GoldenEye was an action game, and fair enough: GoldenEye is truly an action movie. But practically, GoldenEye 007 was a classic shooter, modeled after popular arcade brawler Virtua Cop. Ostensibly, GoldenEye 007 was an espionage game, based on the world’s most famous espionage franchise, starring the world’s most famous spy. In the core single-player mode, the player could sprint from one mission objective to the next, hurling gunfire and explosions at the countless, implaccable guards in their way. The game’s iconic levels visited the movie’s various settings-Russia, Central Asia, Monte Carlo, and, climatically, Cuba.
GoldenEye 007 adapted the latest James Bond movie, GoldenEye, released in theaters two years earlier. video game developer Rare finished its work on GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo’s first console of the 3D gaming era, the Nintendo 64.
