They rendezvous with Q (voiced by Gregg Berger), who evacuates them from Austria to safety.Īfter the breach, Drake threatens to kill Mayhew, should the operation fail. Bond and Zoe then escape Drake's forces in an armored snowmobile before continuing in Bond's car. Bond shoots down the attacking helicopter using rockets found in the cable car. Bond and Zoe attempt to escape via cable car, when Drake's bodyguard, Rook, attacks the cable car with a rocket-launching helicopter. While Zoe distracts the guards, Bond makes his way to the exchange and steals the chip. M gives Bond the instruction for him to rendezvous with CIA agent Zoe Nightshade and Dominique, who is posing as Drake's mistress. Phoenix is believed to be a front for weapon smuggling. M (voiced by Samantha Eggar) believes that the party is a cover for the exchange of a missile guidance chip between Drake and Alexander Mayhew-who manages the Japanese branch of Drake's company, Phoenix International-had stolen the chip from the United States. The UK Government sends Bond undercover to a party at industrialist Raphael Drake's Austrian castle. After preventing the truck from blowing up the Eiffel Tower, Dominique and Bond celebrate New Year's Eve. In Paris, James Bond (voiced by Maxwell Caulfield with the likeness of Pierce Brosnan) helps French Intelligence operative Dominique Paradis evade a gang chase while chasing a truck with a stolen nuclear weapon, before continuing in his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. However, one disadvantage to this is that the game will not save the alterations players make to the multiplayer mode. Players can customize multiplayer settings before playing. Notable characters included from previous James Bond films include Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack from The Man with the Golden Gun, May Day and Max Zorin from A View to a Kill, Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Elektra King and Renard from The World Is Not Enough, Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob from Goldfinger, and Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die.
Some medals obtained will unlock new characters. The PC version also has an online multiplayer mode. In the PC version, up to 12 bots may be used. In the PlayStation 2 version, up to four bots may be used and up to four humans can play. In the GameCube and Xbox version, up to six bots may be used. The number of usable bots vary in the console version. The player may choose to play against AI bots with customizable reaction time, speed, and health. In the multiplayer mode of Nightfire players can play in many different levels, including Fort Knox, from Goldfinger, Atlantis and the sub docking pen from The Spy Who Loved Me, and many Nightfire-related levels, including Drake's castle, Drake's underwater base, and Drake's secret missile silo. However, the very general overall storyline and characters remain the same in all versions. The Game Boy Advance version resembles the PC Nightfire more than the console versions. Also, in this version, Rook dies much earlier on, in the astronaut training facility that Bond infiltrates. It begins the plot right at Raphael Drake's Austrian castle, skipping over the French mission. The PC version, for example, has fewer levels than the console versions and does not implement driving mode. Some weapons appear in the console version but not the PC version, and vice versa.Įach version of the game differs significantly from the others. As with previous James Bond games, the weapons that appear are based on actual weapons, but with the names changed. In addition, there are numerous mounted weapons found throughout the game. There are many weapons that the player can carry including grenades and other types of explosives. His likeness was featured in the game, but not his voice, which was provided by Maxwell Caulfield. The game marked Pierce Brosnan's fourth appearance as James Bond before the release of his fourth and final Bond film Die Another Day. In 2003, Electronic Arts released Nightfire for the Game Boy Advance (GBA), developed by JV Games and also featuring different missions and a modified story line from the console and computer versions. The computer versions are substantially different from the console versions, featuring different missions and a modified story line.
Aspyr later re-released the game for the macOS.
Nightfire was developed by Eurocom for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox video game consoles, while Gearbox Software developed the game for Microsoft Windows using the GoldSrc engine. James Bond 007: Nightfire is a first-person shooter video game featuring the character of the British secret agent James Bond and a sequel to Agent Under Fire, published by Electronic Arts in 2002.