See screens, new info from XBLA Perfect Dark

I think if you are going to redo a game of this magnitude, you need to update the graphics and also include the old ones as an option to play with.

This looks like a huge upgrade to me.

It does look a lot better, even though It hasn't really recieved any upgrades, which I wouldn't have expected anyway. The higher resolution and lack of blurryness helps a lot, and the 60fps should make it less of a pain to play.

With online deathmatches, co-op and counter-op this is easily going to be worth the 1,200 points. They still haven't said anything about the Goldeneye content though, so I think we can assume that's coming as a seperate game, which is a little disappointing.

Still, can't wait to see Nintendo and Activisions faces when they release James "Bean" 64 :)

I highly doubt a PSN release seeing as this is MS first party.

Even if they hadn't updated the game much (which it looks like they have, things look a little nicer), I still would buy it. Gameplay was classic; I "wasted" so many hours with this game. Can't wait to buy it!

A shame the single-player didn't match Goldeneye's but the multi-player was great. Laptop guns were my favourite, you could be so sneaky luring people into a crossfire of you and a lappy turret. :)

Perfect Dark was originally developed by Rare, which is owned by Microsoft. Its their IP.

The game's rights are owned by Rare. Rare are now a company within Microsoft Game Studios.

Rare is own by Microsoft. Even though another company is porting over the game over to XBLA, it's still a Rare game.

It is being developed by 4J Studios, but the fact that Microsoft is Publishing it means it will be exclusive to the 360.

Wait...wha-!??! Too easy to fail some of the missions?

Granted, some missions were a pain to do (*spoiler* damn Attack Ship on Hard! >_

idiot

Is this game better than Perfect Dark Zero? 'Cause that one blew chunks...

Hmm, this isn't really new info.. pretty sure this was around last week. (Was excited, thought it was even MORE new stuff.)

Idiot.

I think this is one of the games where having played it in its glory days is a critical component. For example, I would have an immensely difficult time believing anyone who never played Goldeneye when it came out, yet claimed to love it years later when they finally got around to playing it.

Myself, and 3 friends included, used to play the absolute hell out of this game both at release, and literally for more than 5 years after that. The game absolutely shined in multiplayer.

That being said, if someone hasn't played it before and doesn't have their nostalgia glasses at the ready, I'd recommend they don't bother buying Perfect Dark off XBLA at this point.

Personal opinion and all, but someone in another post suggested that the original Wolfenstein still had staying power, which it absolutely doesn't. And imo, neither does this.

These kind of comments are why I fear for the future of games. I beat this game on hard when I was like 13 years old, without any guides or help. Seriously, do you really need the game holding your hand the whole time? This game is about being a secret agent, not a 1 man tank.

Every game is going to turn into a casual, easy waste of time because the big babies dont like losing. Everyone just wants everything handed to them so they can master the game in 5 minutes.

Idiot.

This is pretty interesting. I'd probably enjoy playing through it again.

Unless reviews are just trash, I'm in for $10 on this.

I remember having a great time with this back in the day. My friend and I used to set up a bunch of bots and hold up a room with laptops guns set up to blast them as they came around. And the pacifist bot is hilariously awesome.

I actually plugged my N64 back in recently with fond memories of how fun it was only to be punched in the face by framerates that can only be described as "horrendous".

I'm looking forward to this update to be sure.

This is a Auto buy.....Its not even a question....XBLA's lineup is ridiculous. I gotta buy this and Shadow Complex

Idiot.

The sad thing is that I don't think a single game has topped this as far as single-console multiplayer goes.

For one, Halo sucks at it. I don't know if it's Bungie being lazy or MSFT pushing XBL, but Halo has yet to give you bots. Yeah, being able to take 4 people on one console online is awesome, but for one it's a disadvantage to everyone on that screen, and it's impossible to control your experience. If you have someone that's never played they'll be miserable and probably quit.

Then there's Gears of War 2. They add bots, thankfully, but without individual bot control. You can't make a team of 2 very hard and 2 very easy bots. You can't dumb the bots on your team down yet fight smart ones (I don't think.) So, it's there, which is beautiful, but a bit lacking.

Perfect Dark was just, well, perfect. I played regularly with two friends, one very good and one not as good. We might do the two of us that were good against the one that wasn't on a team with two good bots. Or we might do the three of us against a team of four awful bots and another team with one PerfectBot (or was it DarkBot?) We might do all three of us alone against a team of 4 medium bots. We could keep changing it up, slightly altering the experience but controlling it so that we always had a challenge yet slight advantage.

If people keep losing they probably quit, which I've seen in Halo 3. If people keep winning too easily they stick around but have less fun, which I've seen in GoW2. But if you can balance it so it's always a challenge yet you win most of the time people get addicted.

4J Studios are a small, Dundee based games developer, they typically handle ports. They also did Banjo Kazooe and Banjo-Tooie for XBLA, both of which are also owned by Microsoft and have zero chance of being released on anything else.

The same is true of Perfect Dark, it's simple been given to 4J Studios to get working on XBLA, but the fact the game, liscence, characters and everything else about it is completely owned by Microsoft means it won't be going anywhere.

You have the same chance of seeing Mario Galaxy 2 ported to the PS3 as you do seeing Perfect Dark coming to it.

$10 and I'll probably buy it. Any more than that and I'll just try to win it on Twitter.

Somebody please tell this guy that the Perfect Dark franchise belongs to Microsoft Game Studios.

I think this would be worth 20 bucks. I have spent more time with this than a lot of $60 games of today.

Sorry fella, no offense meant, sorry to sound like an ass, but personally I feel that comments like "I fear for the future of games" will always be the dumbest fucking comments I'll ever see on sites like this. It's not as bad as some dbag suggesting that Nintendo is ruining the industry, but it's rather close, imo.

This was an unexpected gem of news. Perfect Dark was one of my favorite games for the N64. Recently I broke out the N64 and tried to play the game again however my mind couldn't re-wire itself to get use to the awkward control scheme. The graphics in the game did not age well either. Perfect Dark is a great choice of a game to update and port as the gameplay is still very solid.

lol shadowhog, that's funny man, I shoulda went back and checked xD Hope you have fun with Perfect Dark although I vaguely seem to recall ages ago I had some gripes late in the single player campaign. At least I'm continuing to tag my comments with stating they're my own opinion, know lot's of folks still play 'em.

There's a difference between hard gameplay and bad gameplay. I don't mind being thrust into a hard puzzle with no clues, but when there's the chance of randomly failing (based on some fail criteria about which there are also no clues) only to be forced to replay the entire level up to that point, I get really pissed. If you can't possibly see the failure coming, it's bad game design. In an attempt at a little thing called immersion, games have evolved beyond the trial-and-error you're-going-to-absolutely-die-here-the-first-time type of gameplay because it's cheap and frustrating. There are better ways to make games hard than unpredictable impossible traps, but they require a little cleverness and not an easy way out.

Having said that, I've never played PD, but I can completely understand Shadow Hog's complaints if they are accurate representations.