XBLA: Perfect Dark Screenshots
Perfect Dark for the Xbox Live Arcade is officially due this winter as we recently reported, but new screenshots reveal what looks set to be at least a near-perfect conversion of the N64 Original. Let us not forget that this game was originally built using an enhanced version of the famous N64 Goldeneye engine and developed by the same team with gameplay almost unchanged, so this really is as close to Goldeneye as the Xbox Live Arcade could possibly get!
For anyone who is not familiar with the Perfect Dark series, it’s a fictional FPS featuring special agent, Joanna Dark an operative for the in-game Carrington Institute attempting to foil a conspiracy by rival corporation DataDyne. The Combat Simulator is known as Perfect Dark’s multiplayer mode, featuring traditional gameplay such as Combat-Deathmatch, King of the Hill, Capture the Case (a capture the flag variant) and Hold the Briefcase, a game of survival similar to Halo’s Oddball.
For the Xbox360, this game will feature additional “specific Xbox Live features”, but if the rumours are true it is likely to be a face-mapping option using the Xbox Live Vision Camera since a similar feature was going to be used on the N64 Original using the Gameboy Camera & Transfer Pak.
With new HD visuals, N64 Goldeneye style gameplay, Xbox Live Features, improved frame-rates, online multiplayer and gaming achievements - this will possibly be one of the greatest Xbox Live Arcade games ever to be made available, but there is still around 6 months to wait for release! No exact date or pricing information has been confirmed, but we will bring you further updates when they are available.
Source: ElectronicTheatre
Online multiplayer will be rad!
But what was that Mayan gun that was heat-seaking and you could fire it through walls? That’s going to be the new noob tube, I can see it.
That gun doesn’t appear in every game mode of Perfect Dark Multiplayer.
THey will probably change up the multiplayer a little for live. The original game was designed to work on one console splitscreen, there is probably some tweaking that has to be done to work properly over the net.
I wasn’t allowed this game when it was released as it was a 15 Cert I am so happy I can finally play this now!!!!
I think MS dropped the ball here. I’m all in for a Perfect Dark XBLA remake but they should have done a full blown remake like MGS Twin Snakes. Take the old game and bring it update to todays shooters. A ton of people did not play PD on Nintendo’s machine.
this should be good