Gonna try and get it for christmas.

PS3 or 360 verison of course, not the Wii verison

Not at all. Doesn’t the review do the discouragement on its own, though?

Not even remotely newsworthy.

One fine example of this is “The Force Unleashed”.

And Blerk, I’m not sure I agree. It’s not graphics that get old, it’s ideas. For example, I think Ultima VII has aged better than Baldur’s Gate. Ultima was always primitive graphically, but the ideas involved were way ahead of their time.

And when talking about first-person shmups, the same is true there, too. If the ideas in shmups are decent, then the games remain interesting to play. I still bring out Duke Nukem 3D for the occasional romp around in, and an FPS-based LAN party really doesn’t feel complete without an outing through one or two of the Duke’s maps, it’s a quintessential addition, for overall fun at least.

Unfortunately, I never played Golden Eye so I don’t know how well the ideas within the game have aged. But if the ideas are still solid (and weren’t just novelty that was heralded as innovation at the time, and I’ve seen a lot of that) and enjoyable, then the game probably still has a fanbase that play it today.

For me, Nethack (and more recently, Dwarf Fortress) was always complete proof that advanced ideas were all that was really needed for a game. Graphics help, but even basic graphics can make a brilliant game (World of Goo, et al, which could likely have been achieved six years or more ago).