Jim. Sonny Jim.

Nightfire splitscreen was a HUGE part of my childhood gaming.

I adore the mission structure of Goldeneye - increasing objective complexity with difficulty modes is something I really wish caught on.

Just wanna say for Agent Under Fire, i always thought the multi-player absolutely slapped. You can use all the gadgets and grappling hooks and jetpacks and their were a million modifiers to play with, it was a riot!

Nightfire is so great, and I always wished it would have been a movie. We played the absolute shit outta that game back in middle school man, let me tell you... Definitely a very nostalgic favorite of mine to this day, and in fact I was just playing it a bit last week on my old PS2. I mostly did did some arena stuff, but I messed around in the campaign as well. I played that underwater sub mission among a few others, and like you said I couldn't help but have an absolute blast the entire time.

"Australian Intelligence". Every woman wants to be her, every man wants to be with her.

“Put that Aston Martin into park, and grab a Vodka martini.” Watching this as I’m parked in my 90’s Civic, drinking a redbull, and about to start my shift 😂

Agent under fire, nightfire, and everything or nothing are three bond games I grew up with, made for one hell of a childhood

Nightfire’s sniper rifle (the green one) still holds the number 1 best sounding gun award in my mind. Followed closely by the PTRS-41 from CoD World at War. There was something about that deafening, sharp blast in the power plant level, and that razor-sharp reload sound.

In high school a group of dudes made t-shirts highlighting their friend's losing record at 007 Goldeneye.

53 mins. Oh baby let's rock. Ima fall asleep to this... but in the good way. Not in the "I'm bored" way, but in the "I like falling asleep in states of bliss when I'm very tired" way. Coolcoolcool.

One of things that truly blew me away with Goldeneye when it came out was that enemies reacted based on where you shoot them. Even today I a lot of games don't do that.

Fun fact the driving sections in nightfire were not made by the nighfire devs but instead were made by criterion famous for the need for speed series specifically underground 2 and most wanted which were the most recent ones. That's why those driving sections felt so good

Mutual screen cheating is how me and my friends solved the issue.

Nightfire is so nostalgic for me and was one of my fav childhood games. It had really fun multiplayer, but I was never able to complete the story mode. Sure, it was pretty difficult, but the main thing that held me back was that the game gives me intense motion sickness. Idk what it is about this game in particular that does it but no other first persons shooters really have the same effect. The only other bond game I own is The World is Not Enough(N64), and despite it being pretty impressive for a N64 game, it was really tedious and infuriating so I also never finished it nor do I really want to.

Nightfire was unbelievable. A massive part of my childhood fps life! Rogue Agent was almost great. Just behins the curve a little.

Gman: "Viewers...do you expect me to rest?" Viewers: "No mister Gman, I expect you to play 007 Blood Stone"

Ah yes, Famke Jansen and Salma Hayek were an ''inspiration'' during my early teenage years as well. Edit: they still are

Finishing Goldeneye on 00 Agent and unlocking the Egyptian temple was so awesome. The golden gun room remains one of my most memorable gaming moments to this day! Awesome video brah!

I enjoyed both Goldeneye 007 reloaded and 007 legends. Both the story and multiplayer modes of both brought me,my friends,and even my dad hours of fun.

46:45 "The second most embarassing thing in Halle Barrey's carreer" I love how you don't even need to say Catwoman. We all just know

4 player splitscreen... Staying up till 3am. Trips to the all-night corner store. Hopped up on sugar and caffeine.... and freaking out loud enough while playing that the parents of the house come downstairs. Those were the best years of my life.

I honestly really liked Nightfire (PS2), and even Goldeneye : Reloaded, I look at it like an homage than a remake, it still gave me some fun and I platinumed it as far as I remember.

I know it's not a FPS, but Everything or Nothing was definitely the best JB franchise game ever.

*Fun Fact:* Quantum of Solace was made with the same engine as Modern Warfare (the original, not the reboot), so that’s why it’s kind of similar to a COD game.

Robby Coltrane who also played Hagrid in Harry Potter is destined to look like a low polygon PS1 character.

the sounds of nightfire on pc and rogue agent gave me serious nostalgia. Played both of them so much as a kid

This video is really really well done man! Thank you for the jokes and the thorough examination

Nightfire, Agent Under Fire, and From Russia with Love are my favorites!

That 007 Legends was the last Bond game for the longest time was the most depressing fact in the universe, good luck IO Interactive. Also License To Kill is one the best Bond films sonny jim. Also Everything Or Nothing please.

I really enjoyed this video, it is very informative and insightful, from one James Bond fan to another, thank you.

Man, I LOVED the way that you reviewed these games! So much so that I watched it, even though I hated most of the games presented in this video (just like you did, and it shows in the way that you talk about them, which helped with the entertainment of an hour-short video). Thank you!

007: Legends was apparently made in about 6 months. As happens with licensed titles, Activision was losing the Bond license in 2013, and wanted a cash grab game out for Skyfall's release. So Eurocom (poor Eurocom) had to rush to make a shippable game in like 1/4 of the time you'd at minimum expect for a project like this. There was clearly so much passion that went into certain aspects of it, like the characters, set designs, and stuff like that. But Activision gave them an impossible deadline. Same thing happened to Tony Hawk 5, I think it was. There's often a tendency to describe botched licensed games of this type as "lazy", but they're better described as "mismanaged". The devs get the worst end of the multipronged stick. The cracks were already showing back when Eurocom made Nightfire. The game had to come out in time for Die Another Day, and this meant that they didn't have the time they wanted for polish and maybe adding a few extra missions and stuff like that.

Goldeneye was the first FPS game to actually have objectives. Most FPS games had colored keycards before this.

James Bond was a huge impact on my gaming childhood, I had every game, and knew them inside and out, I'm so glad to see that you did this video. I also really enjoyed Agent Under Fire, it was the first one I played and just has an amazing look and feel in my opinion. And Nightfire I played about 14 times.

I spent so many hours playing Nightfire multiplayer with my brother against the bot agents, was so much fun

You know how damn bad 007: Legends actually was? In some recent interviews with IO they revealed that Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson the owners of the Bond license were extremely unhappy with it seeing it as a game with violence for just the sake of violence and it might be the reason it took so long before they allowed a game to be made again.

The Goldeneye game literally makes no sense. You get Bond killed in a simulation so they fire you??? iirc it's not even goldeneye guys fault.

Agent Under Fire and Nightfire was masterpieces to me, yeah they're a bit short, but I think it plays to its strength.

Thanks foe giving some love to nightfire. I had it on ps2 and must had beat it 100 times and it just never got old. The pvp was a blast too. Good ole split screen with a friend days.

007 Legends was so clearly rushed in the same way Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 was. A game that was made as quickly as possible so Activision could make one last cash grab before the license contract expired

You can play with bots on the console version of Nightfire too 😉 you could even customize the health, damage, accuracy, and aggression of each individual bot

Nightfire was my favorite game growing up - so many hours playing missions and multi-player with friends

Goldeneye 64, The World is not Enough (N64), and Nightfire were my favorites. Great story modes and great multiplayer on all

This will probably get buried, but I love this channel, your writing and sense of humor just always kills me, been following you for a few years at this point now and I hope you keep going, you're definitely one of my favorite channels.

“I work for ASIS.” “Who?” “It’s like ASIO.” “Who?” *sigh* “Australian Intelligence”.

Agent under fire's multiplayer was awesome. My brother, cousin, and I would use the Q-claw. You could grapple to the top of maps. Sniper matches were insane!

Simple conclussion from this whole video, nightfire deserves a full reboot, with extra missions and even a sequel or two. Probably one of the best bond stories as a whole with how it manages to make new players care about some of the characters... probably helps that the guns and womens models were perfect for younger lads getting into those things back in the day 😅

Embarrassing fact: Goldeneye 64’s music scared and creeped me out a lot when I was kid. Still don’t know why to this day.😅

1:00 "But when I realized just how long this video was going to be talking about the FPS ones..." Ha.. yeah. Tell me about it. My 007 history project was about... 1 hour and 30 minutes by the time it was finished. Loved playing through those games though, such an underrated series of games that has totally disappeared over the past decade. Glad to see others are continuing to enjoy the series too!

33:01 Quantum of Solace was the best bond game I’ve played in a very long time and your reference to Rainbow Six Vegas was spot on.

playstation version nightfire was mine and my cousins first and favorite james bond game. we played that opening level repeatedly since it was so cool finding all the different way to get into the party. using the laser watch on guards was somehow hilarious to us.

The nightclub mission from Goldeneye: Reloaded was my favourite out of all the missions on that game. It was so cool fighting at enemies while "I Remember" and "The Man I Loved - Ecko Remix" played in the background

Fun fact. Quantum Of Solace was a mess to develop, iirc before it was handed to Treyarch, the director (i think) of the game left, and it was at an unplayable rate when it was handed over, 9 months before the release

Goldeneye reloaded’s multiplayer was huge in my friend group in my early teen years. One shotting people from across the map with oddjob’s hat is a core memory for me haha

I did fully complete this game back in the day, unlocking all of the cheats as well. I think that stands as testament to how they handled difficulty modes. It wasn't just more enemies and health, the entire mission (as well as the time to complete it in) changed. That's something you just don't see very often and it's a point I like to bring up when people start talking about accessibility in gaming. The games that have done difficulty well tended to do something with that difficulty, it wasn't just jacking up the player health.

Will you review third person james bond games as well? Everything or nothing is criminally underrated.

Imagine having your trained ,heavily armed and armored soldiers taken out by a guy dressed as a waiter.

I loved Nightfire as a kid. I could never beat that goddamn sniper mission so I just played the ones before that over and over again. I have good memories of playing split screen vs my cousins on that snowy house map with wacky rules like only grenade launchers and mines or laser guns.

Agent Under Fire was a masterpiece i love it. I remember it was one of the few games i got after coming from dominican republic along with Onimusha warlords

Goldeneye for N64 is still the most fun I’ve ever had in a multiplayer game. My friends and I would play it nearly every day all summer long. There’s just nothing like having your friends all in the same room side-by-side staring at the TV and killing each other. Especially with remote or proximity mines. Those matches were fucking chaos.

As a FPS fan myself, the crosshair in Rouge Agent really annoyed me. The person who thought that was a good idea should've been fired. Not allowed to develop FPS games again.

Playing split screen multiplayer in Agent Under Fire with my 2 sisters was a chaotic blast. That grappling hook sound is burned into my brain.

I must say there is an absolutely LEGENDARY mod someone made using the Project 64 emulator where you can inject your mouse as an input. Perfect Dark and 007 has literally been reborn because of it

Rogue Agent will always hold a special place in my heart, that theme slaps and gets me hype as hell everytime I hear it.

Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough are my childhood. I remember playing with my friend all day long during the summer. The World Is Not Enough was the first game wear you could put silencers on your weapons which for an 8-9 year old kid who was really into guns was great.

I grew up playing Goldeneye N64 and played the absolute hell out of Goldeneye Wii when it came out. Being a Wii owner, it was nice having a proper, AAA-quality shooter made specifically for the system, and I'd argue it did a solid job of updating the story and gameplay of Goldeneye while still being a good homage, even if a few of the characters and some of the missions were simplified or streamlined compared to the originals. Goldeneye Wii also had an excellent multiplayer mode that I put well over 200 hours into back in high school. There wasn't any voice chat, but it felt great to play and there was a nice variety of gameplay modes to choose from (I was partial to Black Box myself).

nightfire and agend under fire are both nostalgic classics for me + shoutouts to everything or nothing for being a badass bond game (i loved the quantum of solace multiplayer back then idk haha)

The leaked GoldenEye remaster has excellent twin stick controls.

Therapist: Jumbo Ellen Degeneres isn't real, she can not hurt you. Jumbo Ellen Degeneres: 7:54.

I remember QoS being pretty solid when it came out but haven't touched it since. Golden Eye Reloaded has maybe the best local FPS MP of last gen, played soooooo much of it, super underrated.

Probably your best work ever @GmanLives Watching it on a bi-monthly basis.

Me: * watching this vid with my Russian parents in another room * Gmanlives: * spams Blyat’ aggresively *

Nightfire was the most memorable one for me when I had family and friends over to play multiplayer with me. One of the best GameCube shooters I ever played. It also got me into the Bond franchise with Pierce Brosnan still being one of my favorite actors and favorite Bond actor to date! Also holy shit those two white haired Asian twins in AUF. Forgot how hot those two were.

I still have my nightfire and Goldeneye. Thise two games plus agent under fire, were such much fun growing up

Everything or nothings co op mode is where it's at. That is my favorite type of co op. Well executed.

The whole "going through the tunnels spraying an aa12" is straight out of the Expendables.

I'd love to see you cover the non FPS ones as well. Definitely be a shorter video, but Blood Stone definitely deserves a bit of coverage at the very least.

Agent under fire is my favorite Bond game and one of my favorite FPS games of all time along with XIII. The multiplayer was insane!

I grew up loving James Bond movies and the video games. It started with "GoldenEye" and then "The World Is Not Enough" on the N64 and then I went to GameCube with "Nightfire", "GoldenEye: Rouge Agent" and "From Russia With Love". Then I went to the Xbox 360 with "Quantum of Solace", "GoldenEye Reloaded" and finaly "007 Legends". Just a lot of fun video games and it is sad that there are no more Bond games :-(. Feels like there could have been made a lot of exciting games based on the franchise's rich history.

Nightfire was the best one imo. I remember having friends over and playing a four man multiplayer split screen using a multitap. Good Times..

Goldeneye and nightfire was my childhood I loved both games. Goldeneye was frustrating at times but I found the story so much fun and loved how it didn't take itself seriously.

I 100% completed Agent Under Fire on the GameCube in 3 weeks. At one point I knew where every 007 token and Bond Moment was. The local multiplayer in it is underrated as well. On that note, local multiplayer in Rogue Agent is fantastic. Especially on levels like the Bridge where you can trigger a trap sending someone falling to their death. My friends and I had a lot of fun with it back in the day. I enjoyed the new Goldeneye (and the old one of course) and Quantum of Solace but they were very much Call of Duty feeling

I can't remember how I got to work this morning but I remembered every single frame of what you showed from Golden Eye even though I haven't played it in over 20 years. Its funny how the brain works.

Nightfire has a special place in my heart, great level design, use of gadgets, fun with friends, and it seems to have a formula reminiscent of Goldeneye. Better looking too.

I would have loved it if you included GoldenEye: Source. I know it is a fan made game, but totally worthy of the list.

Quantum of Solace on the PS3 was my first Bond game and honestly, it was a fun time especially as a big fan of Casino Royale. I do remember how clunky it felt compared to the CoDs at the time and the movie inaccuracies were a little frustrating. The briefing screens were kinda cool because that was the theme during that era of Bond movies.

Gmanlives, FPS games and Bond for almost an hour. What more could I ask for?

From Russia with Love was always fun to play.

They always had great AI: Australian Intelligence.

Nightfire and Everything or Nothing, my personal favorites. Its been hard to make a good Bond game since then. Lets cross our fingers for IO Interactive shall we.

Ooooh thank you for this vid. Grew up on these 👍

I'm really looking forward to the new IO interactive game. I expect it to have some pretty great stealth levels since the guys at IO interactive have a lot of experience from all the Hitman games they made.

I had a blast playing Rouge Agent and with friends it almost felt like Golden Eye on N64 all over again. It has a fun idea for a story with alot of throwback old Bond villains. Cant knock it and I wished I could play it again on an Emulator

Night fire and agent under fire was my childhood with my brothers. My friend used to always be odd job and hit us with the hat from across the map. The original throwing knife. Fun times

i have a good bit of nostalgia for nightfire on the gamecube. always loved that one

There's actually fewer of these than I thought. Very good job providing a proper review of each on! Glad to see nightfire get some love!

“The last boss fight is aids” this guys use of words is fucking hilarious. You got a new subscriber

I'm surprised you didn't go into detail on the Wii version of Goldeneye: Reloaded. That game made FANTASTIC use of the Wiimote and Nunchuck and was by for the best shooter on the platform. The motion controls made the game truly immersive, it's what I always envisioned a shooter on the Wii should feel like and I was disappointed no other game managed to come close. There was a moment early in the game where you get a phone call and the Wiimote started to vibrate and ring and you had to hold it to your ear to answer the call, the voice came out of the remote instead if the TV and it blew my mind. After that I knew I was in for a good time. They even shipped the game with a Golden Gun themed gamepad in case you wanted to play it with a standard controller and I absolutely ANNIHILATED with that thing in multiplayer. I went undefeated multiple matches in a row. I don't know if it was because I was in lobbies with kids or if they were playing it with the motion controls instead of the gamepad (which is far more efficient in a competitive setting but not as immersive in the singleplayer mode) but I freaking loved the game. I remember NOT having high expectations for the Wii version because the original was my favorite game and up until that point the motion controls never managed to be as fun as I expected. I was never happier to be proven wrong. That game rocks and was probably my favorite Wii game of all time.

Night fire with my dad and friends all sat wherever they could in the room switching off deaths is one of my favorite memories. Awesome times.