Golden Eye 007

by Nintendo

Product Features

• Instruction Booklet Only!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000DMAT
• Item Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Release Date: August 25, 1997
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (365 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #865 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Editorial Review

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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44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best corridor shooter ever, April 11, 2000

By 

jasenao (Dothan, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Golden Eye 007 (Game Cartridge)

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.

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A complete revolution, September 2, 2003

By 

Michael Kluge (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Eye 007 (Game Cartridge)

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.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best N64 game ever created, March 8, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Golden Eye 007 (Game Cartridge)

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.