the geopolitical context would block the exit

The GoldenEye 007 remaster has been awaited by fans of the franchise for years. Originally released on N64, the game quickly established itself as a benchmark of the genre and helped popularize the FPS genre in the same way as Doom or Quake.

For years, we have been talking about the release of a sequel or, failing that, a remaster of GoldenEye 007. We have even seen some amateur developers reproduce the title under modern graphics and physics engines.

For a time, a remake was planned for Xbox 360 before being canceled. The partial source code of the game even ended up on the web…

Since June, we have seen a complete list of successes corresponding to the title appear on Xbox Series S, suggesting an upcoming arrival…

According to James Grubb, the project is well underway, but the release of the game is left in abeyance, in particular because of the current geopolitical context. The war between Russia and Ukraine is therefore not conducive to releasing a title that highlights the context of the Cold War and a British agent facing Russian forces.