Someone leaked a complete gameplay video of a remastered version of the 2010 Goldeneye 007 game intended for Xbox Live Arcade. A little history lesson for those who don’t know: weird originally developed the first Goldeneye 007 game for the N64, creating a multiplayer game with a campaign based on the 1995 James Bond movie of the same name. The game was a hit to say the least and for centuries people wanted to see the game come back to life was brought on a modern console. Which they got when Activision somehow got the rights to experience a redesigned version of the game Daniel Craig as a band instead of Pierce Brosnan, and more content has been added to the game to make it a bit more competitive and rich for multiplayer. While it was fun and modern as it was released on the Nintendo Wii, it’s pretty much believed that the 2010 version can’t quite match the original. But that didn’t stop Xbox from wanting to make a remaster for Xbox Live Arcade itself.
Apparently, the company had gone through the process of getting the source code and worked its way into remastering the remaster for XBLA, but could never get all involved parties to make it work. As Phil Spencer from Xbox said Twitter, there were “Many different parties to work with, we have always given up.” This makes sense when you consider that Rare (which is now owned by Microsoft) had to make a deal with MGM (which owns the Bond franchise), and the game was eventually published by Nintendo. Add to that they’re working on the Activision 2010 build and that’s a recipe for too many chefs who want their fair share of the pie to make it worth publishing. But thanks to whoever leaked the footage you see below, we can now get a taste of how that could have played out. This video shows the complete Goldeneye 007 experience, with multiplayer and Brosnan returned to the role of Bond.
Oh, what could have been. And who knows, maybe this will spark interest in all parties to work together and release the thing for everyone to play.