Statue

Mission 6: St. Petersburg

Part i: Statue Park

Objectives

  1. Contact Valentin (A / SA / 00A)
  2. Confront and unmask Janus (A / SA / 00A)
  3. Locate helicopter (A / SA / 00A)
  4. Rescue Natalya (A / SA / 00A)
  5. Find flight recorder (A / SA / 00A)

Background

Following the Severnaya incident, MI6 has lost track of the Pirate helicopter. Presumably the bugging device has been located and destroyed. Natalya Simonova, who returned to St. Petersburg against our advice, has gone missing. We can only assume that she has been abducted by the Janus syndicate in a belated attempt to cover their tracks.

M

The situation is critical, 007. Janus know we're on to them and they're taking control. We're going to circumvent the usual channels on this one. I've arranged contact with an ex-KGB agent, Valentin Zukovsky, in Statue Park, St. Petersburg. He claims he can set up a meeting with Janus. Apparently, the head of Janus wants to see you in person. Frankly, I'm uneasy about this but it's all we've got to go on.

Q

No gizmos this time, old boy.

Moneypenny

Hmm, a damsel in distress. Just be careful with that chopper, James.

Contents

GoldenEye 007: Statue
Be careful. The Statue Park staff doesn't take kindly to after hours visitors.
Watch Name
S T A T U E   P A R K
Watch Time
8 Hours 10 Minutes
Location Text
Statue Park, St. Petersburg
Bond Outfit/Cuff
Navy Suit
Starting Inventory
Starting Ammo
  • 9mm: 100
Level Weapons
Level Characters
Time Target
3:15 on Secret Agent
Time Target Unlock
Fast Animation
Setup File
UsetupstatueZ.set

Description

Statue is the tenth level of GoldenEye 007 and the first level of the sixth mission, which is the longest mission. Statue is important because it advances GoldenEye's plot quite a bit. The mysterious Janus is unveiled as Alec Trevelyan and the characters Valentin Zukovsky and Dmitri Mishkin are introduced. Advancing the plot is important, but it does come at a cost — the player has to spend a lot of time waiting for lines of dialog.

The idea behind Statue as a location is that after the fall of the Soviet Union and communism in eastern Europe, people needed a place to dump the old communist monuments. This happened in some places in real life such as Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary, Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow, and Soviet Statue Graveyard in Tallinn, Estonia.

Statue makes some changes to the movie's plot. Instead of Bond meeting Valentin at his club, the two rendezvous in the park. And instead of Bond being tranquilized after Janus is unmasked, Bond has to fight his way over to Natalya. The end stays largely the same — Bond and Natalya are captured by Russian Ministry of Defense forces.

New players often find Statue to be the most challenging level to navigate. The dark fog combined with repetitive copies of monuments can make it easy to get turned around and lost.

Many of the textures used in the level come from digital photographs of the actual movie set. GoldenEye's developers visited the film sets several times.

Intro Cameras

Armors

1.

Armor Type
Full
Difficulties
All except 007 Mode

This armor is next to a statue of a hand. This statue is tucked away about halfway between the sheds and the Lenin statue. This is one of three armors in the game that loads on all difficulties except 007 Mode.

Level Tour

Curiosities

1. "BJ" Gate

The entry gates have "BJ" written on them in large letters. These are the initials of B Jones, known as Brett Jones later in life, who designed the level.

Trivia