James Bond: Nightfire Demo

Wow! NO WONDER PEOPLE HATE DEVELOPING FOR PC.

This thing is a buggy POS. Have you guys heard of BETA TESTING?
Here are a few bugs:
-Get stuck often between objects.
-cant seem to get out of the second pond you encounter
-the baddies that hide behind the walls/posts and then pop out at you dont even look at you when they are aiming at you. the bullets just seem to find their way to you.
-the ammo counter sometimes works
-they put in Pierce Brosnan instead of Sean Connory

Utter waste of time, all 2 mins. I spent on it.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

I am a major Bond fan. I love all of the movies. I hate this game.

I feel that after downloading and playing this game, I have been somehow damaged both physically and mentally. Why you ask? Read on....

Let me give you a step by step account of how my day went.
1. I woke up this morning to see a 007 game demo that can be downloaded. I cheer!
2. I install the game. I am excited!
3. I run the game. I cry!
4. I picked up my gun that was so convieniently laying next to my computer.
5. I think about sucking on the barrel like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon.
6. After hours and hours of contemplating I put the gun down with only one conclusion.....

Reformat my hard drive!

Thanks EA! You made me realize how precious life really is and how bad you can fuck up a game.

P.S. No hard feelings. I loved Medal of Honor.

I fell bad for the entire world.

15 seconds into the mission and I decided to kill the scientist.

UNINSTALL'D

So I downloaded and installed this demo. Simple enough, it seems. Start it up, configure my controls, pretty straight forward. Watch the amazingly bad intro movies, and start the actual game, in a room with walls floor and ceiling doing HOM!!!
I couldn't move around the room without creating nauseating HOM effects. I exited the game, and uninstalled. Self-abuse session ended.

Gearbox == Knows no other engien but the HL engine

Just played this unfortunately...

Why did I feel this was Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza all over again?

I don't think I've seen a title be this resoundingly paid out on the shack in a long time.

I hope the appropriate people are hearing the criticism, and not getting it sheilded from them.

So ... umm... I'm by the house on the water and bridges. I saw a hostie with an armed dude beside her in da house I killed him, she ran away but where do I go from here???
There're some windows I broke but that fat ass Bond ain't fitting through them help? Please?

Taken from ea boards poster:

"Last night I went to Funcoland just to see what new games for Gamecube came out, because Gamecube is starting to have alot of games that I didn't know was coming out, but you know how they have all the platforms out on display so you can play them, well I went to the Gamecube of course, and Nintendo everytime they have several new games coming out, releases a demo disk with playable demos, and movies to watch of the game. Well this time they had one with Nightfire on it, and other games including Resident Evil 0, and Metriod Prime. But Bond is the one that REALLY caught my eye. On Gamecube it looks so realistic, almost up there with Resident Evil as far as graphics go, the girls look better than last, the guns look great, the levels look great also. Of course I expected Resident Evil 0 to look as good as it did, just from the last one. But Nightfire I think will be the best Bond game to date. "

ROFL!

Why is gearbox working on a full game? shouldn't they be working on a mediocre halflife mission pack?

LOL, I started to wait in line to dowload this and figured I would read the comments while I wait.....After 5 mins of read CRAP, TURD, Etc. and then I got to this one "What a piece of fucking crap. Daikatana, Die Hard and Blood 2 have nothing on this turd." I immediately stopped my download, and decided its time to play some BF1942.

worse than Daikatana.....ROFL. I dont know if there is anything worse than Giant Frog chasing you, but I dont intend to find out.

i did a comment search and i didn't find it, has anybody gotten "Failed to init Direct3D" ??

ahh get the wait time sorted :S thought it would be 10 mins, ended up being 1hr+

two words:

MOUSE.
LAG.

Total and utter ass.

EA is showing less and less support for their PC games and far more support for the consoles, but it makes sense though.

EA knows what their doing. The real money is in the consoles.

You don't have to worry about compatibility issues with consoles, so you save significant time on QA, as well as precious development time. You don't have to pay a console game developer a retainer so that they can patch a game once its gone gold - when its on the consoles, its finished. Period. End of list. You also don't have to worry about losing nearly as much money to game piracy. People rent and buy console games because they simply don't have the option to warez them.

Well... actually, yeah they do, but its so complicated and the whole point of console gaming is simplicity. Pop in the CD/DVD and go, man!

It's unfortunate that it has to happen like this, and It's not that I support EA's current business strategy, but when you look at it from a legitimate business standpoint, it makes a lot more sense - and a lot more money - for them to do what they're doing now.

-Rev.

Please tell me that is not the Half-Life engine.......

I hope this game isen't anyware near shipping yet.
I hope....

This was a disappointment, the tech looks old, the gameplay was poor. I would never pay for this game, but I would pay for someone to give me the time back I wasted downloading and playing this piece of shit. Good luck EA you've got a turd on your hands. Gearbox? Maybe next game? My advise dump this engine, and get some decient designers. This is worst thing you've made.

I didn't even play this game. I installled it, double clicked the old icon and got a message stating I needed some specific video player to view it. The message also said I had to go to the web site of the software to download it. So I'm stuck watching a black screen and hearing the sounds.

Nice piece of shit.

Hey Randy Pitchford - Have you read these comments? Do u have any response??

Why doesn't sierra publish for gearbox?

The only good EA game I forsee in the avalible future is C&C: Generals.

That is all.

ok i know the demo sucks but i just want to finish it, but i'm in the area where u save the girl in the bathhouse and i can't freekin figure out how to get out of this area. there's a big wooden door and a regular door and an underwater cave that lead nowhere accept in circles. how the hell do u get out of here!!?? ARGH!!!

Thank God I read the comments before I wait 20 mins to download this demo.

I so hope this is not indicative of the quality we're going to see on the PC port of HALO.

Am I the only one that loved Bond:AUF on the consoles? Please don't let the final version of this suck.

wow, I wake up this morning and come back to this thread and people are still reaming the shit out of this game! lolz

LOL what a piece of junk! Gearbox is definitely able to do better then this. not one good thing about this demo. and the worse thing is that the uninstaller doesnt work. it says it cant open INSTALL.LOG. pathetic....

Wow, just played the demo. Complete ass.

This is a piece of crap. There should be a user review rating for downloads so we can avoid wasting our time on pieces of crap like this. Oh, and it runs like ass on my p4/gf4.

Wow, this game is already headed for the bargin bin. Amazing how the executives at EA can continue to butcher games aimed at the PC. They need to realize that crappy FMV cinematics don't make a game fun.

My complaints about Nightfire demo:
The guns don't feel responsive in this game. They look nice, but feel like Unreal 1 weapons, like shooting nerf guns at mannequins.

The enemy AI is weak - they just stand there as I blast their buddies 2 feet away from them.

Bugs galore. Can't get off of ladders, the sniper rifle resets my sensitivity, etc..

The art and animation look rough and un-interesting.

The menus are a joke - un-interesting, un-inspiring, un-anything. I think this menu was converted from Wolf-3d on the 286.

The rendering is FULL of tearing - a swapinterval option is a must, since the refresh rate option didn't seem to do anything useful.

The music is pathetic. Overproduced crap typical of these horrid EA games.

NOTHING new to offer in terms of gameplay. Wow, walk around, shoot, crappy FMV cineamtic, attempt to interact with the world, fail at interacting with the world, walk around more, shoot AI that doesn't respond, another crappy FMV, walk around, jump in the water, can't get out, listen to some guy leading me around with a horrible 8khz sound sample, get stuck in rotating door, quit to desktop, play solitaire.

Level loads really suck. Isn’t this the half-life engine? Aren’t level loads supposed to be fast and almost un-noticeable? In this demo, the level load takes me out of the game, fading out, showing me some horrible 320x240 desktop picture, and then I’m back in the game, forgetting what I was doing.

Pathetic rewards. What ever happened to innuendo and witty rewards when it comes to getting the girl? I save the bathhouse chick and am rewarded to a cliché pathetic cinematic, no imagination, no innuendo or interesting presentation. Lack of imagination on the part of the developer (or the publisher, since I’m sure EA has Gearbox’s nuts in their hands)

Bottom line, let EA continue publishing FPS games and we might as well stop buying them. They didn’t seem to learn anything from MOH. I don’t think the executives at EA would know a fun game if it came up and bit them in the ass.