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28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible Game, 30 Nov 2004
By A Customer
I had been keenly awaiting this game's release after enjoying EA's previous venture into the world of Bond: Everything or Nothing.As you will probably know in this game you play the Rogue Agent Goldeneye, working for Auric Goldfinger's organisation against Dr No in an battle for the underworld. The story element of the game is OK, in the first mission you completely fail an MI6 training exercise for being too slow and too violent and get expelled from the secret service. This is quite a clever idea as your character fights alongside Bond (at least briefly)whilst using the virtual simulation device seen at the end of the film "Die another Day". The sound in the game is quite good, with repetitive music but good sound effects. The enemies also have many different shouts to each other relating to your activities, such as "he's behind the bar" etc. The voices of Bond characters are good; Judi Dench as M and Xenia, Goldfinger and Dr No sound much like they do in the films. The controls however are very clunky and awkward, the default controls are similar to Halo, but less easy to use, these can be changed but the other variations are equally bad, not as fluent as in Halo 2 or Everything or Nothing. This is very frustrating at first due to the difficulty in targeting enemies (even with auto-aim on, tilting up and down to scan for enemies above and below is not easy). A big disappointment is the absence of any driving missions, these in my opinion were the best part of previous Bond games and made the game more varied. The objective in all the missions here is to run from point A to point B, shooting everything in your path. This worked well in the N64 classic of Goldeneye, but this game lacks the charm and fun of the classic which shares the same name. The multi-player levels are too large + sprawling and there is no option to add bots to the split screen action, limiting the fun (and the option of bragging to friends "even with the computer helping you, you can't beat me"). Overall this game is very disappointing;
·if you want a shooter- buy Halo,
·if you want a good Bond game- buy Everything or Nothing,
·if you wish to waste your money- buy this.
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