14 DAY TRIAL // Activision has announced that it will be publishing a new GoldenEye 007 videogame set to arrive exclusively on the Nintendo Wii home console, with a launch date established for the holiday season of this year. The game will be developed by Eurocom and aim to deliver a first person shooter experience that links fast paced action sequences with more covert actions.
In a weird mix of time periods and actors, the fresh GoldenEye game will be built using Daniel Craig as the template, allowing the player to be gritty, brutal and lethal while using the classic GoldenEye adventure as a model for the story.
The publisher is describing the entire experience as a “thinking man’s shooter” and says the main features will include: more than one way to go through each of the missions; environments that can be destroyed to distract enemies and carve new paths and a complex cover system, which also influences the stealth game.
GoldenEye 007 is set to allow a wide array of control options, including the Wiimote, the Nunchuk, the Classic Controller and the Wii Zapper, so that each player can control the experience in a way that feels comfortable. The multiple options will also come in handy for those who aim to experience the split screen multiplayer, which includes Bond characters as avatars.
There's also online play that can handle up to eight players, plus 5 maps to explore, 3 standard game modes to try out and 16 modifiers, which can be applied to each of the modes in order to spice things up when the game gets too familiar. There's also an Experience Points-based advancement system introducing unlockables and achievements as players go up in rank. The original GoldenEye was one of the best known games on the Nintendo 64 and it will be interesting to see whether the new Activision title will manage to work the same kind of magic on the Wii.