The first-person shooter that turned an entire generation onto the delights of blasting their friends in the face, the N64's GoldenEye is still many peoples' finest FPS experience ever - simply down to it being the first time they ever got to grips with the genre itself. The great thing is, the game's seminal multiplayer mode was thrown in as an afterthought by developers Rare, even without clearing it with the executives. So easy was it to develop the mode that the coding department did so of their own accord, cobbling it together in a very short time frame purely because they knew it'd be fun, the publishers not realising until it was on store shelves. It might be a little unwieldy by today's standards thanks to the advances we've made in control schemes (and the controllers themselves), but considering the unique feel of aiming 'within the screen' that few titles have emulated, 007 is still one of the best shooters you'll ever have the pleasure of playing.
