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Well, it's been a few years since the "re-imagining" of GoldenEye 007 with Daniel Craig instead of Pierce Brosnan came into existence. Having played through both games again very recently and forming my own opinions, I got to wondering, which one do others prefer? The original N64 classic? The re-imagined one?





I think, for the most part, this game still holds up to this day. Sure, basically everything about it is primitive compared to the technology available today, but I think it's still a very solid, simplistic FPS.

Probably my biggest issue with it now is realizing after all these years just how much the enemy soldiers don't act like soldiers. They just blindly run towards your position to try to come get you and they don't take cover behind anything. When they do seem to be taking cover, I'm pretty sure it's actually the game glitching up and they're stuck on whatever it is they're behind (usually a crate). They're basically running sitting ducks, if that term even makes any sense.





I remember when I first got the Wii version of this game back in December, 2010 as a Christmas present a couple months after it came out. I had no idea what I was in for. I eventually got frustrated with it, said something to the effect of "Bah! This is nothing like the original", and put it away for probably about 2 years (seriously).

Fast forward 2 years later, I was bored. So I decided to give the game a chance again. This time around, I took my time with it, learned what I was doing, and finally was able to eventually get through the entire game. Once I got off my high horse, it was quite enjoyable.

Now having played through both games, I can honestly say I ultimately prefer the re-imagining more. I'll always enjoy the original, but I think the re-imagining is a far better experience, at the very least for the superior enemy soldier AI that I talked about above.

I think my biggest gripe with the re-imagining, however, is the storyline. Now I fully applaud them on the decision to come up with a modernized story, since things like the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90s really would have no bearings on events taking place in 2010. But it's how they explained Trevelyan's motives behind his betrayal of Bond and MI6 that I have a problem with.

Quote:ORIGINAL STORY

During the Second World War, his Lienz Cossack parents had fled to Britain to escape the conflict. Following the war, in 1945, the British delivered them and many like them to the Red Army for repatriation to the USSR. Most Cossacks were sent to the gulags in far northern Russia and in Siberia under orders from Joseph Stalin and many died; some, however, escaped and others lived until Nikita Khrushchev's amnesty in 1953.

The Trevelyans survived the ordeal and Alec Trevelyan was born. Several years later, however, his father murdered his mother and then committed suicide; "unable to let himself or [Alec's] mother live with the shame of it". As with Bond, Alec was now an orphan.

Unaware that he knew the truth, MI6 took Alec Trevelyan into their service and trained him to be an agent of the government that had betrayed his parents. Trevelyan rose quickly through the ranks of MI6 to gain 00 status and the number 006. His skill set included stealth, manipulation, superb skills in martial arts and hand-to-hand combat, expert marksmanship and also a talent in several languages. However, Trevelyan began planning his revenge.

See that? Alec Trevelyan actually has a reason to want to get revenge against England. Now look at what they cooked up for the modern day Trevelyan.

Quote:NEW STORY

According to MI6 records, Alec Trevelyan graduated from Sandhurst Military Collage in 1995 and served with the British parachute regiment between '96 and '97. He operated with MI6 as a European field agent from March 2004 and became Section Lead in February of 2005. In 2006 he was promoted and was assigned 00 status in July 2007 with the number 006. In 2010, Trevelyan is disgusted by the way soldiers and agents like himself are no longer able to fight for Queen and country - all their efforts now seem to go towards propping up the bankers. Once again, he implies that he would have let Bond in on his plan if it wasn't for the fact that he "only ever cares for the mission - never his friends".

Well....now Trevelyan's just a greedy bastard. What the hell? They couldn't come up with a new scenario that still had him seek revenge for his parents? I feel they got very lazy with this.


So there's my two cents. What do you guys think? Which is the best GoldenEye 007?

I don't see why people still care about Goldeneye when Perfect Dark is literally the gameplay sequel to it and improved everything about it.

GoldenEye didn't age well.

Reloaded, I only played the demo and thought it was neat. The controls were similar to Call of Duty, so that helped.

(05-17-2015, 08:48 AM)Ghenry Wrote: [ -> ]I don't see why people still care about Goldeneye when Perfect Dark is literally the gameplay sequel to it and improved everything about it.

Very true, but I felt that if we added Perfect Dark to the discussion, then we'd pretty much have to talk about every James Bond game ever as well, and that really isn't right either.