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GoldenEye Source Conversion Mod Released
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."
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.
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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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.
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
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.
if this is on Source, couldn't this have been ported to mac and put on Steam?
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.
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.