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I still love playing the singleplayer mode of GoldenEye, but very often my requests to play multiplayer are met with moans of distaste from friends, what with the game's poor resolution and framerate. This hack fixes those problems, includes many of the other improvements Perfect Dark brought, and throws even more features on top of all that. A particular highlight for me is the ability to play as all the Bond actors up to GoldenEye's release, opening up some fun deathmatch possibilities as Rare originally intended. The VR assignments and recreated singleplayer levels are also bonuses, though the main draw is definitely multiplayer mode. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to replenish the excitement that the original game created back in the day.

Have you gone back and tried playing Goldeneye 007 with friends to relive that awesome multiplayer experience to be brutally let down by how horribly it's aged? Goldeneye X lives up to your rose-tinted vision of the deathmatch game that Goldeneye was, adding a large amount of options for play including the ability to choose every weapon that spawns in a match. Along with adding all of the customization that Goldeneye's successor Perfect Dark supplied, Goldeneye X also improves on visuals while at the same time increasing framerate performance. Then there are the little details such as blood splatters, the ability to save all of your playing preferences and match setups to a memory pak, mixing and matching character models, and the full Goldeneye OST audible during matches or to enjoy to in the sound test. I've played this hack with friends on an N64 using a flash cart and we had hours of fun. This is the best N64 hack to date and a must play for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark fans.

I felt the need to write a review after reading the previous one that got posted. This mod is awesome, it's everything everyone liked about GoldenEye but ported to the updated game engine of Perfect Dark. There's new game mode for multiplayer with thing like capture the flag, king of the hill and more. They are really fun to play, specially king of the hill. The previous reviewer mentioned it's only fun in multiplayer. While this mod was developed with multiplayer in mind (they mentioned that single player will be the next thing they will be focusing on), I had plenty of fun playing it by myself. I do not have much friend playing retro-game which make it pretty hard to enjoy a good old game of GoldenEye but with GoldenEye X, I can do just that because of the bot (or simulant, as they're called in the game) included in the game. At first I thought they were dumb and not really challenging at all, but that was until I found the bot setting menu. There's different bot AI ranging from really dumb to very skilled and when you set them properly, they can be challenging enough to feel like you're playing against someone. Of course it won't ever replace the fun of playing against friend but I was surprised how enjoyable it turned out to be. I even had some instance where I got killed and I would thrash talk to the tv like if I was playing against someone!

As for the bug mentioned by the previous reviewer, I am not sure if it emulation related as I am playing on the real hardware using a flashcart and did not experience that kind of issues. I think there was only one assignment that gave me a black screen up until now and I seem to recall reading something in the read-me about a bug preventing a map or assignment of loading in the absence of a Expansion Pak so it could be the cause as I do not own an Expansion Pak right now. One thing for sure is that I played over 50 game and around 12 assignments and never really noticed any weird bug beside that one assignment not loading.

I really recommend to fan of the original Golden Eye to try this mod (hopefully with friends!) and I look forward to future patch revision as I've read that now that the multi-player experience is mostly finished and all the weapon got added and tweaked, they will focus on single player mission. The only thing missing from this mod in my opinion is the original mission campaign and seeing how passionate the peoples behind this mod are, I have a feeling that they will eventually get there!

In solo missions, the voices remain the same. However, when you get attacked you sound like a dude. Textures are all messed up in solo. Can only play up to A51: Infiltration because of a clipping error (or something). You Just fall through the ground and die. My fix for that is to have GoldenEye: X (patched) and the PD ROM you patched it from in the same folder and beat A51: Infiltration in PD (they use the same .sav file). Multiplayer is perfect though. Really just a multiplayer experience.