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Calling this a remake is like saying Lord of the Rings Conquest is a remake of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (the game). At most it's a reboot but it's largely just a re-imagining of the Goldeneye film if it were a Daniel Craig Bond outing.

The game itself? It's okay. I thought the redone intro straight out of the actual Goldeneye film was great, fantastic performance by vocalist Nicole Scherzinger, though of course it doesn't compare to the marvelous set-work and choreography of the original from the film. The gunplay is pretty straight forward, if you played the astronomical 2007 hit CoD 4: Modern Warfare, you've already experienced most of what this game has to offer in regards to its weaponry; though there's some multiplayer-centric meta memes like throwing mines high in the air and shooting them trick-shot style to really embarrass your opponents.

The campaign still feels very Bond, with a lot of levels (particularly Facility from what I remember) offering alternate paths / more sneaky routes you can take if you prefer a stealth approach. Come to think of it, it's very bizarre how low-key Facility is as a level given that you and Alec/004 crash trucks around and blew shit up on the dam directly above it. Anyways, it IS basically a CoD campaign but there's a lot more Bond flavor and styled setpieces that I think any Bond fan would enjoy, though I do think its soundtrack pales in comparison to Goldeneye (N64) and 007 Agent Under Fire.

I'm not like a diehard Bond fan or anything, I've only actually seen 1 film to completion, but I've played almost all of the 3D game titles to varying degrees aside from the other 7th gen games and was pretty fond of the "master spy" stuff as a kid. In the end I think GoldenEye 007 (2010) was overhyped at launch, and overhated today. It's just alright, and is what I'd call the last serviceable Bond game, since the actual last Bond game produced, Legends, was a very boring disaster.

my shaky ass hand could never shoot shit but i had fun

I didn't have a PlayStation or Xbox until middle school and so this was my first real FPS experience. While the campaign proved too muddy and generic for a lot of players, at the time I thought it was super cinematic and exciting.

GoldenEye is of course a remake of the N64 classic and changes it into a Daniel Craig Bond adventure. It mostly follows the original movie with new cutscenes and set pieces and takes a lot of inspiration from Call of Duty campaigns.

But what really kept players coming back was the multiplayer. I put a lot of time playing the off-line split-screen mode with my friend Zac where we'd often run 1v1 golden gun matches or bazooka wars on Nightclub. This was a whole lot of fun and gave me a bit of nostalgic reverence for this admittedly flawed game.

Some people really got into the online multiplayer for the game as well, with the Wii pointer controls giving it a different feel than traditional controller FPS games. It was sort of fun but I never got any good at it and would find myself constantly obliterated in these matches.

Wii pointer controls continue to amaze me. Wii waggle not so much.

This is one of my favorite childhood games I played on the Wii.


Got this to play split screen and it was fun. Main campaign was fine.

está que te cagas y encima el doblaje es la hostia

The most fun I've ever had on a couch-based multiplayer game. This is honestly a different type of fun that I don't think any other shooter will ever replicate for me.

Anti-climatic ending, but fun while it lasted, and starts out great. I never played the original Goldeneye, so I have nothing to compare it to, other than what else was available on the Wii at the time.

Mamma mia che gioco pazzesco! Mi sono divertito un sacco, anche se il gioco dura solo 3 ore, con questo remake per DS! La storia è molto bella, soprattutto grazie ai molti colpi di scena, ma anche le fasi stealth del gioco sono ben realizzate. La pecca più grande del gioco è del suo finale che è un pò troppo... ehm, ehm e basta, in più la versione per DS è molto scomoda e mi sono fatto male la mano diverse volte. Comunque è un ottimo titolo che tutti dovrebbero giocare prima o poi (fatelo quando uscirà sul catalogo N64).

i played the xbox 360 remake

I played the hell out of this as a kid. It was awesome.

This was... fine.

I really wanted a great shooter on the Wii, something the console severely lacked. GoldenEye's emphasis on the Classic Controller Pro gave me hope, but playing the game just felt sorta bad.

Multiplayer was messy because no one confidently felt like they were hitting what they were aiming at, and the campaign was filled with levels that felt aimless and unrefined. A bit of a disappointment for a huge fan of Bond games.

split screen deathmatch never dies

James Bond but it's CoD. And it's not Pierce Brosnan but Daniel Craig.

Fuck Activision.

I didn't grow up playing a lot of shooters. I played at the homes of my friends who owned Xboxes, but I never owned one and I preferred Mario and Pokemon anyway. I inexplicably beat this game, although the campaign was bad. Online multiplayer was more fun, and to this day this is the only online shooter I have played consistently. Every time I died and the blood poured down the screen my mom said "That is so gross!" She was right, but it was also cool.

Not as mechanically sound as fps games on XBOX 360 or PlayStation 3 but one of the best splitscreen fps games on the Wii.

Great memories from playing multiplayer; Nothing amazing in retrospect but a very solid FPS experience