5 Incredible Fan-Made Video Games Killed By Legal Action

5. GoldenCry (Far Cry GoldenEye)

The debate for and against fan-made games and mods was reignited most recently by the emergence of a full recreation of GoldenEye’s 18 maps within Far Cry 5, which offers a comprehensive level builder as part of its online features.

Rare’s classic, based on the Pierce Brosnan led James Bond film of the same name, is widely regarded as one of the best first-person shooters of all time. It has never been remade, despite high demand and repeated efforts to the contrary, as a remake by Rare themselves in 2007 and a fanmade version crafted over the course of eleven years were both killed before they could be released.

The Nintendo 64 release, whilst ground-breaking in its day, is nigh-on unplayable in the modern era as a result of things like its clunky controls and graphics that were never intended to be displayed on anything more advanced than a 1990s 4:3 television.

Yet franchise owners MGM (recently acquired by Amazon) seem insistent on ensuring that it remains the only version of the game available, pressuring Ubisoft to take the maps, which took two and a half years to put together, down from Far Cry within days.

They’ve since made their way back online with all 007 references removed, though it remains to be seen if they’ll remain for the long term given MGM’s notorious attempts to not let anybody live out their spy fantasies on a console from this century.