Agent 64: Spies Never Die

Weirdly well balanced for this old school auto aim fps on a mouse and keyboard.

This game is a lot of fun, and an excellent recreation of feel of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. The level design is great, and the gunplay is also very fun and feels just like the classic games. It could perhaps use some more weapon variety, but the weapons you get are all very fun to use. I highly recommend this for anyone that wants a fun, simple shooter, and especially for anyone that grew up playing the N64 classics.

Is this as good as goldeneye? Absolutely not. Is this as good as perfect dark? No Is this as good as timesplitters? Nope. Is this as good as nightfire? Nowhere near But its good, its alright. It took far too long to come out and has not that much levels, and weapons and enemy and map varieties. I hate the cypher unlock chapters system, its stupid, really dumb, not fun and breaks any flow that you have going through the campaign. This needs a workshop/ mod support or itll be dead soon. We need more retro copycats though

I will recommend this game to any GoldenEye lover who needs that itch scratched. Otherwise, I understand why a few people, myself included, felt a little underwhelmed by the game. The mechanics are fine. The gadgets are mostly just there to help you complete objective and mowing down enemies is fun enough for the nostalgia. I would've liked some of the OG stealth from GoldenEye, which is very basic compared to today's mechanics, but I did miss it and looked for same feeling here. In the end, I did want something a little more... maybe a story that was more engaging, or chapters and maps that were better connected, rather than it being a straight-line mow n shoot with a few quirks in the middle. I do applaud the dev though, I see that he's updating, balancing and replying to the community. I love that he made an homage that feels very close, but maybe we were just a little too hyped for it to have more in it.

Consider this a mixed review, the game is fun in small burst but gets old kinda fast, for that alone I would not write a review. The thing that prompted me to leave a negative review is that you can not just play through the main story (if I am mistaken please someone correct me and I will promptly remove this review) you are forced to replay missions in challenge mode in order to unlock the final chapter atleast when playing on normal difficulty. That to me is unacceptable and because of this I do not plan on finishing this game.

Excellent homage to GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, with a sprinkle of TimeSplitters as well. A fun campaign, with full coop support, loads of challenges similar to PD's, an Arena mode w/ up to 8 bots plus 8 players, and hidden masks to find on every level that unlock "Paradox" modifiers aka the GoldenEye cheat menu. Performance is great, running a rock solid 240fps and looking perfect at 5120x1440 ultrawide even at default settings, but theres a Wide FoV setting to expand it slightly more. Please add Workshop support so we can see a flood of custom nostalgic Arena maps, and without a doubt, custom campaigns.

More neutral instead of positive. Overall, this is an okay game, but once you start to compare it to its inspirations, it starts to fall apart. For starters this feels more like a Timesplitters homage than any of Rare's shooters, despite the spy motif. This isn't a bad thing by any means, but it does highlight that this game has a hard time really finding an identity, which makes it hard to care about anything going on in the story, which in turn makes shooting guys feel worse without context. Guns feel alright, though gun sounds range from serviceable to Bad. All of the automatics are inaccurate, with no way of making them more accurate through tap firing or crouching (which is something both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark did). I personally had no issues with the level unlocking system/cyphers since I played on 64 Agent, but I see that the dev has toned down the requirements since launch. The game is pretty difficult on Hard (no ♥♥♥♥), but it feels this way for the wrong reasons at times. The way the enemies gradually lock on to you means that movement is key to not get hit, but you have very limited options in that regard (Movement speed is slow, no lean, no crouching). Multiplayer also needs tuning, as respawns are too fast for both players and items, making it extremely easy to be flush with ammo, and also unable to wrestle control away from anybody for objectives/armor. It's a mixed bag, but I did enjoy myself most of the time. (Side note, the game is very well optimized for a Unity game. I never ran into any performance issues or frame drops)

An enjoyable nod to the two defining shooters of the N64 era. Bear in mind, the stages are short - once you get your bearings - and the enemy behavior scripting sometimes mimics the originals to the point of parody. (Yes, they will still sometimes uselessly dodge-roll in a corner, or right in front of you, just 'cause.) Despite the kinks, the dev's have done a great job with this game. I've played through most of the campaign and had a great time, though I had to start playing on the two higher difficulty settings and turn off the aim assist, to feel like I was getting a decent challenge. On that note, if a dev ever reads this, it might be worth putting a checkpoint system in the levels for the Agent64 difficulty, because it is much harder to get through in one go and having to restart all they way at the beginning was getting tiring. I can't give much of a review about the challenge or arena modes, but the online multiplayer I played was fun and captures the feel of the old matches well. Whether you were a kid when the games that inspired this came out and want to feel that nostalgia, or if you want to know what gaming was like for some of us "Uncs", I recommend Agent64.