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. -_-

Re:Looks like the others.

[Anonymous Coward]

The only sequal that lived up to Goldeneye was Perfect Dark. The story wasn't great (and not even related to 007), but the gameplay was just as good, if not better, than the original Goldeneye.

GoldenEye sequel.

[TomSawyer]

I thought GoldenEye was a seminal piece of work. Until I played GoldenEye I hadn't encountered a FPS that didn't require that I just run around and shoot under an artificial precept like a timer. I particularly liked that if I didn't perform my missions correctly I would fail.

When I not so long ago wanted to play a sequel to GoldenEye, I purchased Rare's PerfectDark at EB's used bin for $10-$15

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....

[irix]

Actually the H2 is just a hummer made street legal

Absolutely incorrect. The AM General "H1" (a.k.a the original Hummer) already came in a street legal version. GM bought the rights to the "Hummer" name and then proceeded to take a Chevy Tahoe and put square body panels and fake plastic lift hooks on it and call that an "H2". The "Hummer H2" has absolutely nothing to do with the military HWWMV (Hummer) or the street legal version thereof. It is just GM selling an overproced SUV and cashing in on the name.

"Hemi" engines are called such as they have hemispherical combustion chamber...

I'm well aware. But look at Dodge's marketing - the ads with the truck towing the old Hemi 'Cuda and the guy asking "does that thing have a Hemi?". The way they are marketing the engine has nothing to do with cylinder profiles and everything to do with cashing in on brand recognition from a '60s muscle car.

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

Re:Looks like the others.

[hal2814]

And who can forget that Tom Baker (that's Doctor Who to you and me) was one of the game's voices in Perfect Dark.

Another game they can market with 'Goldeneye'

[eamonman]

Imagine, playing a game where you are playing a soccer-like game in an enclosed room, say your den.
Say the walls behind you and your opponent are the goals.
Also say you and your opponent are pirates who happen to say 'aye' every time you hit the ball.

gol - den - 'aye'

aka Pong

(except that some programmer will have to spend a few mintes replacing the 'bip' sound with a semi annoying 'aye' sound.)

Creative...

[guard952]

It this supposed to be a followup article showing how game programmers have so much stress and poor games are being produced (/ marketed)?

Ok so lemmie get this straight

[evil-osm]

Golden eye is a character who lost his eye to an unfortunate smelting accident, and he works for me now? "your nameless henchman lost an eye" and Goldfinger's techies replaced it with a gold eye, because that Goldfinger jumps at any opportunity to replace body parts with expensive prosthetics (he's got a vice, ok?). Now, Goldfinger is locked in a war with Dr. No for control of a criminal organization? So that means that Bond has to set us up the bomb before the henhmen reaches 12:00?

(sniff)...(sniff)... I just wanna play the game mommy.

I would like this game if you killed good guys

[RotJ]

It sucks that all you're going to be doing is fighting Dr. No's henchmen. So the gameplay will be the same as any old Bond game. If this game would do something creative, like let you KILL BOND or at least release a deadly virus to kill millions of innocents, I'd be more interested in it. But EA's probably not ballsy enough to take on the other side of morality like the GTA series did. Let me guess, towards the end of the game, you'll defeat Dr. No but afterwards, Goldfinger betrays you and orders you killed. You end up fighting the same people who you worked for, defeat them, end up seeing the truth about the nature of evil, and go home to rethink your life.

Elan Sleazebaggano: You wanna buy some death sticks?
Obi-Wan: You don't want to sell me death sticks.
Elan Sleazebaggano: I don't want to sell you death sticks.
Obi-Wan: You want to go home and rethink your life.
Elan Sleazebaggano: I want to go home and rethink my life.

The 007 game I'd like to play is one where you're Jaws and you go around biting things, and maybe lifting and throwing other things. Make that game EA, and I'll buy it.

Literary 007

[Goldfinger7400]

Does anybody own the rights to the literary James Bond series? EA may have bought the rights to make sucky games based on such an awesome movie franchise, but could someone (better) license the books and make (better) James Bond games based on them, just like Sierra is making (unfortunately suckier) games based on the literary Lord of the Rings?

I would love to see Ian Fleming's James Bond appear in games, rather than Brosnan. You could even cast a digital Sean Connery, since I don't think EA owns him.

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.)

Re:Looks like the others.

[hal2814]

This isn't where I found out about it, but Tom Baker's official website mentions it.

www.tombaker.tv

It seems like I found out at gallifreyone but I could be mistaken. Oh, and I never said the voice was decently acted.