Just to let you know with Nightfire there are also multiple console versions as well, the Gamecube (and I believe Xbox) version for example has tons of additional stuff in comparison to the PS2 version.
Just wanna say for Agent Under Fire, i always thought the multi-player absolutely slapped. You can use all the gadgets and grappling hooks and jetpacks and their were a million modifiers to play with, it was a riot!
“Put that Aston Martin into park, and grab a Vodka martini.” Watching this as I’m parked in my 90’s Civic, drinking a redbull, and about to start my shift 😂
Nightfire is so great, and I always wished it would have been a movie. We played the absolute shit outta that game back in middle school man, let me tell you... Definitely a very nostalgic favorite of mine to this day, and in fact I was just playing it a bit last week on my old PS2. I mostly did did some arena stuff, but I messed around in the campaign as well. I played that underwater sub mission among a few others, and like you said I couldn't help but have an absolute blast the entire time.
@@johnbartz1907 That map was a close second for me and my friends. The first was the snow map with a small castle on one side and a cabin on the other. That was my favorite
That was just the beginning of that game's problems. I remember renting it from a Hollywood Video way back in the day over a weekend and immediately regretting it within about an hour of playing it. It's just a poorly done game IMO.
4 player splitscreen... Staying up till 3am. Trips to the all-night corner store. Hopped up on sugar and caffeine.... and freaking out loud enough while playing that the parents of the house come downstairs. Those were the best years of my life.
@@Skarwind small laptop screen....staying up till 3am. Trips upstairs to check if there is any food left in the fridge... and freaking out loud enough while playing that moms new boyfriend comes downstairs to beat you up.
One of things that truly blew me away with Goldeneye when it came out was that enemies reacted based on where you shoot them. Even today I a lot of games don't do that.
Perfect Dark and Timesplitters Trilogy did this well too. Too bad this kind of game design has pretty much disappeared now. You'd think there'd be at least an indie or AA FPS doing this, but nope. They mainly just copy Doom/Quake.
007: Legends was apparently made in about 6 months. As happens with licensed titles, Activision was losing the Bond license in 2013, and wanted a cash grab game out for Skyfall's release. So Eurocom (poor Eurocom) had to rush to make a shippable game in like 1/4 of the time you'd at minimum expect for a project like this. There was clearly so much passion that went into certain aspects of it, like the characters, set designs, and stuff like that. But Activision gave them an impossible deadline. Same thing happened to Tony Hawk 5, I think it was. There's often a tendency to describe botched licensed games of this type as "lazy", but they're better described as "mismanaged". The devs get the worst end of the multipronged stick. The cracks were already showing back when Eurocom made Nightfire. The game had to come out in time for Die Another Day, and this meant that they didn't have the time they wanted for polish and maybe adding a few extra missions and stuff like that.
Eh, with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5, especially with the fact that the 1-3 HD version was also their doing it seems more like Robomodo are just bad at making games alongside given a shit deadline by Activison. Like they just weren't good Pro Skater games and had added features that made the game worse. I just don't see how even with the conditions they had that they made a worse game than what was made by devs who were basically the first to make a full-on attempt on hardware that was less conducive to making those games.
I feel like Eurocom shouldn't get the blames, but it should be Activision. They went bankrupt less than a week after 007: Legends was released, not to mention, they're just developers. I just wished if someone, anyone would bring Eurocom back to life for one more 007 game. I feel like Eurocom Entertainment Software would be a great second-party developer for Nintendo or Microsoft... P.S: Nintendo actually published GoldenEye 007 for Wii in Japan
I enjoyed both Goldeneye 007 reloaded and 007 legends. Both the story and multiplayer modes of both brought me,my friends,and even my dad hours of fun.
It could be the “bong” sounds that happen, sounds like someone throwing a spanner down a metal chasm. It’s ironically the same style they used in the films so probs just tying it together.
Nightfire is so nostalgic for me and was one of my fav childhood games. It had really fun multiplayer, but I was never able to complete the story mode. Sure, it was pretty difficult, but the main thing that held me back was that the game gives me intense motion sickness. Idk what it is about this game in particular that does it but no other first persons shooters really have the same effect. The only other bond game I own is The World is Not Enough(N64), and despite it being pretty impressive for a N64 game, it was really tedious and infuriating so I also never finished it nor do I really want to.
Remember that song from the club scene in that game where the woman sings "I remember~" over and over again? Coincidentally the only thing about the game I remember. And maybe those above average driving segments.
I'd love to see this. I'd like G-man to review more 3rd person games in general too. *gives g-man copy of Tomb Raider legend "Enjoy her big er... pistols"
Simple conclussion from this whole video, nightfire deserves a full reboot, with extra missions and even a sequel or two. Probably one of the best bond stories as a whole with how it manages to make new players care about some of the characters... probably helps that the guns and womens models were perfect for younger lads getting into those things back in the day 😅
Goldeneye for N64 is still the most fun I’ve ever had in a multiplayer game. My friends and I would play it nearly every day all summer long. There’s just nothing like having your friends all in the same room side-by-side staring at the TV and killing each other. Especially with remote or proximity mines. Those matches were fucking chaos.
This 💯🔥🔥 This and Mario kart on the 64 was the most fun multi player ever even on the 4 player mode with the tiny quarter of a screen you had but tbh GoldenEye 64 is one of If not my all time favourite fps
As a FPS fan myself, the crosshair in Rouge Agent really annoyed me. The person who thought that was a good idea should've been fired. Not allowed to develop FPS games again.
I get the reason Halo did a lower crosshair (even though I'm not a fan of it), but dear god, whoever made the HIGHER crosshair in Rouge Agent should be locked up. It physically hurts and I hold a personal grudge with whoever did it.
That's also what I thought of when they kept lowering the crosshair in Halo since Halo 2. I believe that Halo 5 put it back in the center like with Halo Combat Evolved and now on The Master Chief Collection, there's an option to center the crosshair for all Halo games. It makes a huge difference in terms of gameplay so you're not constantly looking at the sky. People say it was like that for Halo's "verticality" but that would make the crosshair position meaningless if you are above someone. That is why the center is where all FPS crosshairs should be
@@drownsinkoolaid4203 Yeah it sucks and if you are using a skull that removes your HUD, you can't really tell where the crosshair would be. It's easy to shoot straight with no crosshair in GoldenEye 007 or Gears of War but in most Halo games with no HUD, it's near impossible
I just made a config for the remaster that lets you use the gyroscope of a dualshock 4 to aim better and quicker. Great for playing the game via Steam Link in the living room.
Well yeah. The kb+mouse version of Xenia is how I got it to work lol. Sometimes I just like to chill on my couch with a controller in both hands and an additional way to aim. When I'm at my desk then hell yeah, kb+mouse all the way.
I'd love to see you cover the non FPS ones as well. Definitely be a shorter video, but Blood Stone definitely deserves a bit of coverage at the very least.
I must say there is an absolutely LEGENDARY mod someone made using the Project 64 emulator where you can inject your mouse as an input. Perfect Dark and 007 has literally been reborn because of it
Goldeneye and nightfire was my childhood I loved both games. Goldeneye was frustrating at times but I found the story so much fun and loved how it didn't take itself seriously.
i love seeing these "look at the whole series" kinda videos. i love your content as it is and id love to see you review Everything or Nothing because its one of my favorite of the series. Also maybe reviewing all of the Splinter Cell games would be dope too
I grew up loving James Bond movies and the video games. It started with "GoldenEye" and then "The World Is Not Enough" on the N64 and then I went to GameCube with "Nightfire", "GoldenEye: Rouge Agent" and "From Russia With Love". Then I went to the Xbox 360 with "Quantum of Solace", "GoldenEye Reloaded" and finaly "007 Legends". Just a lot of fun video games and it is sad that there are no more Bond games :-(. Feels like there could have been made a lot of exciting games based on the franchise's rich history.
I’ve only just stumbled on this video now, but wanted to see your take on my personal favourite video game ever, Quantum of Solace. I was a big James Bond fan at the time and would’ve been around 11-12 when I first bought it for the Xbox 360. After eventually growing bored of the single player, I tried the multiplayer and fell in love with the game. There was a small community of players who you would often play against every day, and even had numerous clans which would make for the games being competitive and fun. For others they had Call of Duty, but a small number of us we had a PEGI 12 version called Quantum of Solace. The maps were perfect, guns that could be unlockable through earning money after each game, leaderboards that would become my ultimate goal of becoming a top 100 player in the world (only ever reached top 1000). There were also a number of glitches where you could escape the maps and led to having fun private games include the classic Mike Myers games with Friends. Although no one will probably read this, Quantum of Solace was a special game for me, and I might be the only person on earth to say it’s my favourite. Great video 😊
The thing about QoS being based more on Casino Royale is that the game developers had no idea what would be the film's final script, since the movie industry was facing a strike atm, to the point Daniel Craig was literally rewriting the script himself during filming. Game developers had little to no time on the set to capture the actors faces and thankfully they had an overall ideia on how the movie would flow, so there's a lot of guessing they made that ended up being pretty close to the final film.
Nightfire and Everything or Nothing, my personal favorites. Its been hard to make a good Bond game since then. Lets cross our fingers for IO Interactive shall we.
I can't remember how I got to work this morning but I remembered every single frame of what you showed from Golden Eye even though I haven't played it in over 20 years. Its funny how the brain works.
Finishing Goldeneye on 00 Agent and unlocking the Egyptian temple was so awesome. The golden gun room remains one of my most memorable gaming moments to this day! Awesome video brah!
I had a blast playing Rouge Agent and with friends it almost felt like Golden Eye on N64 all over again. It has a fun idea for a story with alot of throwback old Bond villains. Cant knock it and I wished I could play it again on an Emulator
Seriously, It was amazing for my friends and I. Something about nailing that friend who camped in a 4 player split screen game with the rail gun just made it perfect. I unfortunately never got to play it on Xbox Live but I have many memories being up till 4am playing this game with my friends on my 60 inch HDTV. Plus dueling 2 players on Golden gate bridge was probably one the best 1v1 expirience I had in fps games ever.
@@WH250398 I found it to be about as fun as a bad call of duty campaign. I was also 15 and had limited access to games so I'd probably chalk it up to nostalgia.
Quantum of Solace on the PS3 was my first Bond game and honestly, it was a fun time especially as a big fan of Casino Royale. I do remember how clunky it felt compared to the CoDs at the time and the movie inaccuracies were a little frustrating. The briefing screens were kinda cool because that was the theme during that era of Bond movies.
Goldeneye: Reloaded and Legends actually run on EngineX, an in house engine used by Eurocom. Nightfire on consoles and QoS PS2 ran on a much earlier version of the engine. Just a correction.
Huh, I could of sworn Nightfire ran on ID Tech 3 and the vehicle section ran on some NFS engine. It makes sense since Nightfire PC ran on Goldsrc, an ID Tech 1 derivative. Edit: Okay I looked into it a bit and found this: sphinxandthecursedmummy.fandom.com/wiki/EngineX And it says they didn't use the engine until 2003 for Sphinx and Nightfire came out in 2002, a year before.
@@Web720 You probably got that mixed up with Agent Under Fire, Goldeneye Rogue Agent and Everything or Nothing, which all ran on IDTech 3. Though yeah, the vehicle levels in most EA Bond games except for Tomorrow Never Dies PS1 did use different versions of the NFS engine for driving sections.
@@Web720 hmm, The members of the Agent Under Fire Reloaded discord server contacted a former Eurocom employee and he told them they used the engine for Nightfire aswell. Lemme dig it up Edit:drive.google.com/file/d/1FfiUlJjmnhNR1x-khwj21SbWsPnnBZZ1/view?usp=drivesdk
I’m kind of sad Gman didn’t talk about the Nintendo DS version of Rogue Agent but it was probably better for his sanity. I’ll also admit that I really liked the soundtrack of the console versions of Rogue Agent, produced by Paul Oakenfold.
@@goldendevereaux I got most of the songs, I can zip them up in an archive and upload it to Mega or something if you'd like and I get the time to. Only offering because I know the place I got the OST from is decades old and probably dead by now.
The DS version had a great soundtrack. I am also surprised that in terms of level design is practically identical to its big console brothers. It was heaps of fun in multiplayer with bots, but its the most removed from an 007 title and indeed, more something like fan fiction. Still very fun though, on the DS version atleast. This was made by N-Space, whose custom engine would power Goldeneye 007 on DS, but also all Call of Duty titles that graced the platform. Given what was shown, it is quite an impressive engine considering the hardware it ran on.
Yes, please cover Everything Or Nothing. Loved that game on the PS2 back in the day. That and Nightfire are my go to Bond games to this day, still have my physical copies of each.
When I was a kid I figured out that if you kill general ourumov with the golden gun b4 he kills 006 in the facility, both of you can shoot it out in a endless horde mode. It was my favorite thing to do besides hide behind a tank in runway and shoot everyone all day.
Also for anyone that isn't aware you can play this on PC. Look up Project 1964. It's a custom version of Project 64, a N64 emulator, that is built from the ground up to give Goldeneye and Perfect Dark near "perfect" mouse and keyboard support. It works flawlessly, in my experience, and is a great way to relive both games without having to use that monstrosity of a N64 controller. There are also a mouse injector program you can use to give The World is Not Enough mouse and keyboard support although it's not as smooth as Project 1964 and takes a bit of settings fuckery to get working well.
I'd definitely would love to see a video for Everything or Nothing. I played the shit out of that game while growing up, along with golden eye and others.
He probably skipped it because it is not a shooter but half vehicle action and half 3rd person action/stealth. That's pretty much what the movies are though, which is why Everything or Nothing is still worth playing.
I have many fond memories of Goldeneye multiplayer, but I'd also like to give a shoutout to Agent Under Fire's multiplayer for having just one epic feature that nearly put it on-par with Goldeneye in my book at the time: The Q-Claw. AuF's guns and map design made for otherwise uneventful battles that would never have maintained my teenage interest for more than 5 minutes, but the discovery of just how ridiculous that damn gadget was changed everything... For those of you who've never played it, let me explain: In single-player mode the Q-Claw is a grappling hook that only comes into play at specific points, if I'm not mistaken barely enough times to be counted on one hand... In multiplayer however, it has no restrictions whatsoever. The cable can latch onto literally any surface, has practically infinite range, and none of the insane maneuvers this allows the players to pull off result in any fall damage! So the otherwise mediocre competitive experience gets a lot spicier when combatants can effectively Spider-Man their way around the map, not only allowing otherwise unreachable locations to be used but also generally just drastically increasing the pace of the gameplay.
The best thing was loading up the world is not enough on the n64 and as soon as the first mission starts you just punch the teller in the face. Shit was so funny
Agent Under Fire was a big part of my teen years. Mostly because it had a security loophole where you could install homebrew on your PS2 by swapping disks right before the driving segment. The game itself was probably good too I dunno.
I'd love to see a follow up of this sometime covering the third-person Bond games. I have plenty of fond memories of playing From Russia with Love (2005) on the PS2. It had Sean Connery's last performance as Bond for chrissake!
It's still weird to me how they decided to adapt the one book where was only... ONE... shooting sequence (in a Roma camp) and film adapted it without adding any. Compared to Goldfinger, for example. Or YOLT which had more shooting and Connery... any of these films/books would be better for an ACTION game than from russia with love... then again, they turned Hilderbrand's Rarity short story that had zero fights into License to Kill, the most violent of all 007 flicks.
Glad I'm not the only one that appreciates the console version of Nightfire. It was immensely fun in splitscreen multiplayer, and unique at the time because four players could go up against the AI. We always picked villains to fight Bond and his girlfriends lol.
Very late here, doubt I'm speaking to many people, but for what it's worth, Agent Under Fire is a game which holds a special place in my heart. When I was 17, in the summer of '02, I brought my 2 best friends on a bus ride from Brooklyn, NY to Kansas City to stay with my wealthy relatives on my Dad's side. My friend had packed his PS2, & we spent every spare moment playing the multiplayer mode. The grappling gun was a great feature that made the multiplayer mode that much more fun.
Ima be honest You, mandalore and sseth all got me into older games like fear or the og doom And now I constantly feel old whenever I talk about like playing thief or half life because litterally nobody else I know plays them
Quantum of Solace may not be a great game but it was my first James Bond game and I loved it. Sure I was a little kid but it was a part of my childhood.
The way of aiming with a gamepad in N64 Goldeneye and Perfect Dark was more precise than the standard iron sights of today's shooters: you press a button to zoom and camera only moves if you incline the thumbstick far from certain sector, within that sector you could aim really well for body parts without autoaiming help. I don't know why It hasn't been used anymore since 2000.
What gamer wouldn't love to see these types of games mad as immersive sims, wouldn't that be a perfect fit? James Bond superagent Deus Ex/System shock/Thief hybrids. Get a mission with obstacles and goals, give the player a multitude of approaches, emergent gameplay solutions. Can use 1. stealth, 2. firepower, 3. computer skills-take over turrets, alarms, cameras or even 4. Exploration, find secret routes, alleys, paths, climbing, ventilator shafts etc. Also can have gadgets that are congruent with the playstyle mission approach you prefer. Who wants to develop this! Lol.
Twin Thumbsticks: “With me you can aim and move with two different sticks!” Developers: “Let’s make games that use one thumbstick to move and aim!” Halo: “Let’s not dumbass.”
@@brownbreadinc127 I can see benefits to both setups, provided you don't use some crazy grip (PSP gamers will know what I mean). Metroid Prime argueably pulled single stick off quite well. And considering how the second stick was put to use elsewhere, I don't think it would have been better off as a twin-stick. But for action-packed, realistic FPS games (AKA no Doom-style aiming) I think twin-stick is the way to go. It's much more precise, and as such it allows for greater challenge without getting frustrating.
"If it released on the PC, it would be seen as the best game on the platform." You've got to be one of the few PC gamers to say that, given every other PC gamer I've talked to has nothing but disdain for Goldeneye 64. And not even "it hasn't aged well" either, a lot of "it was never good" to the point of listing other FPS games on PC at the time.
@@HuskyAim I will concede they had better controls, thats un-arguable. I do believe there is a massive case to be made for level design, gun feel and mission layout to be ahead of pretty much all other FPS's at the time. I could be completely wrong however but I think there is a case.
@@vDomMusic Single player? Perhaps, I can admit that singleplayer was impressive. In terms of multiplayer/level design/gun play? Not even close, I just don't think GE had it compared to something like Doom/Quake/Unreal/Half-life. Though, Half-Life singleplayer was pretty incredible...I would at least put it on par to GE.
@@HuskyAim I don't think Doom has anything over GE, Quake or Half Life and I don't count Unreal because (I could be incorrect, I'm going off memory) but that was a few years later, no? Multiplayer is better on Goldeneye in some respects but in other respects, Quake is a better paced and smoother affair. GE a bit of a laggy mess admittedly but 4 people huddled around a CRT is better than multiple PC's or setting a server up, but then again I believe co-op on Quake to be brilliant fun. That one is a toss up. I would say that gun 'feel' is by far better in Goldeneye that any of the PC shooters of the time. There was and is a certain satisfaction to the weaponry in GE that even modern shooters are failing to replicate. The sound and weight to some of them is just, sublime. But I will admit that is one aspect that could be nostalgia. The PC shooters suffer from guns that feel 'light' and 'weightless' when firing. I hope that makes sense. Level design is one I just can't knock GE for but I would add that they are designed so closely to the movie sets that some of the credit has to go to the movie. Seriously, watch the movie if you haven't and play the game back to back, it's easy to forget with modern tie-in games how much effort went into recreating an accurate level to the source material was. Half Life's single player was outstanding but now I find it such a frustrating game to play where as with GE, I can fly through that game on Agent difficulty if I feel like a quick hit or attempt a 00 agent run if I need something more engaging. I am a fan of all of these games, less so of Unreal I will admit. I think GE is more incredible than people realise. Playing the recent XBLA leak of GE on modern controls really had cemented how incredible the game was/is and not to mention how utterly outstanding the game actually feels when playing with mouse and keyboard via emulation. Of course, emulating and using a mouse injector could be considered a mark against GE but if you haven't tried it, I whole-heartedly recommend it. Apologies for the long message, I enjoy a decent discussion. :)
One thing about Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. If I remember correctly the first level was a simulation. Your character was a suspended M16 agent and that was a last chance test to determine if you were fit to return to duty. Because you didn't even try to save Bond when you could have you failed and were fired.
Crazy thing is even the Nintendo DS versions re use the Call of Duty DS engine & assets. I mean it’s the same developer N-Space using their own engine but still. Seeing the same weapons, gameplay for handhelds & console/PC kinda shows Activision didn’t give a shit about Bond.
Goldeneye reloaded’s multiplayer was huge in my friend group in my early teen years. One shotting people from across the map with oddjob’s hat is a core memory for me haha
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You need to review from Russia with love was such a good bond game
Just to let you know with Nightfire there are also multiple console versions as well, the Gamecube (and I believe Xbox) version for example has tons of additional stuff in comparison to the PS2 version.
You mentioned missing Everything or Nothing and From Russia With Love, but forgot Blood Stone like everyone else. It's actually a lot of fun.
Nightfire splitscreen was a HUGE part of my childhood gaming.
Same I remember I would play with my brother even in the late 10s
Same especially when you put random weapons, full lobby of bots and play that one map that got a pool bottom of the map and the ski lodge
@@CrazyAsisan24 I'd snipe my brother across that map with Oddjob's Hat
I still play it with friends. Oddjob vs Oddjob is far too much fun.
@latex glove The game came out in 2002. I don't think an infant could have played Nightfire.
"Australian Intelligence". Every woman wants to be her, every man wants to be with her.
Nice
And vice-versa
Ah, that's where people got AI wrong. It's not Artificial Technology, it's Australian Technology
Lê Thăng Long *Intelligence not technology, but yes.
Australian and intelligence aren't really mixing too well at this point.
Just wanna say for Agent Under Fire, i always thought the multi-player absolutely slapped. You can use all the gadgets and grappling hooks and jetpacks and their were a million modifiers to play with, it was a riot!
“Put that Aston Martin into park, and grab a Vodka martini.”
Watching this as I’m parked in my 90’s Civic, drinking a redbull, and about to start my shift 😂
You're out of touch, I'm out of time
That line gave me X Play vibes
Just pretend for the entire shift that’s you’re in a Bond film.
@@stanettiels7367 this would have made my days working the register at Dollar General so much betting
Mate, 90s civics are great
In high school a group of dudes made t-shirts highlighting their friend's losing record at 007 Goldeneye.
That sounds cruel, heartless, and mean spirited.
@@monsterhunter66 But oh so creative and funny
Hahahahaha. That's harsh!
With friends like these who needs enemies
The original savages.
Nightfire is so great, and I always wished it would have been a movie. We played the absolute shit outta that game back in middle school man, let me tell you... Definitely a very nostalgic favorite of mine to this day, and in fact I was just playing it a bit last week on my old PS2. I mostly did did some arena stuff, but I messed around in the campaign as well. I played that underwater sub mission among a few others, and like you said I couldn't help but have an absolute blast the entire time.
Me and my friends used to play that ice map with two castles and the long bridge between and we'd all play as odd-job and throw hats at each other 🤣😂
Same!!!! So legendary!!!
The Memories ❤
for me it's no one lives forever 2, a hidden gem that is half life level experience for me when I was in middle school
@@johnbartz1907 That map was a close second for me and my friends. The first was the snow map with a small castle on one side and a cabin on the other. That was my favorite
The Goldeneye game literally makes no sense. You get Bond killed in a simulation so they fire you??? iirc it's not even goldeneye guys fault.
Yeah it literally isn't. The chopper gets shot down and it's somehow your characters fault. Stupid game.
You got to admit a bond game where you play as a member of specter sounds really cool on premise alone
I think it was really more about how he left him to die and didn't save him, I suppose.
@@Gggmanlives I think rouge agent really deserves a remake
That was just the beginning of that game's problems. I remember renting it from a Hollywood Video way back in the day over a weekend and immediately regretting it within about an hour of playing it. It's just a poorly done game IMO.
4 player splitscreen... Staying up till 3am. Trips to the all-night corner store. Hopped up on sugar and caffeine.... and freaking out loud enough while playing that the parents of the house come downstairs.
Those were the best years of my life.
And sadly many modern kids won't get to experience that nowadays.
@@Skarwind small laptop screen....staying up till 3am. Trips upstairs to check if there is any food left in the fridge... and freaking out loud enough while playing that moms new boyfriend comes downstairs to beat you up.
Metroid do you still play alien isolation?
@@tezwoacz lmao
One of things that truly blew me away with Goldeneye when it came out was that enemies reacted based on where you shoot them. Even today I a lot of games don't do that.
Red dead redemption 2 does that and I really enjoy the detail.
@@wobblywack5531 RDR2 and 4828 other games
Which games don't do that today?
@@corporatecat230a lot of them.
@@in4mus85 So you couldn't name any either? Well that makes two of you now. Anyone else? 🤣
I adore the mission structure of Goldeneye - increasing objective complexity with difficulty modes is something I really wish caught on.
Perfect Dark also did that, I REALLY miss that.
Thief aslo did that.
Perfect Dark and Timesplitters Trilogy did this well too. Too bad this kind of game design has pretty much disappeared now.
You'd think there'd be at least an indie or AA FPS doing this, but nope. They mainly just copy Doom/Quake.
@@Gruntvc they all had staff from GoldenEye working on them, hence the escalating tasks depending on the difficulty.
Black did it too. I wish more games just had objectives like that in any difficulty.
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"The second most embarassing thing in Halle Barrey's carreer"
I love how you don't even need to say Catwoman. We all just know
I do enjoy a joke eluded to rather than one spoon fed to me. :D
This is the best channel.
I had to look it up to figure it out. apparently there have been a lot more embarrassing things in her career lol
But we recognized the likeness, limited as the made it, just we knew he was bagging on Catwoman. So, yeah, he didn't bruise the gin.
The sad thing is this movie was committed by an otherwise competent french director.
Catwoman is just the obvious option. The connoisseurs remember The Flintstones live-action movie.
Nightfire was unbelievable. A massive part of my childhood fps life! Rogue Agent was almost great. Just behins the curve a little.
007: Legends was apparently made in about 6 months. As happens with licensed titles, Activision was losing the Bond license in 2013, and wanted a cash grab game out for Skyfall's release. So Eurocom (poor Eurocom) had to rush to make a shippable game in like 1/4 of the time you'd at minimum expect for a project like this. There was clearly so much passion that went into certain aspects of it, like the characters, set designs, and stuff like that. But Activision gave them an impossible deadline. Same thing happened to Tony Hawk 5, I think it was. There's often a tendency to describe botched licensed games of this type as "lazy", but they're better described as "mismanaged". The devs get the worst end of the multipronged stick. The cracks were already showing back when Eurocom made Nightfire. The game had to come out in time for Die Another Day, and this meant that they didn't have the time they wanted for polish and maybe adding a few extra missions and stuff like that.
Eh, with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5, especially with the fact that the 1-3 HD version was also their doing it seems more like Robomodo are just bad at making games alongside given a shit deadline by Activison. Like they just weren't good Pro Skater games and had added features that made the game worse. I just don't see how even with the conditions they had that they made a worse game than what was made by devs who were basically the first to make a full-on attempt on hardware that was less conducive to making those games.
I feel like Eurocom shouldn't get the blames, but it should be Activision. They went bankrupt less than a week after 007: Legends was released, not to mention, they're just developers. I just wished if someone, anyone would bring Eurocom back to life for one more 007 game. I feel like Eurocom Entertainment Software would be a great second-party developer for Nintendo or Microsoft...
P.S: Nintendo actually published GoldenEye 007 for Wii in Japan
Except Robomodo never made any good game in the first place.
The hell do you mean?
It was mostly the same with cod 3 aswell, although Activision didn't go bankrupt
I enjoyed both Goldeneye 007 reloaded and 007 legends. Both the story and multiplayer modes of both brought me,my friends,and even my dad hours of fun.
Embarrassing fact: Goldeneye 64’s music scared and creeped me out a lot when I was kid. Still don’t know why to this day.😅
I relate to this. I could not for the life of me, play this game with the volume on.
It’s because it’s atmospheric
*Statue music intensifies*
It's very tense. The whole soundtrack feels designed to amp you up and cause dread.
It could be the “bong” sounds that happen, sounds like someone throwing a spanner down a metal chasm. It’s ironically the same style they used in the films so probs just tying it together.
Robby Coltrane who also played Hagrid in Harry Potter is destined to look like a low polygon PS1 character.
How did i only just realize it was the same actor!!! Ahaha i knew i recognised him from something else!
The virgin PS1 Hagrid vs the chad N64 Valentin Dmitryovich Zukovsky
TIL it's the same guy xD wtf lol
What?! I was today years old when I realized Hagrid and Valentin were both played by Coltrane
Nightfire is so nostalgic for me and was one of my fav childhood games. It had really fun multiplayer, but I was never able to complete the story mode. Sure, it was pretty difficult, but the main thing that held me back was that the game gives me intense motion sickness. Idk what it is about this game in particular that does it but no other first persons shooters really have the same effect. The only other bond game I own is The World is Not Enough(N64), and despite it being pretty impressive for a N64 game, it was really tedious and infuriating so I also never finished it nor do I really want to.
Gman: "Viewers...do you expect me to rest?"
Viewers: "No mister Gman, I expect you to play 007 Blood Stone"
Remember that song from the club scene in that game where the woman sings "I remember~" over and over again? Coincidentally the only thing about the game I remember.
And maybe those above average driving segments.
Blood stone would’ve probably sold well if it activision didn’t fck it up and release it on the same day as goldeneye
Will you review third person james bond games as well? Everything or nothing is criminally underrated.
Blood Stone is also decent but short
Everything or nothing is the best bond game imo
@@sonsauvage Same.
I'd love to see this. I'd like G-man to review more 3rd person games in general too.
*gives g-man copy of Tomb Raider legend "Enjoy her big er... pistols"
Would love to hear his take on From Russia with Love. Having Connery back was great but the much older voice he had was off putting a lot of the time.
Simple conclussion from this whole video, nightfire deserves a full reboot, with extra missions and even a sequel or two. Probably one of the best bond stories as a whole with how it manages to make new players care about some of the characters... probably helps that the guns and womens models were perfect for younger lads getting into those things back in the day 😅
Goldeneye for N64 is still the most fun I’ve ever had in a multiplayer game. My friends and I would play it nearly every day all summer long. There’s just nothing like having your friends all in the same room side-by-side staring at the TV and killing each other. Especially with remote or proximity mines. Those matches were fucking chaos.
This 💯🔥🔥
This and Mario kart on the 64 was the most fun multi player ever even on the 4 player mode with the tiny quarter of a screen you had but tbh GoldenEye 64 is one of If not my all time favourite fps
And I bet one of your friends took Oddjob.
Is that the one with the rocket launcher?
@@MidoseitoAkage I was "that friend" lol
They were great fun but I'd also throw in 4 player tekken tag tournament and the Modern warfare 2 era with like 6 of you online in a party.
As a FPS fan myself, the crosshair in Rouge Agent really annoyed me. The person who thought that was a good idea should've been fired. Not allowed to develop FPS games again.
Something about its placement physically hurts my FPS-loving brain. Its like permanently walking with your head slightly tilted forward.
I get the reason Halo did a lower crosshair (even though I'm not a fan of it), but dear god, whoever made the HIGHER crosshair in Rouge Agent should be locked up. It physically hurts and I hold a personal grudge with whoever did it.
That's also what I thought of when they kept lowering the crosshair in Halo since Halo 2. I believe that Halo 5 put it back in the center like with Halo Combat Evolved and now on The Master Chief Collection, there's an option to center the crosshair for all Halo games. It makes a huge difference in terms of gameplay so you're not constantly looking at the sky. People say it was like that for Halo's "verticality" but that would make the crosshair position meaningless if you are above someone. That is why the center is where all FPS crosshairs should be
Yes this made me never touch it again, i hated also that you fake straight out kill 007 right at the start of the game, same go's for 007 Legends
@@drownsinkoolaid4203 Yeah it sucks and if you are using a skull that removes your HUD, you can't really tell where the crosshair would be. It's easy to shoot straight with no crosshair in GoldenEye 007 or Gears of War but in most Halo games with no HUD, it's near impossible
Agent Under Fire and Nightfire was masterpieces to me, yeah they're a bit short, but I think it plays to its strength.
The leaked GoldenEye remaster has excellent twin stick controls.
@latex glove ur 2 hardcore
@latex glove the original is a N64 shooter you know
I just made a config for the remaster that lets you use the gyroscope of a dualshock 4 to aim better and quicker. Great for playing the game via Steam Link in the living room.
You can play it with keyboard and mouse...
Well yeah. The kb+mouse version of Xenia is how I got it to work lol. Sometimes I just like to chill on my couch with a controller in both hands and an additional way to aim. When I'm at my desk then hell yeah, kb+mouse all the way.
I'd love to see you cover the non FPS ones as well. Definitely be a shorter video, but Blood Stone definitely deserves a bit of coverage at the very least.
Therapist: Jumbo Ellen Degeneres isn't real, she can not hurt you.
Jumbo Ellen Degeneres: 7:54.
FUCKING DEAD
Carl Edward Sagan about to be
How in the fuck did i not see that lmao
Holy shit that's hilarious.
If this character is supposed to be M, she is literally twice the height of Judy Dench
33:01 Quantum of Solace was the best bond game I’ve played in a very long time and your reference to Rainbow Six Vegas was spot on.
the sounds of nightfire on pc and rogue agent gave me serious nostalgia. Played both of them so much as a kid
The whole "going through the tunnels spraying an aa12" is straight out of the Expendables.
They always had great AI: Australian Intelligence.
I must say there is an absolutely LEGENDARY mod someone made using the Project 64 emulator where you can inject your mouse as an input.
Perfect Dark and 007 has literally been reborn because of it
I must know more about this
Goldeneye and nightfire was my childhood I loved both games. Goldeneye was frustrating at times but I found the story so much fun and loved how it didn't take itself seriously.
Yep “lightning in a bottle” is a thing, some things are just amazing and can’t be duplicated
i love seeing these "look at the whole series" kinda videos. i love your content as it is and id love to see you review Everything or Nothing because its one of my favorite of the series. Also maybe reviewing all of the Splinter Cell games would be dope too
When you said “don’t take it personal...... BITCH” literally the reason why I subscribe.
I grew up loving James Bond movies and the video games. It started with "GoldenEye" and then "The World Is Not Enough" on the N64 and then I went to GameCube with "Nightfire", "GoldenEye: Rouge Agent" and "From Russia With Love". Then I went to the Xbox 360 with "Quantum of Solace", "GoldenEye Reloaded" and finaly "007 Legends". Just a lot of fun video games and it is sad that there are no more Bond games :-(.
Feels like there could have been made a lot of exciting games based on the franchise's rich history.
I would have loved it if you included GoldenEye: Source. I know it is a fan made game, but totally worthy of the list.
Me: * watching this vid with my Russian parents in another room *
Gmanlives: * spams Blyat’ aggresively *
At least it wasn’t suka blyat.
I’ve only just stumbled on this video now, but wanted to see your take on my personal favourite video game ever, Quantum of Solace. I was a big James Bond fan at the time and would’ve been around 11-12 when I first bought it for the Xbox 360. After eventually growing bored of the single player, I tried the multiplayer and fell in love with the game. There was a small community of players who you would often play against every day, and even had numerous clans which would make for the games being competitive and fun. For others they had Call of Duty, but a small number of us we had a PEGI 12 version called Quantum of Solace. The maps were perfect, guns that could be unlockable through earning money after each game, leaderboards that would become my ultimate goal of becoming a top 100 player in the world (only ever reached top 1000). There were also a number of glitches where you could escape the maps and led to having fun private games include the classic Mike Myers games with Friends. Although no one will probably read this, Quantum of Solace was a special game for me, and I might be the only person on earth to say it’s my favourite. Great video 😊
I loved the multiplayer mode. At one point I used to play it almost nightly on the ps3.
The thing about QoS being based more on Casino Royale is that the game developers had no idea what would be the film's final script, since the movie industry was facing a strike atm, to the point Daniel Craig was literally rewriting the script himself during filming.
Game developers had little to no time on the set to capture the actors faces and thankfully they had an overall ideia on how the movie would flow, so there's a lot of guessing they made that ended up being pretty close to the final film.
38:33 They got Daniel Craig's expression spot on though. Kind of, sulking kid face.
Nightfire and Everything or Nothing,
my personal favorites.
Its been hard to make a good Bond game since then.
Lets cross our fingers for IO Interactive shall we.
and we havent even talked about Blood Stone of the Nintendo DS!
Love it
I can't remember how I got to work this morning but I remembered every single frame of what you showed from Golden Eye even though I haven't played it in over 20 years. Its funny how the brain works.
(points at the screen)
The thumbnail! He changed the thumbnail!
Kinda glad he did to be honest. The previous artwork didn't really capture Bond's likeness.
Finishing Goldeneye on 00 Agent and unlocking the Egyptian temple was so awesome. The golden gun room remains one of my most memorable gaming moments to this day!
Awesome video brah!
I had a blast playing Rouge Agent and with friends it almost felt like Golden Eye on N64 all over again. It has a fun idea for a story with alot of throwback old Bond villains.
Cant knock it and I wished I could play it again on an Emulator
Seriously, It was amazing for my friends and I. Something about nailing that friend who camped in a 4 player split screen game with the rail gun just made it perfect. I unfortunately never got to play it on Xbox Live but I have many memories being up till 4am playing this game with my friends on my 60 inch HDTV. Plus dueling 2 players on Golden gate bridge was probably one the best 1v1 expirience I had in fps games ever.
Multiplayer is fun, but the campaign is very boring.
@@WH250398 I found it to be about as fun as a bad call of duty campaign. I was also 15 and had limited access to games so I'd probably chalk it up to nostalgia.
“The last boss fight is aids” this guys use of words is fucking hilarious. You got a new subscriber
I thought I misheard him. Then he said aids again xD
He watches Salty Cracker probably.
As much as we loved Goldeneye, the ps2 Bond ganes were my favorites growing up. Agent Under Fire letting you drive was just so sick.
As a fellow Australian I am both impressed and happy that you mentioned Karl Jobst’s speedrun record.
Quantum of Solace on the PS3 was my first Bond game and honestly, it was a fun time especially as a big fan of Casino Royale. I do remember how clunky it felt compared to the CoDs at the time and the movie inaccuracies were a little frustrating. The briefing screens were kinda cool because that was the theme during that era of Bond movies.
I bought GoldenEye 007 used and the save file on it had everything unlocked.
If there's one thing I miss from the game cartridge era, it's that.
Goldeneye: Reloaded and Legends actually run on EngineX, an in house engine used by Eurocom. Nightfire on consoles and QoS PS2 ran on a much earlier version of the engine. Just a correction.
Yeah while the pc version of Nightfire runs on the Goldsource engine
Huh, I could of sworn Nightfire ran on ID Tech 3 and the vehicle section ran on some NFS engine. It makes sense since Nightfire PC ran on Goldsrc, an ID Tech 1 derivative.
Edit: Okay I looked into it a bit and found this: sphinxandthecursedmummy.fandom.com/wiki/EngineX
And it says they didn't use the engine until 2003 for Sphinx and Nightfire came out in 2002, a year before.
@@Web720 You probably got that mixed up with Agent Under Fire, Goldeneye Rogue Agent and Everything or Nothing, which all ran on IDTech 3. Though yeah, the vehicle levels in most EA Bond games except for Tomorrow Never Dies PS1 did use different versions of the NFS engine for driving sections.
@@Web720 hmm, The members of the Agent Under Fire Reloaded discord server contacted a former Eurocom employee and he told them they used the engine for Nightfire aswell. Lemme dig it up
Edit:drive.google.com/file/d/1FfiUlJjmnhNR1x-khwj21SbWsPnnBZZ1/view?usp=drivesdk
@@martinkosecky4943 Ah okay, thanks for the heads up!
I remember buying and playing Rogue Agent. Previously I had played Nightfire SOOO MUCH! Split Screen was great as well, many many hours doing that
Ah yes, the goldeneye guitar riff. When every 90’s kid hears that you knew sh*t was about to get real.
I hold that riff up there with Dooms riff, halos warthog run, and new Vegas’s opening guitar notes
(Differnt eras I know jus sayin)
Meanwhile, in the Wii-make: hearing 'I Remember' blaring in a club is equal parts awesome and severely dated.
Holy hell Sonny Jim! Thank you so much for putting this incredibly LONG ass video together for us!
Loved it!
Everything or Nothing was one of my all-time favorites.
28:21 "One of the most useless shotguns in any single game I've ever played." Precedes to tear through enemies like butter.
I see what he means, I feel like I'm watching the shotgun version of the klobb, something is off.
Nightfire was my childhood and even looking back at it now it is an extremely good fps.
I’m kind of sad Gman didn’t talk about the Nintendo DS version of Rogue Agent but it was probably better for his sanity.
I’ll also admit that I really liked the soundtrack of the console versions of Rogue Agent, produced by Paul Oakenfold.
It’s a shame that soundtrack hasn’t been uploaded “ properly” to any streaming apps. If there’s anything that’s amazing from that game, it’s the music
@@goldendevereaux I got most of the songs, I can zip them up in an archive and upload it to Mega or something if you'd like and I get the time to. Only offering because I know the place I got the OST from is decades old and probably dead by now.
The DS version had a great soundtrack. I am also surprised that in terms of level design is practically identical to its big console brothers. It was heaps of fun in multiplayer with bots, but its the most removed from an 007 title and indeed, more something like fan fiction. Still very fun though, on the DS version atleast. This was made by N-Space, whose custom engine would power Goldeneye 007 on DS, but also all Call of Duty titles that graced the platform. Given what was shown, it is quite an impressive engine considering the hardware it ran on.
11:03 this game is where I learned how to play Blackjack.
Yes, please cover Everything Or Nothing. Loved that game on the PS2 back in the day. That and Nightfire are my go to Bond games to this day, still have my physical copies of each.
Yo Gman, awesome reviews! That updated version of the Goldeneye theme sung by Nicole is actually pretty groovy.
When I was a kid I figured out that if you kill general ourumov with the golden gun b4 he kills 006 in the facility, both of you can shoot it out in a endless horde mode. It was my favorite thing to do besides hide behind a tank in runway and shoot everyone all day.
Also for anyone that isn't aware you can play this on PC. Look up Project 1964. It's a custom version of Project 64, a N64 emulator, that is built from the ground up to give Goldeneye and Perfect Dark near "perfect" mouse and keyboard support. It works flawlessly, in my experience, and is a great way to relive both games without having to use that monstrosity of a N64 controller. There are also a mouse injector program you can use to give The World is Not Enough mouse and keyboard support although it's not as smooth as Project 1964 and takes a bit of settings fuckery to get working well.
I'd definitely would love to see a video for Everything or Nothing. I played the shit out of that game while growing up, along with golden eye and others.
He probably skipped it because it is not a shooter but half vehicle action and half 3rd person action/stealth. That's pretty much what the movies are though, which is why Everything or Nothing is still worth playing.
@@danaugust993 And we haven't even touched on the fantastic FRWL game.
I have many fond memories of Goldeneye multiplayer, but I'd also like to give a shoutout to Agent Under Fire's multiplayer for having just one epic feature that nearly put it on-par with Goldeneye in my book at the time: The Q-Claw. AuF's guns and map design made for otherwise uneventful battles that would never have maintained my teenage interest for more than 5 minutes, but the discovery of just how ridiculous that damn gadget was changed everything...
For those of you who've never played it, let me explain: In single-player mode the Q-Claw is a grappling hook that only comes into play at specific points, if I'm not mistaken barely enough times to be counted on one hand... In multiplayer however, it has no restrictions whatsoever. The cable can latch onto literally any surface, has practically infinite range, and none of the insane maneuvers this allows the players to pull off result in any fall damage! So the otherwise mediocre competitive experience gets a lot spicier when combatants can effectively Spider-Man their way around the map, not only allowing otherwise unreachable locations to be used but also generally just drastically increasing the pace of the gameplay.
The bullet impact of GoldenEye are what the sequels lacked
The best thing was loading up the world is not enough on the n64 and as soon as the first mission starts you just punch the teller in the face. Shit was so funny
6:13
“At it’s core, it Really makes you feel like Spiderman”
it really makes you FEEL like James Bond.
exaggerated swagger of an mi6 agent
I still have my nightfire and Goldeneye. Thise two games plus agent under fire, were such much fun growing up
Richard Kiel was like the sweetest person around so I can understand the man crush on Jaws.
"...And you can count on me. Waiting for you, in the parking lot."
I bought every 007 GameCube game for myself back in 2021. Money well spent.
Agent Under Fire was a big part of my teen years. Mostly because it had a security loophole where you could install homebrew on your PS2 by swapping disks right before the driving segment.
The game itself was probably good too I dunno.
I'd love to see a follow up of this sometime covering the third-person Bond games. I have plenty of fond memories of playing From Russia with Love (2005) on the PS2. It had Sean Connery's last performance as Bond for chrissake!
I came to the comments searching for anyone else who knew about that!!! From Russia with Love is one of my favorite bond games!!!
Bloodstone 🙌
It's still weird to me how they decided to adapt the one book where was only... ONE... shooting sequence (in a Roma camp) and film adapted it without adding any. Compared to Goldfinger, for example. Or YOLT which had more shooting and Connery... any of these films/books would be better for an ACTION game than from russia with love... then again, they turned Hilderbrand's Rarity short story that had zero fights into License to Kill, the most violent of all 007 flicks.
Glad I'm not the only one that appreciates the console version of Nightfire. It was immensely fun in splitscreen multiplayer, and unique at the time because four players could go up against the AI. We always picked villains to fight Bond and his girlfriends lol.
I had a lot of fun with the Agent Under Fire and Nightfire multiplayer modes.
Very late here, doubt I'm speaking to many people, but for what it's worth, Agent Under Fire is a game which holds a special place in my heart. When I was 17, in the summer of '02, I brought my 2 best friends on a bus ride from Brooklyn, NY to Kansas City to stay with my wealthy relatives on my Dad's side. My friend had packed his PS2, & we spent every spare moment playing the multiplayer mode. The grappling gun was a great feature that made the multiplayer mode that much more fun.
Ima be honest
You, mandalore and sseth all got me into older games like fear or the og doom
And now I constantly feel old whenever I talk about like playing thief or half life because litterally nobody else I know plays them
That "bitch" in the beginning was powerful and hilarious
Quantum of Solace may not be a great game but it was my first James Bond game and I loved it. Sure I was a little kid but it was a part of my childhood.
I spent so many hours playing Nightfire multiplayer with my brother against the bot agents, was so much fun
Goldeneye: Rogue Agent is the “Hunt Down The Freeman” of the James Bond games.
Rogue Agent is still much better than the shitfest hdtf was
The way of aiming with a gamepad in N64 Goldeneye and Perfect Dark was more precise than the standard iron sights of today's shooters: you press a button to zoom and camera only moves if you incline the thumbstick far from certain sector, within that sector you could aim really well for body parts without autoaiming help.
I don't know why It hasn't been used anymore since 2000.
More videos like these! I thoroughly enjoyed your long form reviews
Nightfire multiplayer absorbed soooo many hours of fun gameplay. I wish you could have bots on the Ravine map. Most Satisfying Gun Play Ever!
Goldeneye 64, The World is not Enough (N64), and Nightfire were my favorites. Great story modes and great multiplayer on all
I always wondered why people liked Nightfire, I didn't realize the PC version I played was complete shit compared to the console versions :P
What gamer wouldn't love to see these types of games mad as immersive sims, wouldn't that be a perfect fit? James Bond superagent Deus Ex/System shock/Thief hybrids. Get a mission with obstacles and goals, give the player a multitude of approaches, emergent gameplay solutions. Can use 1. stealth, 2. firepower, 3. computer skills-take over turrets, alarms, cameras or even 4. Exploration, find secret routes, alleys, paths, climbing, ventilator shafts etc. Also can have gadgets that are congruent with the playstyle mission approach you prefer. Who wants to develop this! Lol.
I'm glad someone really went through these games, I love James Bond and I was curious what others think about it. Very interesting video :))
Twin Thumbsticks: “With me you can aim and move with two different sticks!”
Developers: “Let’s make games that use one thumbstick to move and aim!”
Halo: “Let’s not dumbass.”
Alien Resurrection started that trend actually.
I remember some reviewers panning the game for ising rein sticks, Just because they were used to the old, and clunky setup
@@brownbreadinc127 Oh yeah. I think that might just be one guy, though. Still, dumb as dishwater.
Do 18 people actually think this is a funny comment?
@@brownbreadinc127 I can see benefits to both setups, provided you don't use some crazy grip (PSP gamers will know what I mean).
Metroid Prime argueably pulled single stick off quite well. And considering how the second stick was put to use elsewhere, I don't think it would have been better off as a twin-stick.
But for action-packed, realistic FPS games (AKA no Doom-style aiming) I think twin-stick is the way to go. It's much more precise, and as such it allows for greater challenge without getting frustrating.
"If it released on the PC, it would be seen as the best game on the platform."
You've got to be one of the few PC gamers to say that, given every other PC gamer I've talked to has nothing but disdain for Goldeneye 64. And not even "it hasn't aged well" either, a lot of "it was never good" to the point of listing other FPS games on PC at the time.
That's because most PC gamers are arrogant fuck wits.
@@vDomMusic In fairness, other AFPS games that were on the PC at the time were much better...
@@HuskyAim I will concede they had better controls, thats un-arguable. I do believe there is a massive case to be made for level design, gun feel and mission layout to be ahead of pretty much all other FPS's at the time. I could be completely wrong however but I think there is a case.
@@vDomMusic Single player? Perhaps, I can admit that singleplayer was impressive. In terms of multiplayer/level design/gun play? Not even close, I just don't think GE had it compared to something like Doom/Quake/Unreal/Half-life. Though, Half-Life singleplayer was pretty incredible...I would at least put it on par to GE.
@@HuskyAim I don't think Doom has anything over GE, Quake or Half Life and I don't count Unreal because (I could be incorrect, I'm going off memory) but that was a few years later, no?
Multiplayer is better on Goldeneye in some respects but in other respects, Quake is a better paced and smoother affair. GE a bit of a laggy mess admittedly but 4 people huddled around a CRT is better than multiple PC's or setting a server up, but then again I believe co-op on Quake to be brilliant fun. That one is a toss up.
I would say that gun 'feel' is by far better in Goldeneye that any of the PC shooters of the time. There was and is a certain satisfaction to the weaponry in GE that even modern shooters are failing to replicate. The sound and weight to some of them is just, sublime. But I will admit that is one aspect that could be nostalgia. The PC shooters suffer from guns that feel 'light' and 'weightless' when firing. I hope that makes sense.
Level design is one I just can't knock GE for but I would add that they are designed so closely to the movie sets that some of the credit has to go to the movie. Seriously, watch the movie if you haven't and play the game back to back, it's easy to forget with modern tie-in games how much effort went into recreating an accurate level to the source material was. Half Life's single player was outstanding but now I find it such a frustrating game to play where as with GE, I can fly through that game on Agent difficulty if I feel like a quick hit or attempt a 00 agent run if I need something more engaging.
I am a fan of all of these games, less so of Unreal I will admit. I think GE is more incredible than people realise. Playing the recent XBLA leak of GE on modern controls really had cemented how incredible the game was/is and not to mention how utterly outstanding the game actually feels when playing with mouse and keyboard via emulation. Of course, emulating and using a mouse injector could be considered a mark against GE but if you haven't tried it, I whole-heartedly recommend it.
Apologies for the long message, I enjoy a decent discussion. :)
A true Goldeneye remake would have you be able to akimbo every gun in the game
One thing about Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. If I remember correctly the first level was a simulation. Your character was a suspended M16 agent and that was a last chance test to determine if you were fit to return to duty. Because you didn't even try to save Bond when you could have you failed and were fired.
Night fire is legit one of the best games I’ve ever played. Such a huge part of my childhood. Oddjob was the GOAT.
fun fact: COD devs probably cant do any game thats not like COD anymore,
even if they try it will turn out like COD.
Raven could make some damn good games, if only they were free of the cod franchise
@@aridicaexmontaudon1296 ye back in the day that is, lots of raven staff is probably replaced,moved or fired right now...
17:12 i forgot you push someone into a spinning blade for a boss battle, brutal
Crazy thing is even the Nintendo DS versions re use the Call of Duty DS engine & assets.
I mean it’s the same developer N-Space using their own engine but still. Seeing the same weapons, gameplay for handhelds & console/PC kinda shows Activision didn’t give a shit about Bond.
Goldeneye reloaded’s multiplayer was huge in my friend group in my early teen years. One shotting people from across the map with oddjob’s hat is a core memory for me haha