Perfect Dark
by: Nintendo of America, Grant Kirkhope, Graeme Norgate, David Clynick
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Editorial Review:
A first-person shooter that mixes spy and sci-fi, PerfectDark is both a thoroughly engrossing one-player experience and ariotously fun multiplayer romp. Easily one of the best games of itsgenre on any video game console, this long-awaited follow-up toGoldenEye 007 is a must-have for Nintendo 64 owners--and a damngood reason to be one if you're not.
The futuristic Perfect Dark casts players as Joanna Dark, asecret agent who becomes embroiled in a sinister conspiracy involvingaliens and an evil corporation. Gameplay is broken down into missions,each with objectives that must be unerringly completed beforeprogressing to the next mission. This is not your typical kill-anything-that-movesgame: putting a bullet in the wrong person, not keeping theright one alive, or perforating a seemingly unimportant inanimate objectcan often result in mission failure.
While Perfect Dark's solo missions play out much like those inGoldenEye 007, the game's fantastic multiplayer options areanother matter entirely. Cooperative and counteroperative simultaneous-playmodes allow for another player to join in on a mission as,respectively, a teammate or the enemy. However, the real fun here is inthe highly customizable Combat Simulator, a one-to-four-playersimultaneous-play mode that features both free-for-alls and team-basedchallenges and can include up to eight Simulants, computer-controlledcombatants of varying behavior.
Although Simulants make for decent adversaries or teammates, you'll wantto grab a friend--and an Expansion Pak, as only 35 percent of the gameis available without one--to fully enjoy Perfect Dark. --JoeHon
Pros:
A first-person shooter that mixes spy and sci-fi, PerfectDark is both a thoroughly engrossing one-player experience and ariotously fun multiplayer romp. Easily one of the best games of itsgenre on any video game console, this long-awaited follow-up toGoldenEye 007 is a must-have for Nintendo 64 owners--and a damngood reason to be one if you're not.
The futuristic Perfect Dark casts players as Joanna Dark, asecret agent who becomes embroiled in a sinister conspiracy involvingaliens and an evil corporation. Gameplay is broken down into missions,each with objectives that must be unerringly completed beforeprogressing to the next mission. This is not your typical kill-anything-that-movesgame: putting a bullet in the wrong person, not keeping theright one alive, or perforating a seemingly unimportant inanimate objectcan often result in mission failure.
While Perfect Dark's solo missions play out much like those inGoldenEye 007, the game's fantastic multiplayer options areanother matter entirely. Cooperative and counteroperative simultaneous-playmodes allow for another player to join in on a mission as,respectively, a teammate or the enemy. However, the real fun here is inthe highly customizable Combat Simulator, a one-to-four-playersimultaneous-play mode that features both free-for-alls and team-basedchallenges and can include up to eight Simulants, computer-controlledcombatants of varying behavior.
Although Simulants make for decent adversaries or teammates, you'll wantto grab a friend--and an Expansion Pak, as only 35 percent of the gameis available without one--to fully enjoy Perfect Dark. --JoeHon
Pros:
- One of the best first-person shooters on any video game console
- Outstanding multiplayer game with huge replay value
- Bevy of game options, cheats, and secret features
- Excellent training mode with challenges all of its own
- Graphics get ugly when playing with more than two players
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- A Exciting Sci-Fi Adventure!
Perfect Dark is hard to review because in many ways it is the same as Rare's previous shooter, GoldenEye 007, but in other ways it is so much better.In short, Perfect Dark is the perfect, non-official, sequel to GoldenEye 007.Sure, the settings are different, and there are some different weapons (after all this IS a science fiction based game), but overall you can still see the loving touches the developers brought back from GoldenEye.
The game is set in a well developed science ... Read More
Rating: - EPIC!! (You Should Own This Already)
This is one of my favorite games of all time. This is the best FPS (First Person Shooter) I have played to date, so when this first came out it blew me away. There's a great multiplayer combat mode where you can make a custom character with two options (Head and Body). You can face up to 8 sims. You don't need two players to play the combat mode. You can make teams (So you don`t have to kill you friends). You can make a custom list of weapons. It saves your stats on your player profile and gives ... Read More
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- Great Gift! Awesome site, Amazing Seller
Perfect Dark
The product came on time! In good condition, and the seller was very quick to respond that there was a mistake in what way I needed it sent. I was very satisfied with the seller, the site, and the product. THANKS SO MUCH :-D
Rating: - No short single player campaigns or empty online servers, this is the real deal.
This game is still the king of offline FPS, even 9 years later.
Bots?..yes
Combat simulator with a character editor, complete stat tracking, challenges, up to 4 players and a TON of options for BOT A.I. and weapons?
..you bet.
No replay value, short single player campaign, strictly-online multiplayer, and the fact that you''ll probably have to be buying the sequel that gets crapped out next year?
..heck no!!
The A.I. is no pushover, ... Read More
Rating: - Best mulitplayer game ever made.
Back in the day this was the best multiplayer on N64. Since then I am sure there are better graphics and such, but none can compare.The weapons were original for its time, graphics, gameplay, control all mastered.
- A Exciting Sci-Fi Adventure!Perfect Dark is hard to review because in many ways it is the same as Rare's previous shooter, GoldenEye 007, but in other ways it is so much better.In short, Perfect Dark is the perfect, non-official, sequel to GoldenEye 007.Sure, the settings are different, and there are some different weapons (after all this IS a science fiction based game), but overall you can still see the loving touches the developers brought back from GoldenEye.
The game is set in a well developed science ... Read More
- EPIC!! (You Should Own This Already)This is one of my favorite games of all time. This is the best FPS (First Person Shooter) I have played to date, so when this first came out it blew me away. There's a great multiplayer combat mode where you can make a custom character with two options (Head and Body). You can face up to 8 sims. You don't need two players to play the combat mode. You can make teams (So you don`t have to kill you friends). You can make a custom list of weapons. It saves your stats on your player profile and gives ... Read More
- Great Gift! Awesome site, Amazing SellerPerfect Dark
The product came on time! In good condition, and the seller was very quick to respond that there was a mistake in what way I needed it sent. I was very satisfied with the seller, the site, and the product. THANKS SO MUCH :-D
- No short single player campaigns or empty online servers, this is the real deal.This game is still the king of offline FPS, even 9 years later.
Bots?..yes
Combat simulator with a character editor, complete stat tracking, challenges, up to 4 players and a TON of options for BOT A.I. and weapons?
..you bet.
No replay value, short single player campaign, strictly-online multiplayer, and the fact that you''ll probably have to be buying the sequel that gets crapped out next year?
..heck no!!
The A.I. is no pushover, ... Read More
- Best mulitplayer game ever made.Back in the day this was the best multiplayer on N64. Since then I am sure there are better graphics and such, but none can compare.The weapons were original for its time, graphics, gameplay, control all mastered.
