Enter a world of espionage as Bond in GoldenEye 007. Your covert operation to stop the GoldenEye weapon satellite spans the globe – you’ll infiltrate underground bases, charge through a military train and slink around the depths of a jungle. Along the way M will brief you on your objectives and Q Branch will support your efforts with an array of gadgets, but the ultimate success of this mission is yours alone. Save the day, then go for the gold in spy-vs-spy action locally** or online in the four-player multiplayer mode and enjoy round-after-round of first-person competitive action.

Original N64europe Review

Normally I don't like Doom-style shoot'm ups. If I play a game I want to be able to see the character that I control, not only his weapons. But then I saw Goldeneye, and I thought it looked great! I started playing, and kept playing, and kept playing, and even after three hours I was still sitting there, trying to blow up all the enemies.

The story is something like this: Janus, a group of terrorists, has stolen the Pirate, a fight-helicopter. At the same time they're going to activate the weapon-satellite Goldeneye. The British government wants to stop them and they ask their secret agent Bond, James Bond, if he can help 'em with this. Bond wouldn't be a secret agent if he couldn't do such a thing so he takes his silenced PP7 and flies to Russia to take out those bad bastards.

Every mission in Goldeneye is based on things that happened in the movie. For example, in Goldeneye (the movie) James Bond had to bungee-jump of a dam to get to the entrance of a factory. Now in the game, you've got to do that as well in the first mission. Some other cool missions are: trying to let escape some hostages from a frigate, or driving through St. Petersburg in a tank and blowing up the whole city (well, that actually isn't the meaning of the mission but it sure is fun). On the whole there are 18 different missions, all spread out over very big levels. There are three different modes to play, namely Agent (easy), Secret Agent (not so easy) and 00 Agent (hard). If you've beaten every level on each mode, there'll be two extra levels to play, and there'll also be a new mode, namely 007 (very hard).

If you want to do something else then completing the missions, you can play the multiplayer mode. Here you can challenge your mates, it's just walking around in the levels, and if you see someone, well... er..., kill him. There are different multiplayer modes, you've got:

 Normal Just kill each other  You only Live Twice every player has only two lives  The Living Daylights (Flag Tag) find the flag and don't let anyone take it of you  The Man With the Golden Gun kill everybody with one shot of the Golden Gun  License to Kill each shot of every weapon is fatal

At the beginning there are only 8 characters to choose in the multiplayer mode, but if you've completed every mission (in the normal game) on Agent mode, you'll be awarded with 25 other characters to play with (like Jaws or Oddjob who starred in other James Bond movies). The multiplayer mode is by far the best part of Goldeneye.

The graphics of Goldeneye look great, you really think you're walking around somewhere in Russia. Everything is 3D (even the characters, which were flat in Doom 64), and the backgrounds look terrific. In Turok the fog was 10 meters away from you, but in Goldeneye it's about 100 meters away from you, so you can look far in the distance (which you, sadly enough, couldn't do in Turok). The controls are superb as well, like I said, the look-and-feel of this game is the best of any game. And what about the sounds? They're very stunning, perfectly chosen by the creators. The background sounds are just as what you expect the levels would have.

I think it will take a long time before a game comes that's better then this one, and when that game comes out, it must be brilliant.

- by Gerben Stavast