A return from the golden age.

Long ago, back in the N64 era, when Rare still worked with Nintendo, there existed one of the greatest multiplayer games of all time. This game awas also probably the greatest film tie in ever. Goldeneye was a brilliant game. And it's been remade for the Wii by activision.

And through the transition, It's good to see it's still a brilliant game. Using Daniel Craig as Bond rather than Pierce Brosnan isn't overly a bad thing, and you tend not to notice what with all the killing. The game seems to take a bigger view on the stealth aspect. Many missions are easier if you don't get caught in a gun fight, and the option of sneaking around ambushing each minion in turn is usually the safer and more interesting way. You can either sneak  up behind them and knock them out, or use your trusty silenced P99 (no, not the PP7) to shoot them in the head. Along with your P99, you can carry two other weapons with you. Usually something for long range or heavy fire fights, should you get caught. Which is likely to happen, and is sometimes unavoidable.

All the old missions have been recreated. The opening dam level, has been brought back, including the part where you ambush a poor bloke on the toilet. And the tank level, where you ride around, blowing everything up. Oh so enjoyable. Full cutscenes are included, with Voices from Daniel Craig and Judi Dench.

The controls work brilliantly. And you have many options. I go  for the nunchuck approach, but you can also use, the classic controller, the Wii zapper and even the trusty old Gamecube Controller. With the nuchcuck approach, aiming is simple. Use Z to look down your sights, C to crouch, B to shoot and use A for context sensitive actions. Or a quick sprint if you need to get to cover. You also get a smart phone. Apart from using it to stay in touch with MI6, it can also hack into local devices, take photos and even has a facial recognition app!

Multiplayer is still as fun as it was. Up to 4 people can play locally, or 8 online. Play as a standard shoot em up, or with some of the modifiers such as, paintball, rubber grenades, melee only, Man with the golden gun or you only live twice. And with classic characters such as Jaws, Oddjob and Scaramanga, you won't get bored.