We have finally played the lost, official Goldeneye 007 remaster for Xbox 360

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  The Goldeneye 007remake project, made for Xbox 360 consoles and then canceled, is now in our hands. Yes, that’s a higher-res version of N64-era Pierce Brosnan, aiming and shooting at us in much higher resolution than in 1996.

As it turns out, we didn’t have to track down a stolen gunship, nor enter the password “knockers” into any computer systems, to get our hands on one of the rarest and most elusive video games ever made. We just had to wait a few days.

This past weekend, the long-rumored Goldeneye 007 remake project, as helmed officially by Microsoft and Rare before being summarily canceled, finally landed in a fan’s hands. This Spanish game-streamer’s video of the gameplay made the rounds, and four days after his YouTube upload, someone decided to go one further and upload the full, working ROM for public consumption.

And Ars Technica has it.