Customer Reviews

GoldenEye Rogue Agent

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

This is the best 007 game to date. for those of you who have not been thrilled with the past few Bond game, give this one a try.

First of all, you are no longer Bond, and are no longer playing by M16 rules. In this game, it's your goal to be ruthless. Features never before allowed in 007 games are now avalable, taking people hostage, human shields, machine death traps, and blowing the snot out of any thing you choose.

Another great addition to this game is duel guns. They can be fired independantly, and certainly make the game a lot of fun. You know have hundreds of gun options that you can use at your disposal. One other great feature in this game is the golden eye. You can do everything you dreamed of doing in previous Bond games, look through walls, hack into machines, throw people through telecentic powers, and my personal favorite, deflect bullets. With all these powers at your disposal how can it not be a great game.

But a word of caution. This game contains large amounts of violence and themes that many mothers wont want their kids exposed to. I am personally surprised that this game got away with a Teen rating and not a Mature because its is quite frankly more violent than recent M games such as Halo 2.

However if you are looking for a great shooting game with the best first person controls imagionable than search no more. Golden Eye Rogue Agent is your game.

OK, OK, before you start scrolling down the page to read a different review listen up. Goldeneye: Rogue Agent is an overlooked and underliked game, that should be thought alot more highly of than it is. I am not going to make this very long but I am going to explain why it should be a game you buy.

You play through the game as, of course, Goldeneye himself. this means you are playing as a villan, which makes the game more fun and adds some things that Bond games normally don't have.

First off, the graphics are great. In both single player and multiplayer, the graphics are beautiful and everything has a sense of realism to it. Snow looks frozen and cold, trees and machines are real looking, and enemies and allies look lifelike and awesome.

Second, the gameplay is incredibly fun. In the game, you have to fight your way through a dam, Infiltrate an enemy base, protect your own base from an attack, and lots of other stuff. Instead of gadgets in this game, you use your mechanical synthetic eye to aid you in your war against the villan Doctor No. You can generate a force field, throw enemies with an electromagnetic attack, manipulate electronics, and see through walls all by using your eye's gadgets. You can also take enemies captive and either use them as sheilds from enemy fire or throw them into other enemies. Duel weilding weapons is also really enjoyable, and allows you to test weapon combinations to find the 1 or 2 most effective weapons for yor fighting style.

The music is well done, too. It sounds like classic Bond music, and really adds a certain depth to the gameplay.

There aren't many levels, but each one is really long, making for a gaming experience that will probably take several days to beat.

The AI is also good. Enemies will call out your position to each other, toss grenades to flush you out, and more.

Goldeneye: Rogue Agent also features several cut scenes, which are well animated and informative.

As good as single player is, Goldeneye Rogue Agent's multiplayer is in a class of its own. With almost every weapon in single player available plus unlockable arenas and characters, Rogue Agent's multiplayer is great fun. My only request would be for bigger arenas and that you could use the sniper rifle in multiplayer.

All in all, Goldeneye: Rogue Agent is a great first person shooter experience, and it deserves alot more popularity than it has.

-bubba"samus"

First off, if you're expecting the lastest incarnation of the James Bond video game franchise to be better than the Goldeneye for the N64, you'll be disappointed. Not that this Goldeneye is a bad game, it's quite the opposite.

The single player campain is excellent.The Fort Knox level really sets the tempo for the rest of the game:fast paced, non stop action. It's a standard FPS affair, but it's still a blast. The new "Goldeneye" feature really adds a cool dimension to the fray. You can see thru walls, manipulate machines, throw enimies, and other things. One small gripe about the single player game...it's too short. It only has 8 levels, and while each level is fairly long, it'd be nice to have maybe 12 or 13 levels.The multiplayer game is fun for what it's worth. It's just standard deathmatch stuff.

All in all, this is a fun, fairly challenging game that is well worth its $50 price tag.

As many other reviewers will be quick to point out, yes, this game is more or less just another mindless FPS against a white-noise background of a few dozen similar titles. However, despite a significant number of flaws, it certainly has its charms.

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Bad news first. The vast majority of the drawbacks to this title originate in the single player campaign, so you might want to just skim this section if you're predominantly concerned with multiplayer. First of all, the much flauneted "E.V.I.L. A.I." is not quite what it's cracked up to be. Sure, it's fun to see an enemy character grab a fellow baddie to use as a human shield (despite the gross tactical error it entails), but beyond this, there are fairly few noticable differences between this new A.I. and any other.
Second, as long as I'm on the subject of the A.I., there is no multiplayer A.I. Even many older, less sophisticated games such as Perfect Dark and The World Is Not Enough allowed multiplayer "bots" to fill in gaps in the human roster or simply spice things up a bit, yet this is not an option here. On a related matter, the multiplayer arenas are far too small for the full multiplayer potential to be realized.
Third, the weapon usage system, while innovative, has a significant flaw: you cannot carry weapons or items other than the two in your hands at any given moment. If you wish to change weapons, you must first defeat an enemy carrying the desired weapon or find one lying about and swap it with one you're carrying.
Fourth, the campaign mode leaves a bit to be desired in terms of playability. It is rather short (8 missions), despite many of the missions being quite long (1-2 hours or so of playing in some cases). It also gets quite difficult and even frustrating at times, primarily because most enemies are capable of absorbing impossibly unrealistic amounts of damage without dying. As way of example, "elite" enemy units are given an electromagnetic polarity shield and are capable of absorbing anywhere up to 4 shots from a weapon allegedly capable of "1-Hit Kills." One last gripe about the campaign play mode: fans of previous Bond games' objective-based gameplay will be disappointed by the linear way in which the majority of objectives are satisfied merely by progressing through a mission.
Finally, the story will completely confound people who, like me, are avid Bond fans: how on Earth can Xenia Onatopp, villainness from 1995's GoldenEye, work for Dr. Julius No, who perished at Bond's hand in 1962? Not to mention the story conflicts that arise from the fact that your character has to defeat Dr. No as one of the mission objectives in the Crab Key level. What's more, why does SPECTRE's octopus emblem appear on everything, despite the fact that your character works for Goldfinger? Last time I checked, Dr. No was the SPECTRE agent, not Goldfinger... Although they attempt to somewhat resolve this rather awkward storyline through very fuzzy plot development, on the whole, the story feels week, contrived, and at least partially undeveloped.

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Having said all this, there is still a bit to be said about the story. The ending and most of the cutscenes are rather satisfying, and the idea of playing as a Bond villain, although slightly underdeveloped, is quite appealing. The real strength of the story is the sheer escapism of the whole episode.
One of the more interesting aspects of the game design is the designers' faithfulness to the "look" and even the voice talents of characters such as Goldfinger, Scaramanga, and "Number One." (The voice talent used for Number One sounds eerily like Donald Pleasance from You Only Live Twice.)
Despite the weaknesses of the A.I., one thing that really took me by surprise is the enemies' capability of using in-stage machine deathtraps against you. That is certainly one unforseen strength of the new A.I. program.
The dual-wield weapon system (which allows you to hold and operate any 2 given weapons independently via the L & R shoulder buttons) is a great feature.

Unfortunately, on paper, the negative aspects seem to greatly outweigh the positive. However, this only tells half the story. Check once more the score I gave this game. To boil the enjoyment of a game down to purely objective things such as these is to take the humanity out of it all. If you have ever found yourself at all interested in the Bond villains, this game is a must-play (that is, if you can tolerate FPS's). If you're a die-hard Bond fan, this game is a must-play. If you're a hard-core FPS fan, this game is a must-play. Due to its flaws, I would definitely recommend renting it or trying it out somehow before buying if you don't fit into any of these groups, but I still recommend that anyone give this game a chance.

This game is a true firt person shooter. If you are looking for a richer 007 experience stick to everything or nothing but if you like blowing out brains from now until monday this is your game.

I read reviews and got a tad worried about the quality of this game. Well I got it anyway and I'm very pleased. It seems like a lot of people are complaining because it's either, not Halo or not the origianl Goldeneye.
The bottom line is, it's fun. No bots in multiplayer is a downer, I admit, but if you have atleast one person you can play multiplayer with then you'll have a good time. I'm not all the way through the game, but the single player so far is amusing me as well. And take auto aim off when you play, it's more fun.

alright, face it, everybody loves blowing the crap out of people, especially me. this game is cool. i mean, the controls you start with are confusing for some people, but at least you can change them. I, personally think this game is a great first person shooter and would recommend buying it if you are a FPS fan

this game is the best bond game i have ever played, except you are not bond you are goldeneye. goldeneye is a villian o, and also i went and got ice cream yesterday and i got chocolate and it was mmm mmm good did you now cows have horns?

Story: You are actually working for Goldfinger. Pretty thin. It does not keep on tab with the Bond movies in several ways. Not much else to say.

The missions: The missions are pretty godd. There are only eight but they take from 20 minutes to two hours.

The graphics: The graphics I found were really good in this game.

The shooting: The gunds in this game are really good, and I really like the duel weilding. My only compalint is that I tire of shooting the same looking guard over and over.

It's a very fun shooting game. If you like any of the 007 games, this is pretty much the same exact thing,just with Golden Eye instead of Bond.