Not that Nightfire is a bad game, it’s just that it isn’t nearly as good as it could have been. Something is slightly awry straight away.
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Bond films always grab your attention with a spectacular opening full of amazing set pieces and breathtaking stunts but, in a preview of things to come, Nightfire kicks off with you infiltrating a castle straight out of Wolfenstein, pressing some switches to unlock some doors and shooting some guards. It tries to make up for this by allowing several routes into the castle (see the Walkthrough panel to see what they are) thus trying to trick you into thinking this is some open-ended, Deus Ex-style open-ended shooter. This taste of freedom, however, is both your first and your last. When you finally get into the castle proper you have to mingle in a high-society party and take some photographs of the women there with your hidden camera. Great, you think, now I’m really going to act out a proper Bond scene. To be fair, there are plenty of other gadgets in your inventory, which certainly make you feel What’s the point of turning a lighter into a camera if you’re going to ask them to say cheese? Only you find the said party consists of a handful of people standing in a room looking at paintings and that, to take a proper picture of the classy women there, you have to stand in front of them like a bloody tourist.
For example, you’d think that the grapple hook would be great to let you move around big areas, attaching yourself to trees outside or rails and vents inside. Instead, you can only use it on special hooks that glow so you don’t miss them and which the evil mastermind has kindly left behind for you (he must have, since they serve no other purpose). And even these hooks are few and far between. However, possibly Nightfire’s biggest let-down is its story.
Bond films have never been known for their tight, original plots, but the story in Nightfire is so flimsy I couldn’t even tell you what it is. There's some guy called Drake - a rather poor goateed villain who disappointingly fails to stroke white cats or keep pools of piranha - and some computer virus called Nightfire. Or is it an evil missile attack plan? Yes, I distinctly remember something about missiles.
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