all games are not created equal

Based on the fact that many people rave about Perfect Dark, I am well prepared for the counter-argument. 

My basis for this comparison revolves around the multiplayer aspect of 007.  Both games single-player scenarios are great and I simply cannot say that one is better.  However, 007 offers, for the first time a chance for a group of 4 to run around killing one another.  It not only was the first but it also setup a framework for how games should do it in the future. 

Perfect dark of course followed this frame work, but really didn't improve on it.  Sure the weapons were cool, but the levels were no match.  (To this day I still think the Complex is the best battleground made).  Perfect dark broadened the scope of options, but failed to take any deeper.

Ultimately, if I had 3 other friends sitting in the room, I'd much rather play 007 than perfect dark, maybe for the shear nastalgia, and that in itself is justification.

I'm sure everyone remembers playing Starfox at your gradeschool sleepovers ... all the fond memories of trying to beat those mission timings to get that tank mode, running person mode, and just blowing each other up in the normal flight modes ... aaaaaah goooood times!  Heck, this was one of the 1st real co-op games for the Nintendo 64.

Now think long and hard.  How'd that compare to the awesomeness that is known as Goldeneye.  Yet again a favorite at those gradeshcool sleepovers, you could roam around as that short stumpy Oddjob, shoot with 2 guns at once, had the ever annoying proximity mines, and a multitude of other weapons bliss.

This is a close one, but I've gotta say that I think GoldenEye is better than Starfox.  Both were fun, but at the end of the day ... nothing quite beats the feel of blowing up your enemies with a big ol' rocket launcher or getting that 1-shot-1-kill golden gun :)

GoldenEye.
damn.
what a game.
I still think this is one of the ebst console fps's ever brought out.
i dont like shooters on consoles. Except for timesplitters2/3 and goldeneye.

and goldeneye is an epic classic great friggin game :D
if you played it, you know what i mean. if you didnt. go get a n64 and play it!