You are James Bond a 00 agent assigned to take out a chemical weapons facility in northern Russia but is it that simple?? 6 years after taking out the factory succesfully and losing your teamate 006 to General Ouromov an evil group known only as Janus steal a secret weapon known as the goldeney, your mission: Kill janus and return the Goldeneye. Good Luck 007
Review
What can be said about this game that hasnt been said before? Released in 1996 on the Nintendo 64 as one of the launch titles it quickly became one of the greatest games ever made and can still hold its own against some of the recent games of our times. The most realistic graphics at the time of release and incredibly easy to pick up contols made this a firm favourite with young and old alike, My mates dad played it and he was 47 at the time and my friends brother who was 7 at the time could hold his own.
Singleplayer: The single player was a dream come true for die hard 007 fans following the films story exactly apart from a few packing levels e.g. Surface and the Silo. All of the films main characters made an appearance or two and the detail of the characters allowing you to tell who you were talking to evn if you played the game before watching the film, as soon as they appeared onscreen you knew who they were. All the favourite guns made an appearance including the Walther PPK and AK-47 with the golden gun making an appearance in its own bonus level (Aztec).
With 3 different difficulty levels and lots of cheats to unlock it made the replay ability of the singlpayer missions a huge part of the reason so spend 40 pounds on a copy, even today my N64 makes the odd drunken appearance (More recently on my N64 emulator).
Multiplayer: Now this was what made the game a huge sucess all over the world!!! With all the charecters from singleplayer to choose from and some bonus ones, lots of different weapon types and 12 or 16 levels to choose from it was a true if not the first ever fully customasible multiplayer ever. Who can remember getting 3 mates round and setting the game type to The Man with the Golden Gun and proceeding to play away for 3 or 4 hours only stopping to get food or visit the toilet, the scraming and shouting as the golden gun rang out from the darkness killing instantly or the rocket fest in the caverns??
Overall this was and is still one of the greatest First Person Shooters ever and even now id pick it over some modern games, now i know everyone must have at some point played this game and yes it may seem pointless to post this review, hopefully like me youll run to the attic and blow the dust off your 64, boot up a copy of goldeney and gets some mates around for beer, pizza and a lot of fun.
Overall id rate this as
Score :
Singleplayer: 8
Multiplayer: 10
(any mistakes please mention and ill fix em
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