10 Craziest Video Game Myths (That Turned Out To Be True)
9. You Could Originally Play As All The Bonds In GoldenEye
GoldenEye 64 had a profound impact on the FPS genre, and proved movie tie-in games didnt always have to be total crap. Since people played the game to death various myths started to spring up like the rumour players could visit a secret level during the opening dam section; which is only partially true, since an abandoned test stage in the level can be only be reached via cheating.
The All Bonds cheat came to peoples attention because of an April Fools joke in a videogame magazine, where they claimed if you finished a level under very specific circumstances you could play as Connery, Dalton or Moore (poor Lazenby wasn't included) in multiplayer.
Whoever came up with the gag didn't realise how close to the truth they were. It turns out Rare planned to include the different versions of Bond in multiplayer but for various reasons like not having permission to use the likeness of the actors they removed it. The code is still buried within the game, but Rare took away the ability to access it.