This looks really cool. A little James Bond (gadgets), a little Mirror’s Edge (1st person parkour), and then some classically wired Perfect Dark sci-fi-ish story. And it never hurts to be on Game Pass day one.
Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024
Submitted 5 months ago by simple@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUi9DR9sc4
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Prox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Perfect Dark: Deus Ex
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 5 months ago
With some Mirrors Edge. Honestly, sign me up. If they pull this off it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Same. Not what I had expected to see for Perfect Dark, but absolutely welcome. I hope it ends up better than the last two Deus Ex games.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 months ago
This is the first I’ve seen of this game, but… this is definitely not what I expected from a game titled ‘Perfect Dark’.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It looks like theyre not only using elements from the N64 original, but elements from Perfect Dark Zero as well, which wasn’t the worst game ever but it wasn’t a masterpiece.
Perfect Dark was always like the woman-led version of James Bond with a high science fiction flavoring. It doesn’t seem to stray too far IMO.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 months ago
Wasn’t the original Perfect Dark hard sci-fi with aliens and spaceships and things? It’s possible I just don’t remember it well. Either way, this doesn’t look like a bad game at all. Just not what I’d have expected.
Copernican@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I got more of a Mirrors Edge vibe than Perfect Dark watching that trailer.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s … something new. The original game used a game engine evolved from Goldeneye (N64), so while it did a lot of cool things back then, it was very limited in what it could do.
It’s interesting to see the Mirror’s Edge parkour system being implemented. It brings a fresh take on the typical gun and run fps formula.
Copernican@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But you could say it pushed the limits. It required the Ram Expansion Pak. I think only 3 or 4 N64 games required that. It was packed with weird game modes like counter op. The far sight gun as a weird experiment to see through walls. It really pushed the limits and tried to do a lot. TimeSplitters was a great spiritual successor to the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark series that continued the tradition.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A lot of little things in the trailer really felt like it was a pre-animated demo. Things like using thermal vision to see arriving soldiers, the attentive scan mode in the streets, smooth civilian NPC actions (When you think about it, not many game studios make a calm, populous city street actually coded believably).
Maybe that’s too many years going back to the Killzone 2 trailer making me feel paranoid. Just not sure this game has truly exited development hell.
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Crystal Dynamics have a really strong track record with the exception of Avengers but I’d put the blame on the publishers for pushing a game on them that isn’t their specialty
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Where’s the YouTube mirror bot when you need them? I don’t wanna sign into YouTube to view this :(
_Sprite@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now let’s see how they screw up the multiplayer. The world could use more FPS games closer to the original Perfect Dark than what we typically get out of the genre now.
big_slap@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ll have to wait and see how this one pans out, this trailer did nothing for me. its a shame, as I really did like perfect dark zero
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly, that really didn’t impress me much. Not a hard no, more of a wait and see sort of game.
Perfect Dark on the N64 was my favorite game on that console. Combat was great and the story kept me engaged. For me, it was the best N64 game.
From what they decided to show, outside the name this didn’t have any elements I would expect. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad game right out of the gate.