10 Unanswered Video Game Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Answered)
7. There's A Mystery Island - GoldenEye 007
Twenty years on, GoldenEye is still considered a masterwork in the FPS genre, and while it hasn’t aged super well, its impact can’t be denied. The game has no shortage of Easter eggs and cheat codes for players to discover, but greedy players insist on finding more.
One thing that puzzled observant fans was the presence of an island off in the distance on the opening Dam level. It was clearly a place you were supposed to visit, but there’s no way to get there in the game itself. Tinkering with the code allows you to inspect it, to see it’s basically a tiny space with a turret and guard tower.
It turns out in the original plan for the level Bond was a supposed to take a speedboat there, shut off an alarm and collect a bungee rope to finish the level. The developers decided this section was redundant, and this unused area was essentially abandoned.