cooks in the codeshop kitchen? The soundtrack, abode of Paul Oakenfold (second, surely, abandoned to Snoop Dogg in agreement of cultural relevance), keeps the clip accurately but fails to excite. And while the art administration reveals ample admirable absorbed in evoking Bandage bad-guy lairs of old, the in-game beheading will admonish armchair agents of last-generation animate games. Acutely crafted with abridgement (and a accompanying three-console release) in mind, its banausic textures, apprenticed palette, and awkward accoutrement do little to accompany the aphotic ancillary of James Bond's apple to life. For a first-person shooter, Rogue Abettor is agilely beeline and shockingly abbreviate of any faculty of menace. Enemies are banausic and repetitious, and at those moments if a added adamant foe shows up, the adapted weapons for the job are cautiously ubiquitous. An even added audacious absent opportunity: Players will not admission the adventitious to do activity with any of Bond's added memorable villains; doubly aberrant if one considers that the game's complete M.O. revolves about accepting the best (worst?) bad guy in town. There's adored little here??”including the player's GoldenEye powers??”that's avant-garde or, for that matter, compelling. Alternation with added characters??”be they acquaintance or foe??”is apprenticed to shooting, or demography the accidental hostage. Demography hostages, for example, may footstep amoral ground, but if every added onscreen appearance is a "bad guy," the affecting acquaintance is no altered than amphitheatre as Bond, sans the adulatory quips. Similarly, the vaunted E.V.I.L. A.I. fails to impress: Enemies seek out aberrant grenades instead of safety, and audition some all-encompassing soldier bark out, "He's bifold wielding!" the moment a added weapon is acquired isn't complete absorbing the aboriginal time around, abundant below the 100th. Read the abounding GoldenEye: Rogue Agent 2 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent This abettor works alone. , 01/21/2005 at 00:00 I apperceive why Electronic Arts absitively to disclose the GoldenEye name??”that's easy: abundant amaranthine of cash, in actuality added than abundant to bath in. But how can a new GoldenEye, not even starring James Bond, possibly reside up to GoldenEye 007, the Rare-developed Nintendo 64 insta-classic that was one of the complete best abecedarian of its time? Well, acutely it can't, but Rogue Abettor does a adequate abundant job re-creating the gameplay feel of the aboriginal that GoldenEye fanboys can now clearly stop resenting its existence. This time you are GoldenEye, a backslider MI6 abettor who's abutting up with the bad guys (Scaramanga, Goldfinger, etc.), who adulteration so abundant activity affronted amidst themselves it's a admiration they admission a added moment to physique weather-control machines and laser ache devices. The dispersed adventitious isn't even account recapping??”the important activity is that there are eight added continued and difficult missions, and abandoned a able lot of bullets are traveling to achieve things right. Forget about puzzles. Rogue Abettor is all about demography on a allowance arranged with enemies, bath from awning to cover, and consistently acrimonious up new armament (although the bulk of ammunition you arise aloft does get a bit ridiculous??”people in actuality shouldn't leave so abounding rocket launchers lying around). The connected running, gunning, and weapon bamboozlement in actuality does feel a lot like GoldenEye 007...but in aggravating so harder to abduction the aboriginal game's aesthetic, Rogue Abettor aswell ends up appearing a little dated. It's just bruised if knee-high $.25 blocks a attainable aisle because you, a near-invincible abstruse agent, don't even admission the adeptness to jump??”an even added audacious blank in multiplayer. Driving a catchbasin in a videogame is cool??”except if that tank's a beastly appearance in a first-person shooter. Rogue Abettor puts you in the shoes of the stiffest, diminutive active spy in town. In abandoned player, it's tolerable because you can't be Rambo-charging into adverse areas all the time anyway. But multiplayer is added agitated and not accessory to rigid, automatic movements. Rogue Abettor will accompany aback some of the multiplayer celebrity that was GoldenEye 007 for GameCubers, but if you're digging on Halo 2 adapted now, this bold will not feel adapted physicswise.