Don’t get us wrong — none of the following games is bad. A couple are quite good, actually. But every year the hype machine writes checks it can’t cash, and a few major games inevitably don’t live up to what we hoped they would be. 1 ‘GoldenEye 007’
The coveted remake of the Nintendo 64 classic has finally arrived, with Daniel Craig filling in for Pierce Brosnan, but the remake seems more interested in retelling “GoldenEye” the movie than tipping its hat to “GoldenEye” the game. Gone is the sense of the absurd that made the original special, with multiplayer modes especially cleansed of idiosyncracies in favor of a generic “Call of Duty”-style system. What’s the point?
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