GoldenEye 007 Remaster has been canceled by Nintendo with only a few bugs to fix

More details have been revealed about the nearly released GoldenEye 007 remaster following the game’s files leaked online, including the fact that Nintendo canceled the project when it was nearing completion. Ross Bury and Mark Edmonds spoke to Ars Technica about its development, saying it started in late 2006 or early 2007, but had not initially received approval from the hierarchy.

The game was planned as an Xbox 360 release and was intended to be a very straightforward remaster for the console with little new content beyond some dramatic visual improvements – including updated character models for, in many cases. , give the appearance of the characters. much closer in appearance to their real actors.

Edmonds explained that at one point in the process, the team was told “everyone approved it.” The team continued to work, believing that the rights had been cleared and that there were no conditions attached to the Nintendo 64 title remaster. However, just as the game was about to go gold, it was canceled due to an unknown “high-ranking” Nintendo executive.

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“When it was submitted to Nintendo, everyone approved it,” Bury said. “Except they didn’t check with the one guy that mattered.”

“I believe I was told his answer was along the same lines: ‘There is no way a Nintendo game will come out on a Microsoft console,'” he added.

Edmonds and Bury estimate that at the time the game was canceled, it only contained around 90 bugs in QA testing – a relatively small number for a game release and indicating that the GoldenEye 007 remaster was nearing completion. ready to be published.

The two added that the version of GoldenEye 007 that leaked online earlier this month was not the most “current” version of the game, but relatively close. It lacks more updated art resources and has more bugs and other issues than the last version of the game. Bury said he does not anticipate that the final version will ever be made available in any way.

You can watch a longplay of the GoldenEye 007 remaster from earlier this year on YouTube, or take comfort in the fact that while we’ll probably never get a proper release of the remaster, IO Interactive is at least providing us with a flashy proper spy. game in Hitman 3, and a real licensed 007 title to come in the future.

Rebekah Valentine is a journalist at IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.