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GoldenEye Source Conversion Mod Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the that's-some-dedication dept.

tekgoblin writes "Were you a fan of the original GoldenEye on the N64? Well, this Half-Life 2 mod called GoldenEye Source, five years in the making, has just come out of beta and been fully released for free. The game is a creation of fans with the objective to bring the original experiences from GoldenEye on the N64 back to life. I remember spending hours upon hours playing GoldenEye on the N64, and was sad seeing it go."

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  1. Cue Cease and Desist in 5...4... by jonwil · · Score: 3

    With the new GoldenEye Wii and the fact that Sony (as owner of the Bond films) isn't exactly the most friendly when it comes to mis-use of their IP, expect this to be hit with a C&D as soon as the Sony lawyers find out it exists.

    1. Re:Cue Cease and Desist in 5...4... by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 2

      I thought that too but I really hope they don't. I plan on playing Goldeneye Source and buying the Wii version. I think they should embrace this. I just hope they have the sense to do so.

    2. Re:Cue Cease and Desist in 5...4... by Skillet5151 · · Score: 2

      This mod has been around for years (with public releases)...if anyone at Sony was even occasionally looking for this sort of thing they should have found it a long time ago. Attention like this probably doesn't help the odds but it isn't like they developed the whole thing in secret and just dropped this release as a shocker.

    3. Re:Cue Cease and Desist in 5...4... by idontgno · · Score: 2

      if anyone at Sony was even occasionally looking for this sort of thing

      I'm sure you meant "Nintendo". It would be surprising for Sony to be safeguarding Nintendo's intellectual property.

      I'm rather surprised Nintendo hasn't reacted. They have a reputation for kinder, gentler customer relations than Sony, but it was always my impression they would explode into a flurry of razor-sharp legal teeth if you intrude on their copyrights and trademarks.

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  2. Multiplayer only by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before anyone gets too excited, this is a multiplayer only game, don't download it expecting to play the full GoldenEye campaign.

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    1. Re:Multiplayer only by Metabolife · · Score: 2

      Really? You don't see the draw of sitting with three of your best friends playing a video game in the same room?

      Oh, that's right.. this is Slashdot.

    2. Re:Multiplayer only by Shikaku · · Score: 3, Informative

      You recalled incorrectly. BOTH are great. This is why it stands out, along with its successor Perfect Dark.

    3. Re:Multiplayer only by commodore64_love · · Score: 2

      Yeah Perfect Dark's single player mode was rather crappy, but Goldeneye's single player recreated scenes from the movie and was a lot of fun.

      It's only drawback is the lo-res 704x320 graphics but if you play it on an emulator, you can set it up with higher resolutions like 704x640. I do that with Zelda Ocarina of Time and it looks... well not beautiful... but better than on the original N64.

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  3. Re:How long... by imakemusic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Are companies still agressively beating down any fan mod that dares even closely resemble their IP these days or do they turn a blind eye to it now?

    Some do, some don't. Valve are allowing the development of a complete remake of their original flagship game, Half Life 1. Maybe because, like a lot of people, they don't think it will ever be completed.

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  4. Re:How long... by Xest · · Score: 2

    They're doing it on the source engine too though which helps.

    I'd imagine Valve would be a lot more annoyed if they'd tried to do it on say an id Tech 4 or Unreal engine based game! It's when people take a companies IP elsewhere I think they really start to get a little fucked off.

  5. Re:How long... by VGPowerlord · · Score: 2

    They're doing it on the source engine too though which helps.

    Of course, Valve already sells a port of Half-Life to the Source engine (appropriately named Half-Life: Source)... and the Black Mesa mod will require you to own at least one Source game already.

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  6. Re:How long... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Half-Life: Source is just a direct port so that that original Half Life would run under the Source engine. There is virtually no improvement in the graphics whatsoever over the version which was released in the 90s. Black Mesa is a complete remake of the game (with Valve's permission) which will make use of the full capabilities and flashy effects of the modern Source engine, so that it will be comparable to HL2 in terms of impressive visuals.

  7. Re:I'll say what most who have re-played it will s by Amorymeltzer · · Score: 2

    Don't get stuck in the past, guys. GoldenEye had its day, and that day has passed.

    For you. Just because current games are "better" doesn't mean the old ones are no longer any fun. Sure, they may have lost some of their initial cache, but there's still a net positive to many of them. I don't think there's a person here who wouldn't be willing to get to a warp zone in Super Mario Bros. After Angry Birds, I bet Solitaire is the number 2 game in the world. It's the same thing with movies. Nobody born after Return of the Jedi or who grew up with Jurassic Park is going to find The Birds truly believable, but it's still an astounding film and for some, quite frightening. Seeing Avatar or Train a Dragon in 3D doesn't diminish the quality of King Kong. Black Ops may be awesome, but for 50 bucks on Craigslist I can get an N64, two controllers, and some BA games.

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  8. Mac Port by mehemiah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if this is on Source, couldn't this have been ported to mac and put on Steam?

  9. Re:GoldenEye N64 by whoop · · Score: 2

    Catch. -- circa 8000 BC.

  10. Re:GoldenEye N64 by hal2814 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What Goldeneye brought to the table was people. It wasn't the first great multiplayer game but it was the first socially acceptable FPS game. When I was in college, people would play it at parties. And I don't mean LAN parties. I mean at real proper college parties with girls and beer you'd often find some folks gathered around the TV playing Goldeneye. No longer was the FPS a thing to be played by geeks on PCs. For the first time, the first person shooter was for everyone. And that's huge even if the game itself wasn't revolutionary.

  11. Re:GoldenEye N64 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My buddy used to do that in the dorms where he went to college. I used to play UT with my friends online. I came back over winter break and he told me how awesome he was, and he totally owned everyone on his hall, and he could kick my ass. How could I refuse the challenge? Even though I hadn't played any FPS's with a controller before, he was... humbled.

    Goldeneye was a party, frat-boy game. It was the precursor to Halo. Neither of which were groundbreaking except for their ability to get the Madden crowd to play something different.

  12. Where'd it go? by The+Dodger · · Score: 2

    "I remember spending hours upon hours playing GoldenEye on the N64, and was sad seeing it go."

    Where did it go?