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What impression did Goldeneye make on you? Goldeneye was just superb. While i still loved the likes of the simple fps blasting of Doom,i could not believe how good this game looked at the time, and how it played. fps with up/down always seemed a bit fiddly and yuck to me before Goldeneye, but the control was just spot on, and played like a charm.
i was still discovering fun things to do with remote bombs months after i first started playing it... then the multiplayer added another dimension again. What a game.
sidney
i remember it keeping me up night after night, i just became totally immersed in the whole thing, i had never played a shooter that good before and for a long while after.
thealex
everything, but especially the level-design and music, was brilliant. i think i part-exchanged it for Turok and my brother wasn’t too happy at first. even without the multiplayer it was the best first-person shooter we’d played. Perfect Dark has to get a mention as it improved on the already-amazing Goldeneye in every possible way - perhaps only minus the Bond licence (but Joanna Dark, the carrington institute and elvis were great, and it allowed for more of the rare humour). Perfect Dark is the one i love to pick up and play today.
Big shoes
We used to stay over at my friend’s house and play Goldeneye until the early hours of the morning, at least four of us most evenings. it was amazing and the first time i really ‘got’ the multiplayer experience.
there is nothing like having friends round to play split screen, there was always one friend who knew where the golden gun was on every level, it was awesome and not beaten until Halo on the original Xbox where we regularly had 16 people, four tv’s and four Xbox systems all linked up at someone’s house.
antsbull
i went to university during the day (computer science), then worked until 1am in a burger joint, then finished with Goldeneye single player until 3am, then repeated. it also turned me onto Bond big time, and i ended up getting sleep deprivation!