10 Video Game Remakes NO ONE Asked For

10. GoldenEye 007

It's hard to comprehend how impactful GoldenEye 007 was. Thanks to its accessible controls, mission-based gameplay, perfect soundtrack, flawlessly structured levels, and masterful multiplayer, it revolutionised the first-person shooters and proved movie tie-in games could be top-quality. (It also made everyone develop an unbridled hatred for Oddjob.) As a result, Bond enthusiasts were giddy with excitement upon learning GoldenEye 007 was being remade.

Sadly, that elation turned to confusion when it became apparent 2010's GoldenEye 007 was a remake in name only. Daniel Craig was portraying James Bond in the films at the time, so it was decided the martini-guzzling secret agent would be modelled off him instead of Pierce Brosnan.

To further emulate the modern Bond era, this revision removed the banter with Q and Moneypenny prior to missions, since the characters hadn't appeared in the on-screen reboot at the time. Bond's relationship with the main villain, Alec Trevelyan, was completely rewritten, distancing the plot from the source material once again.

Anyone intending to give this GoldenEye 007 a go purely to scratch that nostalgic itch were shocked to learn the levels had been redesigned from the ground up. Basically, the reboot had little resemblance to its N64 counterpart. 

Ironically, the game itself was pretty solid. But it was so divorced from what came before, it seemed disingenuous to call it a GoldenEye 007 remake.