Nightfire, like Agent Under Fire, has vehicle missions done with a different engine and team. Nightfire is a first person shooter a la Goldeneye, as a matter of fact it resembles Goldeneye very much but that’s where the similarities end. Now, the story may not be that original and not that good even worthy of a Bond film but for a video game it’s interesting enough. In reality he is hoarding them for his own personal use, and that’s not a good thing… he’s trying to take over the world. Basically a supposed humanitarian, Raphael Drake, is opposed to nuclear weapons that he personally gets rid of them. Have you seen the Bond film Moonraker? That’s almost the same plot as Nightfire. But was it really the next generation Bond game after Goldeneye? Let’s find out. Released in November 2002, Nightfire felt different from Agent Under Fire in every possible way. That same year, EA promised to deliver a next generation Bond experience with the release of their newest game Nightfire developed by Eurocom. From the graphics to the presentation the game really lacked the flair that James Bond is known for. The game as a next generation Bond game was disappointing. The first one to be released was Agent Under Fire released in 2001 for the PS2, later ported to the GameCube and Xbox in early 2002.

Because of that, EA decided to make original Bond games for the next generation of consoles.

Developers knew that and that’s why EA nabbed the rights to make Bond games after the success of Goldeneye.ĮA then, developed Bond games based on the next two movies: Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough with mixed results. Goldeneye alone made Bond games worthy of hype and anticipation.

It wasn’t until Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64 that players got to be Bond in a 3D world. As you might’ve guessed, the technology wasn’t really up to par to fully realize the Bond universe. Since the beginning of the industry, James Bond games were released for multiple consoles. In the video game world, it’s not that different, Bond has seen its ups and downs…err… mostly downs. Recently the latest Bond film was released to critical and financial success proving that people still wanted their James Bond fix. By the time the third one was released, they had a worldwide phenomenon. When it came out the producers knew they had something special.

50 years ago, the first official James Bond film was released.

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