EA Cranks Up Villainy For GoldenEye 'Sequel'

Thanks to Yahoo for reprinting an Electronic Arts press release officially announcing the first-person shooter GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for PS2/Xbox/GameCube, a title "being developed by EA's Los Angeles studio" (and clearly hoping to trade off the immense popularity or Rare's original GoldenEye FPS for Nintendo 64), with the new game featuring a plot that allegedly "breaks all the rules by transporting players to the dark side of the Bond universe to experience life as a high-rolling, cold-hearted villain." With screenshots not yet forthcoming, Eurogamer drills a little deeper into the previously rumored game's name, explaining: "The idea apparently is that Goldfinger is locked in a war with Dr. No for control of a massive criminal organisation... so then, you might be wondering, why is it called GoldenEye? Because, it says here, your nameless henchman lost an eye in an encounter with Dr. No, and Goldfinger's technicians replaced it with... a... golden... eye... Nice one, EA." Update: 05/05 23:38 GMT by S : GameSpot has a few more details on the title, which they note "revolves around run-and-gun action."

Comments

Just when I thought EA couldn't get any worse....

[GaimeGuy]

They pull a stunt like this. What a stupid, cheap way to make money. -_-

Ladies and gentlemen....

[Eluding Reality]

I present to you the lamest marketing ploy ever!

As much as I would like a new Bond game of the quality of goldeneye, I sincerely hope that this is a huge failure - simply because of the marketeers or execs at EA that think they can pull stunts like this. It would have been bad enough to make a sequel to Goldeneye since the first game covered the entire span of the film, but to use the name Goldeneye in a Bond game and to justify it by making up such a lame story is unbelievable.

Re:Ladies and gentlemen....

[Eluding Reality]

I can definetely see the potential for a good game - it is a whole new spin on Bond since you get to play the role of the bad guy.

But since they were going to all the trouble of coming up with a whole new storyline and a brand new main character, they had absolutely no reason to call him Goldeneye, other than to cash in on the success of the original Goldeneye game. They could have given this character any other name and succesfully expanded the Bond universe, but by using the name Goldeneye they will only confuse people as to what Goldeneye is, is it a satellite or a person?
I was slightly annoyed earlier when I posted because its things like this that really give marketers and such a bad name and I would like it if it was a good game, but I just wish they didn't have to go down this road of tricking the public - the game should be good enough to stand by itself and create its own reputation without having to trick people into buying it

I've got some bad news for you then...

[Rayonic]

If you really want this new EA Bond/Goldeneye game to be lousy, I've got some bad news for you:

EA's Bond games have been progressively getting better. (The latter being declared as the best Bond game to date, by some.)