades of color are not too bright or too dark.

*Gameplay-so much fun! It's like "Goldeneye" gone insane, if you thought "Goldeneye" was awesome then you'll die (hopefully another day!) when you play this! Gunfights are are so much fun and damage done by enemies is reasonable.

*Weapons-I used a variety of weapons in the demo. Plus I found a secrete one, DESERT EAGLE. They all have secondary fire modes and fire rate is reasonable. All weapon models are perfect and rounded, no sharp edges or bland color.

*Missions-Hard but damn fun! I love that in computer games. It's somewhat hard but the game is so much fun that you just want to keep trying again. You don't end up throwing your PC out the window.

*AI-Enimies are programed to kill, and they will. They don't roll over and play dead so easily so get ready to fight! So much fun!

*Gadgets-Fun to use and can save your life! The dart pen was fun to use!

*Saving-Save anywhere. THANK YOU GOD!!!!!! this is my favorite aspect of the game!

THE CONS:

*Loading times are insane and long. What the hell were they thinking when deciding to put loading times for almost every damn room you enter in the game? That really made me mad.

*If you carry too many weapons you tend to go a lot slower. You have to drop some weapons to go fatser. I guess this is good if you like realism, but this is Bond damn it not "Ghost Recon".

*Mouse sensitivity-You can adjust it to go a lot smoother but you tend to make the game more glitchy that way. I used an "Alienware Area51 PC" with the new "Geforce-4 titanium graphics card" and the game still got a little glitchy.

*No blood. Hey "Goldeneye" had blood but what's up with this? Would have made the game a lot more real. Plugging a guy in the head and not seeing a spray of scarlet is lame.

FINAL VERDICT:

Nightfire recieves a (4.5/5)

Despite the Cons (Which are really small in the game) this game is a lot more fun and better looking than the outdated "Goldeneye" It's time to move on people, Bond is back and better than ever! Buy this game when it comes out for PC! (the only way to enjoy a game is using a PC)

NOTE: I played the DEMO version of Nightfire for the PC so it may be a lot different and some of the glitches may have been changed when the game is released.

Good and not Great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Someone once said that there is a far greater difference between "good" and "great" than "good" and "bad". Nightfire fits squarely in this definition. Some parts are good or at least tolerable, others are inexcusably bad. All together they made a decent, but not note worthy game.

The first thing the player will see is a neat little intro movie that evokes the colorful Bond openings. I actually think this is one of the better parts of the game, which isn't saying much about the game. Once you actually get in to the levels its first flaw is the engine. Nightfire uses the Half life engine, which is in it self a rebuilt Quake II engine. The HL engine was in its prime six years ago. To their credit the developers squeeze all they can from it. The characters and world objects are well defined with lots of polygons and generally look fairly good. Each level's detail is on par with the most other games out now. The water effects, shiny surfaces, and crisp textures are well done. However the tell tail signs of age are evident. The game lacks many of the modern bells and whistles players have come to expect. Character animations aren't smooth enough and no rag doll physics to speak of. The lighting, shadow, and weapon effects still look like they did in 1998. Clearly the devs polished up the engine but its undoubtly underpowered by today's standards. Obsolete may be another word.

What will make or break any game is the gameplay. Nightfire does not stray from the standard FPS model, but it doesn't bring much to it. It's fairly standard shoot, pick up armor/health, and shoot more FPS fodder. That really is it. The core gameplay isn't anything to rave about. What it does add are the "Bond" touches. In addition to weapons the player has access to a number of gadgets inspired by the films. These had a lot of potentional, but more of a distraction than an integral component. Every once in a while you will have to use one to progress in the game. However they are each serve a single use. The watch laser cuts locks for example. You can't use it as any kind of weapon and has no effect on the enemies. There simply isn't much else to do with them. The music and story are inspired by the Bond films, and done better there too. Neither is used to any great extent and you won't get to know much of the characters either. On an occasion there is a moment that evokes the movies. An early part has you take pictures of gorgeous women with a camera hidden in a cigarette lighter. The "night vision goggles" are slick sunglasses that Bond slips on. There is a good selection of exotic high tech weapons that have a high rate of fire. However it's usual stable of FPS guns (pistol, SMG, sniper, rocket launcher, grenades, etc.) that are available in any other game. Still the "Bond" components aren't enough or used to best effect.

There is some irritating level design in Nightfire. The game helpfully includes a list of objectives. But how you get to them is often too vague. For example one level has crippling a computer network as an objective. But what is this? Do I hit a switch or shoot a power generator, what? This is not made clear. I ran around shooting every computer in sight hoping to accomplish this. It was not until I got to the level after it that I did take out this computer network. Why was I told to do this in the previous level when I could not in fact do so? Often the levels are hard simply because it's unclear how you are supposed to advance to the next part.

Everything aside the biggest flaw is the AI. It's rock stupid. It doesn't qualify as "intelligence" at all really. Enemies will come running in to your fire, ignore loud sounds like grenades exploding, shoot in to walls, slow to react, and generally make Forest Gump look like Garry Kasparov. In one instance I aimed the sniper rifle at one bad guy's head but missed by a hair. Despite the thundering gun shot sound and bullet hole just behind his head, he failed to notice anything. He stood there as if nothing had happened. There are many more instances of incredible incompetence though out the game, suffice to say its just plain bad. Considering that AI in Half Life was one of the best ever its baffling why six years later Nightfire features some of the worst possible.

The end result is a game that is entertaining on a basic level but fails to impress or generate much excitement. It's doesn't overtly fail and follows tried and true conventional design. This could actually be very entertaining to someone not familiar with currently FPS games. However it's AI is terrible and the overall average quality doesn't stand out.

tired

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

after a while you get bored with the same things over and over again.It's challenging in places.It is very obvious what is going to happen nextlike the girl betrads Mr. Bond. but I was about to beat it when it froze up my computer shut down when I turned the game on and it didn't work right.

Great 007 Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Run by the well known internationalist Raphael Drake, the Phoenix Corparation has been in the news lately for its efferts to decommission nuclear weapons, recent intellegences, however, suggest that there are more sinister motives behind Drakes actions. You must infiltrate a heavily fortified mountain castle near the austrillian border. Protect innocent hostages at a Japonese estate guarded by highly trained and heavily armed assasins. Be vigilant at all times in your mission to stop Drake, and always remember that no one, not even your closest allies, can be trusted. Engage in low gravity combat inside a space station armed with nuclear missles. Defeat Drakes army of elite paramilitary commandos on a nearly deserted South Pacific island. There are deadly, and sometimes familiar, villains-like Oddjob and Jaws-make every move a potentially dangerous one. There are nine action packed, single player missions, filled with beautifull women and treacherous enemies, demand your immediate attention and utmost skill. There are awesome online battles with up to thirty-two people and challenging all enemies in more than fifteen exotic locations deliver the most callenging multiplayer action ever! There are also cool special gadgets including Q-Specks for infrarred, night, and x-ray visibility, the Phoenix suitcase turret gun, and the laser watch. Do you have what it takes to be Bond?

IT'S GONNA BE BETTER THAN GOLDENEYE, YOU WATCH!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 35
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MASTERPIECE TO COME OUT. I READ A GAME MAGAZINE, AND THEY SAID THAT YOU CAN USE A CROSSBOW,NEW ASSUALT RIFLES,BETTER SHOTGUN,A MORE COOLER P2K PISTOL, AND EVEN NEW GADGETS, LIKE X-RAY GLASSES,MAGNETIC CLIMBING DEVICE( for climbing walls,swweett!),A BRIEFCASE GUN W/ CAMERA AND CONTROLLER, AND ALSO A WRISTWATCH LASER. THEY EVEN SAID THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE BIGGER,BETTER,COOLER MULTIPLAYER LEVELS AND GADGETS( talk about heaven!),with more places to explore. plus there will be over 15 new levels;from a skyscraper,to an outer space station,the levels will diffinetly beat goldeney's [rear] back to the discount rack at the [thrift store] ( that would be so funny to see!)they also said that they will inprove enemy A.I., and even make you have different choices for what you wan't to do. with all this value,i thinks it will BEAT Goldeneye at first glance. you should not miss this in NOVEMBER, it will be sswwweeett man!! 007,over and out......

The best game - Bond wise

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the demo, and all I can say for this game is "Wow." The only complaint I have is my own PC, which is a P3 700Mhz 512MB RAM. Despite it's slowness, the game runs OK. It's still very hard to control the mouse, but I kill guys anyways. I will be buying this game when I get my new computer which will get rid of the glitches.

Even if there's no blood, the gameplay makes up for it. There's nothing funner than sniping a guy in the back of the head and they can't even see you. The damage control is good, you pick up vests to get full health again.

I have a 32MB video card, and the graphics aren't all that great, since I use it at the lowest resolution. I've seen the graphics on a computer, they're insane, so smooth, so I won't mark it down because of my piece of junk.

Overall it's 4/5 stars. If they made it a tad bit faster on 700Mhz it would be nice :)

Very underrated game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Online all I see is people attacking this game for being simplistic and a disgrace to the bond games. Personally, I think the game is great. While the loading times for some levels (especially the Japan one in the demo) are absurd, for the most part the game is fast-moving and exciting. It has all the women, gadgets, and stealth you would expect from a bond movie as well as great graphics. It also has some truly unique sections - for example, in one level you must suction-cup up the side of a building without being seen. Buy if you're a bond fan at all.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I guess this game really isn't that bad, but I was expecting to be tatolly blown away by it and I wasn't. The game designers could have done a much better job. It isn't nearly as good as Goldeneye (considering that Goldeneye was made back in '97). The controls are clumsy and the graphics are sub-par, but the real problem with this game is that it does not capture the fun and excitement of the Bond movies. Nightfire just isn't any fun. Except for the occaisional "witty" comment made by the Pierce Brosnan wannabe who provides the voice for Bond, this game is utterly devoid of a sense of humor. I found it dull and slightly depressing. Especially disappointing is the fact that one of Bond's women gets thrown off the top of a skyscraper halfway through the game (this happens during a pathetic cut-scene, so you can't rescue her). And you can't drive any vehicles!(At least not in the PC version) What's up with that? What kind of Bond story is it without cool vehicles? I was happy to see that Q's gadgets play a bigger role here than in Goldeneye, but on the other hand, there are fewer weapons. Nightfire features only 16 weapons, as opposed to Goldeneye's 27. Another problem with the gameplay that I experienced was getting stuck frequently. I'm not saying that Nightfire should have been a brain-dead shoot 'em up game, but I don't think that anyone enjoys games were you find yourself stuck in the same area for hours at a time while trying to figure out what in the heck you're supposed to do next. The only thing halfway decent about this game is the multiplayer mode, although it certainly isn't any more than halfway decent. The multiplayer suffers from a lack of options and gets old quickly, but it is nice to see familiar villains like Oddjob, Xenia, and Jaws once again. Pussy Galore is also available, which was a pleasant surprise. As far as I know, this is the first game that allows you to be one of the classic Bond babes in multiplayer mode.

Overall, this is a feeble attempt at a James Bond game. As I said, I was expecting it to blow me away and it didn't. In the end, there is only one reason to buy this game: the femeale characters are HOT! If you aren't a nerd and can actually meet some real girls, though, don't waste your money on Nightfire. Save it up and buy some of those new 007 DVDs.

Buy it on a console

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

James Bond NightFire is kind of weird on PC. I suggest buying it on a next gen console (GameCube, Xbox, PS 2)for the best experience. I got it on GameCube and its way better than computer.

Possibly the Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: April 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

To start off, like most 007 games, this game is strictly for newbies. On the hardest difficulty, this game is even easier then Enclave. Also, the multiplayer offers no challenge. I have played on many different servers only to be disappointed. No one had any skill. This game is very sad and unbelievably easy.

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