GoldenEye 007 the Game
Vs. GoldenEye the Movie

    This section is a level-by-level rundown of the portions of GoldenEye (the movie) that differ from GoldenEye 007 (the N64 game).  The original list was created by Ian Pugh, who came up with the idea.  Let us know of any other notable differences you find...enjoy.
 

 

  DAM:

• According to the subtitle in the teaser, Bond is at "Arkangel", not "Arkangelsk".
• The Dam scene was much shorter than in the game; Bond didn't install a modem, etc.
• The Dam didn't have towers.
• Bond is clearly seen with a bungee cord and seen landing at the bottom of the dam.  In the game, you can't see the bungee cord and you don't see him land.

• 006 was with 007 during most of the Facility segment, not just a rendezvous at the bottling room.
• 006 was originally armed with a silenced Beretta M92 FS 9mm automatic, not a D5K.
• Bond uses a Walther PPK in the movie, not a PP7.
• Trevelyan held the Door Decoder, not Dr. Doak, who wasn't in the movie.
• There were more tanks than what was shown (Ten).
• Blowing the tanks was also meant to blow up the Facility.
• The mines in the flick were timed, not remote.
• When Ourumov "shoots" Alec, the gun doesn't appear to be a DD44.
• In the movie, Alec yells, "Finsh the job, James! Blow them all to hell!" but in the game, his outburst is shortened for obvious reasons.
• In the game, an objective is "Minimize Scientist Casualties".  However, in the movie, Alec shoots and kills a scientist without any problems.
• Ourumov entered the Bottling Room through the glass window, not the door.

• The plane, of course, was not as easily accessible in the movie, where Bond had to ride a motorcycle off the cliff.
• The Runway was not closed off with a mountain as in the game--it was actually very open.

• Bond was never in Severnaya during the GoldenEye mission.
• This didn't happen in any form in the movie at this point in time.

• Again, Bond was never in Severnaya during the GoldenEye Mission.
• Again, this didn't happen in any form at this point in time.
• In the movie, the doors are voice-activated, not via Key Card like in the game.

• This never happened in any form  (at least not on-screen).
• Both GoldenEye satellites were already in orbit in the film, but in the game Bond has to photograph one of them.
• There were only two GoldenEyes, and you have to destroy a satellite here.  If  "Petya" was fired at Severnaya and "Mischa" was going to be fired at London, where did  the third one here come from?

• The only Janus Operatives on the Frigate were General Ourumov and Xenia Onatopp.
• There was not a hostage or bomb situation; Ourumov and Onatopp were very covert.  The helicopter was named the "Tiger", not the "Pirate".
• The helicopter created lots of attention, and there should have been media and Naval Officers.

• Once again, Bond was not in Severnaya during the GoldenEye Mission.

• Last time, Bond was not in Severnaya during the GoldenEye Mission.
• Bond met Natalya in the Military Office, not in the Bunkers.
• Ourumov stole the GoldenEye Key MINUTES before destroying the Bunkers, which was  hardly any time for Natalya to be accused and imprisoned (which, by the way, she wasn't). And this is if she didn't have any court troubles (trying, convicting, etc.).
• In the movie, the doors are voice-activated, not via Key Card like in the game.
• Bond didn't use a watch magnet, this was from Live and Let Die.

• Bond went to only meet Janus, not to locate Natalya as well.
• Bond went to the park by way of Xenia and his own wishes, not as an MI6 Operation.
• The statue of Lenin was taken down at the close of the Cold War, long before  the GoldenEye Mission happened (1995).
• Janus didn't have so much backup.
• The helicopter exploded in an entirely different fashion.
• Bond didn't meet Valentin in Statue Park,  he met him at the train yard.
• As Valentin walks away, he as no limp as in the movie.

• Bond and Natalya were interrogated in the same room, with Mishkin.
• Mishkin was shot in front of Bond and Natalya before they could escape the room.
• Bond escaped without Natalya.
• Bond didn't use a watch magnet, this was from Live and Let Die.

• Valentin was not in the Streets.
• There were no guards on foot or land mines--these are public streets, with traffic!
• Again, as Valentin runs (!) he has no limp, as he did in the movie.
• This scene was during the day, not at night.

• Bond was only in the Train Depot for seconds.

• Bond was only in the one car with Natalya and his enemies.
• Trevelyan and Onatopp were on the opposite side of the car from Ourumov and Natalya.
• Natalya had to find Boris's Password BEFORE she could find the Janus Base.
• Trevelyan gave Bond three minutes, not one.
• James stops the train with the tank, not brake units.
• The watch laser fired one beam, not one at a time, and showed no sign of ever running out.
• The floor pannel in the game is actually a part of the floor that James had to pull out carpet to get to.
• Bond and Natalya run from the right side of the train, not the left as in the game.

• The Janus Base was actually located on an island NEAR Cuba.
• Xenia died a more gruesome death than just being shot.
• According to the Jungle briefing, Jack Wade trained Natalya in basic firearms for the mission.  This creates two differences:  Wade did not meet Natalya until before the mission started, only for a few minutes. He could not have trained her.  Besides, in the Control Center (GoldenEye Movie) Bond asks if Natalya can use a PPK.  She shows him she can replace clips and cock it. Therefore, she already knew how to use small firearms.
• The Janus Base was not as accessible as an elevator.

• The Heart of the Janus Base was SWARMING with Janus Operatives, especially near the computer where Natalya worked, which wasn't on the bottom floor like in the game.
• If you kill Boris in the game, Natalya will get mad and run away.  In the movie she hits him.
• The control center has other computer programmers in the movie.

• There were never any Subterranean Water Caverns.

• Bond didn't "throw a wrench in the works" in the game, which prevented GoldenEye realignment.
• Trevelyan didn't realign the GoldenEye, Boris was having enough trouble doing that.  Alec was busy trying to kill Bond.
• During the Cradle fight, the only weapons available during the battle was a KF7 and Alec's Beretta.
• Trevelyan was thrown off the cradle, not shot off.
• Alec tried to kill Bond. The other Janus Operatives were in the midsts of the explosions in the Control Center.
• Bond went down the ladder before Trevelyan did.

• The Aztec stage is a continuation of sorts of the Moonraker Bond flick, and the deal is that the Drax Corporation still exists.  Bond's task is to reprogram their next unauthorized shuttle launch so MI6 can recapture it and see what's up.
• Teotihuacàn was actually a Toltec city, not Aztec.

• The Egyptian Temple in el-Saghira is where the Golden Gun resides, and where the presumed-dead Baron Samedi has challenged Bond to a duel to the death.  The gun is from The Man With the Golden Gun (duh), where Bond fought Scaramanga, while Samedi, a sorcerer, was wasted by 007 in Live and Let Die, but has reappeared somehow.
• According to "The Ultimate James Bond Dossier" (a CD-Rom which is official) the Golden Gun is stored at Q's Lab (I don't know how either, so don't ask).  However, the background info says "the whereabouts were unknown".
• The Golden Gun was modeled very differently in the movie.
• Neither Scaramanga nor Baron Samedi were ever anywhere near Egypt.  Scaramanga was located near Hong Kong in

The Man with the Golden Gun.  Samedi was in the Carribean.