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GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (GameCube)
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Using the name GoldenEye for this latest 007 game could be one of the most ill-advised choices in marketing history, since it beggars all sorts of unkind comparisons to Rare's seminal N64 title, which to this day remains one of the best games ever made. The choice of name is all the more puzzling because the game has nothing to do with the film or, save the first person perspective, Rare's magnum opus. In fact the rather unlikely reasoning behind everything is that you are an evil ex-MI6 agent who after a fight with Dr No is given an, err… golden eye by Auric Goldfinger. The game's premise is such that all of Bond's greatest bad guys are still alive and caught up in a sort of underworld civil war, in which your character seeks to be the real beneficiary. Ignoring such nonsense though, and looking purely at the game, the AI seems quite good and the replacement of Everything or Nothing's "Bond Moments" with scripted "Death Trap" sequences is fairly amusing. Unfortunately though the developers seem to have forgotten that the original game was as much lauded (at least a year before Thief or Metal Gear Solid) for its stealth gameplay as much for its shooting and this element seems total absent from Rogue Agent. The multiplayer is also unconvincing with no radar and rather sprawling level design. It might turn out all right when it's finished but at the end of the day this is no GoldenEye. -- David Jenkins
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5/5 |
Best Gun Game in The world
(February 13, 2008) |
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Goldeneye Rogue Agent is excellent.Every time I get home from school I just can't recist turning on my cube and playing on it.You can have two guns,one in each hand,grenades and much more. |
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2/5 |
Avoid
(May 03, 2007) |
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Goldeneye on the N64 is one of my favourite games and maybe the best FPS even by todays standards.
EA are hoping you remember this classic when you look at this; but beware, the only thing this game does well is the name. Everything about it is dire. A game is meant to have at least one new feature in it, but this doesn't really. Recycle ideas from other games but do it badly and this is what you get.
Sorry but not even EA's presentation can save this. Use your pennies on buying a more worthy gamecube FPS such as Timesplitters 2 or 3. |
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2/5 |
I wish i'd listened to the Critics
(June 28, 2006) |
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For me, Goldneye: Rouge Agent has a dual personality when it comes to the enjoyment you'd gain from purchasing it. On the one hand, the story mode is repetetive and your tasks are almost always the same. The option of having different guns in both of your characters hands and the different affects your mechanical eye has, are enjoyable for about 10 minutes. You quickly realize that every level involves dozens upon dozens of enemies coming at you at once. If you're a fan of traditional Bond stealth and tactics then don't even consider this game because it's full on action all the way through. Unfortunately in this game, constant action makes it monotonous and tedious.
The Multiplayer however, doesn't live up to the negatives of the story mode. Most multiplayer levels are taken from Bond films, so whether you decide to battle on top of the Golden Gate Bridge, Dr No's layer, or Scaramanga's secret island, you always get an additional sense of excitement from being in the scenes you remember from the films. Another welcome addition to multiplayer is the option to press buttons and cause things to happen. For example, you can press buttons and open trap doors, set off explosions and innovative weapons.
Overall, i'd only really consider buying this game if you felt like you had to. It would probably be better going back to your N64 and playing the original Goldeneye than this poor attempt at recreating the classic Goldeneye magic. |
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3/5 |
not bad....
(May 23, 2006) |
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this game is ok...the good points are the large arsenal of weapons you can get your trigger happy little mits on the 'goldeneye' upgrade is good also and is something different the landscapes are exelently designed also (especially the hover dam mission)... the duel weapon system is also a good feature which any fps fan will love,there is also a voice over from christopher lee which is good to see. The problems with this game are that there is very little bond actually in it apart from a few villans from the earlier films,the game is also far too short and there is very little strategy involved.the missions in the game are mainly shooting youre way through enemies which all look the same and getting to the exit which gets boreing after a while.Buy this game if you like a lot of shooting ,but don't expect a masterpiece |
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4/5 |
ok but good but bad all in 1 game
(February 17, 2005) |
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i thought that this game was good in some ways and bad in other ways for example,the graphics of explosions are brilliant and u beign able to be bad for once in a game but it onlyn took me 4 hours to complete on the hardest setting, but it is great fun to play all the less //(great when bond dies)// the bad side is the time it takes to complete it and that u can re heal which makes it far to easy to win but then u do need it for the shere amount of enermies u face. your eye is a brillient wepon letting u create force fields,gravitational pulls looking through walls etc it is great. u can have about 200 wepon combonations and can also knock enamies unconsious and then use them ase a shield or hurl them into there mates well i wont spoil it any more for u but i hope u will now run out and bie the game just to experience the stunning game play... |
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