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GoldenEye 007 is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye , with the player controlling the secret agent James Bond to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a satellite weapon .
The World Is Not Enough received generally positive reviews from critics and was frequently compared to Rare's Nintendo 64 first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. It was considered superior to its PlayStation counterpart because of its level design and inclusion of a multiplayer mode.
The console's top five is rounded out by Rare's GoldenEye 007 in third, with sales of just over 8 million units, [2] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in fourth, with 7.6 million units sold worldwide, [3] and Super Smash Bros. in fifth, with sales of more than 5.5 million units. [4]
The popularity of the James Bond video game series did not rise quickly until 1997's GoldenEye 007 by Rare for the Nintendo 64. GoldenEye 007 expanded on the plot of the film GoldenEye and is a first-person shooter with a multiplayer mode. [7] The game received very positive reviews [8] and sold over eight million copies. [9]
GoldenEye 007 director Martin Hollis led the game's production for the first fourteen months of its near three-year development cycle before he left Rare to pursue other interests. The game is one of the most technically-advanced titles for the Nintendo 64, and requires an Expansion Pak to access the campaign mode and most of the multiplayer ...
Rare's Blast Corps began a run of highly praised Nintendo 64 games, including GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, and Jet Force Gemini. Retro Gamer wrote that Rare had doubled the number of classic Nintendo 64 games and was an important alliance for Nintendo. [4] Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002 for a record price of $377 million.
The film was the basis for GoldenEye 007, a video game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. [141] [142] It was praised by critics and in January 2000, readers of the British video game magazine Computer and Video Games listed it in first place in a list of "the hundred greatest video games". [143]
GoldenEye 007 was the first console first-person shooter developed by Rare and it was released two years after the release of the film. The game received critical praise and received numerous awards. Goldeneye 007 remained one of the best-selling games for two years, and sold more than eight million units worldwide. [1]