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Wow, this is late. Sorry .

Game: Goldeneye
Released: 1997
Played: 1998
Personal rating: I had fun dying to my housemates. A lot. Also, you get to be James Bond.

Goldeneye is a first-person shooter based on the James Bond film of the same name. One of my housemates had it on "his" Nintento 64, and I played through the single player mode a few times on various difficulties, and played a fair amount of multiplayer deathmatch. I think at one point we even went so far as to get a second TV from upstairs and a splitter (ah, co-ax) so we could play without seeing the other person's screen (covering half of each TV with paper).

I was a bit surprised when researching* to find out how influential the game apparently was - it's claimed it opened the console market for FPS and introduced stealth missions. I liked it, but wouldn't myself have called it a classic - perhaps it's just the wrong genre for me? In the SP game, I liked the way individual levels had lots of different activities, and sub-targets to hit - they started optional and became compusory at higher difficulties. Much, much more imaginative than Doom-style "find the blue key" challenges. I also remember it fondly for the clever way that the developers managed to expand on the film, with additional missions that were relevant to the story and plausibly fitted between the movie's opening scenes the main body of the plot. There was also a proper Bondian sense of humour about it.

At the time, it was certainly refreshing to have a video-game adaptation that was actually pretty damn good. Shame about the escort mission though... ugh.

*Well, reading Wikipedia.