It's been a crazy 48 hours, thanks to all of the news coming out of X10. Attendees were greeted with various playable demos, a box full of mullets and, in the case of this post, the above trailer and gallery full of screenshots for Rare's upcoming XBLA port of Perfect Dark. Featuring graphics of up to 1080p and small grey alien sidekicks named Elvis, it's one of the more high-profile games coming to Xbox Live Arcade as part of the Block Party promotion.
It's been a crazy 48 hours, thanks to all of the news coming out of X10. Attendees were greeted with various playable demos, a box full of mullets and, in the case of this post, the above trailer and gallery full of screenshots for Rare's upcoming XBLA port of Perfect Dark. Featuring graphics of up to 1080p and small grey alien sidekicks named Elvis, it's one of the more high-profile games coming to Xbox Live Arcade as part of the Block Party promotion.
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Posted: Feb 12th 2010 4:48PM adv2k169 said
noob The Facility, Temple and Complex returned in Perfect Dark. They tweaked it a little .
http://ign64.ign.com/articles/079/079771p1.html
With this version you can now play those classic goldeneye levels with your xbox controller with friends and online. It's going to be a blast.
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http://ign64.ign.com/articles/079/079771p1.html
With this version you can now play those classic goldeneye levels with your xbox controller with friends and online. It's going to be a blast.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 5:09PM I am a machineee said
Well thanks for that.. I guess... except for the noob part :|
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Posted: Feb 12th 2010 4:39PM (Unverified) said
Screw that...if I want to play I'll just fire up the ol' N64 with my ORIGINAL copy that both still work...expansion pack included. My 5 year old lives for Mario 64. F*** You Microsoft.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 5:55PM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
I didn't know Rare and Microsoft were being such massive dicks for bringing out possibly the best FPS in the 5th console generation to the gamers now days with new improvements in visuals and frame rate.
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Posted: Feb 12th 2010 4:50PM Softserve said
Sometimes I wonder how people compare this to how the original looks. Do yourself a favor and go look at that game. Muddy textures, iffy framerate and the N64's required awful anti-aliasing.
If people think this looks just as bad they're just blind. Actually, that's an insult to blind people. You're mostly just stupid.
If people think this looks just as bad they're just blind. Actually, that's an insult to blind people. You're mostly just stupid.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 5:04PM shimrra74 said
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Posted: Feb 12th 2010 5:13PM kenny goo said
Non-stationary reticules.
*Shudders*
*Shudders*
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 5:37PM Fuzunga said
The visuals of this game are... weird. They're old yet new at the same time. It's like if the N64 was in HD. When they say HD remake, they usually mean completely remade. They really took that literally here, I see. It's kinda cool.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 6:00PM emperorzeroxx said
aaah man this looks amazing.. can't wait!! still can't see how this is only ten bucks!!
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 6:00PM Ryudo said
Haha ad the PD logo looking like an N.
Clever and a subtle nudge.
Clever and a subtle nudge.
Posted: Feb 13th 2010 4:49AM harusame said
There was an N in the original because it was morphed from the N64 logo. It doesn't make sense to keep it in this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDPlEqDnOk
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Posted: Feb 13th 2010 4:49AM harusame said
There was an N in the original because it was morphed from the N64 logo. It doesn't really make sense in this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDPlEqDnOk
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Posted: Feb 12th 2010 6:14PM Starcade said
I wouldn't necessarily say Nintendo is the reason why Golden Eye hasn't re-appeared. The licensing of that title has multiple parties. It was created by RARE (now owned by Microsfot), published by Nintendo, for an original James Bond film released by MGM (now owned by Sony), based on a character owned by EON Productions (a subsidiary of Danjaq LLC) which owns the copyrights and trademarks to the Bond characters and screen elements. At one time or another EA and Activision have held the exclusive rights to publish games based on the James Bond license. Or in otherwords, it's a licensing mess.
Assuming you could get the necessary parties to agree, which is a hurdle in itself, it might simply be cost prohibitive to re-license. The original license to produce the game (way back when) has probably since run out.
Assuming you could get the necessary parties to agree, which is a hurdle in itself, it might simply be cost prohibitive to re-license. The original license to produce the game (way back when) has probably since run out.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 6:17PM (Unverified) said
cod classic is a better game than both perfect dark and goldeneye, if more people bought it and it supported 8v8 or MAYBE EVEN MORE, it would be a great purchase for $15
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 7:14PM (Unverified) said
I came.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 8:08PM JCDoe said
Haha, just enjoy playing an FPS with one analog stick now that you've done them with two.
Trust me, N64 FPSs do not age well.
Trust me, N64 FPSs do not age well.
Posted: Feb 12th 2010 8:43PM CaramelZappa said
Uh, I'd bet they've remapped the controls to be standard modern controls, with two analog sticks. They even use duel analogs for Doom XBLA.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2010 1:04AM Granger said
The original Perfect Dark (and GoldenEye) had dual-analogue support as well, you just had to use two N64 controllers. It's pretty cool to go back and play it that way after playing newer games. Potentially cooler, Star Wars Episode I: Racer's dual-analogue support... sweetness.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2010 1:18AM JCDoe said
I don't remember ever playing Goldeneye or PD with 2 gamepads . . .
If they have a modern control setup, that would be nice, but even then, I think you're gonna find that you're looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
For instance, I *loved* Ultima Underworld when it came out. In fact, it totally blew me away. The world was so real, so engrossing, that I had never even conceived such a thing before.
I recently loaded it up via dosbox to relive some of that, and you know what I saw? A 320x200 game with so much UI that the actual "game window" was the size of a postage stamp.
Always remember the past because that's how we got to the here and now, but never forget that while those games stay the same forever, everything else has changed . . .
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If they have a modern control setup, that would be nice, but even then, I think you're gonna find that you're looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
For instance, I *loved* Ultima Underworld when it came out. In fact, it totally blew me away. The world was so real, so engrossing, that I had never even conceived such a thing before.
I recently loaded it up via dosbox to relive some of that, and you know what I saw? A 320x200 game with so much UI that the actual "game window" was the size of a postage stamp.
Always remember the past because that's how we got to the here and now, but never forget that while those games stay the same forever, everything else has changed . . .
Posted: Feb 13th 2010 1:30AM alex2ex said
thats it? the n64 game looks a lot better than this thing.
if u are going to make a game looks realistic at least make it good.
the n64 version was more like cartoon graphics and it looks a lot better than this shit.
in fact, why the hell did they bother to make this shit?, the only thing that they should have done was fixing the frame rate.
if u are going to make a game looks realistic at least make it good.
the n64 version was more like cartoon graphics and it looks a lot better than this shit.
in fact, why the hell did they bother to make this shit?, the only thing that they should have done was fixing the frame rate.
Posted: Feb 13th 2010 1:39AM (Unverified) said
Really looking forward to this, pleasantly suprised with the price too!
Posted: Feb 13th 2010 3:20AM Chichok said
Day 1 purchase for me too, I don't care if it costs $20.
I still wish the mouths could move during the cutscenes and whatnot. I knew the N64 couldn't handle it but it was still funny looking at speaking heads with no mouth movement.
I still wish the mouths could move during the cutscenes and whatnot. I knew the N64 couldn't handle it but it was still funny looking at speaking heads with no mouth movement.
Posted: Feb 13th 2010 3:27AM shadow763 said
Ill buy this I am sure, I think I even still own it, but whats with the aliens? I don't even remember. Plus he had a shirt on for america? Was I seeing that right?
Man the stuff I used to play boggles my mind sometimes.
Man the stuff I used to play boggles my mind sometimes.
Posted: Feb 14th 2010 2:09AM roz1281 said
regarding the 3 control options comment. I hope they didn't modernize it in that they won't let you map the controls yourself.
I used to love the setup where you walked and strafed with the C-buttons (face buttons on xbox pad) and aimed/turned with the stick. Was so much more accurate than aiming with the right stick on future consoles.
I used to love the setup where you walked and strafed with the C-buttons (face buttons on xbox pad) and aimed/turned with the stick. Was so much more accurate than aiming with the right stick on future consoles.
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