James Bond Nightfire Impressions

hey look!! COUNTER-STRIKE!!!! ....erm..i mean bond ROFL!

CLARIFICATIOn: keep in mind that there are two distinct games called James Bond: Nightfire, a PC game and a console game. I went over this with folks at E3. It's very silly, but here is EA's reasoning. EA wants to get away from doing strict movie licenses because timing the game with the movie release is hard and building the game within the strictures of the movie story is harder still. Instead, the next Bond movie is an event which generates interest in a branded James Bond game with a separate story, in the case Nightfire. Now the tricky part is that EA is creating their own story here (Nightfire). They are separately developing two versions of Nightfire one for the PC and one for the three consoles. Different studios are handling theese versions. Soooo, James Bond: Nightfire on the PC is being done by Gearbox and is being built to run on a PC with the hardware variability and interface specific of the PC. I forget who is doing the JB: Nightfire XBox/PS2/NGC (maybe EA internal?), but it's being tailored for the consoles (i.e. AI movement tuned to players aiming using a console controller, etc.). The confusing part is EA calling both games JB: Nightfire, which means that people need to just 'know' that they are separate games. I guess EA figures that people won't ever think of or be able to buy two Nightfire games that are different 'cause no one here has both a computer and a game console ... <yeah right> <sigh>. The one thing this does avoid is silly names like Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. Must avoid the names with multiple colon sets in the same name, lol.

All this complaining about using the Half-Life engine. Sheesh. I've seen the screenshots and they look purdy.

It's guaranteed to not run like ass like *cough* ut2k3 *cough* which can go from 120 fps to 40 fps on the same map. LOL! Sux.

All that matters is that cool Bond feel and ambience we haven't got since GoldenEye.