Publisher: Activision
Developer: Eurocom
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3
Genre: First Person Shooter
Players: 1-16
Release Dates:
North America - November 1st
Europe - November 4th
Goldeneye is back. This time Reloaded for PS3 and Xbox 360. Built on a new engine and overhauled from last years Wii version, Reloaded features 1080p 60fps gameplay with optional Playstation Move support to ensure the best Bond experience ever.
Singleplayer: Written by series veteran Bruce Feirstein, Goldeneye Reloaded is a re-imagining of the original 1995 film for modern consoles. Featuring an updated plot and current Bond actors Daniel Craig and Judi Dench reprising their roles. Also returning is another series veteran David Arnold to compose Reloaded's soundtrack.
Players can once again expect classic features such as multiple difficulties with changing objectives and unlockable cheats. In addition to new features such as regenerative health and destructible environments.
MI-6 Ops: New to Reloaded is MI-6 ops. Arcade specific missions designed for quick pick up and play. Featuring 4 modes of Elimination, Stealth, Defense, and Assault. Players earn points to compete with friends for the top score on online leaderboards.
Multiplayer: Reloaded has now been upgraded to 16 player multiplayer over the Wii versions 8. In addition to returning 4 player split screen, you can expect the industry standard XP progression system along with fps stables deathmatch and team deathmatch.
New modes included this time are:
Escalation: Death Match with a twist, kill-streaks automatically upgrade your weapon, while dying twice without killing anyone downgrades it.
Detonator Agent: The player carries a bomb which you can hold on to or pass off to someone by meleeing them. If you hold on to it, your kills get multiplied.
Bomb Defuse: Your team must retrieve a bomb, place it in a certain area and defend it while it is defused.
Data Miner: The player's smartphone is downloading data, and everyone else is out to kill you, every kill you achieve increases your download speed.
First 20 minutes of the game.
Launch Trailer
Combat Walkthrough
Stealth Walkthrough
MI-6 Ops
Multiplayer Trailer
IGN
8.5/10
Addictive multiplayer will keep you coming back for more, especially with all the different ways to play. Single player has its moments, but some rough edges (invisible walls and less-than-stellar AI) make the whole package suffer. The new MI6 mode especially failed to capture my interest, though it might be worth toying around with. But considering multiplayer is inarguably the main course, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded won’t disappoint. While it lacks the charm of the original and the polish of other modern shooters, overall you’ll find a great experience that was just a few tweaks away from being amazing.
Gamespot
8/10
Goldeneye 007: Reloaded is a great game that does justice to its prestigious name. Instead of living in the past, Bond's latest adventure embraces the present. The explosive single-player campaign is a great ride all the way through, and it's well worth replaying a few times just to see what sort of cool secrets the harder difficulties hide. The online multiplayer has you gunning down enemies and racking up experience points with the Bond characters you know and love. Sharp controls, clever level design, and a wealth of gameplay options are the backbone of this exhilarating shooter, and it absolutely nails its core tenets. GoldenEye 007: Reloaded has no need to rely on nostalgia when it so expertly creates such thrilling new memories.
Gamevortex
9/10
So Goldeneye 007: Reloaded comes to us in a week that just so happens to be flanked by the release of this year's biggest shooters. I'm not going to ask that you put aside Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. However, I will strongly advise against underestimating GoldenEye 007: Reloaded. This is a great game not only by 007 standards, but by any measure.
TGN
9/10
The original GoldenEye came out on the Nintendo 64 many years ago and GoldenEye 007 Reloaded is a worthy successor. The development team over at Eurocom did a fantastic job bringing the game into 2011 and the game is still fun to go through. Adding online multiplayer to the mix is a great touch and it should keep GoldenEye fans busy for quite a while. If you are one of those people who think that GoldenEye 007 Reloaded is simply a port of last year’s Wii title then I urge you to give this game a chance. It is definitely not a port of last year’s version and you can tell that the development team put in a lot of work to try and differentiate it. The game looks really nice graphically and I enjoyed how smoothly it played. James Bond and Goldeneye are back and better than ever.
Eurogamer
6/10
GoldenEye 007: Reloaded is a serviceable shooter, but it lacks the spectacle of Call of Duty, the tactical options of Deus Ex or Crysis, and the urgency of FEAR. In their place it has, well, not much. Some will admire its simplicity - and there is something to be said for its casual approach. But the sad fact is that just as Bond was succeeded by Jason Bourne in the cinemas, his gaming legacy has also been usurped by those he inspired.
Thanks goes to The Xtortionist for the thread title.
