Author: Lu Sanwu
Source: Intelligence Ji
Recently, according to foreign media reports, the n64 (Nintendo launched the host in 1996) platform fps masterpiece "007: GoldenEye" can finally be launched in Germany. The game was recently removed from the German Federal Review Council's List of Media Harmful to Minors after it was banned from selling, promoting and promoting in Germany for 24 years.
Interestingly, under German law, similar bans are automatically lifted after 25 years of enforcement. 007: GoldenEye was released in 1997 – which means that there is actually a year before the game will be automatically unblocked.
According to foreign media analysis, this move means that someone is behind the scenes to push it to lift the ban in advance. The use of 007: GoldenEye in Germany belongs to toymaker stadlbauer marketing, who may want it to land on Switch online in time as an n64 value-added pack game release on the Switch online store; it is also possible to land on the Xbox platform, because Microsoft is the owner of the original developer of the game, Rare; of course, it may also want to launch a licensed toy.
However, this does not mean that players will be able to play 007: GoldenEye soon, and publisher Nintendo has a lot to do. Because 25 years later, Nintendo still has to renegotiate the copyright to 007, and even the face of then James Bond's actor Pierce Brosnan wants to appear in digital form, and it needs to be negotiated. There are also problems with Nintendo itself, with switch online players who received the n64 expansion pack reporting issues such as input latency, sound lag, frame drops, and incorrect controller layout, which were born around 1996 and will take time for games to adapt to the platform 25 years later.
Some people also believe that the driving force behind the lifting of the ban on "007: GoldenEye" this time is Nintendo itself. Nintendo happened to have set up its European headquarters in Germany, where the censorship of the game was quite severe. It is possible that Nintendo's European digital store is subject to German law because of EU law. Previously, "Fading Light" was banned in Germany because of its violent elements, resulting in it not being available throughout Europe.
The 007: GoldenEye movie is one of the most classics in the entire 007 series, with a Douban score (7.6) second only to 2006's Casino Royale (7.7). The game adapted from the movie is even more heavyweight, which first created and laid some "standards" for fps games in the future. For example, "Damage Calculation", hitting different body parts will have different damage, the origin of "headshot" is it; in addition, it is also the first to add stealth gameplay to the fps game. The game sold 8 million copies that year, which was a fairly difficult number in 1997.
"007: GoldenEye" has a very high status in the minds of foreign players, and it is not too much to say that it is the fps enlightenment of foreign players. Someone spent three years recreating it with Far Cry 5, someone tried to recreate it on their own, but unexpectedly Nintendo's strongest legal department ruthlessly called it back.