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Follows the movie Great!
Date of Review: Apr 16, 2000
The way I heard about this game is from a friend. He told me awesome it was, so I went to the store. And just my luck, there was ONE left. I picked it up and took it home.
Wow. What a game. It seemed easy at first, of course. That AGENT level is always pretty easy. Then, when I played one of he levels, I noticed that it said in red writing "cheat code accessed" and I went to the cheat menu and there was DK Mode.
The codes are definitely the coolest part about this game. There are so many different ones, and some help make the game easier, and some make bad guys move slow. What happens is that you get codes by beating levels on a certain difficulty setting and in a certain amount of time. Usually, the better the code, the harder it is to get.
Another cool thing is the fact that there are 3 difficulty levels; Agent, Secret Agent, and 00 Agent. You have to beat every level on each of these settings to really beat the game. Some levels on 00 Agent were mindnumbingly hard for me, like the train. And then, after you've done it all, you find that there are a couple secret levels that are really hard, and then you can get the All Guns code to really have some fun!
The multiplayer mode is great in this game. First, everyone picks their character, from Bond to little Oddjob, and many more. Then, you can pick from a variety of game settings, like capture the flag, or a mode where one hit kills everyone, or teams. Next comes the selection of the weapons. There is a huge variety of styles to choose from, and in each one there are about 4 different weapons. Then you choose what stage to fight on. Once again, each stage is very different, and you have to get to know each one. And finally, you can pick the handicaps. -10 means each hit takes off a ton of your life, and +10 makes you practically invincible, and there's everything in between. So if a first-timer goes up against a Goldeneye pro, it will be fair if the handicaps are chosen right.
The object of the one player mode is to go around and complete your objectives while trying to avoid getting killed. The objectives make it so you have to watch yourself. If you shoot that computer, or approach that terrorist, than congratulations, you've failed the mission! That adds a whole new element to the game, giving it a kind of strategic feel.
Since this game has a little blood in it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 9 years old.
