{"id":2282,"date":"2013-02-07T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:16:03","slug":"my-top-100-22-goldeneye-007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #22 – GoldenEye 007"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1997 – Rare (Nintendo 64)<\/p><\/div>\n

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GameTrailers staff would be pissed if they saw this list!\u00a0 GoldenEye 007<\/em> on a countdown, and it’s not number one???\u00a0 BLASPHEMY!!!<\/p>\n

All kidding aside, there’s a reason this game is number one on three different GT countdown videos.\u00a0 It is indeed\u00a0the best movie-based\u00a0game I’ve ever played, the\u00a0first\u00a0multiplayer game I ever\u00a0truly enjoyed, and it is definitely one of the best first person shooters of all time.\u00a0 A few great ones have come along and re-invented the genre since its release in 1997, but GoldenEye<\/em> has aged quite nicely.\u00a0 You can still pick it up and play today, and have just as much fun as you did when it first came out!<\/p>\n

Before GoldenEye<\/em>, FPS games were all more-or-less\u00a0simple\u00a0Doom<\/em>-clones.\u00a0 That makes sense, since pretty much\u00a0every franchise\u00a0was trying to get in on it, and those games just seemed to be the way of the future.\u00a0 Star Wars<\/em>, Duke Nukem<\/em>, and even id Software themselves were milking the first person genre for all it was worth.\u00a0 Even\u00a0Chex Cereal also had a DOS-based\u00a0FPS, included in specially-marked boxes of the product.<\/p>\n

So, technically, nobody was…\u00a0 milking it…\u00a0 more than they were.<\/p>\n

Hah.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, the sense of immersion we got when playing GoldenEye<\/em> was unlike anything we had experienced up until that point.\u00a0 If you had seen the movie, you could often identify some of those sets in the game.\u00a0 They had evidently taken a lot of time in getting the level layouts just right, and it really helped get you into playing the character.<\/p>\n

The shooting mechanic was also completely different than anything I had ever seen.\u00a0 Whether you shot a guard in the head, in the torso, in the leg, or\u00a0in the arm, you actually felt like you were connecting with the hits.\u00a0 You weren’t just facing an enemy sprite\u00a0that had\u00a0four or five\u00a0frames of movement, aiming in their general direction and pulling the trigger, hoping your shots were actually having an effect…\u00a0 no, no.\u00a0 Bullets were now a tangible\u00a0thing; making holes in the wall\u00a0when you missed,\u00a0leaving blood-stained clothing wherever you connected, while crates and barrels would warp slightly with every bullet.<\/p>\n

While a lot of the things in GoldenEye<\/em> were “in-your-face awesome”, it was the subtle things that truly made it great.<\/p>\n

ALSO, YOU CAN GET TO THAT ISLAND IN THE DISTANCE IN THE DAM LEVEL!!!!<\/p>\n

Well, you have to use major game-altering\u00a0cheats, and there’s nothing to really look at once you get to it…\u00a0 but that didn’t stop us from trying to get there.<\/p>\n

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