Critical Failure: "Goldeneye: Rogue Agent"

This is a new thing I'm going to do, whenever there's a game that, for whatever, I just give up playing the whole way through, then I'm going to say they failed.

This is my first failure. Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. And what a piece of garbage this one is.

The story and gameplay is nothing like the original Goldeneye, Rare's N64 game that allowed players to live through the movie in a whole new way, doing missions over and over again on different difficulty levels in order to unlock more objectives, and the multiplayer was pretty tight too.

Anyway, this game sucked. You're an agent, NOT James Bond but some other agent. During the very first mission of the game, you watch as James Bond (Pierce Brosnan version) gets killed by Dr. No, and then a war starts between Dr. No and Goldfinger. Then, you get disavowed by MI6 for some stupid reason but really it's all a ploy to get you working with Dr. No or Goldfinger.

Really, I could forgive the dumb storyline if this game had any redeeming qualities at all. This game is nothing more and nothing less than a straight FPS game. It still gives you missions, like in the first Goldeneye game, but they're always solved on a straight path through the game. No longer do you have interesting missions that you have to figure out on your own how to occomplish. Instead, it's just: go here, shoot some guys, or go here, blow this up, or NO OTHER OPTIONS.

I suppose there's one cool thing, you get special "eye powers." I only unlocked one before I gave up on this game, but it let me see enemies through walls. But really, one decent power isn't enough to save this poorly-crafted
first person shooter.