• As Bond, you'll infiltrate gigantic skyscrapers, explore the deepest parts of the ocean, and maneuver your beautiful Aston-Martin V12 Vanquish through super-fast car chases

• Experience 12 action-packed missions filled with combat, stealth, and Upgradeable gadgets

• Rendezvous with beautiful, deadly women and confront devious enemies in more than 10 exotic locales

• Incredible 4-player split-screen gameplay with classic James Bond characters

I'm a huge fan of the Bond games, and we have all of the previous ones. We got this one as soon as it came out, and were definitely not disappointed!

The graphics are a huge step up from previous versions. In the first 'training' mission, you're driving a car through city streets. The lights reflect off of the curves of the car, you can see inside to all of his controls and movements, the dents show up realistically, the back up lights glow softly, and if you bash it a bit, the trunk comes loose. The city around you has cobblestone streets, water rippling, streetlights that come down when you hit them. The attention to detail is just amazing!

As you then move on through the various levels, you see this same level of detail everywhere. From the Austrian castle and other alpine scenes, to the city scenes, watery scenes and more, each really shines.

The plot is very engaging and typically Bond. But in an attempt to show that this isn't about violence - he's a SPY after all, not a Rambo - you get bonus points for being stealthy instead of blasting in with guns, and for stunning or capturing enemies instead of killing them.

In fact, just about every area can be 'accomplished' in many ways. Bluster your way into an objective by a full frontal assault ... or sneak in the side way for extra points. Since you're also rewarded for your time and health, often the sneaky, non-violent way is the best.

You've got a huge array of equipment, weapons, armor and vehicles, and all work just the way you'd expect them to. I found the default controller configuration REALLY annoying, but a quicks stop in the config area got it back to the way I'm used to playing.

Plus, there's multiplayer! Play with up to four people at once on REALLY great maps with quite a bit of customization options on each one. Grab some bots for practice, and play arena, team arena, king of the hill, capture the flag, or other game types.

Definitely worthy of the Bond series, and highly, highly recommended to any first person shooter fan!

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WOW ALL OVER.  Nov 23, 2002 By Brian
James Bond HAS Returned!
FIRST OF ALL, let me clarify! THE GAME HAS A MULTIPLAYER!!! I have no idea why some do not think it does. You now can play with four customizable bot characters making over 8 characters available to interact with at once (4 computer, 4 human). There are tons of multiplayer levels and DOUBLE the players you can choose (even ones from newer movies like "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "The World Is Not Enough!"

Astounding game with flawless graphics (overwhelmingly impressive for PS2's normally jagged lines). The levels are about 2x as long as they were in Agent Under Fire and 2x better! There is so much more to do and explore and you can always follow more than just one path! Finally, a bond with more than a straight line to follow!The game even has its own computer-animated opening sequence and theme song like a normal BOND Movie! The characters are beautiful and very realistic with NEARLY PERFECT mouth movements when speaking. The game is also probably 2x harder. Not too hard that you get annoyed with playing the same level over and over again but hard enough that u don't go thru the game in one hour like in "Agent Under Fire." Overall, A COMPLETE SUCCESS! GET IT NOW!

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An awesome game sets new level of play  Dec 01, 2002 By Justin "16 year old"
First of all this game DOES have multi-player. The multi player in this game is awesome there are up to 4 AI-bots you can add to face or play against you and you also control how strong they are such as health and accuracy. There are two teams in multi player, the good guys MI6 and the bad Phoenix. With that two teams can play in modes such as capture the flag, team arena, king of the hill, and protect modes where a team has to keep the other away from a satellite which is in there base so that the other team doesn't blow it up. Also add in mini helicopters and tanks which you can control and a weapon called Ronin which opens up into an auto machine gun. Also the levels you can play in are HUGE. So this is an awesome multi player game if that is what you want.

Now not to forget the 1 player mode which has a great story line. The levels include breaking into a castle to spy on a meeting, escaping on an armored snowmobile, driving the Vanquish, a submarine level where the vanquish turns into a sub, and a space level where you have to disarm huge missiles before they launch. Lots a cool gadgets can also be used.

Ok well this game has graphics that are almost unreal because they are so good. Tons of weapons such as explosives machine guns pistols bows, mines and sniper rifles and a laser gun. And also gadgets such as a watch laser which recharges itself a stunner, and other gadgets.

So to sum it up this is a truly awesome game and I highly recommend it. I hope this review was helpful.

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Multi-Player Madness  Nov 22, 2002
I checked the reviews of this game and the write up from Amazon and could find nothing about a Multi-player mode. Well when I finally figured out that this game did have multi-player I ran out and bought it! I was sure glad I did, there are so many ways you can change the play... You can even take command of mini-helicopters and take out your opponents from the sky. Include that with the AI-Bots that allow you to compete all by yourself and you have one great improvement from Agent Under Fire. Congrats to EA for finally creating a Bond game that compares to Goldeneye! And did I mention that almost every multi-player level is HUGE? I don't want to neglect the single-player version, which is also very cool! Basically, if you enjoyed Agent Under Fire, this one just improves on everything!

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Bond, James Bond  Nov 19, 2002
WOW! That's really all I have to say about NightFire. While Agent Under Fire was a good game in itself, NightFire is the master of all first-person shooters. They have added a mode to play multi-player against drones, increased the realism down to the last detail (i.e. if your shell casings land in the water they float slowly down) Here's my breakdown

Gameplay: ***** There are more interesting levels, and more of them. You can drive Bond's V12 Vanquish (which turns into a submarine) and play much better multi-player

Graphics: ***** The graphics have been upgraded and so has the realism

Replay ***** You can play yourself in multi-player which is a big improvement over the repetitive missions in Agent Under Fire

All in all, I would give this 100 stars if I could!!!

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