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A complete revolution

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 34 / 39
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

best corridor shooter ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 32
Date: April 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

Possibly the best N64 game ever created

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: March 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

The Father of FPS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 25
Date: June 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even for a Gamecube and PS2 owner, for me this is the game that started it all. And while old, Goldeneye is still exhilerating. I was stupid enough to trade in my Goldeneye copy for a nwer but NOT better game. Don't make the same mistake that I did, please! It is hard to get your hands on a good copy of Goldeneye these days. Protect your Goldeneye games! This game lives up perfectly to the movie, and for a 1997 game, the graphics and sound are excellent! Sure, Nightfire's fun, but it never revolutionized the gaming world like Goldeneye did. Goldeneye shoots TWINE and Agent Under Fire out of the sky. Nightfire can't even hold its ground against this solid and superb N64 title. In Goldeneye, you will encounter all of the characters and locations from the Goldeneye film, and the single player campaign holds its ground. But multiplayer is where the game really shines, and it is so much better than Timesplitters or Timesplitters 2 even. I have not played Goldeneye for over a year, but the music rings in my head and I have the levels memorized perfectly. Even if you worship your Perfect Dark copy, I believe that Goldeneye is better, and I have a strong debate on that. The bottom line is that Goldeneye is the BEST FPS EVER CREATED!! It boils down to this:if you own an N64, please play your Goldeneye copy or if you don't even know what this wonderful game is about, buy it now! Hey, all X-Box owners, Goldeneye is even better than Halo! There's no debate on that. Buy the game that started it all!My Rating:9.9!!

GoldenEye 007

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

Goldeneye 007 review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

The Screen Is Not Enough!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 01, 1999
Author: Amazon User

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!

Absolutely Revolutionary!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like the planets aligning, all the right elements fell together to create a revolutionary new game. First of all, people were ready and waiting for a new FPS that wasn't just a re-hash of the Wolfenstein/Doom model. For years, every FPS that came out was basically just a fancier-looking Doom--which was getting kind of boring. Second, Goldeneye was suddenly one of the best Bond films (utilizing the talent of Pierce Brosnan) in recent history. This great movie made the perfect jumping board for a great game--if someone took advantage of it. Thirdly, Nintendo paired up with Rave were the ones to take that advantage and turn it into magic. Rave had developed many successful games in the past, and at the time it was exclusively for Nintendo. They took the great new (at the time) N64 game console and pushed its pre-expansion pack technology to the limit. They couldn't realize that all of these things made for a revolution in the FPS industry. Just as games used to be measured by how they compared to Doom 3, games were now measured by how they compared to Goldeneye. Every FPS developer now had to change the way they did things in order to survive the customers' suddenly higher expectations. Prices of older FPS games plummeted, current projects that used the same old FPS model failed, and it paved the way for games like Perfect Dark and Turok to come. Goldeneye was the benchmark game for years until the XBox and Halo took the crown.

Rare did an excellent job on Goldeneye with control, handling, gameplay, story, graphics, size. Everyone was laughing at Nintendo for the goofy-looking N64 controller, until Goldeneye showed them all how intuitively you could control FPS's with it--now all controllers use similar designs. There are multiple levels, some long action-packed levels and some small stealth-based levels. The environments and characters were visually cutting-edge at the time, using 3D polygonal graphics unlike the Doom-type "flat people" in 3D mazes. The music was great, especially concidering the N64 was a cartridge-based system, but unfortunately without the expansion pack it didn't have speach like Perfect Dark did. The story was based on the very successful Goldeneye movie and players actually got to play a James Bond in a way that was never accomplished before--people compared it to like being in the movie. Most importantly, the game was fun! Other games that look fancier came out afterwards, but didn't capture the same level of fun that Goldeneye had.

Unfortunately for all of us, Electronic Arts produced the later Bond games, and they just weren't as good as Rare's Goldeneye. Also, Rare doesn't make games like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark anymore (this is both because of the falling out with Nintendo and David Doak leaving the Rare team for Free Radical Design, makers of Time Splitters). So while it was a revolution, it was not long lived, though ultimately paving the way for games like Halo. People will look back fondly on Goldeneye and recognize it as a forefather of the great FPS industry.

Best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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!

The absolute greatest

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: December 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Anybody who says this game is not the greatest first person shooter of all time is dumb as he11. This set the standard of what a shooter should be. Complete objectives and a death match. You cant go wrong with this game at all. Some games are classics. This is beyond that. This is a masterpiece. I may buy a N64 again for this alone. I never realized how much I would miss this game.

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