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EA Working On New GoldenEye Videogame?
Trevelyan writes "GamesIndustry.biz has a story which claims that Electronic Arts is going to return to the 1995 movie GoldenEye for its next James Bond 007 game - presumably hoping that some of the high regard for Rare's brilliant GoldenEye game on the N64 will rub off on the series. However, according to the story, EA won't be getting the original GoldenEye team (who left Rare and are now known as Free Radical Design, creators of the Timesplitters series) to work on the game, even though it has a publishing deal with them... The prospect of a new GoldenEye could be mouth-watering for action fans, but not giving the license back to the people who made the original game seems like a completely wasted opportunity..." Oddly enough, we referenced the original N64 GoldenEye title just yesterday.
Free Radical consists only of about three members of the original Goldeneye team.
And given how poor that the two Timesplitters games are, I am very glad that FR are not making the game - not that EA's own recent 007 games have been much cop.
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...what was so great about Goldeneye. The level designs were horribly uninspired, if I remember right. I admit that it was fun playing four-player games, but the only real innovation was that they could all be played on one screen, which made it easier to get gamers together. That aside, nothing about Goldeneye impressed me at all; in fact, it compared poorly to the likes of Quake 1, which was fairly old at the time.