Prerelease Dam

There was talk about being able to drive a boat there, but we never got around to implementing the boat… Development was very freeform and unplanned back then – some things made it in and some didn’t. We really were working out how to do everything as we went along.

— Mark Edmonds (Source)

There was no real objective as such – if I did it today I’d probably have a control for an open water outlet pipe that was blocking Bond’s bungie jump there, so you’d have to go there to turn off the water. I think the original plan was to have a building over there to go and investigate, with armour as a reward. That would have meant a boat ride needed to be coded in, and some of the scenery had gaps in when viewed from the island, so it was too much work. The Dam was one of the more technically difficult levels to get working – Martin ended up hard-coding the chunks of background into the game to get it to turn off scenery correctly and it took him ages!

— Duncan Botwood (Source)

The developers considered allowing the player to drive the truck.

"We, at times, were toying with the idea that you would be able drive some things like the truck at the start of the dam."

— Dr. David Doak, GoldenEye 007 Developer (Source)