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Most of the gameplay consists of trying to sneak up on guards from behind so that you can blow their heads off. Novel, yes. Fun, no. Exploiting dumb enemies is amusing, but after the ninth headless wonder crumpled to the floor, I had enough. Some of the mini-games and multiplayer modes were cool, but I expected a lot more. From the development team behind the brilliant GoldenEye blasts Perfect Dark, a futuristic first-person spy shooter that hopes to surpass GoldenEye in every category from story line to gameplay.

You play a talented young field operative named Ioanna Dark--codename, Perfect Dark. After uncovering a conspiracy that spans hundreds of light years, you grab your gun and hunt for clues and bad guys in locations that range from alien shipwrecks to top-secret air bases.

The mission objectives promise to be more intense than GoldenEyes, while the gadgets and weapons will be more high-tech and even deadlier. Look for the game to hit some time this fall--it could be Nintendo's best title this year! Even without the license, Rare's "sequel in spirit" to Golden-Eye was one of E3's most buzzed-about games, gleaming with the potential to become another stellar hit for Nintendo.

Set in the year , Perfect Dark opens as top operative Joanna Dark is sent to reconnoiter after a distress call from a scientist at the mysterious dataDyne Corporation.

Naturally, a conspiracy that spans the globe unfolds, and Dark is the woman for the job. Playing from GoldenEye's familiar first-person view, you'll scoop up cool gadgets and take down enemies with a wide array of weapons as you tackle mission objectives in levels that range from a deep-ocean alien crash site to the rooftops of futuristic Chicago.

Perfect Dark packs in some slick innovations, including a multiplayer mode that pits four human players and four CPU-controlled bots in a battle to the death. Even better, gamers will be able to take pictures with the Game Boy Camera and tack them onto faces in the multiplayer game.

Now that's cool! Rare also focused on the A. As long as Rare continues to work its usual magic with Perfect Dark, the game is bound to be a chart-topper this holiday season. One of the best games we saw at the show was Rare's follow-up to GoldenEye This hot prospect isn't scheduled to be released until December , but when it does come out, Perfect Dark is aiming to take you on a run-n-gun sojourn through some amazing levels. You'll play as Johanna Dark, a secret agent who uses two guns to wipe out her enemies, John Woo-style.

And when the action gets intense, Johanna can use her weapons as a shield from bullets by crossing her guns in front of her face. No one got to play PD at E3, but the video that Rare showed indicated the game has lots of cool promise. Even though this game has no connection to James Bond, GoldenEye fans will be amazed. No doubt about it: Perfect Dark's got frame-rate problems. Although the one-player game zips along at around 25 frames per second, the Cooperative, Counteroperative and simulant-packed four-player modes can bog down so badly that players accustomed to high-powered PC deathmatching might just upchuck.

Check out our Chop-o-Meter chart for more frame-rate info, but bear in mind that the game's pretty much unplayable when four humans and eight simulants trade shots in the same arena. But that's OK, 'cause PD gives you so many multiplayer options most of which you'll open by clearing 30 Challenge missions that you're bound to find a variation that works for you and your buds.

You can combine human and simulant players in any team combination. Holding A and tapping the Z trigger twice calls up a menu of orders you can issue your simulant teammates. Social concerns may have forced Rare to remove the game's facemapping feature, but you'll still find enough head and body types here to build a decent custom character.

The weapons menu lets you pick any mix of guns and gadgets you desire. You'll even uncover cheats such as the original GoldenEye weapons and Perfect Darkness, which shuts down the arena's lights and forces everyone to hunt with night-vision. PD lets you do everything short of designing your own deathmatch levels. Best of all, you can save your custom setup to a Controller Pak, name it, then tote it to a friend's house--or transfer it to your Web site via the DexDrive and share it with the world.

More than half of the multiplayer options are closed without it, and it'd be a crime not to experience this game to the fullest. Perfect Dark is not perfect.

Choppy frame-rates plague the more ambitious multiplayer modes. But you know what? You'll still want to spend months locked in a room with this masterpiece. Heck, PD's training level packs more stuff to do than most entire games.

The blood-soaked one-player adventure is perfectly paced, mature, funny and reason enough to buy this game. And the higher difficulties offer so many new areas, options--even plot points--they make for an entirely new experience when you play 'em. But just as in prequel GoldenEye , it's the multiplayer options that'll keep you playing PD until the franchise arrives on Dolphin.

The Cooperative and Counter-operative modes--which Rare included at the cost of delaying the game's release four months--get choppy sometimes to the point of being unplayable , but they're fun and welcome additions nevertheless. You get six different multiplayer games and the option to throw in as many as eight "simulant" 'bots, who come in their own massive variety of difficulty levels and personality types.

But those options are barely the beginning; PD lets you tweak every deathmatch feature you can imagine, especially once you open some of the wilder cheats. Everything about PD-from the visuals to the cinemas to the clever weapon design--screams high production values. Rare took as long as it needed to craft this game, and it shows. Hello Joanna, good riddance Bond.

Perfect Dark is everything I'd hoped for, I just hoped it'd get here sooner. As usual, Rare has pushed the Nintendo 64 to the limits--this game is absolutely gorgeous.

The first-person mode usually moves pretty smoothly, but if you try any of the multiplayer modes the slowdown often gets to be a little unbearable.

But that's been one of Rare's annoying trademarks. Fortunately, that's my only complaint--the story, atmosphere and level designs are meticulously put together, and the amount of game modes is simply unbelievable.

Rare thought of just about everything, and finally GoldenEye can be put to rest. As someone who thought GoldenEye was over-rated heresy around here , and as a big fan of PC first-person shooters, I was extremely skeptical of Perfect Dark, but once I tried it I was hooked This isn't the kind of great game you play for a week or two, finish, and never pick up again--it's the kind of incredible game you live with for months, trying all the different play modes and difficulties, opening up new secrets, and inviting friends over to fight with and against.

I still wish the frame-rate in multiplayer was smoother, but the solo and co-op games make this the most ambitious, addicting, and just plain fun FPS I've ever played for any system.

Worth the wait. We've been saying for months that Rare is working on a follow-up action game using the GoldenEye engine, but don't think anyone was expecting anything as advanced as Nintendo was showing at E3. You play the part of Joanna Dark codename: Perfect Dark As with GoldenEye, the game follows a strong story line that unfolds through events in the game.

Beginning at the top of a skyscraper, it takes Joanna through locations that include secret bases, laboratories and even to an alien wreck at the bottom of the ocean. Again, as with GoldenEye, this is filled with loads of cool weapons that vary from your usual pistols and Uzis to high-tech alien gadgets capable of blowing the crap out of huge chunks of buildings. There are also some vehicles dotted around the place too.

The demo at E3 included a brief showing of a hover bike that seemed to control in a very similar way to the tanks in GoldenEye--so it should be possible to look and shoot while travelling along. Speaking of vehicles, there were also some nice little cosmetic touches on the first level that make use of them. As Joanna works her way through the offices in the dataDyne skyscraper, you can see helicopters flying around in the distance.

If you blow out the windows very cool effect you can shoot at these vehicles and watch as they crash into buildings or tumble down into the streets. As far as gameplay is concerned, it seems fairly safe to assume that the game's pedigree will help ensure excellence. Al has been a particular point of focus for the team and we were assured that the bad guys would all behave in a very convincing manner.

The demo we saw already had them hiding in shadows and actively ducking down behind desks, cupboards and doorways to avoid being shot. By the time everything is finished we should see Bosses that appear to be fully aware of their environments too.

Visually the game is nothing short of stunning. The lighting effects are all used to dramatic effect, while transparencies, particle effects and environmentmapping are employed to give a realistic environment. Rumors abound that Perfect Dark may make use of the planned 4Mb expansion module featured in this month's news. Although denied by Nintendo PR, there is a distinct possibility that we could see the game enhanced visually with the addition of the module.

The demo on show at E3 was enhanced in this manner--although we were assured that this was for development purposes only. You know that feeling you get when you've been waiting for something for so long and it just doesn't live up to the hype? It's called anti-climax. Take Star Wars for example, if you can honestly say that you enjoyed the film after the onslaught of the hype then you are clearly in need of psychiatric help!

Thankfully Rare's latest title - possibly the most anticipated videogame ever - more than lives up to its advance publicity. Perfect Dark is worth all the hype that preceded it and then some - it most definitely is 'all that'! This game was first mentioned in 64 Magazine way back in issue 15 14 if you include the rumour about Goldeneye 2!

Now, in issue 41, the UK version of the game is finally here and the wait is almost over. In just a couple of weeks life as you know it will be over, as you are. The year is and you play Joanna Dark, a special agent working for the top secret organization known as the Carrington Institute. Being the concerned operative that she is, Joanna decides to investigate the sinister dataDyne Corporation. Needless to say something is amiss and you soon find yourself travelling all over the world as you tackle the 17 missions in this game.

Not to mention a trip into a secret Area 5i-style location populated with Grey aliens! Like Goldeneye , each level in the game involves several different objectives which need to be finished before you can progress any further.

The higher the difficulty setting the more objectives you get - the trials Joanna must overcome getting progressively more dangerous as you choose from Agent, Secret Agent or the ultimate: Perfect Agent. The difficulty setting you choose also makes a massive difference to the gameplay. Whereas in Goldeneye you could wander round the entire level and even complete all the objectives of Agent on the easiest Agent setting you just wouldn't gain anything by it , in Perfect Dark all that has changed.

The higher difficulty settings open up entirely new parts of the levels which cannot even be explored on the easier settings! With this and the random placing of enemies, each of the missions becomes a new challenge each time you play it. On some of the levels even more drastic changes are made between Agent and Perfect Agent settings.

On one level for example, you enter the stage as a rooftop sniper, protecting a negotiator on a pier below. However, if you are playing on the harder setting, you yourself are thrown into the centre of the fray as the negotiator! It's not just the missions themselves that change though, as the enemy Al has been given a serious boost since Goldeneye. Whereas in the Bond shooter the henchmen seem like they're novices straight out of boot camp, these dataDyne bods seem to have degrees in making your life a misery!

In Goldeneye you could quite happily predict what your opponents were going to do, but now they try such underhand things as attempting to circle around behind you. This increased Al makes the challenge a hell of a lot better and the gameplay a lot more tense.

Another thing which gets bumped up as you move through the difficulty levels is the accuracy and power of the sentry guns. In Goldeneye they pretty much stayed the same whether you were on Agent or oo Agent but in this game they pose a whole new problem.

Slip up on Perfect Agent setting and you're human Swiss cheese faster than you can say 'help'! One thing you do notice as soon as any gun starts firing is just how gory Perfect Dark is!

We're not talking Turok standards here but the stained Soviet suits of Goldeneye - which looked quite frankly like someone had suffered a wine spillage - are gone! Now if you pepper someone with bullets you get a viscous-yet-stylish blood spray, which pebble-dashes the surrounding walls!

Killing people has never been so much fun and Perfect Dark is sure to bring a disturbing maniacal smile to your face. As well as the gory red showers the comedy death animations also make a welcome come-back.

This time new ones have been added to the already improved classics and the reactions almost make your feet sympathetic If you took ,great pleasure in torturing someone with the pistol in Goldeneye then you'll take even more pleasure in doing it in Perfect Dark.

There are certainly plenty of tools to help you reap havoc upon the enemy in this game. These even include a few classic guns hidden away from Goldeneye like the PP7! Best of all though, almost every single one of the guns in Perfect Dark has a second function - which brings the killing unarmed then you can opt to disarm the bad-guns and turn their own weapons variety count up to nearly 80!

The automatic Dragon weapon for example, doubles up as a proximity mine which can be thrown on the floor and if you're on them! Of course any self-respecting special agent should never be without their toys and Joanna is no exception. She has James Bond-style gadgets coming out of her ears - and as this is set in the toys are futuristic to say the least. Included in her arsenal are a floating pod camera, which can be flown into rooms and a lap top which doubles up as a sentry gun!

Throughout the course of the game you also get to pilot a hoverbike, which is a lot faster and a lot more fun to drive than Bond's tank was! The bike, gadgets and especially the guns are made even more desirable by the seriously pumpin' sound effects. If you haven't got your N64 hooked up to your stereo or a decent surround-sound system yet then this game is the 'perfect' excuse!

With the volume cranked up the gun sound effects are quite literally breathtaking and if you take your games seriously then there's always the bonus with surround sound of being able to hear where the enemy are coming from. It's not only the sound which stands out about this game, because unless you're blind then you'll notice that V it also looks mouth-wateringly delicious! In fact, Perfect Dark is so gorgeous it puts Goldeneye to shame making it look just like what it is - a first generation N64 title.

Even Turok 2 and Quake should bow down to this game! The lighting effects look amazing and the outdoor levels are practically fog free. Oh and then there are the blurring effects! Normally this would be a big no-no in any game but here blurring is used to show the effects of drugs, blow darts and radiation poisoning. It's the numerous small touches like this which make this game really stand out from the crowd.

The only major grumble against Perfect Dark is the fact that if you don't have the Expansion Pak, then you won't be able to play the one-player game at all!

Worse still, without it the multiplayer becomes restricted to just a two-player game! So if you don't already own a pak then this does bump up the price quite a bit but then again if you haven't got one yet, why not? They've been around long enough - hell it was even bundled in with Donkey Kong If that isn't enough of a reason then how about this - it's Perfect Dad.

This is the best game ever to grace the N64 and if you have to sell your soul to the devil himself to get an Expansion Pak then so be it! Browse games Game Portals. Perfect Dark. Install Game. In addition, the onscreen help a waypoint and path system doesn't actually appear until you've trundled around a bunch.

Now that my bitching is out of the way, I can say that this is ultimately a good game. Weapon loadouts are easy to manage, giving you a certain amount of inventory to work with, and numerous fun weapons. There's a different path through the game depending on your difficulty setting, which means you could actually play through the game a couple of times, and that's before you get to co-op mode.

Co-op mode gives each character a unique experience, as you actually take different paths through each level at various times. Multiplayer deserves a special mention, as for launch titles, it's this or Call of Duty 2 , in humble my opinion.

A normal deathmatch mode is accompanied by a counterstrike like mode called Darkops, both of which provide a really satisfying online experience.

So satisfying is the experience, that you'll forget that some of the multiplayer levels aren't laid out that well, either being way too big, or sardine tiny.

Take that with a grain of salt though, because you need to remember that this game is designed to support 32 players, so I'm a little harsh, having not played in too many epic games yet.

Finally, not to forget, this game looks really really nice graphically. I'm impressed with the quality of the Xbox graphics, and with the complexity of some of the design in Perfect Dark Zero , it seems to take good advantage of the capabilities.

In short, it really looks like a next-gen game. All in all, I have some sizeable reservations, but this game is still well worth the full purchase price. With replay value like this, and lots of multiplayer, how can you go wrong? I'm not sure what upsets me more: the horrendous mess that is Perfect Dark Zero's singleplayer game or all the glowing reviews out there including Che's.

Are these crazies playing the same game as me? This first-person shooter sticks to its "futuristic James Bond" roots, so I didn't mind stuff like the cornball villains and dialogue. I did, however, mind the level design. Now, I can appreciate nonlinear gameplay.

But the game knows you may get lost, so after a while, your HQ "plots a course" for you, meaning it draws a big trail on the ground pointing you to where you're long overdue. That, my friends, is a quick-fix bandage for piss-poor level design. Multiplayer, however, is a whole different story.

In the competitive modes, you get lots of customization options, a crapload of guns PDZ's best feature , and computer-controlled bots to fill in the blanks for when you don't have enough human bodies. After I put in my numerous review-time hours, though, I really didn't feel the urge to go back and play more, unlike the next two freaks whose reviews you're about to read. While Shoe is absolutely right in his criticisms of PDZ's single-player mess, he doesn't give enough credit to what PDZ does so well: multiplayer.

And you'd better believe that a game launching with such an online-driven system will live and die by its online features. Co-op play makes the story mode bearable, even fun, despite its brain-melting craptitude. It's the online combat arena that proves most joyous, though.

The typical deathmatch and capture-the-flag games do their jobs admirably, and the myriad Dark Ops modes impress even more, mostly giving you one life and one objective to work with.