level---archives
agent level---OO agent
target time---1:20
good finishing time---1:27 (you must do better than good to get the cheat)
difficulty---94/100
cheat---bond invisible
cheat coolness---91/100
Walkthrough
A minute and twenty seconds!!! What the #!*& !!!!! Is Rare screwing with our minds or something!? Archives is on that list of Goldeneye levels in which you still can't get the cheat even after owning the game for two years. My walkthrough will tell you how to get the cheat, but it is up to you to get through the level without making the smallest error. Warning: you may have to spend many consecutive hours trying and trying to get this cheat before you actually get lucky enough to make it under 1:20, or you might try for hours and still not get the cheat and then be so pissed you throw you controller really hard at your TV. To get this, I had to play an absolutely perfect game and barely made it at 1:19.
Bond starts out in the interrogation room. Quickly strafe to the guy on your left side making sure you don't pick up your PP7, kill him with a single slap. Go to the other guard who should just be lifting his gun, slap him to death too, if it takes more than three slaps to kill him or if he crouches or rolls, then too much time will be wasted to kill him, so just resart the level. Pick up the key and open the door, be careful though, it opens outward and you may get stuck trying to go through it, if this happens, restart, if fact, do so if you do not make it cleanly through any door or get stuck even for a second in any position anywhere because that extra second to will almost certainly put you over 1:20. For any door that opens towards you, don't stand directly in front of it to open it, you will surely get stuck, open it from farther away. From this point on, strafe 100 percent of the time, you control stick should never be completely forward. (objective a completed) Now turn left, avoid the boxes and ignore the guard, if you run into either of them, restart, you should make it straight up the stairs without bumping into anything. Go around the bend in the stairs and take a left, strafing tough as fast as you can. Right before you reach the door, press B and it should open toward you just in time for you to pass through. Take a sharp turn left towards the double doors, these doors open away from you so there is no threat of you getting stuck in them. Make sharp right and run alongside the bookcase, at the end of the bookcase go toward the single door on your left and open it but don't go through, be careful, the door opens toward you. Nataya will say something (objective b completed), but forget about her for now. Quickly go the the double doors in the corner with the guard standing in front of it, ignore the guard. Don't go too close to open the doors because they open inward, strafe down the stairs in front of you, round the bend, and go all the way down to the lower level. Strafe half way across the room to the door on your left and open it, watch out through, the door opens toward you and it is very easy to get stuck behind it and have to restart. Once through the door, strafe to the left to the only other door you should see, this one opens outward so you just have to run into it and press B. Immediately, there is a door on your left which opens toward you, go through it and you should see Mishkin, some times there will also be another soldier in the room, if so, then restart the level. Go around Mishkin so that the safe is to your right and you are facing Miskin with his head completely blocking the view of the door you entered through ,this is important because very frequently a soldier will come in through that door and shoot at you, but with Mishkin in front of you, he should block all of the shots from hitting you. Now, for the first time , pull out your gun (DD44 Dostovei) and have it pointed in his direction while he is talking to you, with this set up, do not move a single inch, don't worry, you are safe from any enemy fire with Mishkin as a shield. Once you receive the safe key, fire a single shot to kill Miskin because he tends to always block your path. Open the safe, take the flight recorder (objective c completed), and exit through the door you didn't come in from and strafe through the hall. The next door will open towards you, go through it.
Now just head towards the window rapidly shooting at it while running, by the time you get there it should be broken, run through it (objective d completed). REMEMBER: press start before the ending cinema can shown because the full sequence adds a costly three seconds. After all this, you are still probably barely over 1:20, this cheat takes a hell of a lot of patience to get.
Bond Invisible
This is a very funny cheat to use. Obviously, you are invisible so enemies (and allies) can't see you. So you can walk right up to an enemy and he stares right through you while you shoot him in the "other" (that has gotta hurt). However, enemies can still hear you so if they here your gun fire or you shoot and only wound them, they will start running toward you like they normally would, but they get close to you, they get confused and start running around in circles and other patterns. Sometimes all they do is continuously aim directly at you even though you are invisible, very rarely will the enemy actually fire shots at you, but if they have grenades, they will throw them at you. People can not see you but cameras and drone guns can still spot you and sound the alarm or shoot at you. The only way you can lose health is from an explosion or a drone gun that sees you. There is a down side, though, you can't complete certain levels where you need to talk to someone (such as Boris in Bunker2, 006 in Facility, and Natalya in Control) to beat the level because they can't see or talk to you.
