Not long after celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, the tangled nest of rights issues surrounding GoldenEye 007 was untangled just enough for the classic first-person shooter to be ported to modern platforms. Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, as well as digital owners of Rare Replay, now have access to Rare’s seminal FPS.
Of course, your platform of choice may have a significant impact on the experience, with the Switch version being the only one to support online multiplayer (but being saddled with less-than-ideal controls, to say the least). Some complaints have emerged regarding various technical issues, the Xbox version’s developer, Code Mystics, has provided explanations where it can, such as how 60fps support (which was now included) created issues and how visual glitches are authentic to the original version on Nintendo 64.
However you feel about that, there’s no denying GoldenEye was a critical game in the history of first-person shooters, particularly on console. But what’s it like to play now? Rose-colored glasses can make an old game seem better in our memories than it would be to actually play, so we put the game through its paces to see what we make of the game in 2023.
