20th Anniversary: Goldeneye 007 by Rare

Released on August 25th 2017. Goldeneye 007 is one of the hallmarks for first person shooters on consoles. Featuring its legendary four player split-screen modes, Goldeneye 007 comes packed with many different types of deathmatch scenarios for players to enjoy. In addition, a large single player campaign with multiple ways to beat levels, different objectives based on difficulties, and the ability to unlock additional content for its multiplayer modes.

Interesting facts about Goldeneye 007
-The game was originally going to be a rail shooter like Area 51.
-8 out of 10 of the developers assigned to the game had never worked on a video game before.
-The multiplayer mode was a complete after thought, there was no intention to develop one.
-Many in game art assets were created from photographs of the actual set of the movie.
-There was an option to reload your weapons by unplugging and re-inserting the Rumble Pak, which Nintendo ixnayed.
-To save on space, most of the textures are rendered as Black & White. Color was added by the rendering engine.
-The game was released two years after the movie hit theaters.
-The 3rd best selling N64 game of all time.
-Labeled as one of the greatest games of all time.

Goldeneye 007 on Wikipedia

Gameplay by Mutch Games

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