Back in the day I was the poster child for Goldeneye addiction. Me and my Solitaire control setup could pretty much dish out a solid ass-whoopin’ to anyone brave enough to face us. My brothers started refusing to play with me because I’d destroy them both, even though they would be tag-teaming me the whole time. It actually got to the point where I had a hard time sleeping at night because when I would close my eyes all I could see was my KF7-Soviet bobbing up and down as a ran through map after map. I knew all the best places to plant mines and snipe from and I knew exactly where every weapon and armor spawn was. As Boris Grishenko would say… I was invincible!

Fast forward 8 years or so… I don’t think I’ve even pulled my N64 out of storage for 3 or 4 years now. I’m currently playing a lot of Counter-Strike Source, Half-Life 2 and Guild Wars so there’s not much time to play old skool games with crappy graphics. Besides, I don’t really have anyone to obliterate anymore. My daughter is only 4 and wouldn’t really be much of a challenge. Its pretty safe to say that I had given up all hope of ever playing a meaningful round of Goldeneye ever again.

But wait… what’s this? An intrepid group of fellow addicts have done what? That’s right biatch! Goldeneye Source is in the Alpha stages and pretty soon I’ll be able to hop online and start the body count all over again in true Bond style. The Goldeneye Source team has already made some great progress using Valves Source engine and all the classic Goldeneye maps. They’ve got some great screenshots on their home page under the Media link. You can also find more great screens as well as info and downloads for the project at ModDB.com.

It’s hard to express my overwhelming excitement over this uber-cool HL2 mod, but for any other recovering addicts out there, the nostalgia that occurs when you immediately recognize the map and location of the screenshot below says it all.

In case you’re not as familiar as some, this screen is the Facility map just outside the bathroom spawn point. Just be careful when coming out of the bathroom as the double set of doors between the bathroom and the landing is a great place for trip mines.