As players wait for aseemingly inevitable GoldenEye HD announcement, a PC game revealed last night may offer an alternative.
The new trailer for Agent 64: Spies Never Die was shown as part of thePC GamingShow on Sunday, showing what appears to be an attempt at an accurate GoldenEye sequel, minus the Bond licence.
The trailer contains music that sounds very similar to the James Bond theme, includes a variety of guns that resemble those from GoldenEye, and has a similar polygonal art style toRare‘s 1997 title.
The trailer even ends with a cartridge being inserted into a console that looks suspiciously like aNintendo 64.
Other details that appear faithful to the N64 classic include the breathing sound when the player is hit, the addition of a facility-like toilet section, and even the way remote mines are thrown onto walls.
According to developer Replicant D6: “Agent 64: Spies Never Die is a retro FPS inspired by classic 90s console shooters.
“Explore new locales, accomplish varied objectives and fight against state-of-the-art 1997 enemy AI. Enter a world of espionage and action.”
The game will also include a detailed editing suite which allows players to make their own single-player campaigns and share them with other users.
Agent 64: Spies Never Die will be released later this year on PC, and a playable demois currently available on Steam.
Meanwhile, GoldenEye 007’s elusive HD port appears to be inching closer to release, afterachievements were discovered on Xbox serversearlier this month.
It was first spotted earlier this year that Rare developers were seeminglyplaying an Xbox version of the FPS, as their progress was being logged on tracker sites such asTrueAchivements.
Last year it was confirmed thatMicrosoft had to shelve an already completed remasterof the classic N64 game for theXbox 360back in 2007, following licensing issues and miscommunication between license holders and a young team who rushed ahead to create it.
Further reading
A working build ofGoldenEye 007’s cancelled Xbox 360 remasterwas leaked onto file-sharing sites, allowing those with access to the files to play it via a modded console or PC emulator.
At the time, VGCreviewed the leaked GoldenEye Xbox buildand called it “the greatest remaster you’ll likely never play”.
