Author Topic: Goldeneye to be used by EA for next Bond game (Read 11218 times)

Termin8Anakin · « **on:** February 13, 2004, 04:33:10 PM »

The Next Bond Game Goes Back In Time

What I made of this was that they were just remaking Goldeneye, but they aren't really.

"GoldenEye" will be the inspiration for the next title developed by the publisher whose licence to thrill lasts until 2010, but the new game will not be a remake of the 1997 N64 version."

I think it IS going to Goldeneye, just different gameplay version to Rare's.
EA says that the next Bond game WON'T be developed by Free Radical, but in-house.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2004, 04:47:35 PM »

EA says: "We can't wait to cash in on the success of the original game!

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odifiend · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2004, 05:26:38 PM »

Not made by Free Radical? WHAT was the point of the buy out then?

RABicle · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2004, 06:06:16 PM »

To own more things, really what is the point of any buyout?

Oh well, i'ld like to see EA even begin to approach the greatness of Goldeneye. It'll suck.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2004, 06:53:09 PM »

Don't be hasty.

It might make Harry Potter look fantastic, by contrast.

odifiend · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2004, 07:37:08 PM »

Yeah I'm not so naive

, but come on you have free radical right there now. If I was EA, free radical would be making all my FPSs, especially Bond ones.

Metaphysical Spirit · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2004, 08:05:28 PM »

EA is really known for their way of pushing a game out, followed by series of patches and bugs after that. Even if it were decently good, I think it would have many flaws in the game itself. I don't think it will compare to GoldenEye at all, but with enough thought they can make it better than the other bond games.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2004, 01:48:59 AM »

I think EA wanna prove themselves. So far, with like 5 007 games, pretty much unsuccessfully.
But by god are they trying

They're using the voices AND likenesses of real actors (in EoN - Pierce Brosnan, Shannon Elizabeth, Heidi Klum, Willen Dafoe, Mya, John Cleese, that Japanese chick who is Q's assistant, and I believe Dame Judi Dench is in as M too), they making new stories that have to written with approval by MGM and EON (the production company, not the abbreviaion of Everything or Nothing - which i believe btw was named so delberately

), they use the real life cars, and everything else that comes with making an actual James Bond movie, except no one gets hurt.

By not making Free Radical develop the game, they wanna prove that they are good at making Bond games.

Renny · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2004, 05:28:46 AM »

What's all this with Free Radical? I thought EA only got the publishing rights to TS3.

AERO · « **Reply #9 on:** February 14, 2004, 05:38:09 AM »

Really, now. Who would want an exact remake of goldeneye? Anything that was revolutionary then, is nothing new now a days. As it should be. So why would just having the same exact game for 7 years ago be something interesting? (Jeese, that games older then I remember!)

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #10 on:** February 14, 2004, 07:13:27 AM »

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Originally posted by: Renny
What's all this with Free Radical? I thought EA only got the publishing rights to TS3.

Yeah, I don't recall a buyout here...

WindyMan · « **Reply #11 on:** February 14, 2004, 07:49:43 AM »

It's not a 100% sure thing that it's going to be a Goldeneye remake. All we know for sure is that EA has the rights to make games based on the older Bond movies, among which include Goldeneye. There could be a Thunderball or Dr. No game for all we know.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2004, 01:13:59 AM »

Really though, you can't have James Bond games of any of the movies before License to Kill or The Living daylights.
Everything before that should basically be called 'Sneaking - The Game' ie booooring.
There just wasn't as much action as there was actual spying back in those days.

Probbaly the best EA can do is make a game that encompasses all the action sequences in each movie up until Timothy Dalton's movies:
- Bond and Honey's capture and escape from Dr No's facility
- The Volcano Lair assault in 'You Only Live Twice' (a fave I'm sure)
- The Ski Chase in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
- The Duel with Scaramanga in 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
- The whole space station scene in 'Moonraker', including the outer-space laser battle that Nightfire ripped off completely
- The boat chase in 'Live and Let Die'
- Fighting Max Zorin on the Golden Gate Bridge in 'A View to a Kill'
- The very cool car/ski chase in 'The Living Daylights'
- The truck chase in 'Licence To Kill'

etc, etc, etc

Making games for all of them would be dumb, cause they just aren't action packed enough.

EDIT: Free Radical isn't being bought out by EA. TS3 is just being published by them as a deal. They are still very much a 3rd Party developer.

oohhboy · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2004, 01:59:21 AM »

I can believe you cut out the underwater fight in Thunderball! That was a classic.

In any case, they should exclude Never Say Never Again, one it was a rip-off thunderball, two made illegally by Sony, three the movie sucked.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2004, 02:50:00 AM »

well i DID put in 'etc etc etc'

And NO use of Never Say Never Again.
That movie was so boring.

Kevin McClory and Flemming and some other dudes or something wrote the screenplay for Thunderball, but when no film came of it, Flemming wrote the novel. McClory got pissed, saying he had equal rights to the film - and James Bond. McClory won in court, saying he would remake Thunderball, and maybe even start his own Bond Franchise.
MGM and EON held him off until 1983 when Never Say Never Again was made.
But while Kim Basinger is hot, and the sex scene with Barbara Carrera was equally hot (Halle and Pierce weren't the first ro do it

), the film just sucked ass.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #15 on:** February 15, 2004, 08:08:05 AM »

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What's all this with Free Radical? I thought EA only got the publishing rights to TS3.

Well, I think EA has the publishing rights to Free Radicals games in general. Besides, EA doesn't have to buy out Free Radical to have them develop a Bond game. Amusement Vision developed F-Zero GX and Nintendo didn't have to buy them out.

Also, it's really weird seeing Termin8 and oohboy have a conversation- battle of the Natalie Portman avatars!

Mario · « **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2004, 10:49:40 PM »

Hmmm... well if a new Goldeneye game was made, it would certainly sell to the "OMG GOLDENEYE 2 MUS B LIEK GOLDENEYE 1 BUT BETTA COZ ITZ NEWER LOL" crowd, which is a large percentage of gamers. *nods head while pointing to Vice City*

So it would make sense for EA to do this, because they're EA, and they do stuff like this. "Money? Where!?"

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2004, 11:11:51 PM »

Hey man, the solo hostage-rescue test scenario at the beginning of Nevery Say Never Again was pretty cool, at least to me.

oohhboy · « **Reply #18 on:** February 15, 2004, 11:17:10 PM »

I found it to be very uncordinated. I mean he flashes them, runs in there and starts opening up on people from the hip with no showing of any sort of professionalis at all.

Oh well, if you liked it so be it, you like it.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #19 on:** February 16, 2004, 12:01:28 AM »

That scene is just another reflection of "Hollywood's" idea of CT/hostage rescue during the 70s/80s (remember Delta Force with Chuck?), so you've got to forgive some of the technicalities.

Brosnan fired his Kalashnikovs "from the lower (i originally wrote 'upper' which is not what i meant) abdomen" (not quite as low as his hip) quite a bit throughout Goldeneye, so I guess that shows how professional Bond has been, even with a decade (+/- a few years) gap between the two flicks. I'd be surprised if you found that to be professional as well.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #20 on:** February 16, 2004, 01:33:24 AM »

Oohhboy had better remember that I am hosting his avatar for him

Hahaha, imagine how funny it would be if the next movie was a throwback to th GE007 GAME on N64, where anyone holding a gun has their arms stretched out in front of them. Hahahahaha.
And if you wanna aim up or down, you have to move your entire torso at the angle required

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #21 on:** February 16, 2004, 01:56:59 AM »

That's gotta be painful, kinda like how Tim Burton's BATMAN has to move his entire torso to look around becuz he has no neck.

oohhboy · « **Reply #22 on:** February 16, 2004, 02:26:03 AM »

In Goldeneye it wouldn't have mattered since the damn things didn't have a stock so you can't effectivly bring it up that far. Most of the time he was firing from the chest. Never the less, he wasn't very professional about that, but it was an improvement. The damn funny thing is that Goldeneye is still the best of the Brosnan bands. Every other ones had some kind of major flaw.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #23 on:** February 16, 2004, 02:30:08 AM »

Goldeneye is the best Bond film period...Followed by A View to a Kill...

Ian Sane · « **Reply #24 on:** February 16, 2004, 06:22:03 AM »

Next in line to get its legacy pissed on: Goldeneye!

It seems to me that EA has absolutely no clue why their Bond games have never been as successful as Goldeneye. Thus they've come to the conclusion that not enough Goldeneye fans have bought the new games so thus if they make a NEW Goldeneye they can attract more of those fans. Of course EA doesn't realize that the specific Goldeneye license is not the reason the first game was so successful. Goldeneye was successful because it was really REALLY good and the EA Bond games despite having superior hardware on their side are not as good.

I think this new Goldeneye might become the best selling EA Bond game because of the name but it's not going to sell better than the original because it's just going to be the same not-as-good Bond game EA has been making for years but with the title "Goldeneye" slapped on the cover.

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Author Topic: Goldeneye to be used by EA for next Bond game (Read 11218 times)