Andy Robinson writes:
"How many modern day shooters can you name that include a full campaign co-op, counter-op, fully customizable (even down to weapon spawns) splitscreen multiplayer, intelligent and varied deathmatch bots and multiplayer challenges? We could go on. For a near-ten-year-old game, Perfect Dark stands up incredibly well in 2010. But that's not to say it's aged without some wrinkles."
Verdict
A solid 2010 upgrade for an excellent multiplayer game and slightly aged solo experience. Worth both a revisit and a new plunge.
Uppers
* Fantastic multiplayer
* Inventive arsneal
* Finally a decent framerate
Downers
* Solo AI is rubbish
* Mission design has aged
From Contraband to Perfect Dark, here are some potential wildcard surprises that could appear at this month's Xbox Developer Direct.
Wow I actually commented in a Xbox thread before Jin_Sakai! Contraband gameplay would be dope.
This year promises to be a big year for gaming, and it will definitely be one of the greatest if any of these big MIA projects finally made it into gamers' hands.
Pretty sure Silk Song and Dragon Age are going smoothly. The other 2 can be assumed to be quietly cancelled knowing their publishers and Metroid will most likely be shown off this year.
I remember in 2017 when Nintendo showed off the Metroid Prime 4 logo, and some Nintendo defenders claimed "Just because they only showed a logo, doesn't mean that's all they've worked on for the game."
As history has proven, they were wrong. Nintendo showed off a logo back in 2017 because that's literally all they had.
I think Beyond Good and Evil 2 can stay there unless they are going to just rename it to a new IP
Pretty sure BG&E2 is dead at this point - along with the other game Ancel was working on before he left - I think it was called WILD. Anyone remember that from a PS conference years ago?
Dreadwolf isn't in development hell anymore and is finally getting its reveal in the summer - since 2016 the game has been scrapped and restarted three times but its been going pretty well since the last reboot when EA finally allowed BioWare to just get on with making a single player game.
I'm not sure Perfect Dark is in development hell either - like it could be but we haven't really heard much to suggest either way - imo they just showed the trailer off when the game was still in pre-production. Xbox were desperate for anything and this is all they had at the time. And the reason we haven't heard anything since is just because it's in normal development and games take 5 years to make. The help from a support studio was typically overblown on N4G because nearly every game has this.
Years of setbacks have stalled development on the new Perfect Dark, and while it’s well underway now, we may have to wait a while yet.
The rumor was they're working on the next Tombraider at Square so PD is somewhat on the back burner now. Apparently TR will release before PD.
Good, Xbox fanboys kids and grandkids will have Xbox own games to play in the future then.
Whoa, that's a lower score than it got 15 years ago on the N64.