Gameplay of the unreleased Goldeneye 007 remake for XBLA

[Mr Puggsly]

curl-6 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Its not nearly as ambitious as you make it seem. It felt blatantly inspired by CoD between gunplay and action scenes.

I thought it was solid game but they werent recreating the original. They just wanted the hype of the original game.

I was a COD player back when GE 007 came out, and I maintain now as I did then that it feels very different to COD. Action setpieces were less outrageous, pacing was more deliberate and restrained, the tone was more light-hearted, there was more emphasis on alternate routes, environmental destructibility/interactivity, and proper stealth play, (not COD's "shadow an NPC" segments) and you were a lone wolf instead of a member of a squad. If anything, it felt more like a more accessible and casual-friendly Splinter Cell than COD.

I concur that it does not recreate the original, but then again, I don't think it needed to. It was a modern reimagining, and in that regard, I thought it succeeded wonderfully.

I'm not saying it was a reskinned CoD, but the inspiration is clearly there. I'll just end on that.

I see 7th gen Goldeneye as its own thing and it was hyped at the return of Goldeneye 64 from the marketing. Its a fine game, nothing more nothing less.

Its certainly possible MS could get the 007 rights at this rate, no major publisher has shown interest. I think people would be pretty excited if MS attempted to bring it out now on X1 and PC. The work appears to be mostly done.