Summary

  • The Spy Who Shot Me is a retro FPS game that channels the genre's 90s heyday, drawing inspiration from classics like GoldenEye.
  • Players take on the role of Agent7 and fight against the criminal S.C.U.M. Organization in a humorous and offbeat experience.
  • The game is available for digital purchase on Nintendo Switch and Xbox platforms, with a PlayStation version planned for later in 2024.

The FPS genre has been through several changes throughout the years, and The Spy Who Shot Me brings players back to the genre's heyday from the 1990s. Developer Retro Army Limited's retro FPS game has come to the Xbox and Switch platforms with the help of a publisher after it was initially released on PC for Steam in 2019.

The Spy Who Shot Me is a comedy retro FPS title heavily inspired by video game shooters from the 90s, mainly GoldenEye from 1997. The indie game's graphics greatly resemble the games from the 1990s, and it isn't the first to take a nostalgic approach to retro FPS gameplay.

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Nintendo Switch and Xbox players can now purchase and play The Spy Who Shot Me. The game costs $7.99 at the time of writing, and it's only available as a digital purchase. In it, players take on the role of Agent7, whose mission is to fight against the criminal S.C.U.M. Organization. The official trailer for The Spy Who Shot Me doesn't provide further context on the game's narrative elements. Only snippets of retro first-person shooting action sequences are on display, supplemented with music reminiscent of those classic gaming shooters. The trailer ends with the game's key art showing Agent7 and a woman standing before a burning boat.

Retro Army Limited is an indie developer known for creating offbeat and comedic games, usually dabbling in funny experiences interwoven with classic gameplay tropes. A few of its other games include Verdict Guilty, Death's Hangover, and Super Trench Attack.

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The Spy Who Shot Me Enemy Kill
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The Spy Who Shot Me Cutscene
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The Spy Who Shot Me Skydive Scene

The title of The Spy Who Shot Me is a play on the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It starred Roger Moore as 007, his third film portraying the character. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, starring Mike Myers, also took inspiration from the 1977 Bond movie for its title.

It appears that Retro Army Limited isn't active at the moment. According to the Retro Army Limited website, the developer "ceased trading" in 2019. The front page on the developer's website is presented like a console command with company information. The company's status is "Dormant" as the copyright was last updated in 2019. Because of this, PixelHeart acquired the publishing rights to bring the GoldenEye-like video game to other platforms.

The Spy Who Shot Me is available to download now for Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. A PlayStation version has been announced for January 2024.