Golden Eye 007
GoldenEye 007 has been a huge success for Rareware, and it’s easy to see why. More than a simple movie translation, this has earned its top-seller status on its own. Fans of Doom and Quake will recognize the first-person shooter perspective, but there the similarity ends. James Bond 007 has too much style to simply blast everything in sight and move to the next level. No, as 007, the player has a variety of different missions to perform, each with its own specific objectives. Each mission follows the film closely, and so James must use stealth and cunning as much as brute force. But if you see a Kalashnikov rifle lying around, by all means pick it up.
Controls are easy to master, which is impressive considering the variety of actions the onscreen hero can perform. James can run and walk at variable speeds, duck, pivot, hide, attach mines to enemy helicopters, block doors from opening, and more. The optional auto-aim feature is especially nice. Of course, James Bond is proficient in a wide variety of weapons. You get to use them all, from the trusty Walther PPK (with silencer) to double sets of full-auto machine guns.
The game’s faithful tribute to the Bond legacy includes briefing dossiers on each mission, complete with wisecracks from Q and flirtatious comments from Moneypenny. And the 3-D representation of locations and characters from the movie is very impressive. The Rareware team spent time on the set with digital cameras, and it shows.
One of the distinguishing features of the game is the outstanding artificial intelligence of the enemies. When attacked, squads will rush to hit the alarm. If they make it, reinforcements come running. Enemy soldiers respond to being shot or blown up with chilling realism. According to Rareware, there are over 30 different animation routines that come into play, depending on where the soldier is hit. For those who prefer the challenge of human opponents, there are six clever multiplayer modes where up to four players can shoot it out, as teams or solo agents.
With excellent gameplay, intelligence, and style, GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter that’ll keep you coming back for more. –Jeanne Uy
Pros:
- Built-in save capability for up to 4 players
- Auto-aim feature helps novice players feel like a sharpshooter
- Rich, complex game world filled with detail and variety
- Great bonus missions
Cons:
- Sometimes cinematic scenes for fulfilling mission objectives are a bit anticlimactic
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Without a doubt, Goldeneye 007 is the best corridor shooter I’ve ever played and one of the best games I’ve ever played period. The graphics, sound, control, fun factor, and replay value are all awesome to say the least. Even when you get right up against a wall, there’s no sign of pixelization. The weapon selection and options to use are the best ever seen in a corridor shooter. The one player game is challenging, but not impossible. But where Goldeneye 007 really shines is the multiplayer mode. It can’t be beat by any other game. You can play up to 4 players at a time and hunt each other down and see who has the better aim. There are tons of weapons to choose from under Options to use in multiplayer. You can choose lasers, timed mines, golden guns which will kill the others in just one shot, and my personal favorite, proximity mines that you throw anywhere on the level and when anybody (including yourself) gets close to them, they will blow them to pieces. However, that’s not even half of the weapons there are to choose from. There are also most of the main characters from the movie that you can select during the game. This game doesn’t have ANY weaknesses. This is one of the best games that anybody could buy whether you liked the movie or not.
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This is the one game that I would play day in and day out, for more than a year. The one game where I discovered something new almost every time I played. It was the one game which brought me and my friends together religiously at least 3 or 4 times a week. Somehow it just wouldn’t die, no matter how hard we tried.At first, it just seemed so standard and bland. Playing muliplayer for the first time, I had problems finding guns and felt confused and bored running through the Temple level. soon, somehow, something clicked, and me and my friends ended up playing it for about 4 hours straight. Towards the end of that introductory marathon Goldeneye session, we took our first stride out of the standard Deathmatch restriction- increasing my character’s health to its highest limit and my friends fighting against me. Thus we coined the “God” mode, and we played this variant to death in the coming months.It didn’t end there. We had fests where we would do nothing but attack each other with punches. We bought a bunch of video cable and conected three televisions together to form a sort of splitscreen, LAN-type mode, covering up other player’s screens so we wouldn’t know where the other players were. We playedthe Team mode constantly, refining our knowledge of the levels and our marksmanship. Fed up with auto-aiming, we turned it off and further honed our skills. I began to be able to play the Complex level in my sleep. Proximity mines soon became an addiction. We pushed the game to its limits, learning that we could move the ammo boxes, shields, and guns around by shooting them, thus reworking their positions and creating large stockpiles in team games. We began to use Gameshark to unlock multiplayer maps that weren’t intended for the final version, as well as increasing the limits on two and three player maps to four players. We discovered a code that turned one player invisible, and proceeded to do hunter-hunted scenarios over splitscreen.Basically, it was the first game to really show limitless possibilities. It was a revolution for first-person shooters, and so many have overlooked this fact. It was the first to have targeting of individual body parts, over 20 weapons to choose from, realistic glass, shooting out of lights, and bullet holes, and for its time fairly revolutionary AI. All in all, it was an experience that defined video games for me, and few if any have matched it with a similar addictive experience.
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The biggest reason this game deserves 5 stars is its repeat-playability. It takes much time to beat all the levels in each Agent mode, and you must work to get the two bonus levels. Also, you must work to get each cheat as well. Instead of pressing a few buttons to get a cheat, you must beat certain levels in a certain amount of time. Even after you’ve beaten everything, and you’re tired of the One-Player Missions, you can have a blast with the multiplayer battle! You can play with up to 3 of your friends and battle each other in different unique stages and different battle modes. I’ve been playing the multiplayer with my friends for 3 years and haven’t gotten tired of it one bit. You won’t want to put this game away, EVER! Even if you aren’t a fan of first-person shooters.
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This game is amazing. It has great graphics, great sound, EXCELLENT multiplayer, a great lasting appeal, and a great single player mode? What more could you ask for? Only one thought comes to mind…a two-four play co-op mode. There are many levels in this magnificent game, ranging from a snowy tundra in Severnaya, to a tropical jungle in Cuba. I played this game before I saw the movie, and when I finally did see the movie, I knew what would happen because the game follows extremely close to the movie. I could actually name the levels from the game while watching the movie. The graphics are outstanding and the frameate is great (unless you have many “bad guys” in the room at one time). One bad thing is that once you shoot someone, you will see their dying sequence then their body will dissappear. This can be good though, especially when you are using cheats and kill many people, you wouldn’t want to see all of those bodies on the floor, would you? It would get too cluttered. This was the very first game I purchased for my N64. I still play it today, not bored one bit. GoldenEye in my opinion, and many others, is the best game on ANY game system. You cannot go wrong with this game. Oh and to all of those weird people who don’t like GoldenEye…you need to get your head checked out or something. I recommend this game to ANYONE.
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Nearly all games today are ruined by unrealistic medkits, extra lives, guns turning into tidy little ammo cases, and other add-ons that supposedly make the actions better. Goldeneye is very realistic. Once you have been hit, you cannot gain back health. You can get body armor, but it only stops you from being hit, it doesn’t give you more health. Enemies die realistically, react to sounds, and are often smart if they are confronted by heavy fire, they will run or roll to a better position. They snipe and sneak up on you. Also, when they drop their guns, the guns lie at any angle on the ground, depending on the position of the dropper. Cameras are hard to sneak up on. They are, like real cameras, damaged more heavily on the lens. The first-person view makes precision aim essential, and you can do nearly any maneuver. Bullet holes appear in hit objects, and guards hear even a silenced gun if it hit metal. Cheat codes and multiplayer add to the fun, and their is a wide selection of levels, from sneaking through a dark jungle to freeing hostages on a ship. It punishes you for killing civilians, and if you are killed, you die. Awesome cheat modes are Slow animation (enemies move and die in slow motion DK Mode (enemies have big heads and walk like monkeys) Invisibility Invincibility Enemy Rockets (all guns, of anyone besides you, are rocket Launchers) All weapons (OVER 30!) Infinite Ammo And more… Multiplayer levels require many strategies, and sidestepping, aiming quickly, finding weapons and armor, and ducking are needed to master this mode.
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The seller advertised the expansion pack as original Nintendo equiptment, but instead sent me a knock-off aftermarket exapnsion pack which did not work! They used false advertising and the product does not work at all.
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I received a 3rd party version of this product, even though the picture at the top is the official one. I didn’t really mind so I tried it with both Donkey Kong 64 and a regular game, with only a black screen appearing on my TV. I put back my original memory pack and my regular game works. Disappointed, I look up the problem online and see tons of people talking about how it ruined their 64s and fried them permanently after just one try, guess I got lucky. *BEWARE* and I will make sure to buy 1st party stuff from now on…
The ACTUAL ram expansion is nice because it lets you play Majora’s Mask, Perfect Dark and DK64, but I wouldn’t get it otherwise, I never saw a difference with regular games.
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I received a 3rd party product, not an original OEM product. Amazon has this labeled with an OEM picture, which misleads you to think this is an OEM product. It is not. Non-OEM expansion paks have a history of rendering your N64 console unusable. A quick Google search will tell you this in 30 seconds. Some do, some do not. If you’re willing to take the chance, ok. I am not. The seller I purchased from was good and rectified the situation with prompt RMA processing and refunding the cost of the item plus shipping.
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i got this expansion pak when i ordered the game “Zelda: Majora’s Mask” and it works great with that game. i also tried it with the “Perfect Dark” game and i saw a BIG difference on the graphics and it looked amazing. i would personally recommend this for the games that is required to used this product and other games that will enhance the gaming graphics. should of ordered it a long time go
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The product worked perfectly. The only problem is that it does not fit flush with the N64, which is just an aesthetic problem. Overall good product.