Hi Calvin! I cannot thank you enough for making this video. I was one of the developers back then and it filled me with joy and reminiscence seeing some of my mates and the work we did back in the day. So many great memories. I am so happy you like what we did back then and your heartwarming words!!! Thank you!!!

Dude PLEASE keep making these in depth videos of the bond games you’re one of the few people who make dedicated well edited bond game videos. Thanks! You’ve made me wanna pop this one in again.

Nightfire could totally be a movie. It’s so perfectly constructed like a movie it could hold its own on the list.

Nightfire is one of those gems that really deserves a remastered version

This was my all time favorite video game as a kid, the multiplayer was incredible. The single player even more so. What a fantastic game. Wish they would make something similar today

Can I just say how much I appreciate your cut-away gags? I’m sure it’s a lot of effort for videos that don’t strictly need them, but they always bring me a chuckle or heartily laugh, so thank you for that.

Nightfire Supremacy! 🚀👨‍🚀

The Exchange, Double Cross, and Phoenix Fire are some of the best FPS levels ever imo. Love the feeling of a fight for survival in Phoenix Fire especially. Even as a kid, I thought it was cool to play a level WITHOUT your iconic pistol, picking up whatever enemy gear you can find as drake fills the building with his army. That staircase bit is a gauntlet.

Nightfire was absolutely awesome. Hope to see a similar massive in depth review for Everything or Nothing.

The rendition of the Bond theme at 9:54 is EPIC

These games struggled so hard to follow up on Goldeneyes mass success. I agree that they were vastly underrated. Love hearing your in depth reviews on this era of Bond games, Calvin!

Nightfire is what got me into 007, video games, etc. I played it so much growing up the disc wouldn't load certain levels after awhile, and I had to buy a new one! Still play once in a while. Good times and great review!

I love this game dearly, but Everything or Nothing is my absolute favourite, as it has the real voices of the main actors!

"I was looking for the powder room." "With lockpicks amd a 9mm?!" "Hey. It's a tough neighbourhood." God I love Nightshade lol

I've been feeling down for a couple of days then this video popped up in my feed and I must say: I absolutly love it, the comedy, the commentary, the nostalgia trip back in time! Thank you so much for it!

Your original Nightfire review is how I found your channel originally. This is really exciting to see!

Nightfire is one of my most favorite games ever. The Bond elements, the intricate level design, the amazing MUSIC, the awesome guns and gadgets, the varied level objectives, the chaotic multiplayer. It's such a well-designed package that still hasn't been captured in many other games. There's just something special about this game and I hope more games, especially the upcoming IO Bond game, take notes from this game. I've replayed it a few months back and only realized now than you could go up into the broken glass room in Chain Reaction and it blew my mind. Something about discovering something new about a 20 year old game is just special, as well as seeing the behind the scenes stuff, the cut space segments, and stuff. I discovered your channel many years ago from your original Nightfire review and here we are again a decade later. I hope you do cover more games, especially ones you haven't played. Here's to many more years of Nightfire and Bond games!

Me and my friends used to play this on multiplayer for literally years when we were kids, it’s probably the most nostalgic James Bond thing I can think of, it will always have a super special place in my heart

Honestly, Nightfire has aged like wine while Goldeneye has aged like milk. Both great but in different ways.

I want more content like this. I absolutely love your humor and attention to detail. As a Bond fan I spent many hours of my youth playing this game over and over again.

An hour and forty-five of pure Dyson. Thank you sir 🙏

Calvin, I’ve had a rough couple of weeks, but you’re videos are what’s kept me going and given me something to look forward to. If no-one else says it, which I doubt, then here it is. Your hard work and effort put into these lengthy videos are sensational and valued tremendously. I’d love to see more discussions of other Bond games in this fashion if you’re willing. Everything or Nothing and especially Agent Under Fire need some more love!! Just wanted to say how much you mean to me, brother. From one Bond-lover to the best there is on KZfaq. All the best ✌️

I'm a person that has never really cared about Bond and I loved this game. I think it speaks to the quality of the whole production. It has some imersive-sim-lite stuff which adds a lot,

Played the multiplayer for countless hours with my brother as a kid. Also everyone I showed the multiplayer to loved it.

Nightfire was my first big intro to James Bond and coming back to it years later, it keeps giving me reasons to love it, like finding the musical homages to iconic Bond tracks. Like the bits of Live and Let Die in Enemies Vanquished.

I remember the good days when my friends come here to play something, and we play that game. The single-player was very good, but the multiplayer was fantastic. It has a great variety of weapons, maps, and game modes. I'm getting my PS2 back, I can't wait to play this again!

Love that Makiko is voiced by Tamlyn Tomita, the actress who played Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part 2 (1986) and Cobra Kai Netflix series.

Good Lord, Calvin. That was phenomenal. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more comprehensive review of anything on KZfaq, much less a 20 year old Bond game. This is easily my favourite Bond game and the one I played the most, but there was a quite a bit of material in here that I didn’t know. Hilarious cut always, as always, and the software you’re using is awesome - the game visuals look incredible, especially given how old it is. Not just because they are your two longest videos, but this and your NTTD review are the new gold standard - it’s just great to hear you deep diving unrestrainedly into something you clearly love (or dislike in the case of NTTD) and know so much about.

YESSSSSS! I’ve been waiting ages for this video!

I love that Nightfire gave us an original story. It also had an awesome opening intro with 'Nearly Civilized'. Everything or Nothing built on this but this was a great start.

Thank you for making this, Calvin! My favorite KZfaqr making a 2 hour video about my favorite game of all time…Can’t ask for anything better! 😊

You did this epic Bond game justice. The love and appreciation for it really shines through! Bravo 👏👏

Goldeneye came out at just the right time for me to get into the multiplayer, at school with the time and local friends to play split screen a lot. I found the subsequent games so disappointing in comparison that I’d checked out by the time Agent under Fire came along. Watching your channel made me decide to go back to the games I’d missed I am glad that I did. I won’t get to experience the multiplayer as it was back in the day but the single player of Nightfire and several others are well worth revisiting. Thank you for all the great content.

I've never liked a video so quickly. My brother and I LOVED Nightfire and still occasionally play the multiplayer to this day. One of the best video game soundtracks, too.

This filled my heart with so much joy. So many great memories with this game, and you even brought up things I'd never noticed before like the music references. Probably my favourite video you've ever done Calvin!

Great review Calvin! really insightful, funny gags and references. Really brought me back to when i played the game to death as a kid.

I remember after NTTD I shared the Paris intro scene of Nightfire as an example of what tone the movies should take in the next era… doubt it would happen though.

Fantastic review. As someone who also adores Nightfire, and has so much nostalgia for it, I think your review really captures the magic this game has. Have you ever thought about covering the PC version in-depth at some point? I played it myself a while ago out of curiosity, due to my love of the console version but also because it was developed by Gearbox Software, who are now a triple a company making the Borderlands games which I'm a fan of. The PC version is an interesting mirror to the console and Gameboy versions, and whatever design documents all versions of Nightfire shared. No vehicle segments or on rail segments, so no Paris prologue, snowmobile chase, Aston ice chase, underwater vehicle, jungle SUV, or the Ultralight. Drake's snow retreat, Mayhew's Japanese manor, and both the stealth and escape from the Phoenix skyscraper. You get some unique levels like the Airfield and the space suit testing facility, where you kill Rook, which replaces the nuclear plant. The tropical island is interesting in that Bond and Alora actually infiltrate the place on foot, rather than cause a mountain of chaos in the console version, and the slightly odd cutscene where they've escaped pursuit and just happen to wander on a disused bunker with an air vent to the underground base. Both games have the underground bases but the PC version's is completely different in design and style, the only real similarity being the end where Kiko is killed by the space shuttle. As you mention, the final mission is on the space station itself, and while is a lot longer than the brief battle in the console version, I'd take the console version anyday. It feels like you're in outer space, in the PC version, it feels like you're trapped in a building with low gravity. I think part of the issue is the old Goldsrc engine the PC version uses. Cutting edge in 1998 with Half-Life, but by 2002, showing its age compared to the console versions. Level design feels far... boxier, lots of rectangular rooms and not many curves. I think the nuclear plant level is omitted is because the engine couldn't make a level that big in scope with the snipers. The console version is definitely superior, but the PC version is an interesting curio.

Very rarely do I watch essay videos like this, but ones like these really peak my interest. Watched it all in one go! Great job on it! Nightfire was my childhood and revisiting it in this format brings back memories.

Everytime i played the office levels i kept imagining those scenes from Austin Powers. Imagining the phonecalls home to the family and friends of the deceased. "But mom, since dad left, Steve's been like a father to me." "John Smith won't be coming. He was shot to death by his office's security system, and then decapitated by an ill-tempered mutated sea bass." And yeah, this is my favorite Bond game too.

So glad Nightfire has got some love, the multiplayer on this was great fun, the cable car map, playing as OddJob, my party trick was if the other player was at the other end of the map I could throw Oddjobs hat from a great distance and get them, seeing a pixalated black hat fly out from nowhere on the other side of the split screen was top class 😂

HD port to modern hardware with Brosnan redoing the voice is the dream

Man its your videos that got me to actually read the Bond novels and rewatch some of the old movies so seeing an in depth review of my first Bond experience with Nightfire got me SO giddy. Cheers from America, much love!

Calvin, just wanted to say I really love your videos.. especially the game reviews. Seeing you start the in-depth ones like this is a real treat!! Thanks so much.

This was one of the first James Bond media for me as a kid. So, later when I saw the movies, the idea of Bond in space in Moonraker never seemed that weird to me lol

I replayed the game last autumn for the first time in at least a dozen years and I’d swear the guards in Chain Reaction yell “Stop it!” as well. To the point I sent video to my brother who’d also played the game back in the day and he heard the same thing. Maybe it’s the Bond equivalent of the Yanny or Laurel audio thing that made the rounds awhile back? And I join you in your love of Phoenix Fire as a level for its pure adrenaline rush, particularly that stairwell firefight. Also, you’re meant to use the remote torpedos on the final boss sub rather than the normal torpedos. Makes it A LOT easier to do so. Indeed, I have you to thank for me replaying the game (and the various other sixth generation ones) from your past videos. I remembered preferring Nightfire to Agent Under Fire back in the day, though I preferred the third-person action of Everything or Nothing (I barely got to play From Russia with Love as I only had it for the PS2, which my brother had, whereas I had the others on GameCube). Replaying them now, while Nightfire is a more polished game, I preferred Agent Under Fire as a FPS 007 game. It’s a personal taste thing I’m sure but having Brosnan’s likeness with a voice that so much isn’t his struck me as weird even then. And, more so than Agent Under Fire, this feels like a Moore film with Brosnan era aesthetics with this one riffing a little too much on Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me for me. Agent was just more fun to revisit, even if this one had more cinematic tropes like the gunbarrel and song that the previous game lacked, though my preference still is with the third-person games over the FPS ones. Still, this was a Christmas present in 2002 (my first as a Bond fan) and I have fond memories of playing this over the holiday break from school and afterwords, including the multiplayer where I had school friends who lived nearby who’d come over. So it’s hard not to be nostalgic and enjoy it, both then and now. And I got way too much of a laugh out of the Countdown gag!

Wow... Thank god this was recommended to me, this was an incredible video!! I absolutely love Nightfire and Agent Under Fire. I recently emulated them on PC and just spent weeks and weeks replaying, getting 100%, doing the different multiplayer modes, finding little secrets. I genuinely love these games. I think it was definitely an important part of our development as kids and that's why it's so nostalgic to us mid 90s people. I'm going to search through your channel now, I really hope you have a similar video for Agent Under Fire! I would PAY for a video like this one for all the bond games of this era, it was so well done, so informative, your gags are hilarious. I'm so glad to be a part of this community! Thank you!!

Makes me glad to see someone share the same love and passion for this game as I do. The video made me wonderfully nostalgic. This game has such a unique aesthetic and vibe. So many yours have been spent enjoying this thing. Once again, thank you!

Calvin, how the hell you don't have more subscribers I simply do not know. This has been one of the best in depth reviews of any game I've seen.

I had The Empire Strikes Back teed up for this evening's watch and was seconds away from pressing play when I saw the notification for this video. I watched it instead and it was a great choice. A perfect Saturday evening's entertainment. Thanks Calvin, it is a brilliant video!

This is great Calvin. The world needs more Nightfire love. It’s interesting to hear all the nuggets that you researched.

Great retrospective! Loved this game back during Christmas 2002 when I was 15 years old. Also played on the Gamecube. Your comments on the audio mixing in the finale, unlocked a memory in me, it always bugged me that! Looking forward to the Everything or Nothing video.

Loved Nightfire! It’s too bad it doesn’t get that same love GoldenEye had

I remember around about the time that this came out, there was a news special in Australia on the advancements in video game technology. A lot of the wrap around footage was of Nightfire gameplay and cut scenes. I guess, partly because Brosnan had such a recognisable face, they made a big deal out of the character models capturing his likeness and the environment visuals. I think Nightfire’s graphics were pretty damn top tier when it came out.

Was so happy when i saw this notification ❤keep up the good work. I know you put lots of energy into this video project!

This man made a video about a game that is older than most kids now a days, and it was very informative and funny, 10/10 ty for making this video, this game was a huge part of my child hood

One of my favorites, honestly I always thought it was solid enough to be movie material. It's like a better version of Moonraker, Brosnan-era adaptation with David Arnold score would have been godly

This era of Bond games were peak. This, agent under fire and EON (the last Brosnan film) were fantastic

Great review Calvin! Nice seeing an updated version of a Nightfire review. I wish I could play it! Now we know how much of your day is allocated to staring at photos of Pierce Brosnan, I shudder to think how much time staring at Roger Moore takes up! 😂

Your reviews are awesome bro! You sense of humor is hilarious and I'm laughing at work or in the car!

I always thought that one of the party guests in The Exchange (seen at 22:40) was the Agent Under Fire Bond model. Looks really similiar to me. Might be wrong though... Great video as always Calvin!

The PC version is completely different from the console version.

Coming back to this a few days later, this channel introduced me to this channel and I've watched a bunch of your videos now. Awesome channel!

What a cracking review mate, one of the best I’ve ever seen! Keep up the good work man, all the best

Now THIS is content!

I really wish Dalton, Moore, and Lazenby got their own games in the vein of Everything or Nothing and From Russia With Love.

Great vid! Nice to see someone else appreciate it so much

I love this video. Nightfire is one of my favorite games as a kid. Really hope to see more retrospectives like this!

… and last but not least… Goldeneye😂

All the people who downvoted this are the same people who could never beat the Ninja in Double Cross

Great video! Funny I stumbled upon your channel because I'm having surgery tomorrow and the other day and pulled out my PS2 and my Bond games to play over the next few weeks when I'm recovering. I didn't search for anything just saw your video on Pierce Brosnan on my feed then checked out your other videos.

Just stumbled on to your channel, I think your videos are very well done. Thanks for the hard work and keep it up!

TBH, I love more of Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond video games, than half of his films. 😭

What a gem YT channel! Thanks Calvin for all these in depth reviews!

Great video! I’ve been meaning to replay this for years. The whole time I was hoping you would talk about Sky Rail, and you did not disappoint. I spent countless hours on that map with friends and alone with bots. There are so many opportunities for mischief in that map.

i haven’t started the video yet. i’m just stoked to see a two hour long video about one of my favourite childhood games; one that i think helped shape modern FPS titles. and the kickass intro song lmaooo

*the* content we all needed for bank holiday weekend, thank you, old man! This has to be my fave 007 game, even though I never completed it (thank you, last level 😡). I wish for a remaster of this soooo bad!

omg I have been looking ALL NIGHT for the map SkyRail you point out in this review. I spent sooo many hours on that map me and the homies back in the day. Keep up the great work man

I've been waiting a long time for this video haha. Well done, Calvin. 47:35 the level I constantly got stuck on was the second for some reason. I think it took me forever to figure out how to get into the mansion undetected.

Loved this video! This was my favourite childhood game and it’s so good seeing it get the love it deserves!

excellent video. your script, cut away gags, and overall humor while having the right level of research and polish. i am very fond of nightfire, i played the multiplayer a lot more than the single player, versing myself against bots in the snow level and destroying them for hours with the mini heli. i liked that you highlighted the raptor as your favorite gun, it was also mine at the time as i always felt it had to be some kind of tribute to the classic deagle from counter strike! anyway, onto watching your other videos! glad youtube recommended you!

Exceptional video. Feels like an entire video essay. Really good work, liked and subscribed.

I loved this new take on your Nightfire review, it's more complete and shows the Bond Moves and Bonuses, you make me want to pick up my Xbox and play the game all over again, fantastic job Calvin, it was both funny and informative, if you rereview other games with this much detail and completionist mindset, I can't wait for it.

Great video dude, one of my favourites growing up the soundtrack especially evokes nostalgia, chain reaction in particular.

Love your style of commentary, hope you do more!

First off, thanks for making a video on my childhood video game. Secondly, this was a great video. I like how you went over the missions. It made me forget really how cinematic it was. The nostalgia was hard.

Would love a review of Agent Under Fire in this format! It's always been my fav

8:50 No-scope with the bolt action from a moving helicopter, now THAT'S a Bond move. I could totally see Dalton pulling that one off.

Awesome video Calvin. Nightfire is also my favorite game in the series, as I grew up playing it on ps2. The missions, level design, and increasing difficulty as you progress all make it so fun to play. The 4 player split screen was also the funnest it's been since Goldeneye. I still play this game on my 65 inch TV with an hdmi converter. My personal favorite mission is Night Shift.

Oh boy! Now my boring sunday evening immediately got better! Thanks Calvin! ❤️

Been playing this game since its release and I still discover details here and there so thanks for this review. I think it's your best video so far :)

Great video. My brother and I enjoyed many hours of playing this game, especially the multiplayer, and this video just brought back some wonderful memories so thank you. Must dig out the PS2 and have another game again soon.

47:33 Oh so it was not just me, hurray! It's so great seeing this gem of a game in such an in-depth video, I've spent so much time on it and even still have a playthrough once in a while.

I can’t wait for this, been waiting all week since I heard on livestream last Saturday :)

Fantastic video! I still remember firing this up for the first time and being blown away when the game threw me directly into a true Bond opening sequence, followed by a theme song. No game had EVER captured the feel of a Bond movie like that. I also couldn't believe just how good the Pierce Brosnan model looked. Countless hours were sunk into this multiplayer with my friends in high school--I got really, really good with the remote helicopters and used to annoy my friends. Team King of the Hill on the Skyrail map was our jam. Bond games absolutely peaked with this and Everything Or Nothing. I think EON actually managed to push the envelope even further in terms of delivering the most authentic-feeling Bond story in video game form (I think the third person perspective allowed them to do some things that just aren't possible in first person). I'd love to see you do a review this in depth of that game as well! Then EA's quality just started to decline. I never played Rogue Agent, but only heard not great things. I remember how over the moon I was for From Russia With Love after it was announced, but once I finally played it, it became clear that it just was not given the same level of polish and care that Nightfire and EON had (still a decent game, but a clear step down).

I love when you cover the Bond games!

I actually remember the very first time i ever played this game, at a lock-in at my community center (they had an old Xbox that someone had donated) and that experience with booting up the first level and, like you said, really feeling like you were playing as Bond, especially in that first proper level was just AMAZING! I personally hope that new game that the Hitman guys are working on is as good as this, if not better. I can already see so many possibilities within the modern hitman games for a Bond-style experience. Last thing, keep up the great work Agent Calvin, your content has actually been very helpful in both getting me through a rough week, and research for writing my own Bond-style spy novel. Like I said, keep up the great work, it's nice to see someone who's able to actually be successful while just gushing about something they're truly passionate about.👍

Just caught up with your review Clavin. Brilliant yet again. Love love love love the Brian Butterfield reference if that's what you were going on 😂😅

Hi Calvin, A bit off topic... I've been doing a whole Bond marathon during the past couple of months. As a Bavarian guy, I'm therefore watching the German dub which sometimes seems to differ from the original version. I found out a couple of funfacts which could be interesting for you concerning some plot holes you complained about in the past 1. TMWTGG While leaving the karate school by car and without Bond, Hip argues that he "has to save the girls" before coming back for James' rescue. I don't know if he does this in the English Version aswell but it could explain his weird actions. 2. Moonraker After their return to earth, the captain of the space marines mentiones that they saved two survivors: A tall man and a small woman It is therefore more or less canon that Jaws and Dolly definitely survived. 3. The living Daylights While fighting against Bond, Whitaker mentiones that he's wearing a bulletproof jacket and that James' shots are therefore useless. It is not true that Bond only went for the head (which would seem quite stupid concerning that Whitaker is only carrying a small shield) - but his enemy was invincible anyways... As I've only watched the German dub, I don't know if any of that is news to you. My suggestion that the versions could differ is only based on older reviews, comments and debates of yours. Greetings from Bavaria!

This may be your funniest video. Love the laser bit. Congrats on finishing what might be your video game Magnum Opus.👏👏👏