Perfect Dark coming to XBLA this Winter.

Dman001 · 03-06-2009 12:38pm #1

Major Nelson confirmed that PD will be coming to XBLA this winter. Brilliant game that was originally on the N64. Now if only they could get Goldeneye.

bucks73 · 03-06-2009 12:57pm

Theres also a free PD premium theme available for download on the marketplace.

Star Lord · 03-06-2009 1:14pm

Awesome!!!

Been waiting for this for too long already!

Welcome back Elvis :pac:

Retr0gamer · 03-06-2009 1:27pm

It's an okay game that has dated rather badly. It's grand until Elvis shows up then degenerates into crap.

James Howlett · 03-06-2009 1:47pm

Hopefully they will have updated the graphics at least.
I never really played this properly, I was probably playing Goldeneye again instead.
Worth it? I'm guessing they will squeeze us for 1200points when the time comes.

Retr0gamer · 03-06-2009 3:21pm

I'd say it will be running on a new engine considering the work they put into the cancelled goldeneye remake.

Star Lord · 03-06-2009 3:46pm

I quite enjoyed Perfect Dark, almost as much as Goldeneye. The only thing that really makes them almost unplayable now is the god-awful framerate, which according to the blurb has been smoothed out. (As it should!)

But yeah, Elvis kinda throws a alien spanner in the works, but if you can forget about the storyline (kind of!) it's still a great game for the time

Star Lord · 03-06-2009 3:56pm

Apparently the engine is massively enhanced, runs at 1080p too...

Free theme:

Download from: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584109c2/

Mr. K · 04-06-2009 10:27pm

Can't wait for this, loved the original. While I'm not mad about the alien levels, the Datadyne building and the crash site levels are so, so good. Mr Blonde is awesome "You are a flawed device..."!

NunianVonFuch · 05-06-2009 2:11pm

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Apparently the engine is massively enhanced, runs at 1080p too...

It might not be enhanced, easy to get running in 1080p with an emulator. Plus the "enhancements" might be just fullscreen anti-aliasing or some standards like that. Still it'll be worth it for the memories, but believe-it-when-I-see-it for the improvements

Jim · 05-06-2009 3:52pm

Will be getting this just for multiplayer. Laptop Gun! Hopefully they will make it look a bit better because as was said it has aged badly (as have most proper 3D FPS of the day).

Despite all the awesome ideas in the MP I still always preferd the Goldeneye MP. Not sure why.

Star Lord · 05-06-2009 4:20pm

I'm thinking (going from the theme) that a lot of the assets have been re-done, along with the model of Joanna, because she looks different from both her original high-res renders and from the PD:Zero model (Which I didn't like).

Look at the holographic Johanna on the right of the theme pic above to see what I mean.
The original high res renders looked like this:

NeoKubrick · 05-06-2009 7:05pm

I still go back to it religiously to play the multiplayer. I've been waiting to see this happen for a long time.

Jim · 06-06-2009 12:47pm

Some pics here

http://kotaku.com/5280795/perfect-dark-xbla-looks-sharp-no-expansion-pak-required

Basically the same but much sharper. Looks good imo.

NeoKubrick · 06-06-2009 12:54pm

Jim wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5280795/perfect-dark-xbla-looks-sharp-no-expansion-pak-required

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Sir-Lucius is sappin' your sentry wrote:

And who wouldn't want Perfect Dark at 60 friggin fps? Crazy people, that's who.

GhostInTheRuins · 06-06-2009 3:31pm

Looks nice and sharp. Hopefully they can properly fix the terrible frame rate. It's a great game (Up untill the alien levels, and of course, elvis)

Bubs101 · 06-06-2009 5:12pm

The Alien levels might not have been the best plot wise but they were still hellafun. I adored this game and some of the guns have not been bettered since their advent like the laptop gun and the one that could shoot through walls in psychadelic vision. I'll be getting this in a heartbeat. Some of the levels in this game were outragously good ( the one that revolved around the elevator in the beginning and the return to the training camp)

Jim · 06-06-2009 5:27pm

Bubs101 wrote: »

The Alien levels might not have been the best plot wise but they were still hellafun. I adored this game and some of the guns have not been bettered since their advent like the laptop gun and the one that could shoot through walls in psychadelic vision. I'll be getting this in a heartbeat. Some of the levels in this game were outragously good ( the one that revolved around the elevator in the beginning and the return to the training camp)

I do agree, but in fairness they ripped loads of ideas off other games and movies (<-not a complaint).

The Turok series had some awesome weapons to. Cerebal Bore ftw.

Patricide · 06-06-2009 6:25pm

I still think that perfect dark was the best muliplayer game ever. Although i spent WAY WAY WAY more hours on goldeneye the weapons in PD made for some crazy matches/tactics. The farsight and thelaptop gun as people have already said....CLASSICS.

I hope they keep everything from the original(including the arms range, the goldeneye levels and weapons that could be unlocked etc). Too bad they made such a mess of PD Zero.

Perfect Dark coming to XBLA this Winter.

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