A decent FPS for the DS but it could have been a whole lot better.
The singleplayer I will tell you flat out sucks. You can't save at checkpoints and you'll often feel to tight running in a perfectly linear level just taking out enemys while they stand and wait for you. Basically almost every character is the same. He'll run up to you, stop, and you'll both stand in front of each other shooting until one of you dies and if you die than its back to the nearest checkpoint you passed. The graphics are ok for a game new to the DS but not something that will really attract your attention. Unless you want multiplayer weapons and levels singleplayer is pretty worthless.
Multiplayer is a whole lot better than single. If you have at least 3 people running around a level your in for some fast and intensive fighting if all of you have played before. However its difficult finding people playing this game so multiplayer is hard to come by and your rarely going to ask that strange guy sitting next to you with a DS if he wants to play against you. For multiplayer maps you have to unlock during singleplayer which really sucks because singleplayer is a bore fest.
Goldeneye fails to capture the excitement of a true FPS. All DS owners can hope for is someone else will come along with FPS learning from Goldeneye's mistakes and make a quality FPS. I highly recommend borrowing or renting this game before going out to make a purchase.