GoldenEye speedrunner breaks 15-year-old Dam record

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For 15 years, American Bryan Bosshardt's 53-second speedrun of GoldeneEye's first level, Dam, has held fast. Over the weekend, the Dam burst.
Australian Karl Jobst recorded a 52-second run of GoldeneEye's iconic opening level, and he declared it the "best run I've ever done in my life".
The video, below, shows the run in all its glory. Of note, Jobst spends much of the time looking at the floor or the sky. That's because it's faster to strafe continuously and use specific viewing angles to pick up speed in Rare's influential shooter. Also of note, you go even faster when you're shot in the back by guards. The only problem with this is, when playing on the Agent difficulty the guards are awful at shooting you. In short, there's a very low chance that you'll get the speed boosts at all.
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