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Encyclopedia > Agent Under Fire (video game)
Agent Under Fire
Agent Under Fire U.S. PlayStation 2 box cover
Developer(s) Electronic Arts
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Release date(s) November 13, 2001 (PS2)
March 12, 2002 Other Platforms
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: Teen (T)
Platform(s) GameCube, PS2, Xbox

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Agent Under Fire is the first Bond game which is not based on a film or book in the James Bond series.

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Plot

James Bond is sent on a mission to rescue the CIA operative Zoe Nightshade who is held hostage by Nigel Bloch CEO of Identicon, a section of Malprave Industries, a highly successful industry. Bond saves her, but Nightshade is killed by the dangerous yet beautiful assassin for hire, Carla The Jackal, who steals a breifcase that includes vials with human blood samples of Reginald Griffin, a British diplomat of the British Embassy in Romania. Bond gets the vials back, and goes to the British Embassy, and kills Griffin, who ends up being a clone. Bond finds out that Adrian Malprave, the industrialist who owns Malprave Industries is creating clones of humans. Bond meets once again with Carla at the British Embassy after taking it over, holding plenty of hostages, including Natalya Damescu, a former scientist of Malprave who gives Bond a chip containing information on something called "Poseidon". Bond kills The Jackal by using a machine to push her into a fan, and he takes the British Embassy back into Romanian officer's hands, and M reveals that the chip's data on Poseidon leads to an oil rig located in the South China Sea He goes there, and chases Nigel Bloch to an underwater base beneaththe oil rig, Poseidon. Bond busts his way through, and kills Bloch by blowing up a base, causing Bloch to fall into a molten pit. Bond finds a sub with the supposedly dead Zoe Nightshade. She said Malprave cloned her, and Carla killed the clone, and the grenade was meant for Bond. They are then taken to a British carrier in the Mediterranean sea that had been hijacked by Malprave's men. After the carrier is freed, Zoe and Bond take off in a Harrier and Bond gets dropped off at Malprave Industries in Switzerland, as Zoe waits for him. Bond finds out Malprave is trying to clone the G8Bond saves them and they escape, and he encounters Malprave, and the real Bloch (Bond killed his clone). Malprave escapes, and Bond chases Bloch to the main room, and blows him out the window with a rocket launcher, killing him. Bond escapes the exploding base by leaping out the blown up window, with Malprave behind him, but it blows up with her in it. Bond landed in Zoe's jet that was flying outside the window. The top of the cockpit was open, so Bond could leap in the co-pilot seat. A hostage is a person (sometimes another entity) which is held by a captor (often a criminal abductor) in order to compel another party (relative, employer, government. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... As a word, clone was first coined by J.B.S. Haldane as subject for theoretical replication of a frog, though the term clone is derived from κλων, the Greek word for twig. In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Business magnate. ... Natural gas drilling rig A drilling rig or oil rig is a structure housing equipment used to drill for and extract oil or natural gas from underground reservoirs. ... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea, part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is the largest sea body after the five... The word Harrier when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language. ...


Characters

  • James Bond
    The hero of the game, he must investigate Adrian Malprave, an industrialist who clones humans. She wants to clone Bond, she nearly succeeds, but Bond can't be cloned!!
  • Adrian Malprave
    Malprave is the beautiful industrialist who owns Malprave Industries, she turns out to be an evil mastermind (the main villain of the game) who clones humans so she can have world domination. She kidnaps the G8 World Leaders, and is about to clone them when Bond foils her plan. He chases her down, fights Bloch, kills him, and Bond escapes the exploding Industries, as Malprave dies in the explosen.
  • Nigel Bloch
    Bloch is the CEO of Identicon Corporation, a section of Malprave Industries. He is the first subject of Malprave's cloning experiment. Bond kills his double half-way through the game by sending him into a molten pit. The real Bloch, however is the final boss of the game who is killed by being shot out of a window with a rocket launcher.
  • Carla the Jackal
    Carla is a beautiful assassin for hire, who Malprave hires to kill Bond. She and Malprave seem to have a close relationship, she kills Zoe Nightshade's clone on accident instead of Bond in level 2.Malprave sends her again, Carla and her terrorists kidnap the beautiful scientist Natalya Damescu, and take her to the British Embassy in Romania. Bond is sent to rescue Damescu, and he does, leading to a fight with The Jackal. Bond and her fight but Bond kills her by either shooting her to death or doing the big scene (you get a Bond Move for this) pressing a button, and making her get chopped up in a fan.
  • Zoe Nightshade
    Zoe is an attractive and skilled CIA agent and the primary Bond girl of the game. She is cloned in the beginning of the game, and her clone is killed at the end of the 2nd level, and her real-self is seen in the 10th level. She helps Bond defeat Malprave, Carla, and Bloch.

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Multiplayer

Starting with GoldenEye 007 and continuing on with The World Is Not Enough, multiplayer support in a James Bond game has become a staple. The multiplayer element in Agent Under Fire features up to 4 players and in the Xbox and GameCube version includes enemy AI bots. GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter video game for the Nintendo 64 based on the James Bond film GoldenEye. ... The World Is Not Enough is a first-person shooter video game based on the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. ...


Weapons

Agent Under Fire features over fifteen different types of firearms as well as other weapons. Each firearm is based on a real firearm, but is given a pseudonym, in the same manner as the weapons in Goldeneye.


Pistols

  • Wolfram P2k (Walther P99)
  • Windsor Viper (A Colt produced double action revolver: Colt made at least three different models of double action revolvers, each named after a dangerous snake.)
  • IAC Defender (IMI Desert Eagle)
  • Dartgun
  • Golden Gun (Gold plated Walther P99)

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Submachine Guns

  • Koffler & Stock KS7 (Heckler & Koch MP5)
  • Ingalls Type 20 (Ingram MAC-10)
  • Calypso P-750 (Calico M-950)
  • Munitions Belgique PS100 (Fabrique Nationale P90: FN is a Belgian firearms manufacturer.)

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Automatic Rifles

  • KA-57 (AK-47: FPS levels)
  • Windsor FSU-4 (M-4 Carbine Assault Rifle with a M-203 Grenade Launcher Combination: Also from AUF's fictitious "Windsor" company. Colt was a major producer of the older M-16 Rifles, and a M4 is a shorter version (carbine) of the M16.)
  • Meyer-Westlicher UGW (Steyr AUG: Produced by Steyr-Mannlicher)
  • Koffler & Stock D17 (Heckler & Koch G11)

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Other weapons

  • Punch
  • Frinsei Special 12 (Franchi SPAS-12)
  • SWZ SSR4000 (Steyr SSG 04)
  • Grenades
  • MRL-22 (Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW)
  • CH-6
  • RCH-1
  • KA-57S (AK-47: Rail-Shooter Levels)

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  • Chain Gun
  • MGF-34

Multiplayer weapons

  • Grenade Launcher
  • Mines
  • Photon Cannon

Gadgets

  • Q-Claw — Essentially a grappling hook used to reach high or far away areas.
  • Q-Decryptor — Has the ability to open locks and access computer files.
  • Q-Remote — Can open doors and has the ability to download and send programs.
  • Q-Camera — Pocket sized camera.
  • Q-Specs — X-Ray glasses.
  • Q-Laser — Burns through locks, vents, and doors.
  • Q-Jet — A rocket that gives a quick boost of upward thrust.
  • Q-Card — An access card that can unlock any door requiring a keycard.

Vehicle gadgets

  • Q-Pulse — Disables nearby cars with an EMP.
  • Q-Slick — Creates an oil slick on the road
  • Q-Boost — Gives your car a burst of speed.
  • Q-Vision — Thermal goggles.
  • Q-Smoke — Creates a smokescreen to disorient enemies.

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Trivia

  • The game was originally supposed to be a remake of the The World Is Not Enough game for the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. The idea was scrapped in favour of Agent Under Fire.
  • John Cleese was originally to have lent his likeness to this game in his role as the new Q in the Bond films, and images of him were used in early promotion of the game. When the game was released, however, Cleese's likeness had been removed. The character is referred to as "R" in this game, reflecting the nickname initially given to Cleese's character in The World Is Not Enough.
  • The first-person shooter game engine originated from an early drop of a heavily modified version of the Quake III engine from Ritual Entertainment used in the game Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.². It was ported to work on the PlayStation 2 mainly by Jeff Litz, Erik Strickland, and Andrew Lacey. This engine was eventually used in the 3rd person segments of Everything or Nothing. The driving segments of the game were created at EA Canada.

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See also

Over the past twenty years there have been numerous James Bond games featuring Ian Flemings British secret service agent, Commander James Bond. ... One popular element of the James Bond franchise is the exotic equipment and vehicles he is assigned on his missions, which often prove to be critically useful. ... Throughout the James Bond series of films Q Branch has given Bond a wide variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. ...

External links

  • Official Agent Under Fire website
  • Agent Under Fire at MobyGames
  • Agent Under Fire Speedrun - A single segment speedrun of Agent Under Fire, completed on skill level Operative(easy) in 40:40
  • James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire - A complete strategy guide to the game

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