How do y'all feel about this game? Is it any good. I'm thinking about buying it.
How do y'all feel about this game? Is it any good. I'm thinking about buying it.
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don’t bother, the original perfect dark is as far as you need to play
Nah. Original is way better
Middle school me was immensely disappointed by this game
Ok for a launch game
The box blurb was accurate, apart from the exception.
Just like the box said “2020 Corporations control everything. AKA microsoft”
I loved this game so much at the time. I got it on launch day. Back then, it was sort of novel for a lot of people to have online with microphone chat. I just remember the first month or so it was all just like 20somethings chatting and making jokes and just having a good time. It was ridiculous, like spontaneously we’d all just decided that we’d only use the hand chop in deathmatch mode and everyone just went along with it. Somebody would pull out a rocket and we’d all just yell at them. It was some one the best online experience I’ve ever had. Then Christmas came and all the tweens and teens with access to a microphone spoiled the fun. C’est la vie
Very lackluster. The original PD (and Goldeneye for that matter, since PD was the ‘unofficial’ sequel) were far better. You really had to learn the maps, guns and combat in the prior games, and that’s where the fun was.
PD:Z you could basically just run and gun through each level like a clueless madman and still be successful.
It did have co-op however, which was kinda cool.
Do “corporations are the bad guys” games get made any more. Most recent one I can think of is probably Stardew Valley
The original release on N64 was really cool. Considering I had both heard about and played that one— yet somehow missed this one being made— leads me to believe it probably didn’t perform very well.
2025. Perfect Dark: Zero Game.
Cancelled by a corporation to celebrate passing of “Big Beautiful Bill”
I used to play the fuck out of this game with the Xbox’s media player blaring Iron Maiden over top. I couldn’t believe that a console could do that. Game was largely hated, but for me and my friends, we were big fans.
I love PDZ. Unpopular opinion, I know, but I have a soft spot for cyberpunk FPSs, and in 2005 there weren’t very many. Also had some imsim elements, like basic stealth, the ability to choose your loadout, some guns had mods like detachable silencers, and the ability to interact with the enviornment through hacking and lock-picking. Also the co-op mode was a lot of fun, particularly the rooftop/alleyway level, where one player was pinned down at street level and the other player had to cover them with a sniper rifle. Lots of fun memories with this one.
Ewwww
I spent hundreds of hours in infection dodging pistol clips thrown by the infected into the room I’m hiding as the random shots chip away my damage and my SMG turned turret protecta the only access into my room with a c4 backup
Then jumping out the window and bolting to a new location using a sword with a force field hoping they didn’t see me escape between waves
Never finished the main game but I’m nostalgic towards the multiplayer
Isn’t there a Redditor completely obsessed with Perfect Dark?
Play Perfect Dark for the N64. It’s a million times better.
I played through the whole story in co-op with a friend at a release party like a week before the 360 was released.
Pretty fun, but more for the whole release party thing. Haver never wanted to pick it up again.
But if you want a night of kinda fun co-op gameplay I can think of worse choices.
They were making a remake of the original but Microsoft just laid the team off
Only thing I can remember is that it had a cool cover system that would be used in other games like Deus Ex HR and Rainbow 6.
I would like to stop living in a dystopian video game
Stop reminding me they cancelled Perfect Dark.
That tagline though. We really have all the corporate control yet none of the cool futuristic tech and people still die from bee stings and shit. I want a mulligan on this reality
I was like 13 when this came out, and I was obsessed with Joanna Dark. I remember having an Xbox magazine with this ad, and I hung it on my wall. When I finally got the game, it was…. kinda meh. I think there’s a good game buried in there, but it was plagued with “next gen” mechanics that weren’t very good. Stuff like how much you pressed the left trigger determined your level of zoom with snipers. Which was terrible. But I had fun with my friends playing deathmatch once in a while. It reminded me a lot of Goldeneye on N64, which makes sense considering it was the same developer. But it never really took off. It’s a shame because looking back, I think there really was passion behind it, just misguided direction. They were trying to make new ground, and things just didn’t work out. I lump it in with the Shadowrun game on xbox 360. Fun ideas and concepts with a meh execution but I still look back at them fondly. Going back to them would probably ruin the memories I have of them, so I’ll leave them alone and keep my memories.
Unlike Kameo, PDZ really has the feel of a compromised game that was rushed to meet the launch of the Xbox 360.
It’s janky and has a looser, less satisfying feel than it’s predecessor, even though it’s running at a comparatively better framerate than the N64 game.
The level design is also a hot mess, and Rare just straight up puts big arrows on the floor to direct you to the next objective.
Even the version of PDZ on Rare Replay doesn’t clean much of the experience up, and having the 4J Studios remaster of PD also included in Rare Replay really highlights what a botched sequel it is.
My buddy got a 360 on launch day and we were both really surprised at how little we liked a game that we were sure was going to be a alam dunk.
Disappointed in it but had nothing else to play on 360 launch. Grew up with the original PerfectDark so this definitely did not feel like PD to me. Online was fun but buggy lol. Still remember flying around on the desert level in the little mechs and the city level. I both love and hate that you shoot the armor off people.
Overall just a weird game lol that did not feel like Perfect Dark in tone or lore. PD has definitely aged better especially with the remasters compared to PDZ. PDZ even at the time felt sluggish
It was okay. It’s like everything in the game was a bit off. It had some cool effects and stuff but movement/combat was really clunky. Multiplayer was fun but it died pretty much as soon as better games came out.
Didn’t it just cancelled? I read Microsoft cancelled the new Perfect Dark game.
Sad the remake got canceled.
I enjoyed this game a lot, but I think that’s mostly because I’ve never played the original. after talking with friends who’ve played both, im sure my opinion would differ had I played the first one
Wow the tagline was prophetic
I liked it, but I was also like 12. I had grown up playing an egregious amount of Halo and it felt like shit compared to halo, but it had arena mode with bots; so I didn’t really care.
I think this was the first game put out by Rare after being acquired from Nintendo by Microsoft. While working with Nintendo Rare could – in my humble opinion – do no wrong. They put out some of the most iconic games of all time. Across the board every title they put out had such a high degree of quality, from the soundtracks (David Wise is an absolute legend) to the gameplay to the innovation. For example the AI-controlled teammates in Perfect Dark multiplayer were absolutely revolutionary.
This game (or rather what it symbolises) makes my blood boil. This is one of the defining moments in my life as a gamer where things started to go downhill. Everything I grew up playing from the age of 5 like Donkey Kong, Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark were highly polished, very well-finished games. My first ever game was a Rare title. It’ll always be my golden age of games. I still get nostalgic goosebumps when I fire up my SNES and hear the Rare horns.
The tag line for the game couldn’t be more appropriate. Microsoft and this game can go fuck themselves. Call me a cynic, but I can’t think of any reason Microsoft even acquired Rare other than to deny a major competitor their number one hit-maker. I couldn’t name you a single title besides this one that they put out together.
Complete disappointment. Felt nothing like the original Perfect Dark.
Be an interesting series to play a new installment for now that the original game is now set 2 years in the past. If I knew who the President of the US in 2023 was back when I played this I would have let the NSA kidnap him.
I loved playing this game. There’s a lot to criticize, and it never scratched the same itch N64 Perfect Dark did for me as a kid, but still has a ton of fun.
Couldnt get into it at all. It was a day one purchase for me. Think maybe I put two hours into it. Boring and nothing like the original.
It was one of the games of all time.
I wouldn’t call it good, but it was entertaining.
Just play perfect dark on the 64
Oblivion was originally supposed to be a launch title for 360 before it was delayed. Perfect Dark Zero was my consolation prize. I didn’t have a lot of video games as a kid so I had mainly been playing 007 Nightfire on GameCube over and over. PDZ is basically a Bond game with some supernatural elements thrown in and I actually liked it quite a bit.
Controls are a little clunky and you always feel kind of “heavy” moving around, but the gunplay is pretty satisfying. I still like to pick it up every now and then just for nostalgia’s sake. Graphically, the character models are rough but the guns and environment hold up incredibly well for a twenty year old game. If you like old school mission-based shooters, I would say it’s worth playing even now. Definitely a step down from the first game in every way, so if you’ve never played Perfect Dark before, I would go with Perfect Dark HD over this one.
To summarize: it’s a horrible let down
Get Perfect Dark, not this shithole.