GoldenEye 007

released on Aug 23, 1997

GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. It was exclusively released for the Nintendo 64 video game console in August 1997.


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i had trouble with the single player cos it wasn't really that fun for me, but multiplayer is insanely fun

ain't no way is this one of the classics

~fps retrospective 10~
Goldeneye is a classic that stands the test of time! At least for the most part. While everything from the smooth gunplay to the hilarious and charming presentation fires on all cylinders it does lack in some areas. The level design for the most part is pretty good but something about the enemy placement feels kinda bs honestly, once you get to the later levels the charm starts to fade away and it leads to a bit of frustration, especially the penultimate level behind cradle but the levels always have some sort of different gimmick to them and the objectives are always fun. Also that fov has aged so poorly but I honestly cant blame the devs its an n64 game. Shoutout to that music btw it fucking rocks.

GoldenEye 007 is a game that only feels good when you are just running and gunning. The camera is simply too cumbersome to control when trying to do anything more complicated. Seriously, whoever made the segment where you have to use your watch laser to get out of the train should go to jail. I can respect this game for introducing varied objectives and gameplay in a shooter game, but it's unfortunately a bit miserable to actually play almost three decades later. At least the music is great.

I tried the multiplayer with my siblings, and we still had a good amount of fun with it. I'm sure it was especially revolutionary at the time.

On a final note, it feels unfair to complain about a James Bond game being a James Bond game, but I can't pretend like misogyny makes my playing experience better...

A really solid shooter for its time that deserves to be praised as a pioneer of the FPS genre. The controls are hard to get used to at first but it is so worth hanging around to get used to them because they have really fun and diverse level designs that wouldn't be found in regular FPS'.
The game really shines in its multiplayer however, being the most entertaining part of it where everyone struggles to find and kill one another, and has a lot of replayability in the vast game modes. Really worth trying even for the sake of the legacy of the genre.