Set to introduce online multiplayer, the remaster was inevitably canceled because a licensing agreement was unable to be finalized by all stakeholders, even though it only required a couple of months to be ready for launch. Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, and it would take six years before rumors of an Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) remaster started circulating.

Developed by Rare and published for the Nintendo 64, GoldenEye 007 became lost to the passage of time, only retrievable through the use of emulation, a tragedy for the third-bestselling game on Nintendo 64. Nostalgia has only been able to take GoldenEye 007 so far, and frustrated players are now questioning why the recently leaked 2008 remaster was not released instead.ġ997 saw one of the best movie tie-in games ever made with the release of GoldenEye 007, based on the similarly titled 1995 James Bond film.

GoldenEye 007's celebrated arrival on Xbox and Nintendo Switch has since been tempered by the drawbacks present in the up-scaled port.

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