GoldenEye 25 Project Shut Down By Copyright Holders

<p>James Bond 007 GoldenEye is arguably one of the most important movies in the James Bond franchise&period; The movie reinvigorated the franchise for the 90s&comma; turned star Pierce Brosnan into a James Bond icon&comma; and spawned one of the most <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;5-best-nintendo-64-games&sol;">successful movie tie-ins<&sol;a> ever&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a somewhat ironic twist of fate&comma; the game based on GoldenEye ended up being just as good as the movie&period; If not even more popular among the gamers who played it&period; GoldenEye is often regarded as one of the fathers of console FPS games&period; When it came out&comma; it became a killer app for the N64&comma; and Bond&&num;8217&semi;s face helped sell as many if not more consoles as Super Mario did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some fans set out to do a brand new remake of the game&comma; celebrating the game&&num;8217&semi;s 25th anniversary&period; GoldenEye 25 was meant to be a free fan game for release on PC only&period; It would take the core N64 game but update all the graphics and tweak the gameplay for PC&period; But as with many things&comma; we can&&num;8217&semi;t have nice things&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The developers <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;007GoldenEye25&sol;status&sol;1293090610862272512&quest;s&equals;20" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">just announced on Twitter<&sol;a> that they had received a Cease &amp&semi; Desist from the IP owners &lpar;MGM&sol;Danjaq&rpar;&period; This means the development will be entirely discontinued and the Twitter account will be closed&period; And thus buries any hope that this fan remake will ever see the light of day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;11105754&sol;Goldeneye-25-Facility&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-161876" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;11105754&sol;Goldeneye-25-Facility-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Goldeneye 25 Facility" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">A New Beginning<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>GoldenEye 25 had received a lot of support from the original developers of GoldenEye&period; Most of all David Doak was an open supporter of the project&period; And the project was shaping up to become a rather impressive remake that would&&num;8217&semi;ve updated the game without sacrificing what made it iconic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fortunately&comma; the developers have plans for another game&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;projectianus" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Project Ianus<&sol;a> is the game that will be made from the remains of GoldenEye 25&period; The developers have <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;projectianus&sol;status&sol;1293200720225869824&quest;s&equals;20" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">stated they plan to re-use several assets for Project Ianus<&sol;a>&period; This includes the watch menu&comma; the weapons &amp&semi; ammo system&comma; portions of the levels&comma; the game code&comma; textures&comma; models&comma; and sound effects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is unfortunate that GoldenEye 25 had to be shut down&comma; like many other fan passion projects&period; But at least this allows the developers a chance at their own IP&period; This means they can actually sell it on Steam and they have also stated console ports as a possibility&period; And we can&&num;8217&semi;t have enough games influenced by GoldenEye in either case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;