Cancelled GoldenEye 007 Xbox Remaster Leaks On YouTube In Its Entirety

Video looks good. Hopefully this will one day see a release, as in gaming terms it is legendary. The issue has to surely be with EA holding the license for Bond as I feel Nintendo and Microsoft have a good relationship and understand that fans want and always have wanted to see this happen. Even if we get this remastered version from 2007 it is better than nothing. It would be perfect for the Switch as well as Xbox. Fingers crossed.

@Dandare4479 I don’t believe anyone other than MGM and Eon owns the rights to Bond. EA era is over a decade gone and Activision was the most recent creator of the games with IO now making one following Hitman 3.

I think the issue is more about who actually wants to make a Bond game and has a good enough pitch, which IO clearly did.

Plus I feel like a GoldenEye remake would not be as successful as people think. People want a remake but they don’t actually want one. The style of GoldenEye is a great nostalgia trip, but it’s gameplay idea is dated.

@Arugula My "goldfinger" would have been on the trigger to play this again.... I'll get my coat as well

I’m surprised this hasn’t leaked as a ROM or something in the past 13 years since it was cancelled.

Interesting, it looks similar to the Halo Anniversary remake where it’s running new higher detail graphics over the top of the old engine. You can even see a few places where the wider 16:9 aspect shows things that aren’t being drawn at the edges of the screen (which is odd in a way as GoldenEye did have widescreen support).

I’d love to play this, although I still regularly play the original on the N64 so it’s not the end of the world if it never sees the light of day.

I actually liked the Eurocom game but this is amazing. I would love to see either this or Eurocom's game return, but I have comfort IO is handling the next one. IO is very good.

Well it sounds like this will be released online anyway (unofficially of course), can't wait to give it a go and a shame it never got a genuine release

Such a shame that there doesn't seem to be an official release yet it's getting leaked online.
Hopefully MS can sort something out, even for nostalgia sake.

So many memories....

I have nostalgia for waiting for a game I have nostalgia for.

The fact that this game is great enough, and old enough, to create two types of nostalgia for it is crazy. I wouldn't mind, but I'm not even old.

Oh yeah I would love this to be available on the Switch or Series X, would get either or both upon release!

Can’t wait until they release the files for this, seems to run nicely on the xenia emu

I thought everyone knew about this already:

The "rights issue" was Nintendo not wanting it to be done, but it's over 20 years old they don't own it now

https://gamerant.com/goldeneye-007-copyright-nintendo/

I completely loved this game back in the day, and I can totally see why again. The music even still stands - wow.

But it's probably for the better they left this unreleased. The controls didn't age well.

This takes me back. I remember when (dearly departed) Xbox World magazine broke the story of the GoldenEye remake all those years ago.

I always thought the ak-47 looked like a pencil

This is more likely to see an official release now than it ever has been. Nintendo and Microsoft in particular have never been as chummy with each other in the past as they are currently, so with any luck they can get whoever has the rights to Bond (is it still Activision or does IOI have the sole rights to Bond games now?) in a room and get some kind of deal worked out.

Seems the build of this will be releasing at some point this year. Very exciting stuff.

@VenomousAlbino Based on the description in the video, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Activision had nothing to do with this being cancelled, it was all caused by the owners of James Bond.

I think this has to be more than possible than ever. Microsoft and Nintendo are on good terms so we could have this on both XBox and Switch, maybe even crossplay too, now it's a matter of those IP rights.

Since that new Bond game isn't coming anytime soon, it would be a decent tie in for No Time to Die, assuming it gets a release this year.....

Based on the recent IOI interview, it seems like the Broccoli family is very very selective in what gets approval. They seemed set to dismiss IOIs game, but their presentation turned them around. I'm guessing this just never got a thumbs up and that was that.

I miss Xbox Live Arcade a lot.. it had some absolute gems and not all of them have made it across through the backwards compatibility programme.