Agent 64: Spies Never Die

It's a new GoldenEye / Perfect Dark for the nostalgia fans out there. It's SO GOOD. Nails the vibe!

Fun game when you rely on the autoaim and hip fire. Only frustration is trying to use precision aiming.

The perfect dark shooter with a golden eye for detail.

IL PASSATO NON MUORE MAI Questo Agent 64 è un atto d'amore verso Goldeneye e Perfect Dark. Anche se si colloca più verso il primo in quanto non raggiunge i livelli di complessità e struttura di PD. A ben vedere manca qualcosa anche di GE. Ad esempio non ci si può abbassare, non ci sono le armi doppie, non si può guardare dietro gli angoli e le armi sono pochine. Per il resto potrebbe sembrare quasi un'espansione del gioco Rare in quanto il sistema di controllo ed il comportamento dei nemici sono i medesimi, così come la struttura delle missioni. La storia non è lunghissima ma ha i soliti 3 livelli di difficoltà selezionabili dove cambiano anche gli obiettivi da completare e aggiunge un ulteriore livello che rimescola le carte in tavola. Perfect Dark come dicevo è su un altro livello, coi suoi livelli complessi, i tanti gadget, le funzioni di fuoco secondarie, la varietà, le nostre scelte che vanno a modificare il livello successivo ecc... Resta però una fonte di ispirazione come scenari, armi e missioni. Inoltre ne eredita la coop split screen e le sfide. A completare il tutto non poteva mancare il multiplayer pvp sia per 4 giocatori in split screen che per 8 online. Un pò misero come quantità di armi, livelli e personaggi ma decisamente ben fatto. Come avrete capito Agent 64 non è perfetto ma resta un ottimo tributo fatto con cura e se pensiamo che sia stato sviluppato da una sola persona ha quasi del miracoloso. Decisamente consigliato per tutti gli appassionati dei due titoli Rare. Saprà riportarvi indietro nel tempo e se avete ancora gli amici dell'epoca da invitare sul divano avrete di che divertirvi. VOTO: 8

It's 2 AM, there's pizza boxes with just a couple slices left in them chilling on the coffee table next to some now-warm coke. The sound of three to four controllers clacking are interspersed with low-tech digital gunshots, curses and accusations of screen-peeking. It's 1998, and you're playing Goldeneye right? Wrong, it's 2026 and you're playing Agent 64! How like is a scene like this actually going to play out? Not very, considering the ease of playing online, but I am going to do my best to attempt it some time before this summer is over. Agent 64 is the obligatory indie reimagining of an old favourite which had long had been considered obsolete in terms of gameplay. Although its DNA is undoubtedly within many modern console shooters, not many deliberately hearken back to the glory of Goldeneye, and none so masterfully as this one. The most important aspect that Agent 64 knocks out of the park is the feel, which is essentially exactly how one would expect Goldeneye to play if it had the benefit of another decade or so of control refinement. It's smooth dual-stick (or KBM, but I've not really been playing with that) controls without adding anything unnecessary. It retains the classic "loose" crosshairless aiming that the developers of Goldeneye kept in their games up until Timesplitters: Future Perfect, wherein the camera doesn't follow the gun immediately, taking a moment to catch up with it. Of course the "zoom/aim" function which was the precursor to "ADS" in modern FPS is present. It's all very reminiscent of the XBLA port of Perfect Dark, which until now had been the peak of this "style" of FPS. One slight critique I had early on, especially of the first couple levels, is that something about them feels off. It's like they don't inhabit a real space, but rather just appear to be video game levels emulating how a GE or PD level "should" be. Whereas those games felt like they were trying to simulate being an agent in realistic locations. This problem exists to varying degree throughout the campaign, but levels like Castle and Mountain are counterexamples to this point. The campaign itself is pretty nice, although some text before missions which gives us more lore would be very welcome. There's a few grammar issues here and there, but nothing major. There are a variety of locations and mission structures which don't deviate from what one would see in this game's spiritual successors. The difficulty is quite high for anything above agent, at least for the average player, but it's very satisfying and rewarding to learn the levels, guard behaviour (how they move, fire, react, etc). That you need to either do higher difficulties or somewhat difficult special versions of the levels is annoying, but not that big of a deal. Get good, as the kids say. You can always play coop if you're really struggling! Initially I wasn't super sold on the music, which sounded like dollar store version of GE's amazing soundtrack, but you know, it has very much grown on me. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome from trying to achieve all these par times, but I can't find much fault with the music anymore. However, the gun sounds are still egregiously bad. There's no oomph to any of them. Even the rockets sound pathetic. I know it's hard to match sounds like GE's rocket launcher or PD's shotgun, but these are just weak. There's really no excuse for guns that sound on par to a cap gun. I've been having a (frustrating) blast trying to get par times, beating the challenges with my friends (which I don't think I could do on my own) and just generally enjoying shooting mooks. The developer has been responsive with fixing issues, and there are more things to come in future updates, including mod tools. I'm very excited for where the game is headed, and looking forward to 100%ing the game at some point.

GoldenEye und Perfect Dark sind neben Half-Life 1 & 2 bis heute meine Lieblingsshooter. Darum war ich sehr gespannt auf Agent 64. Der Entwickler zeigt deutlich die Nähe und Liebe zu den Vorbildern, so sind das Gunplay und die Bewegungen sind fast identisch, wie auch einige der Szenarios (Flucht aus dem Hochhaus, Schneewüste etc.) Es gibt auch viel Umfang, durch die verschiedenen Missionsziele, Herausforderungen oder den Online-Modus. Super auch: Der Soundtrack, der zwar nicht im Ohr bleibt, durch seine hohe Dynamik aber für Spannung sorgt. Negativ zu erwähnen seien lediglich die Waffen; so machen die gebotenen Modelle schon Spaß und haben Wumms, aber wenn man an PD denkt, mit seinen alternativen Funktionen oder innovativen Systemen wie der Laptop-Gun, steht Agent 64 dem schon ziemlich nach. Agent 64 ist zusammengefasst ein Muss für alle Fans von GoldenEye und Perfect Dark, Empfehlung!

It moves, plays, sounds and feels like classic Golden Eye 64, but has the added benefit of way smoother gunplay and gaming experience in general. A shame the coop couldn't be done via invite, only split screen, but eh, it is what it is. Some of the story bits are a bit vague between missions, but the story isn't the focus anyway.

Beaten Agent difficulty and most of Special Agent difficulty and it's... fine. It's a neat throwback, but it's missing a lot of the variety that Goldeneye/Perfect Dark/Timesplitters had back in the day. It's great if you've got that itch, but it might not fully scratch it to satisfaction.