Goldeneye: It’s back. Until someone sends a cease and desist letter, anyway. The latest version of Goldeneye Source, a PC version made by fans, went live this morning. (Grab it here, read install instructions here.) For a fan project, this is a beaut, and first impressions of the deathmatch-only remake have been mostly outstanding (except, well, slaps could be louder).
What made Goldeneye a dorm room smash in the late ’90s still holds true here—there’s less hopping and flailing around, or hiding in nooks, compared to intimidating shooters like Quake or Halo. More navigating through pillar-filled rooms, more use of non sci-fi gear. By default, the game will dump you into 16-player matches, something Goldeneye was never equipped for, but loading up a 4-6 player fracas has proven authentic enough.
Rubik’s 360: The first new Erno Rubik game in a long time debuted this week at some toy fair. No, it’s not an Xbox 360 version. Some site called it a “21st century upgrade” to the Cube (what, none of these were?), but it’s merely a complicated mod to the old toy where you slide a little ball around until it falls into a peg.
As a momentum/rotation puzzle, it seems interesting enough, but Rubik’s Cube was successful as much for the nerdy/mathy stuff as it was about its tactile nature. The latter is lacking here in a huge way.
There’s also this video interview with Mr. Rubik. Not much interesting about the conversation, but I was weirded out by how the video editors focus on his fingers as he clutches the cube, his old hands shaking as they rotate blocks back and forth. Are they trying to elicit pity? Nostalgia? A grand statement about how this man’s life boils down to a little, colored, plastic cube? Beats me—never could solve those things.
Ah, to relive the hours with a golden pp7, or having a strictly remote mines match again.
goldeneye half-life mod? oh great, there goes any chance of being productive today…
The best was proximity mines in the Complex or the Basement. Grenade launchers in the Stacks was another favorite.
Oh, and slappers only with one-hit kills. Then you play as Oddjob and deal out the nuts-punch of death.
Requirements for Steam:
“SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows 2000, XP or Vista”
This looks like another trap to lure people into using the Windos virus…
Uh, no thanks.
http://www.opensuse.org/en/
The net seems to be designed for the PC and we Mac users get the shaft.
Didn’t know multi-player Bond was a big deal to anyone but loser stoners like me who went to high school in Chicago. It was a national craze, huh? I wasn’t very good by friends alawyas wanted to be that short little dude, I think his name was tattoo. I was more of a NBA2K for Dreamcast guy.
I think the Rubik’s 360 will offer plenty of tactile fun and frustration. Agree that it hasnt got the same math/logic based challenge as Rubik’s Cube. It will go on sale in July/Aug and rumour is that it will retail at around $15. I’ve got some more Rubik’s 360 info on my dedicated blog – 360mad.com
Man, if you’re going to report on a cheesy remake of a decade-old game, how about reporting on an extremely polished, original mod for the Source engine that was finally released through Steam this week?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/17580