Rare’s GoldenEye 007 because the N64 needs no introduction, and it is now possible to visit the game in a more modern form. This week, a ROM of a canceled 2007 Xbox 360 remaster of the game appeared online, enabling those with a computer to play it with an emulator. According to VGC (via Polygon), the leaked ROM contains the game’s entire single – player campaign, as well as the multiplayer component. It also allows players to seamlessly switch between the enhanced textures and effects of the remaster and the original N64 graphics.
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The ROM went live online shortly after a YouTube channel called Graslu00 uploaded a two-hour video to the remaster. We’ve seen the pieces of the game in the years since the news of its existence first appeared in 2008, but the video was our best look at it so far. The closest we get to real estate GoldenEye 007 Re-release since then was Activision’s 2010 remake of the game, which replaced Pierce Brosnan with Daniel Craig – so you know, not exactly a true version of the original.
Why Microsoft never released the game, it comes to all the rights holders involved in the project. ‘The main reason it did not happen was because there were too many stakeholders. Microsoft, Nintendo and [Bond rights-holder] “EON would never be able to agree on terms, and that is even before you consider having all the original actors agree to use their equals again,” said Grant Kirkhope, who composed the music for the original play., told VGC. “It would have cost a lot of money to do that, and therefore the project would probably not be financially viable.”