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Everyone wants to be the bad guy. To live the life you want. It is believed that humans
feel this way because we are innately flawed beings and can more easily relate to someone
who is totally bad rather than someone who is totally good. And flawed beings are the
people who constantly think they can recreate and recapture the magic that was the original
GoldenEye 007. It was the perfect game at the perfect time, and attempt as they will,
no one will ever live up to it.
EA thought they would try to roll in off GoldenEye’s success without actually making a game connected
to the original in any way. They wanted to let you be the bad guy and also cashing in.
You start the game off as an agent within MI6, but after a mission where you are shot
in the eye by Dr. No, you become full of rage that the agency has to let you go. You are
then recruited by Goldfinger to work for him. He has Francisco Scaramanga craft you a gold
tinted artificial eye, and you receive the codename, GoldenEye. You then go out into
the field and help Goldfinger handle some business situations, which leads to an all
out war with Dr. No and involves numerous famous Bond villains.
The game is played from a first person perspective but offers some things to try and set itself
apart. For one, there is your golden eye, which does more than just let you see. You
can use it to see enemies through objects and hack enemy weapons to have them shut off,
among other things. But you are not left to the mercy of your golden eye, you can hold
your own. You are able to dual-wield weapons, with a pistol in one hand and an assault rifle
in another, which makes you a force to be reckoned with. And you can take enemies hostage
and use them as human shields. You will go through all the missions and cause mayhem
and destruction and leave plenty of bodies behind you.
The game does have some problems. For one, many of the missions are just you going through
generic looking environments and killing the same enemies over and over. Apparently there
is a strict dress code to work for a Bond villain. Another thing is the game doesn’t
make you feel like a bad guy, as you will be battling and killing other bad guys. There
is no taking Bond himself hostage which hurts the feeling of the game.
In the end, it is a fun but forgettable shooter that fails to live up to the title it has
been given.