We missed the launch of the film and were getting towards the launch of the next Bond film,” he laughs, “but luckily it all came good in the end.” The game’s writer David Doak recalls the freedom of working on something they all believed in: “Nobody expected much from us so there wasn’t the pressure to deliver. “Our ambitions were really what led to the long development time.
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Hitting shelves on August 25 1997, GoldenEye 007 was released closer to Brosnan’s Bond follow-up Tomorrow Never Dies than the movie it was actually based on. What we really wanted was to have it so you could steer Bond around and actually have a choice about which missions and objectives you took on board.”Īs Hollis’s goals grew, his final deadline got pushed further and further away.
“In the initial stages we took a very simple gameplay approach of not having control of your movements, but later ambition took over. That was necessary because Nintendo probably hadn’t decided – and certainly hadn’t told Rare – what the controller was going to be,” he reveals, explaining how he planned the game without access to the as-yet-unreleased Nintendo 64 console. “My initial design document was short and ambiguous about exactly how the controls would work. Gathering a team of green-behind-the-ears developers (many of whom had no experience working on a feature game) Hollis began bringing his Bond vision to life.
“There hadn’t been a Bond film for a good while. I was a big Bond fan, so I went to the managing director and said, ‘How about I do this game?’” Despite going on to sell more than 8 million units worldwide, expectation for what Hollis and his team could actually deliver was low – yet he remained optimistic. “I’d heard a rumour this licence had been offered to Rare and the team who picked up interest had turned it down. Thankfully, we saw it as an opportunity to bring something we loved to a different place,” he tells us. People looked on them as something that couldn’t possibly be good. “I wasn’t really aware of the prejudice people had about game versions of films. “I was fairly new and had only worked on the Killer Instinct coin-op,” says Hollis, recalling how he stumbled onto the project at just 24. From racing to get the golden gun and edge-of-the-sofa death matches, to heated debates on whether playing as the vertically challenged Oddjob was cheating, GoldenEye 007 arrived during a pre-internet sweet spot where communal gaming was in its innocence, and proceeded to embed itself into the nostalgic psyche of a generation. However, it was the game’s very-nearly-ditched split-screen multiplayer that really elevated things.
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Inside a variety of movie-inspired levels, gamers could shoot, strafe and slap their way through a series of bullet-spewing missions, frantically twiddling the N64’s primitive joystick in a single-player experience that rewarded sneaky espionage tactics and repeat visits.
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Originally conceived as a SNES side-scroller, Rare’s game broke the mould by removing players from predetermined rails which guided them through levels and instead gave them free rein of Bond’s world. However, despite it being a resounding success, audiences would still have two years to wait before videogame director Martin Hollis – then a developer at Leicestershire games company Rare – would break the long-standing track record of poor movie-to-game adaptations and release Nintendo 64’s pixellated tie-in, forever changing the playing habits of gamers across the globe. With director Martin Campbell’s 1995 series re-invigorator, that’s exactly what it got – with Brosnan delivering a suave swagger that acted as a shot in the arm to England’s most iconic spy. It’d been six long years since Timothy Dalton hung up his tux in 1989’s Licence to Kill and the franchise was in dire need of a boost. It was 25 years ago this week when audiences first saw Pierce Brosnan’s now-iconic dam dive during GoldenEye’s action-packed opener a single shot that plunged James Bond back into the public consciousness.
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