GoldenEye homage Agent 64 was the best thing at the PC Gaming Show

metro.co.uk:

Trailers for Agent 64 and the System Shock remake were the highlights of the PC Gaming Show, though neither have exact release dates.

Disappointed by the lack of the rumoured GoldenEye 007 remaster/remake at the Xbox showcase? Well, the PC Gaming Show had you covered with a brand new game very clearly inspired by the beloved James Bond title.

Aside from being a first person shooter involving spies and espionage, Agent 64: Spies Never Die’s deliberately old school visuals evoke the 90s and it even has the same style of character models as GoldenEye.

As if it couldn’t be any more blatant, the trailer ends with in-game footage of the player character turning on what looks like a Nintendo 64 and putting in a game cartridge. Technically, its not actually a Nintendo console but that’s obviously what it’s trying to emulate.

You play as the titular Agent 64 (who looks more like Sean Connery than Pierce Brosnan) and each mission drops you into a self-contained environment, where you complete various objectives (hacking terminals, stealing files, etc.) while engaging in shootouts.

Agent 64 is slated to release for PC later this year, although it will be an early access game. At first, it will have three story missions and multiple difficulty options which add more objectives to complete.

The final version will have a full single-player campaign, but developer Replicant D6 bluntly admits that it will be more expensive to purchase than the early access version.

No prices have been shared yet, but a demo is already available and can be downloaded via the game’s Steam page.

The other big announcement of the show was a new trailer for the System Shock remake. Plans for such a project were announced all the way back in 2015, but it looks like