14 DAY TRIAL // The remastered edition of GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo Wii will see quite a few changes made not only to its gameplay but also to its story, as the scriptwriter, Bruce Feirstein, revealed some of the changes that were made to the original's story.
GoldenEye is set to finally be remastered for the Nintendo Wii, with Activision's Eurocom studio working hard to bring back what is considered one of the greatest games of all time.
Still, as admitted by Eurocom, the game didn't exactly age well since its original release back in 1997 for the Nintendo 64.
As such, Feirstein was required to make a few changes to the story, in order to keep it actual and attract those that may have missed the original when it first appeared on the scene.
"The world has changed," explained Feirstein. "When GoldenEye came out, the big reveal was Trevelyan's father was a Cossack massacred during WWII. Now in order for that to take place today, Trevelyan would be around 80 years old. The Zukovsky character played by Robbie Coltrane, the KGB agent, would be 80 years old too."
"It's a different world now, with new threats and challenges. So we gave Trevelyan a new motivation - I would tell you what that is, but I don't want to spoil the reveal."
The scriptwriter took inspiration from current events, and tried to recreate the characters based on real life people.
"Coltrane's Zukovsky character is more in line with a world where you have Russian billionaires like Roman Abramovich buying football teams, so we made Zukovsky the owner of a shady nightclub in Barcelona and a football club."
Last but not least, locations have been changed, from ones that may have appealed to people years ago to ones that are currently being talked about all over the world.
"In the original movie, the helicopter was stolen from a French frigate in the Monaco harbour, but because this is a game and a world more aware of huge arms fairs," continued Feirstein. "We moved all of that to an arms fair in Dubai. Dubai is, in a way, the new Monaco. So you just clean it and polish it up and modernize it."
It seems that GoldenEye 007 has racked up quite a few big changes.
Don't forget that it is set to appear on November 2, in North America, and November 5, in Europe, both for the Nintendo Wii and the DS.