We never got a real explanation about why it disappeared. But as we jumped at the opportunity it suddenly disappeared. ‘As you can imagine that was something that was very well-received by a lot of the staff, it was going to be a great project to work on. Ellis and the rest of the senior team worked on the original Nintendo 64 game, before leaving Rare. ( This video was leaked only a few weeks ago but is from an earlier build of the game).Įlsewhere in the same interview Ellis reveals that around the time Battlefront was going belly up Activision got in contact to see if the team would be interesting in working on a new GoldenEye 007 game. Several video clips of unfinished footage from the game have leaked, with the one below the most recent version that we’re aware of.

This echoes our own theories behind the game’s demise, as detailed in a recent midweek feature, but although the awful logic behind LucasArts’ decision is common enough we can’t think of any other example that’s quite as extreme as this. They effectively canned a game that was finished,’ he said. But at that time they were, for whatever reason, unable to commit to spending big. ‘LucasArts’ opinion is that when you launch a game you have to spend big on the marketing and they’re right. It had been in final QA for half of 2008 it was just being fixed for release,’ says Ellis. ‘It was pretty much done, it was in final QA. All of this has been guessed at before but what’s shocking is just how close the game was to completion.

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