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Goldeneye 007 Wasn't Supposed To Have Multiplayer

Posted on Tuesday, August 14 @ 17:58:26 Eastern by

There's another games conference going on in Europe this week, in the form of GDC Europe. There, GoldenEye 007's director Martin Hollis delivered a postmortem presentation on the game. Hollis detailed stories about the game from many of the developers, including Steve Ellis, the dev in charge of programming the now historic multiplayer mode. Ellis wrote:

One of the things that always strikes me as crazy in retrospect is that until something like March or April of 1997, there wasn't a multiplayer mode at all. It hadn't even been started. It really was put in at the last minute - something you wouldn't dream of doing these days - and it was done without the knowledge or permission of the management at Rare and Nintendo. The first they knew about it was when we showed it to them working. However - since the game was already late by that time, if we hadn't done it that way, it probably never would have happened.

Hollis added that many features were "snuck in" during the development process which he associated with the trust between management and the team. "I'm sure there were six-month stretches where no member of Rare or Nintendo management came into the team offices."

I wish games were still like that.
Related Games:   Golden Eye 007
Tags:   goldeneye, Nintendo, GDC, rare


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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
    Ah the days of split screen cheaters :P
    0 3
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
    I was still screen hacking at Halo 2 lan parties with friends.
    1 1
  • theoutcast32
    theoutcast32
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 1:13 am
    hacking? an occasional glance at another screen is NOT cheating! how else am i supposed to stretch my necc out?
    0 0
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
    Wow amazing just beat goldeneye on my ASus transformer tablet last week what.difficult but fun game
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
    The variable objectives were incomprehendable to my 12 year old-self.
    0 1
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
    I remember when I got it foru birthday as a kid.... Time flies
    0 2
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
    Games are still like that...just on a bigger scale.
    1 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
    No they are not. There is no way developers are allowed to spend even a few days on some side-project they haven't been approved for. That is insanely wishful thinking on your part.
    0 1
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
    You seem to have forgotten about companies like Valve where the trust level is so high people pretty much work on whatever they want.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 12:43 am
    One company and a massive exception at that. Games today on a comparable scale to Goldeneye then are massive, expensive investments. Developers are not afforded the luxury to experiment or, in many cases, ship much later than their stated date (as Goldeneye did).
    0 1
  • Stickyellowsock
    Stickyellowsock
    Joined: Oct 2009
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
    I knew where everyone spawned when they died in STACK. Kill someone, start to run off towards the spawn
    0 1
  • used44
    used44
    Joined: Mar 2002
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
    You know, I still might have liked it just as much.
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
    Agreed, multiplayer wasn't my main enjoyment in that game. Multiplayer was definitely my main course in Perfect Dark though.
    0 2
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
    Thats more intelligence then cheating
    0 2
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
    Remember this *******: "Hey don't shoot, I have no gun!"

    ... (attacker turns around)...

    ... (victim pulls out RCP90)...
    0 4
  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 1:28 am
    Goldeneye 007 was simply incredible. The way it revolutionized console gaming and multiplayer simply blew everyone away. It was one of the single greatest leaps in gaming ever made. Every time I went to Target you had to wait in line to play Goldeneye. That simply just isn't the case anymore. I can't remember how long its been since I've seen anyone playing the demo consoles at Target. They are always empty with some forgettable game on them that no one cares about. It just reminds you how stale gaming has gotten when kids don't even care about the crap the industry is trying to sell anymore.
    2 3
  • CaptainPicard
    CaptainPicard
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 1:45 am
    Couldnt agree more :) You Nailed it!!!
    0 3
  • CaptainPicard
    CaptainPicard
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 1:47 am
    I remember playing this with my friends who had no clue who James Bond was, other than the name...This was their introduction to the movies sadly enough...

    Which also makes me think about the possibility that this could be the greatest "game based on a movie" that ever was. Can anyone think of a better one?
    0 2
  • MajorStryker
    MajorStryker
    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 5:20 am
    Actually it ironically did introduce me to the James Bond series at the time (I was 11 years old). However, I became in instant fan and went back and watched every single James Bond movie xD
    0 3
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
    Id seen all the Dalton Bond films and caught a few of Connery and Moores but not many. This game was simply amazing to me... especially killing a man in a toilet stall with a wristwatch laser to the face.
    0 3
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Aug 15th, 2012 at 5:11 am
    Wow, great move by the developers. Sneaking stuff in was a risk though. Imagine if someone did that today and completely screwed up the game.
    0 1
  • theoutcast32
    theoutcast32
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 1:16 am
    you mean like hot coffee?
    0 0
  • inferno003
    inferno003
    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 2:33 am
    good game!

    i dont miss the screen hopping though! all my friends cheated, they were all good at golden eye. then when halo came out and we had lan parties they weren't so good... even now on xbl they struggle to maintain a 1.0 k/d...

    needless to say they dont play alot of competitive shooters anymore!
    0 0

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