Review: GoldenEye 007 - Aged And Flawed, But Still A Masterpiece Of Game Design

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Gold-tinted specs?

Highly revered by countless N64 owners, GoldenEye 007 is often credited with kick-starting the first-person shooter craze on consoles. It not only showed that a good first-person shooter could be crafted for a machine other than a high-spec PC, but arguably also created the multiplayer FPS phenomenon on consoles. In fact, if it weren't for GoldenEye, it's quite feasible that franchises such as Halo and Call of Duty might never have experienced the intense popularity that propelled them into the gaming lexicon.

However, the games industry evolves and moves along faster than that of perhaps any other entertainment medium and gamers, likewise, are more often than not a fickle bunch. Aside from certain titles that somehow manage to retain a freshness and vitality beyond their age, a game that would have been cutting-edge in 1997 might not necessarily cut the mustard when placed side-by-side with today's games. So, after all these years, should you still be excited for GoldenEye?

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