EA Working On New GoldenEye Videogame?

Posted by simoniker on Thursday February 12, 2004 @07:48AM from the onatopp-of-things dept.

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.

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Re:Thank God... by simoniker · 2004-02-12 08:06 · Score: 2, Informative

Rumor has it that the new Bond game (Everything Or Nothing) is rather good - it actually got a Gold Award in Famitsu Weekly magazine in Japan, which is largely unheard of for a Western game. Maybe they're just fans of (metal-teethed, not killer-sharked) Jaws?
Re:Goldeneye wasn't very good by Black+Hitler · 2004-02-12 10:29 · Score: 5, Informative

Honestly the only reason people were into it was because it was the first multiplayer fps on a console
Except, oops, it wasn't. Faceball 2000 is the first that comes immediately to mind; I'm sure there were earlier ones. Doom for the Jaguar and PSX had multiplayer as well and I believe they came out before Goldeneye. The main reason Goldeneye is remembered is because it objectively and indisputably made them all look like soft flabby things.
Re:Timesplitters 2 by gdarklighter · 2004-02-12 10:51 · Score: 2, Informative

Did you forget about Perfect Dark?