Goldeneye 007 - Reloaded
Honorato Overmyer
In addition to the campaign, you also have MI6 mode, which is essentially an arcade single player experience with leaderboard support. You are thrown in a map with your choice of modifiers and have various styles of gameplay from stealth to wiping out all enemies as quickly as you can. All events are based on time and the modifiers make it more interesting. You can launch foes into the air with a physics boost or simply paint the walls with the paintball mode. None of these make a massive difference outside of the ammo and health ones, but they do make this mode a blast to go back to once the shooting starts to get stale.
Still, none of this is what Goldeneye is all about. Multiplayer is where the game shines, and Reloaded brings back so many favorites that it is hard not to love. The Wii version was already loaded with content, but Eurocom has gone back and (wait for it) reloaded the game with even more goodies. Four new maps have been added as well as four new modes including Bomb Defuse, Escalation, Detonator Agent and Data Miner. These modes are definitely more suited for the player cap increase and add to the already diverse palette the game offers up.
There are also a ton of new characters thrown in as along with new weapons and special combat abilities that change up the way the game plays. Combine that with the modifiers I mentioned earlier, and you have a literal smorgasbord of content that can become infinitely replayable, much like the original Goldeneye. You can pop on golden gun and sim for one hit kills, or shrink everyone to half size making them impossible to hit. This game is loaded with ways to customize your experience, which puts it above other games in the genre. A lot of games tack on multiplayer, but Reloaded focuses entirely on it, making me hope that it will continue to have a userbase even among the heavy hitters this fall.
Having not played the Wii version i wasnt too sure what to expect but im glad i bought it as its a lot of fun to play especially golden gun on multiplayer. I like the fact there are alot of modes to play, a good campaign unlike the new Battlefield which was a complete let down as i liked the previous games in the series.
You can tell the developers on Goldeneye didnt rest on there laurels which is a good thing as the graphics are improved and the new modes are good except i would have added multiplayer to the Mi6 mode and bots to the split screen, always good to practice before you get slaughtered online lol.