Customer Reviews

Golden Eye 007

5 star:		(309)
4 star:		(35)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wow. I'm 16. I LOVE this game. it's a couple years old, and my friends and I still play this game every week, tournaments with 3 Tv's and more at a time. Wow. great level of difficulties, easy to very hard... it'll challenge the best of players, and there's somethin for the youngins too. Get it, and get it now. Wow, whatta game.

This game is GREAT! The weapons are good, except for the Klobb ( hey, nobody's perfect! ). I have not seen the movie, but I feel like I know the movie by heart after playing this a couple of zillion times. From what I hear, the game follows the movie very closely. The controls are great, the guards are a gag, and the action is superior. Perfect Dark ( Rareware's follow up game to GoldenEye ) looks absolutely stupid. It doesn't have real weapons in it, whereas GoldenEye does. Let me give u some examples. The Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Shotgun ( not the auto-shotgun ) and the PP7 ( the PPK in real life--Police Pistol ). Those are only a few examples. I like almost all the levels, except for a few. The Train is one of the best levels there is. U can play up to a 4 multi-player game, where u can choose what weapons u would like to use, AND u can choose what TYPE of multi-player game u would like to play. U can set ur health from -10 to +10, and how many kills it takes to win. There are 3 levels of difficulty, each harder than the other. There's Agent, Secret Agent, and 00 Agent. Agent's the easiest, Secret Agent next, and last 00 Agent. BUY THIS GAME! U won't regret it!

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.

The screen is not enough for James Bond. He must also conquer the video game realm, and that he has. I'm a huge bond fan and i have loved this game since the day i had gotten it. It takes you through the whole movie and has two extra stages that include other villians from other bond movies. The most important factor is the multiplayer mode, hours,weeks,months, and years of fun with your friends. This is one of those games that need to be dipped in gold and put up for display on a plaque but not before you play the heck outta it first!

This is the game that single handedly saved Nintendo when it was about to die off early. If it wasn't for Goldeneye I wouldn't even have bought a N64. I was already a huge fan of Bond movies before the first game for the gameboy came out. This game, although it didn't quite capture the spirit of the film or the Bond series is still one of the funnest games I've ever played. In its genre it's undoubtedly the best, never has a 1st person shooter been so perfect. The single player missions are enough to give this game 3 stars but add the greatest 2-4 person player mode ever created for a game like this and that all together is worth about 10 stars! There's just something about hunting down your opponant and shooting him to a bloody pulp that never gets old. I literally, even today don't get tired of demolishing my friends with all the strategies I've learned from playing this game. It's totally fun to set a million remote mines in the alcove in the water caverns, then lure him in the room, let him kill you,then as you start your next life, right when he's picking up all your dropped goods, hurry up, switch to your watch and watch your opponent's screen as you push the detenator button and him and the room blow sky high!! Then go pick up yours AND his goods. A free little tip. Onto the single player missions. While not perfect they're still great fun. The best part of the SP missions is the level design and enemies. Never before has badguys been so smart and annoyoing, they'll duck and shoot, sound alarms, and literally run like crazy till you, yourself gets tired of chasing them! The level designs, next to Zelda are some of the best I've seen. Not that their beutiful to look at, it's just that their made just so enemies can hide, walk routes, and really get you lost sometimes. Also, it seems like everytime you enter a new level, except for a few, it's like your in a completely diferent place, Except you know where you are: Facility, bathroom, runway, tunnel, dock, cave and so on. Repeating some of the levels gets old, but luckily it doesn't happen too often. The gameplay moves swift and fast. With no "puzzles" and enemies around every corner, sometimes it seems impossible to finish your objectives. But you've got enough firepower to do it. Literally, Goldeneye offers the largest variety of weopons ever in a game like this. My only complaint is coming from a movie like Goldeneye I expected it to have the same plot. But other than a few familier scenes and a few familier lines of dialogue it isn't much like the movie. Oh well, it's still fun and, on 00 agent, very, VERY dificult. This might not be the best game around- Zelda is a much better game- but it was a groundbreaking game for its it's time and one that will rightfully be remembered as the founding father of the N64.

I think this game is unarguably the best N64 game ever created. Its challenging and you cant just go through the levels blasting everything in sight in other games like Duke Nukem. You have to save your ammo and there's no health power ups. You can also get special cheats by doing certain things like completing a certain level in 3 minutes and 30 seconds or something like that. I seriousely think that this game is great. I couldn't give it more than 5 stars, but if i could, I would give it 6.