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GoldenEye 007

aka: GoldenEye
Moby ID: 3528

Nintendo 64 version

Greatest Game Ever

The Good
This game mixes two of the best things in the world: James Bond and mission based shooters where going all guns blazing wont always mean success. The selection of weapons is huge, each has it's own possitive and negitive points (except maybe the RCP-90). The enemies don't just stand around doing nothing, they twitch, fidget and even threaten to shoot anoying flies, they aren't brain dead either. If you fire a gun near by soldiers will come looking for you after setting off an alarm which usualy spawns more soldiers, they will roll, leap and duck behind cover to avoid your fire while their friends provide covering fire. Every mission has a cheat code to unlock if you complete your objectives under a specified time and 3 difficulty levels with additional objectives add to the replayability. Multiplayer has dozens of options, characters and hundreds of combinations like health handicapts for better players and rocket launcher one hit kill flag tag increase the replayability.

The Bad
There is very little to dislike, out side of the damn Klobb, which is the worst video game weapon ever, perhaps the lack of co-op single player is a negative point but that feature wouldn't realy fit in with the theme. Sometimes the enemies can be very difficult if they are in groups and get the jump on you or if there is a lot of space between you. The only down side of the AI would be that they sometimes throw grenades inside and at close ranges and ignore hand grenades in general, the only other thing would be that the enemies are never randomly placed so you can memorise their positions.

The Bottom Line
This is the biggest reason to buy a N64, Goldeneye is the greatest game on any platform that I've ever played, there is nothing to even compare it to.

by Evil-Jim (145) on March 29, 2002

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