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Earlier this week, we published an intelligent takedown of the beloved Nintendo 64 James Bond first-person shooter GoldenEye. Maybe, our guest writer wrote, this game was a little bit flawed. Maybe the campaign was monotonous and the multiplayer map design was weird. Maybe we can still love the game despite or because of its flaws.
Editor-in-chief’s note: I was annoyed when I heard that ‘an exhibition exploring fascinatingly bad games‘ being held at New York University on Friday would include GoldenEye a Nintendo 64 game I loved when I was in college. Earth Defense Force and Big Rigs I could understand. They’re so bad, they’re good. But GoldenEye? WTF?
GoldenEye, for the Nintendo 64, is one of the all-time classics of gaming. Recently, a fan uncovered an Easter egg Rare had buried in GoldenEye‘s code: a fully functional emlulator for the ZX Spectrum system, complete with 10 games.
If you’ve ever played the original GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 – or even seen someone playing it – you’ll quickly see just how great this clip is.
Get Natalya to the main control room. It never really sounded that hard but, man, did 1997′s GoldenEye 007 on the N64 make you work your arse off to make it happen.
There’s less than 24 hours before PS3 and Xbox 360 owners get to engage in hot and heavy James Bond action on their consoles. But there’s more than just a campaign and multiplayer on the disc. This new video introduces the game’s Mi6 missions, separate chunks of gameplay that task players to complete different objectives with a suite of different modifiers.
It’s going to be a little while yet before we get to Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s iconic secret agent on the big screen. The fact that he’ll be reprising the role in Activision’s new Goldeneye game is as good a reason as any to pick up the modern take on a FPS classic.
Activision’s hoping the multiplayer golden goose will lay a golden gun one more time with the impending release of Goldeneye 007: Reloaded, the shinier PS3 and Xbox 360 version the game that came out last year for the Wii.
