A working construction of GoldenEye 007’s canceled Xbox 360 “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/x360/ “> Xbox 360 remaster has leaked online and is fully playable on computer” href = ” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/pc/”>PC via unofficial emulators.
The 2008 project was originally planned to be released digitally on Xbox “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/ “> Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Arcade platform, but it was eventually canceled due to rights issue, despite the game virtually complete.
Now VGC has verified that an almost final ROM of the remaster is actively distributed on file sharing sites. The ROM contains the fully redesigned single player campaign and multiplayer.
The ROM leak follows the release of a two-hour video this past weekend, and it’s the first time the general public has been able to play the remaster since the existence of a British magazine in 2008.
The remaster gives players the option to switch between HD-converted graphics and the original Nintendo 64 “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/nintendo-64/ “> N64 footage, but the planned online multiplayer according to people who have access to it does not appear in the leaked ROM.
It has also been planned to include with GoldenEye’s online rankings for speed racing as well as Achievements, but it is said that it does not fully function in the leaked ROM.
Although Xbox Game Studios (Microsoft) “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/microsoft/ “> Microsoft, rights holders Activision” href = “https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/activision-blizzard / activision / “> Activision and original publisher Nintendo” href = “https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/”> Nintendo apparently initially agreed on a licensing transaction for the planned release of the remaster in 2008, has the project eventually collapsed due to the large number of parties involved in approving the reissue.
GoldenEye composer Grant Kirkhope “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/people/grant-kirkhope/ “> Grant Kirkhope – who was rare” href = “https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/microsoft / rare / “> Barely during the development of the remaster, but was not involved in the project – told VGC last week that the Xbox remaster was canceled due to the large number of parties that had to be convinced.
“The main reason it did not happen was because there were too many stakeholders,” he said. Microsoft, Nintendo and EON [owners of the Bond license] can never agree on the terms, and that is even before you consider having all the original actors agree to use their equals again.
“It would have cost a lot of money to do that, and therefore the project would probably not be financially viable.”
In 2015, Phil Spencer, Xbox boss “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/people/phil-spencer/ “> Phil Spencer, suggested that due to the same problems, there was little hope that the Goldeneye project would ever On modern platforms.On the canceled remaster by a fan, Spencer tweeted: “GoldenEye rights are so challenging, it’s been watched many times. We have always given up on many different parties to work with. “
Although GoldenEye 007 was never released for Xbox 360, its spiritual successor Perfect Dark “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/perfect-dark/ “> Perfect Dark was finally given the Xbox Live Arcade treatment and can be played on Xbox consoles to this day.