One of the big developments of the time was to move away from “on rails” shooter games to the more realistic “floater” games where the player appeared to be viewing the scene directly as if in first person. The James Bond inspired game, Goldeneye, created by Rare, was one of the first of these floater games and went on to sell 8 million copies making it the third largest selling game for the Nintendo 64 console at the time.
Another idea for increased realism in the game was unfortunately dropped in the end, but was to have the player reloading his weapon by unplugging and re-inserting the rumble pack on the controller, giving the effect of dropping and inserting a pistol magazine.
Sadly, this cool feature was viewed by Nintendo as too disruptive to the electronics and the idea was dropped.
