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''GoldenEye 007'' is a First-person Shooter Video Game for the Nintendo 64 based on the James Bond Film '' GoldenEye ''. It was produced by then Second-party Nintendo Game Developer Rareware , and released in 1997 . One of the most popular games to be released on the N64, ''GoldenEye 007'' is well-known for the quality of its Multiplayer Deathmatch mode and its incorporation of Stealth and varied objectives into the Single Player Mission s. DEVELOPMENT The development team working on ''GoldenEye 007'' was very inexperienced; for all but two of them, it was their first game. As David Doak explained: "Looking back, there are things I'd be wary of attempting now, but as none of the people working on the code, graphics and game design had worked on a game before, there was this joyful naïvety.""Desert Island Disks: David Doak". '' Retro Gamer '' issue 6 (July 2004), pp. 41-45. ISSN 17423155 And: "We were like a mini-company inside Rare making an atypical game that no-one really thought was going to be any good. The general feeling was we were a bunch of students wasting time. And then when it went into testing there was this very good feedback, initially from testers in-house but also from Nintendo. People were putting in voluntary overtime to test this game." ''GoldenEye 007'' was originally intended to be an 2005.—many of the missions were extended or modified to allow the player to participate in sequences of which Bond was not originally a part, or those in which he only played a minor role. The original Set s that were created for the film were first converted into complete, believable Virtual environments by one group of game designers; when this process was complete, other designers began populating them with objectives, characters and obstacles in order to create a balanced and fun game. As Martin Hollis explained in his speech: "The benefit of this sloppy unplanned approach was that many of the levels in the game have a realistic and non-linear feel. There are rooms with no direct relevance to the level. There are multiple routes across the level." GAMEPLAY AND DESIGN ''GoldenEye 007'''s menu system is set up as an , Q and Miss Moneypenny . Once a mission is completed, the player has the option of either continuing on to the next or going back and replaying that mission over on the same or harder difficulty. Certain missions also challenge players to earn bonus as a Time Attack game. For example, completing the "Facility" mission on 00 Agent difficulty in 2:05 or less will unlock the "Invincibility" cheat. STORYLINE AND MISSIONS Mission sequence
#Dam: ''Byelomorye Dam'' #Facility: ''Arkhangelsk'' #Runway: ''Runway''
#Surface: ''Severnaya'' #Bunker: ''Severnaya''
#Silo: ''Kirghizstan''
#Frigate: ''Frigate''
#Surface 2: ''Severnaya'' #Bunker 2: ''Severnaya''
#Statue: ''Statue Park'' #Archives: ''Archives'' #Streets: ''St Petersburg'' #Depot: ''Military Depot'' #Train: ''Train''
#Jungle: ''Cuban Jungle'' #Control: ''Janus Control'' #Caverns: ''Water Caverns'' #Cradle: ''Antenna Cradle'' In the mid- 1980s , MI6 uncovers a secret Chemical Weapon s facility at the Byelomorye Dam near Arkhangelsk in the USSR . The facility has been producing Nerve Gas that has been turning up in the hands of numerous hostile regimes and Terrorist factions across the world. James Bond is sent to the facility to join his friend and fellow 00-agent Alec Trevelyan in destroying the chemical weapons facility. Prior to gaining access to the facility, however, Bond must fight his way through the many Russia n soldiers guarding the dam and Bungee Jump to its base, where the facility is located. During the mission, Trevelyan is killed by Colonel Arkady Ourumov , but Bond escapes by commandeering an Aeroplane . Several years after escaping the facility, Bond is sent to Severnaya, Russia where a British Spy Satellite has detected increased levels of activity including shipments of computer hardware and the arrival of personnel. Bond's mission is to covertly find out what is happening there. During the " Silo " mission (which takes place two years before the main story, presumably in 1993), a completely new addition to the game present in neither the film nor its novelization, Bond investigates an unscheduled test firing of a missile in Kirghizstan . It is believed to be a cover for the launch of a satellite known as ''GoldenEye''. This space-based weapon works by firing a concentrated Electromagnetic Pulse ( EMP ) at any Earth target to disable any electrical circuit within range; from its Orbit , it would be a threat to any city on Earth . 007 briefly encounters Colonel Ourumov, who escapes. Bond succeeds in blowing up the facility with C-4 Plastic Explosive s. Several years later, after the end of the Cold War , Bond is sent to Monte Carlo where members of the Janus crime syndicate have taken hostages aboard the French Frigate ''La Fayette'' in order to steal a prototype Eurocopter Tiger . He rescues the hostages and plants a tracker bug on the helicopter. As in the film, the Tiger helicopter is tracked via satellite to Severnaya, but in the game Bond is sent there a second time to infiltrate the satellite control bunker. During the mission Bond is captured and locked up in the bunker's cells, along with Natalya Simonova , a Russian computer Programmer at Severnaya imprisoned under suspicion of treachery. The two escape the complex seconds before it is destroyed - on the orders of Ourumov, now a General - by the GoldenEye satellite's EMP. Against the wishes of MI6, Natalya returns to St. Petersburg , where she is captured by Janus. MI6 arranges ex- KGB agent Valentin Zukovsky to meet Bond to arrange a meeting with the head of the Janus organization. This person is revealed to be Alec Trevelyan - his execution by Ourumov in the Arkhangelsk facility was faked. Trevelyan was apparently a Lienz Cossack and wants revenge on the British government. Bond rescues Natalya, but they are captured by the Russian authorities and taken to the military Archive s for interrogation. They manage to prove their innocence and the treachery of Ourumov to Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin, although once on the streets of St. Petersburg, Natalya is captured by General Ouromov. Bond gives chase in a Tank , eventually reaching a depot used by Janus to coordinate illegal arms deals and terrorist actions around the world. After making his way through the depot and destroying its weaponry stores, 007 hitches a ride on Trevelyan's Soviet missile train, where he kills Ouromov and rescues Natalya. However, Alec Trevelyan and his ally Xenia Onatopp escape to their secret control center in Cuba . Although Natalya manages to track Janus to Cuba, MI6 is uncertain of the exact location of the main base from which the GoldenEye satellite is controlled. Surveying the jungle aerially from a light aircraft, they are shot down and crash into the Cuban jungle. Unscathed, Bond and Natalya perform a ground search of the area's heavily guarded jungle terrain, but are ambushed by Xenia, who is quickly killed by Bond. Bond sneaks Natalya into the control center to disrupt transmissions to the satellite and force it to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. Afterwards, Trevelyan escapes through the flooded Cavern s under the base and manages to get up to the Antenna Cradle. He attempts to restore contact with the GoldenEye by manually re-aligning the main broadcasting Antenna of the control center's Radio Telescope . Bond kills Trevelyan and destroys the main computer terminal which causes the GoldenEye to burn up upon Reentry . Additional missions Mission sequence
#Aztec: ''Aztec Complex''
#Egyptian: ''Egyptian Temple'' Two additional missions were added as bonuses for the completion of the game on higher difficulties. The first, " Aztec ", was partially taken from the James Bond film, '' Moonraker '', and is unlocked when the player completes the entire game on Secret Agent difficulty. During the mission, Bond is sent to the Aztec complex in Teotihuacán to investigate the Drax Corporation's unlicensed space exploration in which at least one Space Shuttle was stolen from NASA . Although Hugo Drax was sucked into space by Bond in the movie, it has seemed that his corporation still existed after his death due to remnants and fragments that were still active. MI6 believes their intentions with the shuttle in space are military in nature and authorize Bond to Reprogram the shuttle's guidance computer so that MI6 can take control of the craft once it reaches orbit. During the mission, Jaws makes a return in an effort to stop Bond from completing his mission. Many of the rooms in the mission were from the movie and included several new features as the launch room for the Moonraker shuttle in the games that Bond needs to launch back. The second bonus level, " Egypt ian", blends elements from the films '' The Man With The Golden Gun '', '' The Spy Who Loved Me '' and '' Live And Let Die ''. To access this level players must complete the entire game on 00 Agent difficulty. Prior to the mission, M informs Bond that a person claiming to be Baron Samedi is in possession of the since deceased Francisco Scaramanga 's legendary "Golden Gun" pistol. Samedi has invited James Bond to the el-Saghira temple in the Valley Of The Kings (which partially replicates the location of Bond's first encounter with Jaws in ''The Spy Who Loved Me'') to retrieve it. Knowing it is a trap, M sends Bond regardless to take possession of the Golden Gun and eliminate Baron Samedi. Despite being seemingly killed by Bond three times, Samedi can be seen in an end-of-level cutscene, laughing, à la the ending of ''Live and Let Die''. MULTIPLAYER MODE ''GoldenEye 007'' features one of the most popular multiplayer modes of any console game. According to David Doak, the majority of the work on the multiplayer mode was done by Steve Ellis, who "sat in a room with all the code written for a single-player game and turned ''GoldenEye'' into a multiplayer game." Characters The multiplayer mode features all of the characters in the game, including enemies and civilians. At first, only 12 characters are available, with 21 more becoming available as progress is made through the game. A button code will allow players to temporarily unlock 31 other characters, most of them likenesses of the programmers. Variations between characters' heights and builds can affect the challenge of shooting them; there is a great difference between the squat Oddjob and the tall and bulky Jaws . The mode had also previously allowed players to choose from the four different Bond actors, but that feature had been removed before the game was released (see All Bonds ). Multiplayer Arenas As with the selectable characters, only a few arenas are available at first, with more becoming available as progress is made in the game. There are eleven arenas, not counting levels that can only be accessed with a GameShark, and a "random" button that chooses the level randomly. The multiplayer-only arenas are: Temple, Complex, Caves, Library, Basement, and Stacks. Several arenas are taken from the single player mode, with alterations such as restrictions on which sections of the map can be used: Facility, Bunker, Archives, Caverns, and Egyptian. GameShark codes allow one to play other stages, as well as eliminate the two-player and three-player restriction for certain levels such as Egyptian. Weapons Weapons in multiplayer mode can be selected by type, such as pistols or automatics. Other selectable weapons include those not easily found in single player mode, such as Laser Guns or the Golden Gun, and the somewhat comical "Slappers Only!" selection (which Rareware named due to the horizontal striking movements characters make when executing barehanded attacks), which lets players defeat each other only by "slapping" an opponent until their health is depleted. Scenarios The multiplayer mode features five general scenarios, within which options such as weapon schemes may be altered. ;Normal: A basic free-for-all Deathmatch mode, in which players attempt to kill their opponents as many times as possible within a set amount of time. This mode can be played in teams of 2 versus 1, 2 versus 2, and 3 versus 1. ;You Only Live Twice: Similar to Normal mode, except players only have two lives before they are eliminated. This often leads to experienced players 'camping out' in remote parts of the level while other players fight amongst themselves and lose lives. ;The Living Daylights Tag : In this adaptation of the playground game " Smear The Queer ", a flag is placed in a random location in the map. The player who holds it the longest wins the match. A player cannot use weapons while holding the flag, but can still collect them to keep opponents from stocking up on ammo. ;The Man with the Golden Gun: A single Golden Gun is placed in a random location on the map. Players must find and pick up the Golden Gun, which is able to kill opponents with only one shot, regardless of where they are hit. After a player acquires the gun, the others are able to see him or her on their Radar . The player with the golden gun is not able to pick up body armor. ;License to Kill: All attacks, including "slapping", will kill opponents in one hit. This mode can be played in teams of 2 versus 1, 2 versus 2, and 3 versus 1. WEAPONS The various weapons found in ''GoldenEye 007'' are mostly modeled after real-life counterparts. The names were changed for possible copyright reasons, but the designs are the same. Some are also available in " Silenced " versions. Many of the ''GoldenEye 007'' guns also returned in the game '' Perfect Dark '' as renamed "classics". Detailed analysis of the properties of these weapons may be found at The GoldenEye Arms Reference . See also Firearms In ''GoldenEye 007'' EASTER EGGS, ODDITIES AND GLITCHES Like most N64-era Rare games, ''GoldenEye 007'' contains many Bugs , strange objects and areas to fuel the exploration efforts and wild speculation of many gamers. Few of them are intentional Easter Eggs , but unlike the Glitch es in many games, some players find that the oddities here only make the game more interesting. Among the most notable:
UNFINISHED FEATURES The distant island The very first level, "Byelomorye Dam", contains a visible but inaccessible section which had been removed from earlier, more elaborate versions of the level. The sniper rifle can be used to look across the lake to a distant island, which contains a guard tower and a machine-gun bunker. {Link without Title} The island can only be reached by using Gameshark cheat codes, and serves no gameplay function. Citadel GameShark users found several references to a level called "Citadel" in the game. Rareware explained its nature, and joked about players' speculation that multiplayer-mode Bond characters could be seen in the single-player game: "'Citadel' was a very rough test level designed during the early stages of Multiplayer mode. It's not in the finished game in any shape or form, and Oddjob and Mayday wouldn't be in it if it was." "Rare's Official Response to ''GoldenEye'' Rumours" It was thought that a few textual references were all that remained of the level. However, in 2004 , ''GoldenEye 007'' fan websites uncovered an unplayable but viewable single-player version of the level (with implemented sky and water textures). [http://goldeneye.detstar.com/citadelfound/index.asp In . The codes to access Citadel in its fullest state totalled nearly 10,000 lines. The test map is largely a mass of shapes and ramps that the players can climb upon, thus giving players many opportunities for sniping and for hiding. All Bonds Before ''GoldenEye 007'' was released, Rareware had placed a feature in the multiplayer mode of the game, known as the "All Bonds" option. This would allow players to choose four of the five actors that had portrayed Bond in various films; Sean Connery , Roger Moore , Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan . George Lazenby was not included, presumably because he only appeared in one film. However, before the game was released, Rareware removed the feature for unexplained reasons. It is assumed that Rareware had every intention to release the game with the feature, but was later forced to remove it (possibly due to legal problems with EON Productions , Danjaq, LLC , or the other Bond actors themselves). Rareware stated on the matter, "Yes, it was the hope of the team that they Bonds would be available to play, but for various reasons they weren't." In addition, the actors' portraits were at one point used to illustrate the four single-player save file dossiers; this was also removed, with Pierce Brosnan's likeness appearing on all four in the final version. Not all remnants of the All Bonds feature were completely removed from the ''GoldenEye'' software. One major clue was the fact that the portraits of the four Bonds in the selection screen for multiplayer mode were accessible by using a GameShark. Also, various screenshots in the game manual, such as one from the multiplayer selection screen, show traces of the former Bond portraits. The feature was brought to the attention of many gamers when a Gaming Magazine , '' Electronic Gaming Monthly '', published an April issue with what they called the "All Bonds Cheat", using some fake screenshots "to support" its claim. The magazine reported that to unlock the option in the cheat menu, a player must realize the Aztec mission on 007 difficulty in less than nine minutes with all customisable enemy settings on the highest difficulty. The claim was later found to be an April Fools prank, which the magazine held annually. In of the game. It was then discovered that the All Bonds faces and suits ''are'' still in the game; Rareware had only removed the ability to use them. By mapping them onto other multiplayer characters' faces and bodies, one can try to recreate All Bonds, although since the body and head shapes do not match the textures, it will not look as it was intended. REACTION ''GoldenEye 007'' is one of few cases in which a video game adaptation of a film or novel is rated highly amongst gamers. At the time of its release in 2006. and retains still the distinction of being one of the Best First-person Shooters To Ever Be Released . Along with Shiny Entertainment 's '' MDK '', ''GoldenEye'' is credited with popularizing the video game convention of a Zoom able Sniper Rifle , enabling players to kill oblivious enemies from vast distances away with a single, precise Headshot ; context-sensitive enemy hit-locations were also pioneered by the game. In ("Console Action Game of the Year", "Console Game of the Year", "Interactive Title of the Year" and "Outstanding Achievement in Software Engineering") in addition to nominations for "Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics" and "Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Design". A full list can be found on Rare's official [http://rareware.co.uk/company/awards/all_awards.html website . In a January 2000 Poll , readers of the long-running British Video Game Magazine '' Computer And Video Games '' voted ''GoldenEye 007'' into first place in a list of "the hundred greatest video games"."100 Greatest Games Of All Time". '' Computer And Video Games issue 218 (January 2000), pp. 53—67. It also placed highly in a subsequent poll conducted by the magazine. In 2005, a "best games of all time" poll at GameFAQs placed ''GoldenEye 007'' at 7th 10-Year Anniversary Contest - The 10 Best Games Ever + 90 Games: The Users' Picks , GameFAQs . The game originally received a "nine out of ten" score in '''' issue 128 (October 2003), pp. 73. The game continues to be played by fans, many of whom have developed s and similar devices to examine and to modify the game's code. {Link without Title} SEQUELS followup, '' Perfect Dark ''.]] Following the success of ''GoldenEye 007'', Rare commenced work on a similar-style " characters strongly resemble the Tuxedo s that were worn by Sean Connery , by Roger Moore , by Timothy Dalton and by Pierce Brosnan ; the BAFTA Interactive award that Rareware received for work on the previous game can be found hidden in a Vault in one level; several of the maps from ''GoldenEye'' return for use in ''Perfect Dark'''s deathmatch mode. A number of the ''GoldenEye 007'' team left Rare soon after development on ''Perfect Dark'' commenced, beginning with Martin Hollis in 1998, who after working on the 2005. Other members formed Free Radical Design , and four of the team of nine who originally worked on ''GoldenEye 007'' are now employed there, including David Doak and Steve Ellis. This company's most prominent creations are the '' TimeSplitters '' series of first-person shooters, which are considered by some to be, like ''Perfect Dark'', "spiritual sequels" to the original game. The ''TimeSplitters'' series contains many references to ''GoldenEye 007''; the design of the health- HUD and the dam setting of the opening level of the Second Game are among the more obvious. David Doak commented on ''Perfect Dark'': "''GoldenEye'' pretty much exhausted the performance of the machine. It was hard to push it further. ''Perfect Dark'' had some good ideas but was dog slow." The James Bond game licence was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1999, which published new games based upon the then-recent James Bond films '' Tomorrow Never Dies '' and '' The World Is Not Enough ''. The latter game, along with others published by EA such as '' Agent Under Fire '' and '' Nightfire '' are similar in-style to ''GoldenEye 007'', attempting to match its quality and features with varying levels of success. In the '' for Xbox , PlayStation 2 , GameCube and later the Nintendo DS . This is the first game based on the 007 franchise in which the player does not take on the role of James Bond himself; rather they control an aspiring 00-agent (named GoldenEye ) who is recruited by Auric Goldfinger , the Villain in the movie and book '' Goldfinger ''. The game has little to do with either the film ''GoldenEye'' or the N64 game, and was released to mediocre reviews and was criticised for using the "GoldenEye" name in an attempt to sell the game by riding on the success of Rare's game. Mods Several ''GoldenEye 007''-based Mods have been developed by players. One current project is '' of ''GoldenEye Source'' was released on December 25 , 2005 . ''GoldenEye Doom 2: Total Conversion'' is a Stand-alone total conversion of '' Doom II ''. It utilizes many Doom Engine ports including Doom Legacy and Edge Doom Engine. It has also been ported to the PlayStation Portable . [http://www.psp-hacks.com/2005/06/23/goldeneye-doom-2-wad/ REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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