Goldeneye 007: Reloaded wants to prove it isn't an old fogie, so it has dubstep

by Jessica Conditt on Oct 30th 2011 2:30PM

Goldeneye 007: Reloaded nods to our nostalgia but with better graphics and smoother action sequences in a setting we all played and loved. For precisely this reason, Activision and Eurocom decided to put dubstep in the latest Reloaded trailer. Oh, sorry -- we meant, "For no reason whatsoever." Common mistake.

This does make us wonder what the reception would have been to the above video had it released in 1997. Probably a barrage of praise for its industry-shattering graphics, and a lot of muttering about unnecessarily synthesized bass lines and kids these days.

Tags: Activision, dubstep, eurocom, goldeneye-007-reloaded, microsoft, move, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (77)

The name's Bond. James WOUMPWUBWOBWUBWOBWUBWBRRRRTWUBWOBWOBBLEWUB

What's the artistic draw to dubstep? One of the fads I'll probably never understand nor enjoy. :(

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

There is definitely a draw to good dubstep. Unfortunately most of the songs used in these trailers does not fall into that category.

This is a typical case of a unique new genre being bastardized because the producers jump on an element of it and exploit it.

And for those of you that have only been exposed to this side of it give this tune a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soaAo8sx3Yc

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

It's disco for the modern idiot.

@Haizeus

Nailed it.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

It has been around for a while, i don't consider it a fad any more than grunge or disco.

oh shit, i think i just proved your point.

Either way, I like all of the above so... sue me. I like dubstep, probably because I like almost all european electronic music.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

What's the artistic draw to shooting a guy with metal teeth? Not everything needs an artistic value, some things are just for fun

@HighFiveJesus

Even if it is a fad, that doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable. Grunge proved that, I still listen to Nirvana and STP and Alice in Chains every now and then.

Disco....not so much.

@Haizeus

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/hatereagle.jpg

@WiredKnight

I must have been conceived on the soul train, because I love disco, funk, acid jazz, R n B, and everything in between.

Oddly enough, I wasn't alive when most of that was huge. I WAS alive when grunge was HUGE and I find i don't like it all that much. As much, anyway.

@Celery Moon

Wow, before I heard that I thought dubstep was some of the crappiest music out, I never thought it could sound like this. Can you recommend any others? I especially love the jazz feel as I'm a huge bebop head.

@Haizeus

Well if you talk about all the people that just recently jumped onto it, they're just into it because it's new to them. I've been listening to Dubstep and Hardstyle for years and I knew it wasn't for everyone. I liked it for the huge bass drops and it just appealed to me. Even then, I know it's not for everyone. It's not meant to be, just like how no type of music is for everyone, though I listen to most types of music.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar
Honestly I think Dubstep makes Everything better... I'm 33 years old... Old enough to know BAD music... and it even Makes a Remix of LAdy Gaga tolerable enough to listen to.
It does, However require speakers capable of reproducing the 40-120hz frequency though, to FULLY enjoy.

I'm getting really annoyed by dubstep trailers.

@Rikimaru
Same here. Their trash.

@Rikimaru

I dunno, I think the Assassin's Creed trailers have done the dubstep thing well, but in this case it doesn't sound professional at all. More like a trailer made by a couple of kids for Youtube.

@Will96
*They're

@Will96 Who's trash?

@Design by Adrian

Whose, not who's. You were almost a condescending prick - almost.

but it is

This actually looks pretty awesome and fun.

Also, am I the only one who would love to see Daniel Craig in a Goldeneye(movie) remake?

@Nytemare

Fact of the mattet is that they better get a move on for filming of 23. That November 9th, 2012 release date edges closer and closer.

*matter*

those graphics are still terrible....

@Kougeru

Not terrible, but not exactly current gen. Looks like an awesome wii graphics though!

Gotta respect the 'step. I'm an all-around techno fan anyway.

So what's the overall consensus of approval based on what we've seen so far?

@Shadowbender

an all around techno fan? i believe what you mean is that you're an all around "electronic music" fan, as techno is a genre of electronic music in and of itself, just like trance, idm, drum & bass, and dubstep. though it is debatable whether or not dubstep is a sub-genre of drum & bass. i like to think that it's not, because i actually like drum & bass, but i hate dubstep with a passion.

Well considering that the word "techno" has become the norm for speaking of "electronic music", I chose to use that. I should more often use the official term, you are correct.

@Shadowbender

Don't take it personal. All electronic music fans/musicians are very elitist when it comes to genres. I personally find it hilarious, because a lot of times you'll see bands that actually play real instruments telling you not to label them

@EGOvoruhk

that's not always the case. look at metal heads for example. they get all flustered if you "mis-label" a sub-sub-sub-genre of heavy metal, like you're not a TRUE fan unless you get it exactly right. what is dark metal, death metal, black metal, booty metal, what the f metal? beats me. :D

the labeling of musical genres never bothered me, except for the term "techno" encompassing all electronic music ever made. that one kind of bothers me due to the fact that i (to a fault) label it as a typical American ignorance thing because that's pretty much what it is. other than that, i could care less if someone calls a sub-genre of drum & bass neurofunk, techstep, jungle, or whatever. it's all dnb to me, and it's what i like, so i don't particularly enjoy when it's lumped in with trance, detroit techno, house, and all that other bullshit. wasn't trying to offend, Shadowbender.

@Liquidfingers

Pedantic masturbation.

@Haizeus

but i haven't even masturbated today. that reminds me, you still got that tape of me and your mom working out our differences in completely consensual and savagely passionate intercourse of the mind, body, and soul? emphasis on the body, because your mom's smokin hot yo. i always thought it was a little weird that you wanted to film that shit, you little freak you.

because who dosent like the sound of optimous prime with diareiah while seeing 007 gameplay

@yhmmot

haha, damn, that is the worst mispelling of "diarrhea" i have ever seen.

@yhmmot he was fine for the first 4 letters but then it seems he got diar.....the shits.

@Liquidfingers

The kitteh has diareiah.

@mattand Is that anything like diabeetus?

@yhmmot
"diareiah" sounds like some disease where you have violent sporadic bursts of diareiah.
Wait...

Though I must say, the dubstep treatment fits the Bond theme rather well.
It didn't seem out of place.

@AssassinJordi
I thought so too. I'm not a fan of dubstep AT ALL, but the classic-meets-techno sorta feel it had going kinda feels right for a Goldeneye game.

I don't know what dubstep is but that music was awful. Do people like that awful sounding music? Is that music, or is it something that kids listen to?

Sorry I live under a rock when it comes to these things.

@Undulation I'll inform you.
Dubstep is a music genre which has recently gotten quite some attention. It's main 'gimmick' is an irregular rythm and wobbly bass.
However some think that anything with anything with a bass added under it is good dubstep, giving the genre a bad name.

@Undulation
Congratulations! You have successfully used withering contempt to express your distaste for something else other people enjoy!

@Irem
I just thought it was one of those joke musical things, like what Alih G used to play on HBO. Parody music. You know the kind.

Ever seen the movie Kev and Perry: Go Large? That's full of parody music too, but people would listen to it post watching because of how silly it was.

"Oh, sorry -- we meant, 'For no reason whatsoever.' Common mistake."

i'm pretty sure it's there for the same reason that any music is ever in a trailer...as bad as it may sound to us, at least it's modelled around that James Bond theme and is more effective than, say, Jay-Z playing on a Battlefield 3 trailer. now THAT's ridiculous.

That track sounds like it was made by some random employee of theirs who heard dubstep at some point or another and said, "Oh, yeah, I could totally make a track like that..." and then greenlit by people who have never heard dubstep before.

Did anyone else notice at 30 seconds that the player was holding the gun left handed?

i guess the draw of good dubstep is the rhythmic electronic-laden beats... the draw of bad dubstep is being too wacked out on drugs to notice the difference...

that being said, somebody was definitely on something during the creation of this trailer.

somewhere out there John Barry is crying

@Lnds500

You said it.

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