5 video games whose remakes no one asked for (and 5 which desperately need one)
Video games, like all things in life, are subject to the passage of time. The games have become too outdated to play after a certain amount of years since their release. It used to be that games like that fell out and were left in the past. But times have changed, and bringing a piece of media back from the dead is quite a common art form.
Remakes gives older video games a shot at a new life, letting them be enjoyed by a newer audience and fans of the older original products. As such, some games get to live on through second life. And yet sometimes, remakes are not met with the reception they expect if the re-envisioned product is not up to the mark.
Thus, it falls to the developers to create a remake that balances elements of the original game while also adding new elements that do not detract from the larger experience.
The original GoldenEye 007 was a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and released in 1997 for the Nintendo 64. It was a genre-defining game, which saw players take control of James Bond, from the movie of the same name, played by award-winning actor Pierce Brosnan.
The game was a viral entry in its time and naturally got a remake in 2010 by developer Eurocom. This game changed the script tremendously by having James Bond changed to the Daniel Craig version, which was currently portraying the movie character. Aside from Craig, the rest of the cast was also remade with random actors, bearing no resemblance to the movie characters.
The story from the original movie and N64 video game was completely redone, with the levels also being made from scratch. This led to a lot of the fun playfulness of the original version being removed to make the game more streamlined. While it was a fine shooter for
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