Xbox 360 Remaster Of Goldeneye 007 Is The One That Got Away

Many hours of my childhood were spent hissing at the sun like some kind of hideous cave troll/snake, whilst me and several of my friends challenged each other to hours upon hours of Goldeneye on the N64 and arguing over who was going to play as Oddjob. Even thinking about that game brings back years of nostalgic joy, that few games do today.

If you share the fond memories of this game, then it’ll please and sadden you to hear that Rare were in the final stages of a remake for the Xbox 360…were. The footage below comes from Rare Thief and starts us off at the dam mission, showing off some improved graphics running at a cool 60FPS. The graphics aren’t quite what you’d expect from an Xbox 360 title, but they are definitely an improvement on the original N64 version, which is shown with the occasional jump between the two versions as shown below:

The video shows a decent 30 minutes of the unfinished game and appears to be faithful to the original throughout, including original sound effects and guns.

The game was originally set for a 2008 release on the Xbox Live Arcade, apparently it had 2 months left before its initial release, but money became it’s downfall as Microsoft couldn’t come to a licensing agreement with Nintendo and they shut the project down.

It’s not all doom and gloom though, one fan has remastered the game under the name of Goldeneye: Source (Trailer below), which boasts online playability with up to four players. Let’s just hope the big guys at Nintendo leave this one for us to enjoy.

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BioShock The Collection Officially Announced

For what seems like an age ago, 2K retweeted an image of a Big Daddy and a Little Sister via the BioShock Twitter account. Soon after this, 2K ‘accidentally’ leaked a load of screenshots for the ‘BioShock Collection’ earlier than planned.

Finally, after a few weeks of silence, we have now been treated to an official release date and a shiny new trailer to go with this excellent news.

As you’d imagine, all three titles in the series will be included: BioShock, BioShock 2, and their most recent masterpiece BioShock Infinite, plus all single player DLC.

It’s also been confirmed with the collection, that we’ll get a director’s commentary from creative director Ken Levine and lead artist Shawn Robertson, plus some extra behind the scenes goodies.

From the trailer below you can see that this isn’t a complete ground-up remake, but a very nice tidy and polish for the PS4 and Xbox One.

For those as excited as me, you can pick up this gem September 13th on console, where as PC players will only be getting the first two remasters, and sadly not Infinite.

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