History Videogame / Goldeneye1997

* BlingBlingBang: The Golden Gun. Also, the Gold and Silver PP7s.

* BlingBlingBang: The Golden Gun.

** TheJimmyHartVersion: The music that plays at the main menu sounds an awful lot like a James Bond remix of "[[LedZepplin Kashmir]]".

** TheJimmyHartVersion: The music that plays at the main menu sounds an awful lot like a James Bond remix of "[[Music/LedZepplin Kashmir]]".

** Or he may die without even falling.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Natalya at times.

* ManInWhite: Baron Samedi.

* ZergRush: Whenever an alarm sounds.

** Bunker 2 on secret agent or higher makes you wade through droves of mooks with automatic weapons to complete 2 of your objectives. The only decent weapon you can get in this level is very, very noisy. Combine that with neverending guards and a lack of body armor in the level for a prime example of [[NintendoHard]].

* WhatTheHellPlayer: If you kill Boris Grishenko in Control, Natalya will scold you and refuse to help you complete the level (see MisaimedFandom above).

* MeaningfulName: Janus (Roman god with two faces) and Xenia (Greek for [[EvilForeigner "foreign"]] or "strange").

* AKA47: None of the weapons have real names. The AK-47 itself is called the "[=KF7=]", and the RC-P90 is in reality the FN Herstal P90.

* DramaticGunCock

* HarderThanHard: Beating the game on 00 Agent unlocks 007 modes, which can be customized to be as hard as the player wants. (1000% damage? SureWhyNot.)

* OutrunTheFireball: The ending of the Train.

** [[ScrappyLevel Did you want her ''to take any longer???'']]

* HyperspaceArsenal: Taken BeyondTheImpossible with "All Guns": Bond has somewhere around 50-60 different weapons, including a ''tank''.

The majority of the game's missions are directly lifted from the film, with [[PragmaticAdaptation some slight alterations and omissions]]. Several hidden missions were also included for gamers good enough to reach them; these were inspired by other Bond movies. The game's split-screen multiplayer mode allowed players to control classic Bond villains (and, through the help of cheat devices, the other four Bonds), and featured many different gameplay combinations based on weapon selection and game rules (including "You Only Live Twice" [where you get two lives, and that's it] and "License to Kill" [one hit kills, no matter the gun, except the [[JokeWeapon Klobb]] sometimes.])

-->''Trevelyan'': [[EvilGloating Too slow, James!]]

* LastNoteNightmare: The music in "Surface II" becomes dissonant when Bond is captured in the final cut scene.

* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: Whenever a critical moment happens in a level the music will often change into a faster based version of the level's theme.

* AwesomeButPractical: The [[RevolversAreJustBetter Cougar Magnum]]! Except [[AwesomeButImpractical when it isn't]]. And then there's the ''[[OneHitKill Golden Gun]]''...

* BigDamnFireExit: The Silo.

* DiagonalSpeedBoost: Speed runs more or less require that you strafe-run everywhere.

** ''Inverted'' in 'Jungle'. Natalya is armed with the [[HandCannon Cougar Magnum]] and has suddenly become an extremely good shot. In addition, enemies are more likely to target James, which often results in Natalya killing more mooks than James. Doesn't work on the drone guns, though.

** Canadian rock band ShyneFactory did the video to ''I Don't Wanna Bring You Down'' in the style of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzJv5UzYMFU Archives]].

* InstantDeathBullet: The famous Golden Gun, as well as the Golden PP7. In "License to Kill" mode, ''every'' bullet is this.

* NobodyPoops: Averted in the same scene/area as the movie.

* OutrunTheFireball

* SnipingMission: Surface.

* SpreadShot: The shotgun.

* TankGoodness: The third level, and again later in the game where you reenact the aforementioned tank chase.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Averted with the jailer in the Bunker, whose reaction to Bond's attempt at pulling the "sick prisoner" gig is to simply state, "You must think I was born yesterday."

* InstantDeathBullet: A headshot usually causes an enemy to die immediately. In "License to Kill" mode, ''every'' bullet is this.

* VideoGameRemake: [[VideoGame/GoldenEyeWii In 2010, for the Wii]].

* AdaptationExpansion: Several levels in the game take place in the 9 years between the movie's gun-barrel opening and proper start. However, a few things don't match up. Namely that fact that Bond never visits Severnaya in the movie (at least not in the present-day), and he never chases Trevelyan through a cavern en route to the giant satellite dish; indeed, the resulting level makes no sense since Bond destroys pumps to stop Trevelyan stopping himself.

* MadeOfIron: Bond himself, but also Trevelyan, Xenia, Jaws and any other "boss" characters can shrug off multiple gunshots and even explosions.

* [[BoringButPractical Ordinary, but Practical]]: The Dostoveii is pretty average, but if you use it correctly (especially in multiplayer) it can be deadly. The same can be said for some other handguns and automatics.

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Rare didn't seem to understand the layout of the P90; the magazine becomes a huge white block that's wider than the gun frame, and the weapon ejects right instead of down.

* ArtificialStupidity: Enemies will not open fire unless they are on the same vertical height as you. They will also not fire through corridors. This turns Xenia into an AntiClimaxBoss, as you can gun her down as she crosses the bridge (she treats the bridge as a corridor.) This also stumps Jaws, since he'll never fire if you simply run up and down the staircase.

In November 2010, a remake by {{Activision}} for the {{Wii}} was released. '''[[Game/GoldeneyeWii Click here for more details.]]'''

* VideoGameRemake: [[Game/GoldenEyeWii In 2010, for the Wii]].

* WhatTheHellPlayer: If you kill Boris Grishenko in Control, Natalya will scold you and refuse to help you complete the level (see MisaimedFandom above).

* BrutalBonusLevel: The ''[[{{Moonraker}} Aztec]]'' bonus mission.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Automatic Shotgun (not an oxymoron, it's ''semi''-automatic) is a great weapon and more powerful than almost anything else in the game... [[ShortRangeShotgun but only at extremely close quarters]].