I also think that the traditional espionage-driven missions are the best in the game. Nothing is held back.ĭon’t get me wrong – the spy stuff is a huge part of Perfect Dark. Soon, Perfect Dark feels as much Halo as it does GoldenEye, with Agent Dark finding herself on hostile alien spaceships, ultimately launching an assault on the hostile alien homeworld. From the visits to Area 51, where you rescue a wise-cracking ‘grey’-style alien called Elvis – who later goes on to wear a stars and stripes waistcoat. Your mission is to rescue a mysterious Doctor in the clutches of an evil corporation – though when you discover the doctor, he’s not a person at all, but rather a sophisticated AI encased in a sort of flying laptop. The game’s opening cutscene takes place on a futuristic flying transport zipping through a neon-lit futuristic city straight out of Blade Runner. It’s not just Bond or Bourne, and that’s even true from the very start. I’m talking, of course, about Perfect Dark being a little bit weird. But that’s both literally and figuratively only part of the story, and any reboot of the franchise needs to embrace all of the original to channel what made it so beloved. Or, to put it another way – Perfect Dark is a spy game, and it is ostensibly about a female James Bond.
I think everything that Booty says is accurate… but it’s only accurate for around half of the original Perfect Dark. “That’s always a cool meme people wanna lean into – but again, we gotta make sure that comes forward in the right way, so I’m just gonna stick to ‘very carefully’.”Īre we going to go all ‘immersive sim’ with this, really? “What I think is super cool about Perfect Dark, what’s super cool about Joanna Dark, is the super agent fantasy, the spy, the sort of Bourne Identity, James Bond kind of thing there,” Booty explained. But the next thing he said is curious – and for my money, it’s wrong. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.īooty, who is the head of the now-sprawling Xbox Game Studios portfolio of development houses and games, talked about how any reboot of the Perfect Dark franchise would have to be handled “very carefully”, noting that properties such as this “don’t always age well.” And, you know, Booty is right. Every now and then we get a little surprise, however – and such was the case with Perfect Dark, where Xbox’s Matt Booty briefly deigned to talk about the hotly-anticipated reboot during a PAX West panel.
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Go to VGC to read the full story and get all the details.Coming off the back of a Gamescom where Xbox mostly focused on well-known titles that’ll be out pretty soon, it looked like we’d be waiting quite a while for a further update on some of Xbox’s bigger and more mystery-shrouded upcoming games. Whether or not the release schedule for the Perfect Dark reboot was affected by these changes is unknown, but Gallagher acknowledged that there is "plenty more work" to do on the game before it's ready for release. Gallagher said he wishes all the departing developers "the very best," adding that he feels confident about the team in place currently, and the new staffers coming aboard. The Initiative boss Darrell Gallagher told VGC that the staffing changes are not uncommon for a new studio taking over a "beloved franchise." Not only that, but Gallagher cited the "global upheaval" over the past couple years as an explanation in part for the staffing changes. "According to the former employees, many senior team members were frustrated by this perceived lack of autonomy and didn't feel heard on key issues such as development priorities, project planning, and team staffing," the report said. The former developers told VGC that some staffers became frustrated by The Initiative's reported "top-down" approach to decision-making when it comes to design choices.
The development momentum on the Perfect Dark reboot has been "heavily affected" by the departures, the report said.
The staffing losses in the past year coincide with the announcement that Crystal Dynamics has been brought on as a co-developer on the Perfect Dark reboot.įormer senior developers on the Perfect Dark reboot at The Initiative said they left the team due in part to how there was a "lack of creative autonomy and slow development progress," according to VGC. Now Playing: Perfect Dark Reveal Trailer | Game Awards 2020 By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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