Okay, so GoldenEye 007 may never truly come to Xbox Live Arcade, but it seems that Rare has found a very nice workaround. Multiplayer maps and weapons from the classic Bond shooter will be coming to Perfect Dark XBLA, effectively emulating the GoldenEye experience without having to finagle a license from Nintendo's legal department. Clever girl.
The maps and weapons were actually part of the original Perfect Dark when it launched on the Nintendo 64. Microsoft's Ken Lobbs confirmed that these bonuses will be returning when Perfect Dark re-releases on Xbox Live, taking us as close to GoldenEye as we can get without a release of the real game.
Perfect Dark is released on March 17 and will cost a cool 800 Moon Dollars.
MS confirms GoldenEye Maps for Perfect Dark [Videogamer]
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9:40 AM on 02.19.2010 | 
Can't wait for this, especially at only 800 sillymonies.
*looks at the article again*
*orgasm*
Uhhh, sorry about that. I just can't hel*orgasm* damn.
Also, 800MSP and not 1200?! *org--You get the idea.
Ah, don't forget Activision. They're the ones who owns the rights to James Bond games right now, so I'm sure they have some say in it as well!
Also, this is the closest we're gonna get to GoldenEye64, so let's gobble this up.
@bigmoose85 fail troll is fail.
I was hoping for a return of ALL the maps.
it is only going to be the 007 maps that were already in the game and the 007 weapons that were again, ALREADY IN THE GAME.
...Dude that's awesome!
If there's nothing new, then why tell us? It's not like we forgot about those 3 maps and 8ish weapons. We need some clarification here.
Have fun browsing the PSone store, you cocktroll.
I don't know if you have a 360 or not, but if you think "old ass N64 games" are all MS can come up with, you're out of the fucking loop.
Also, this news is fantastic. I only ever played Goldeneye's multiplayer. It was my first true party game.
perfect dark was fun as hell, though. it was the first game i remember where you could have bots in your multiplayer, and fairly decent bots, at that. i'm excited for some old-school, 007-type matchmaking over XBL!!!
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