The problem lay in the fact Rare was owned by rivals Microsoft. Still, the idea of remaking GoldenEye 007 was one that was too good to pass up on.Īs far back as 2006, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime had spoken about the idea of adding GoldenEye 007 to the Nintendo Virtual Console. With the N64 being such an important piece of history, later consoles like the GameCube and Wii struggled to live up to the precedent Nintendo set in the 90s/early 00s.
The Nintendo Wii might be remembered as the console that got us off our backsides and jumping around, but in terms of games, there's a chequered history that ranges from the good ( Mario Galaxy), to the bad ( Toy Story Mania), to the ugly ( Ninjabread Man). Rumours of a GoldenEye 007 remaster have done the rounds for decades now, but due to complicated rights issues with the Bond games, the 2010 remake is as close as we've got and had to take things in a different direction. Although there was never a sequel (it wouldn't have made sense), there was a spiritual successor in the form of Rare's Perfect Dark from 2000. It wasn't until Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001 that anyone thought multiplayer even got close to touching GoldenEye 007.Įlsewhere, the influence GoldenEye 007 had could be felt for years to come.
Looking at how games like Call of Duty: Warzone now rely entirely on a multiplayer fanbase, games including GoldenEye 007 were the first to prove the mode isn't just an add-on chucked in for good measure. GoldenEye 007 was a juggernaut of its time, that sold eight million copies (becoming the third best-selling N64 game ever) and even won a BAFTA for its troubles.Īlongside the main campaign that followed the plot of Martin Campbell's movie, GoldenEye 007 became a gem of its time due to an impressive multiplayer.
Until then, most would've baulked at the idea of playing an FPS on a console.
GOLDENEYE WII THEME SONG PC
Taking the original concept of a side-scroller like Nintendo was used to, Rare decided to turn GoldenEye into a first-person shooter like the first game, that showed the viability of consoles instead of PC for the genre. With GoldenEye being such a hit at the box office, was it any surprise the game also followed suit? Bond himself had undergone something of a makeover just two years prior when Pierce Brosnan took over from Timothy Dalton, and the suave spy shed his campy 80s image for an altogether more sleek affair. The N64 is remembered as the definitive console of the 90s (sorry PlayStation) as it dished out consistently good titles including Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and GoldenEye 007. What was the legacy of GoldenEye 007 (1997) Read More: Why Resident Evil 4 Is The Best Entry In The Franchise.With this in mind, is it any real surprise Rare's OG title is frequently labelled as the best video game of all time? Sure, the pixelated faces of guards look a little clunky by today's standards, and I'll admit I did once get stuck trying to open the gate on Dam, but still, it's like a big warm mug of retro-nostalgia cocoa. Just like DOOM in 1993, few games have made such a mark on the gaming world as GoldenEye 007. They're the aural equivalent of taking a squeegee to a water-fogged window.GoldenEye 007 was released on the Nintendo Wii and had the mountainous challenge of encapsulating the spirit of the original. No need for golden ears, you'll hear the differences instantly.
Unlike a Pac-Man or Donkey Kong or Super Mario Bros., whose unaltered 8-bit chiptune soundtracks still resonate as they did decades ago, Kirkhope's music was significantly diminished to fit within the Nintendo 64's architecture.Ĭontrast with the lossless renditions in the YouTube assemblage above, unearthed by Video Game Tracks. Note we're not talking about an old-school synthesis thing, either. The original Nintendo 64 shooter used lossy versions of composer Grant Kirkhope's vamps on Monty Norman's sinister surf rock theme from the Bond films. This is how Goldeneye 007 should have sounded, in a better, purer world where space-constrained, attenuated audio didn't exist: sparkling, uncompressed, Platonic ideal versions of pulsing tunes that back in 1998 filled our heads like ballistic symphonies for silenced PP7s, telescopic sniper rifles, dim-textured labyrinths, and four-way split-screen mayhem.
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