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Goldeneye 007 Remake Revealed, Exclusive For Wii

The N64 classic, remade and updated for 2010.

The long rumored Goldeneye remake has finally been revealed. Today, at their E3 Press Conference, Nintendo revealed that Activision and Eurocom were developing a remake of the Nintendo 64 FPS classic Goldeneye. Developed exclusively for the Wii, Goldeneye looks to use the same plot and environments from the original game, updated with Wii motion controls, a more modern graphical palette and a completely different James Bond character. 
 
The new Goldeneye will use current franchise star Daniel Craig (instead of the actor in the original movie/game, Pierce Brosnan) but still take place in the same plot as the 13 year old Goldeneye. The remake will see the return of the original game's splitscreen multiplayer, as well as its variety of gameplay types (fingers crossed for Donkey Kong Mode!).  
 

 
Goldeneye 007 will be out on the Wii this holiday, so expect to see Daniel Craig jumping into a tank and driving up to the airplane before too long.. Is this remake what you guys have always wanted from a new Goldeneye? Are you folks interested in picking it up and taping cardboard to your TV like it's 1997? 
    

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Fuckin' Oddjob!!! If you play as Oddjob you're a terrible person and I hope you skate into an AIDS tree. 
 
Other than that, the game looks pretty good.... except for the split-screen. I forgot how chaotic that whole thing was.

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Edited By jollywhitegiant

I'd definitely be interested in playing this, trying to go back to the N64 control scheme just doesn't work for me anymore 

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woot goldeneye!

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Graphics are laughable, and Goldeneye just doesnt compare (for me anyway) to more recent games. I have much more fun on Cod 2 than I ever did on Goldeneye (multiplayer, the singleplayer was always crap on Goldeneye.)

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Matt Kessler, do you always have to ask questions? Like what do you think of always asking questions? Do you like it? Is it really fun? to do? like all day? 

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Daniel Craig is the worst 007.

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Edited By RavenX302

I never wanted a remake of Goldeneye nor a new Goldeneye, so I could care less...I really don't feel these games aged all that well either. However, I'm sure goldeneye fans will eat it up. 

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Like I said before, if you guys really want to play Goldeneye, play it on Steam like everyone else.

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Damn.

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Lost me at Daniel Craig i'm afraid.

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@JSUMAN said:
" why? "
Precisely.  I have one answer; they know the new Bond movies suck and making a game out of them will be lukewarm at best.  But, if they milk peoples' nostalgia they will BANK.
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I'm into this.

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Not sure that I have a reason to be excited for this. Activision is clearly using the license to cash in on nastalgia, if the game actually proves to be good then I'll be surprised.

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If your gonna make a Goldeneye remake don't muck it up with motion controls.

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Why are people getting excited? The reason the first one was was so good was because RARE was behind it.

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Hell, its about TIME.

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CRACK! this is a good shooter for the kids.
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I'm glad its a remake. If anyone was hoping for a new goldeneye game look no futher than Goldeneye 2. Which was okay but not what people wanted. To think that people Don't want a remake of this game is to only kid yourself.  
 
It is kind of wierd about the whole daniel Craig, but I think it's copyright reasons involving James bond or the actors. Much like in the original game there were models for Sean Conory, Timothy Dalton and Roger Moore, but were not actually playable unless you used a gameshark to unlock them.   
 
As for controlls, it could be okay, I mean to say it would have been better to put it on a traditional controller would be fine... same could be said for the Perfect Dark remake. Which has the option, just not the default. Besides, it's probably going to be a lot better than the N64, controlls. Honey Scheme FTW. 
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FUCK daniel craig

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Lets hope its good.

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Weird. Playing as a completely different Bond in a remake of this game... Weird.

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Ugh. Its a totally different era now. As a "new" game, even as a re-make this is ridiculous and way out of place.
 
This would have been fine as a downloadable classic game on the 360 or something (I realize that probably wouldn't happen being Nintendo and all, though it was Rare) but as a "new" game to get excited about during the Holiday's in 2010? Yeah, no thanks. Going a bit too far.

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@JAH_Donuts: The guys on the podcast joked about how they would put up a piece of cardboard during split-screen so that one guy couldn't see what the other was doing.
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Hi guys, remember me? C'mon guys. I was a Goldeneye too. Guys?

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@squirtle_squad said:
" FUCK daniel craig "
You said it
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Looks bad. And Daniel Craig? I know why, but still.

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IT'S SO WEIRD! 
 
I mean, their remaking a video game based on a 13 year old movie and replacing the original starring actor with someone who wasn't at all involved with the film. 
 
I don't get it.

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Bringin back the classics, so dope. 

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Horrible idea. People who want GoldenEye want GoldenEye - not a shitty Wii remake.

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Goldeneye was garbage and only for console noobs who did not have a Fucking PC to play  Unreal or quake 2 or a real First person shooter on the PC.


God that game sucked hard the only thing worse was Turok.


MAking goldeneye suck more than it already did is tuff to do but it looks like they have i give them an award.

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No pleasing some people I guess.
This will sell buckets. 
 
@Afroman269 said:

"Activision is clearly using the license to cash in on nastalgia"
Bias Bomb Concept page: Nastalgia
Nastalgia is the exploitation of youthful memories in order to sell games that require little original IP development, yet cannot possibly live up to fan expectations enamored with the origin product.
Games list: Transformers (franchise), Final Fantasy VII Remake (rumored), N64 (platform).
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I have been wanting this for years, but this is not what I expected. Guess I'll just buy a N64 instead.

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Sucks. Too bad that people still think this shit will hold up. Begging for a fucking Goldeneye game... it wasn't even that good at the time. It only set a standard that we've gone way past and beyond. Mindless drones filled with nostalgia.

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Did they even get any of the guys who worked on the original to come in on this one?  If they didn't what makes this any different than that other crappy game that tried to capitalize on the Goldeneye name a few years ago?  Plus, Wii FPS controls?  NO THANKS!

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Interesting. I wonder how this will play out?

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Not really sure how I feel about this...

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As much as I would like a true Goldeneye remake, this is not what I want.
 
I have nothing against Daniel Craig, but randomly replacing Pierce Brosnan with him makes absolutely no sense. Also I don't want a re-imagining of the game, or whatever the shit this is, I want the same damn game, but with new fancy HD graphics.
 
Blah.

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Can't see how this goes well.  I did love the single player in the game - from what I recall it was one of the first games with multiple difficulties for each mission, alternate objectives, and a ton of unlocks, in addition to cool gameplay - but there's no way this can compete with modern shooters from the look of it. 
 
And except for nostalgia, the multiplayer doesn't have anything going for it.  I'll hole myself in the bathroom of the facility with some proximity mines once, but after that I'd much rather play Halo, MW2 or pretty much any other game.

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So does this mean we are getting a new Goldeneye movie starring Daniel Craig?

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Replacing Pierce is just wierd, but it is interesting to see them revist a game in this fashion.

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On the Wii? I feel like this is a bunch of wasted potential.

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Why does this need to exist?  I just don't see a need for that game to be remade.  Shooters have changed...if you want Goldeneye then hook up your n64

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Daniel Craig in Goldeneye will just seem...weird.  I don't know.  Do we still get Sean Bean?  Anyways, it will take a lot to make me care about this.  I loved Goldeneye back in the day, but shooters have gotten way, WAY better since then.  

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@Cubical said:
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Goldeneye was garbage and only for console noobs who did not have a Fucking PC to play  Unreal or quake 2 or a real First person shooter on the PC.


God that game sucked hard the only thing worse was Turok.


MAking goldeneye suck more than it already did is tuff to do but it looks like they have i give them an award.

"

wrong wrong wrong and wrong
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@Vinchenzo said:
" Sucks. Too bad that people still think this shit will hold up. Begging for a fucking Goldeneye game... it wasn't even that good at the time. It only set a standard that we've gone way past and beyond. Mindless drones filled with nostalgia. "
Hey man, I played Goldeneye last weekend, and despite the gawd awful graphics, the game played pretty well. Sure, it's a pain in the ass to look up and down, but you hardly ever have to do that anyway. 
 
So I guess what I'm trying to say is up yours, pal. GoldenEye is the bees knees.
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So much time has passed, it'll be interesting to see how much the motion controls improve/ruin/impruine the experience.

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I was playing games like Quake when Goldeneye came out. I understand why people love the game, but to me it was a FPS with horrible controls that got by because most of the audience didn't have anything to compare it to. In the last 10 years we've seen that FPS controls can be done well on consoles. Are they as good as they are on the PC? No, but they still work extremely well. Unfortunately, I have a feeling the controls for this new Goldeneye game will be like The Conduit's. Once again, Goldeneye will be a game with lackluster controls, but this time the audience will have a better frame of reference from Halo and Call of Duty. We'll see how it goes for them, but I'm not hopeful.

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This must be the reason why the XBLA version had been cockblocked by Nintendo. The N64 version was split among Nintendo/Rare/Bond license holder. By featuring Daniel Craig and remaking maybe they're getting around the part Rare owns.

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So I'm assuming this is running off of the Wii port of the CoD engine. yes? This looks similar to the Quantum of Solace game that Treyarch did. 
 
Not shocked that they replaced Brosnan with Craig as they would have had to get the rights to use Brosnan and they already have a Craig model ready to go. 
 
Saddest part though is that this is quite possibly the last time we'll see Craig as Bond unless MGM gets their shit together fast.

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Loving the silly people hating on the best shooter of all time, original Goldeneye.
 
I'm hesitant about this remake because something just tells me they won't do enough to modernize it and it'll end up feeling a bit lackluster.