The game was planned as an Xbox 360 release, and was intended as a very simple remaster for the console, with little new content in the direction of dramatic visual upgrades – including updated character models to make the characters appear in many cases. much closer to their real actors.Edmonds explained that at one point in the process, the team was told that ‘everyone approved’. The team continued with the work, believing that the proper cleaning had been done and that no strings had been attached to the remaster of the Nintendo 64 title. Just when the game was about to turn gold, it was canceled due to an unknown Nintendo CEO.
“When it was brought to Nintendo, everyone there approved,” Bury said. “Except they didn’t check on the one guy who mattered.”
“I believe I was told that his response was along the lines of, ‘There’s no way a Nintendo game is coming out on a Microsoft console,'” he added.
Both Edmonds and Bury estimate that at the time of the game’s cancellation there were only about 90 errors in QA testing – a relatively small number for a game release, suggesting that the GoldenEye 007 remaster was almost ready to to be released.The two added that the version of GoldenEye 007 that leaked online earlier this month was not the most “current” version of the game, but relatively close. It misses some more updated art assets and contains more bugs and other issues than the latest version of the game. Bury said he does not expect the final version to ever be made available.
You can watch a long play of the GoldenEye 007 remaster from earlier this year on YouTube, or get comfort that we, while we will probably never get a proper release from the remaster, at least offer us a proper flashy spy. game in Hitman 3, and a true 007 licensed title is coming sometime in the future.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.