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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.
I think it's a good idea to give it to a new team. What's Rare going to do other than re-create what they already did? You're taking a chance on a new team and that it might not hold up to the original, but I think that a fresh approach will be better in the long run. It doesn't always work, but I'll take this other a heavily-made up rehash.
but I liked Perfect Dark a *hell* of a lot better. Why would they think of making another 007 game instead of a new perfect dark game? I remember hearing a new Perfect Dark game was being made but Rare never followed though. Anyone know what happened to that?
Oh and without the original team working on a new 007 game I don't know if it will be as good. Then again maybe I'm wrong.