GoldenEye 007 was developed by an inexperienced team eight of its nine developers had never previously worked on video games.
GoldenEye 007 is considered an important game in the history of first-person shooters for demonstrating the viability of game consoles as platforms for the genre, and for signalling a transition from the then-standard Doom-like approach to a more realistic style. The game received highly positive reviews from the gaming media and sold over eight million copies worldwide, making it the third-best-selling Nintendo 64 game. GoldenEye 007 was originally conceived as an on-rails shooter inspired by Sega's Virtua Cop, before being redesigned as a free-roaming shooter. The game also includes a split-screen multiplayer mode in which two, three or four players can compete in different types of deathmatch games. The game features a single-player campaign in which players assume the role of British Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond as he fights to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown. It was exclusively released for the Nintendo 64 video game console on 25 August 1997. GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. Each level has four difficulty settings to choose from, which can only be unlocked by completing previous difficulties. Before every level, a debriefing screen appears giving valuable information on what Bond needs to do. Players take control of James Bond and travel through the various levels, using weapons and gadgets to kill enemies, destroy equipment, and steal data. He then finds himself infiltrating a nearby missile silo filled with non-combat scientists guarding and maintain a space satellite, and eventually finds Ourumov with a briefcase and flees the scene: Bond's chase ends up spreading to the Monte Carlo frigate in attempts to place a tracker on a helicopter. He steals the ignition key from a nearby building and escapes in an abandoned plane.īond appears in a snow-covered area, where he has to power down the communications dish and find the entrance to the bunker, in which he infiltrates and gathers information on an object called the "GoldenEye" satellite and ends up escaping. Trevelyn is shot and killed as Bond makes his way out to the runway connected to the chemical facility. Eventually, Bond meets up with Alec Trevelyn, codename 006 and become surrounded by General Ourumov Arkady and his soldiers. After disabling the security personnel around the area, he bungee jumps off one of the platforms and ends up somewhere in the chemical facility.
The game starts out with Bond infiltrating a dam somewhere in Arkhangelsk, Russia.