GoldenEye 007

N64

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Descripción

GoldenEye es uno de los juegos más vendidos y queridos de Nintendo 64. Un punto de inflexión en el género, introduciendo entre otras muchas cosas, un frénetico y completo modo multijugador a 4 jugadores con pantalla partida.

Tras un periodo de desarrollo de dos años en las oficinas de Rare en Inglaterra, "GoldenEye 007" llegó a las tiendas norteamericanas a mediados de 1997. A Europa todavía tardaría algunos meses en llegar, siendo navidades de aquel mismo año la fecha elegida. Así todos pudieron deleitarse con un juego que maravilló a medio mundo y revolucionó el género con un desarrollo profundo basado en misiones que lo apartaban de los FPS de la época tipo "Doom" y "Quake", los cuales se limitaban casi a la fórmula de "dispara a todo bicho feo que se mueva". Un título que marcó el camino a seguir por todos los juegos de este estilo, siendo el Shooter en primera persona más importante de su época junto con "Half-Life" y uno de los mejores de todos los tiempos.

La historia del juego es la misma que la de la película en que se basa: Un grupo de traficantes de armas liderados por un hombre conocido como Jano se ha apoderado de un arma de la antigua Unión Soviética conocida como el GoldenEye. Este satélite armado tiene la capacidad de disparar potentes impulsos electromagnéticos sobre cualquier punto en la faz de la tierra, inutilizando así cualquier apartado electrónico que se encuentre en su radio de acción. La misión de Bond será detener a Jano y recuperar o destruir el GoldenEye.

El juego no sigue con total fidelidad el argumento de la película, creando muchas fases que están basadas en localizaciones de la película, pero no en sus eventos. Pero estos cambios benefician a la jugabilidad creando algunas fases increíblemente bien diseñadas.

La enorme calidad del título, su original jugabilidad, su extraordinario modo multijugador y (¿por qué no?) el carisma del agente secreto británico convirtieron a "GoldenEye 007" en uno de los títulos de mayor éxito no solo de N64, sino de toda la pasada generación, sobre todo en Estados Unidos, convirtiéndose en todo un clásico.

Description

GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. It was exclusively released for the Nintendo 64 video game console in August 1997. The game features a single-player campaign in which players assume the role of British Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond as he fights to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown. The game also includes a split-screen multiplayer mode in which two, three, or four players can compete in different types of deathmatch games.

GoldenEye 007 closely follows the plot of the movie, though with some minor alterations. The game starts in Arkhangelsk, in the Soviet Union (now Russia) in 1986, where MI6 has uncovered a secret chemical weapons facility at the Byelomorye Dam. James Bond and fellow 00-agent Alec Trevelyan are sent to infiltrate the facility and plant explosive charges. During the mission, Trevelyan is apparently killed by Colonel Arkady Ourumov, but Bond escapes by commandeering an aeroplane. Five years later in 1991, Bond is sent to investigate a satellite control station in Severnaya, Russia, where programmers Natalya Simonova and Boris Grishenko work. Two years after the Severnaya mission, in 1993, Bond investigates an unscheduled test firing of a missile in Kyrgyzstan, believed to be a cover for the launch of a satellite known as GoldenEye. This space-based weapon works by firing a concentrated electromagnetic pulse at any Earth target to disable any electrical circuit within range. As Bond leaves the silo, he is ambushed by Ourumov and a squad of Russian troops. Ourumov manages to escape during the encounter.

The remainder of the game takes place in 1995. Bond visits Monte Carlo to investigate the frigate La Fayette, where he rescues several hostages and plants a tracker bug on the Eurocopter Tiger helicopter before it is stolen by the Janus crime syndicate. Bond is then sent a second time to Severnaya, but during the mission he is captured and locked up in the bunker's cells along with Natalya Simonova, who has been betrayed to Janus. The two escape the complex seconds before it is destroyed, on the orders of Ourumov, by the GoldenEye satellite's EMP. Bond next travels to Saint Petersburg, where he arranges with ex-KGB agent Valentin Zukovsky to meet the chief of the Janus organisation. This is revealed to be Alec Trevelyan – his execution by Ourumov in the Arkhangelsk facility was faked. Bond and Natalya escape from Trevelyan, but are arrested by the Russian police and taken to the military archives for interrogation. Bond eventually manages to escape the interrogation room, rescue Natalya, and communicate with Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin, who has verified Bond's claim of Ourumov's treachery. Natalya is recaptured by General Ourumov, and Bond gives chase through the streets of St. Petersburg, eventually reaching an arms depot used by Janus. There Bond destroys its weaponry stores and then hitches a ride on Trevelyan's ex-Soviet missile train, where he kills Ourumov and rescues Natalya. However, Alec Trevelyan and his ally Xenia Onatopp escape to their secret base in Cuba.

Natalya accompanies Bond to the Caribbean. Surveying the Cuban jungle aerially, their light aircraft is shot down. Unscathed, Bond and Natalya perform a ground search of the area's heavily guarded jungle terrain, but are ambushed by Xenia, who is quickly killed by Bond. Bond sneaks Natalya into the control centre to disrupt transmissions to the GoldenEye satellite and force it to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. He then follows the fleeing Trevelyan through a series of flooded caverns, eventually arriving at the antenna of the control centre's radio telescope. Trevelyan attempts to re-align it in a final attempt to restore contact with the GoldenEye, but Bond ultimately destroys machinery vital to controlling the antenna and defeats Trevelyan in a gunfight on a platform above the dish.