James Bond 007: NightFire

"Has more flaws then value the second time around"

James Bond 007: Night-fire is a pretty good game when you first play it. The first time I played it I was over at my cousin's house and played multi-player and I was rather impressed with how entertaining the game was. So, I decided to purchase it and still play it to this day occasionally. This game is a pretty good game the first time around but when it comes to the second time around, it gets pretty dull. Why does it get dull you may ask? Let's go over some of the aspects of this game. Maybe you'll get my point.

Game-play 7/10 - The game-play in this game is rather simplistic. R is to shoot your gun, A to reload, B to switch its function(like press B to put on the silencer on a pistol) and Z is to crouch. Taking out other weapons is also pretty easy to do and moving your character around is pretty easy but sometimes you accidentally do other things, like take out another gun by accidentally pressing the D-pad up or down. For a few minor flaws in the game-play department I give game-play a rating off 7/10 respectively.

Graphics 8/10 - The graphics in this game are also rather impressive. The character models are amazing and even the clothing the character models wear resemble their real life counterparts. Most of the guns you find throughout the game look pretty good but he surrounding environments are not that impressive but they're still pretty good with a few flaws here and there. I give the graphics a rating of 8/10 respectively.

Sound 8/10 - The sound in this game is also rather impressive. The bullets bouncing off the walls, though, doesn't sound much like that and instead sounds a bit over exaggerated. Most of the sounds you'll hear throughout this game are pretty good but could still be better. Like most of the time when a character is speaking you can't really make out what they are trying to say as the sound is a bit blurry so to say. Other sounds sound really good though and so therefore I give the sound department a rating of 8/10 because of some of the very minor flaws it has.

Replay value 5/10 - This game does not have a whole lot of replay value. I still play this game occasionally like maybe once every couple of months but other then that I basically forget I have it. It's a great game but it just gets, well, boring when you have successfully completed the entire game. The multi-player mode in this game is actually more entertaining the single player mode to be completely honest and that is not very good. The single player mode is usually more entertaining then the multi-player mode but not in this case. I give replay value a rating of 5/10 which I think is the only fair rating to give it.

Rent or buy RENT - This game in my opinion is not really worth purchasing mainly because when you play it and successfully complete the entire game you won't really want to play this game any more unless you're extremely bored one day and just happen to see this game. I'm not saying that this is a horrible game at all I'm just saying it's not really fun the second time around. I think this game was absolutely incredible when I played it for the first time but now I have second thoughts about buying it and feel I should not have bought it. Don't get me wrong I really liked this game and still do but it's just not as fun as it was when I played it the first time around. So if you are considering buying James Bond 007: Night-fire, think again and just rent it instead.

This is the end of my review for the game James Bond 007: Night-fire for the Nintendo Game-Cube. Hopefully you found this review helpful but if you didn't that's fine too. At least I tried. Bottom line is trying to help you decide on whether or not you will rent this game or buy this game. The way I see it, renting this game would be the much wiser choice because like I said once you beat the game the first time around you won't be playing this game a whole lot if even at all.

Reviewer's Score: 4/10, Originally Posted: 09/27/04