GoldenEye 007: Reloaded is a remake of the N64 game, GoldenEye 007 and a modern version of the 1995 movie, GoldenEye. The Bond featured is now Daniel Craig, as opposed to Pierce Brosnan, from the film. As well as Daniel Craig, the real M and Tanner also feature from the current movies.
The story although similar to the original film, it's also different and has some missions that aren't in the film to make it more of a game. I won't spoil the plot, but the missions have you often infiltrating and stealthing through, as well as big gun fights and the usual Bond villian and Bond girl. 007, along with 006 work together at infiltrating a chemical weapons facility, that apparently have plans to use their weapon against the British embassies.
Similar to the previous Daniel Craig/James Bond games, Quantum of Solace and Bloodstone. You can often utilise stealth, with a silencer attached to your pistol, takedowns and even finding some other, already silenced weapons. You can carry three weapons at a time, but you always have you silenced pistol, unless you take the silencer off. The hit detection seemed really off, I often melee attacked an enemy and it didn't look like I hit them, and they just fell down. There was no blood, or even bullets hitting people, it seemed so PG. Bodies even dissappeared right before your eyes. You can't even jump!
As a first person shooter, it does that part well, the mechanics work and it's quite fun. Targets lock when you aim close, you can shoot over cover. But it seems cheap, you don't have grenades, the enemy spam grenades and will throw them from impossible positions. You can't shoot through clear gaps and will often have floating bullet holes in the air. The hardest difficulty isn't hard at all, just your health never regenerates. You just need to be careful, it just wasn't a challenge.
I really liked the graphics, I remember when I first played it, I was amazed by how good 006 and 007 looked. The story was pretty disapointing though, it just seemed to bounce around to all different countries. The final boss fight was just a huge bullet sponge. There was a tank mission that was so out of place and was just completely terrible. It was developed by Activision and the tank mission just screams of 'CALL OF DUTY'. Activision, not everything needs to be Call of Duty-fied. You weren't told about your secondary objectives and there was no clear direction of being told to redo an objective of your died and had to retry. Let's forget about the part where you're kidnapped and placed in a pilot seat with a missile projected at you, but for some reason your kidnappers place you inches from the ejector seat button.
If you just wanna play a good first person shooter, with pretty good stealth, then this is your game. But if you wanna play a great game and story, then maybe avoid. It's not a bad game, James Bond fans should definitely play this one. I am a fan of the games and I'd like another, seeing as there hasn't been one for a while. Just leave Call of Duty to CoD, please Activision.
6.8/10
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