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James Bond 007: Nightfire for PlayStation 2
James Bond 007: Nightfire for the PlayStation 2 is a spy action game in which Bond takes on Rafael Drake. The campaign tells an original story and takes you to snowy mountain areas, guarded buildings and locations far above the Earth. During missions on foot, you see through Bond's eyes and combine weapons with gadgets to carry out your assignments.
Sometimes moving carefully helps you enter a room; at other moments you must aim quickly and take down a group of opponents. You inspect the surroundings for useful routes and choose a weapon that suits the distance. The campaign also includes vehicle missions, featuring an armed Aston Martin Vanquish among others. Your attention therefore regularly shifts from watching a passage to steering and attacking on the move.
After a mission, you can work towards a better score and earn medals. This gives familiar assignments a new purpose once you know the routes. Alongside the solo story, Nightfire offers local multiplayer on a shared screen, with up to four human players using a Multitap and computer-controlled opponents. You can follow the campaign, retry a mission or play a separate match where weapons, positions and arena knowledge come together.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
James Bond 007: Nightfire for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of James Bond 007: Nightfire
James Bond 007: Nightfire was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2002. Electronic Arts published it and Eurocom worked with EA on the console versions. The vehicle sections were made with expertise from the team behind Need for Speed. The game thus built on the combination of shooting, espionage and driving that Agent Under Fire had previously used on the PlayStation 2.
Nightfire arrived in the year when the Bond films celebrated their fortieth anniversary and Die Another Day reached cinemas. A new story involving Rafael Drake was written for the game. Pierce Brosnan's appearance was brought into the game using a scanning process. That recognisable Bond was paired with new characters and situations devised specifically for interactive assignments.
A PC game developed by Gearbox Software also appeared under the same title. It received its own interpretation, with different levels and without the console versions' exclusive driving missions. The PlayStation 2 edition belongs to Eurocom's console adventure. Within EA's Bond series, Nightfire thus preserves a particular phase: the protagonist is experienced through his own eyes during gunplay, vehicles interrupt the journey and multiplayer is a separate activity. Everything or Nothing would later develop that formula from another camera perspective.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire is the direct comparison on the PlayStation 2, with first-person missions, spy gadgets and driving. It gives Bond an original appearance and a case involving Malprave Industries. Nightfire links that broad action approach to Pierce Brosnan's face, Rafael Drake and a new sequence of locations and assignments.
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing shares Bond's weapons, gadgets and vehicle action, but shows him from an external perspective during missions on foot. You can also tackle cooperative assignments with a second player. Nightfire keeps the story single-player and uses a first-person perspective, with local arenas for separate matches against others.
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent also uses a first-person perspective and familiar elements from the Bond world. You play a renegade agent working for Goldfinger, with emphasis on gunfights and combining two weapons. Nightfire gives you the role of Bond himself and alternates shooting with espionage and vehicle assignments.
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love takes a classic film as its starting point and has Sean Connery portray Bond again. The action uses a third-person perspective. Nightfire tells an original contemporary adventure with Pierce Brosnan's appearance and lets you look through the agent's eyes during missions on foot.
007: Quantum of Solace for the PlayStation 2 combines events from two Daniel Craig films in a solo adventure featuring cover and stealth. You view Bond from an external perspective. Nightfire uses a different camera view and an original story, and also offers driving and local matches for multiple players on the same screen.
