![]() ![]() ![]() There is something weirdly endearing about the music and transitions of Perfect Dark Zero, in how it’s trying to be so cool and of the era while maintaining what we loved about the original game. She’s also sexualised, because it was 2005 and there was no escape from it.īack? Coolio. She’s cool and empowering, but to the extent that she feels like a caricature of what confident female characters should be in a game like this. Joanna Dark is redesigned to be a cool, sexy, and painfully hip sweet thang who is so groovy it’s like she’s been repeatedly hit over the head with a baseball bat infused with mid-noughties energy. Perfect Dark Zero is so painfully of its time that playing it in 2022 feels like an exercise in cringe retention. Young Jade was a fool, because this game is wank. Everything appeared so lifelike, with gunplay feeling sharp and responsive on a controller no longer appealing to arachnid mutants and nobody else. Environments and characters boasted a level of visual fidelity I’d never seen before. One of them had to be a stinker I suppose, but back then it was almost revolutionary. I got my first taste of Oblivion, Condemned, Amped 3, and finally - Perfect Dark Zero. I remember going to my brother’s place and playing a chipped Xbox 360 shortly after its launch, digging through a folder of blank discs containing all manner of games. It was an expansion of everything GoldenEye managed to achieve with an original setting and more futuristic weaponry, seeking to create an IP that didn’t rely on an increasingly finicky licence. Let’s be real, that was very much the initial pitch for Joanna Dark when Perfect Dark first arrived on the Nintendo 64 back in 2000. Nevermind! I’d rather those who weren’t happy at the studio depart and pursue more fulfilling creative endeavours than burn themselves out on a shooter that is basically James Bond in the future but except this time it’s a lady. Lacking creative vision and an unwillingness to explore new ideas have seen people leaving in droves, and given the project is still relatively early in its production, it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing it anytime soon. A large number of staff members have departed the project, cutting down the studio’s workforce significantly as Crystal Dynamics is allegedly brought in to help pick up the pace. Perfect Dark is coming back! That’s currently the plan anyway, but a recent report from VGC reveals that things aren’t going quite so well at The Initiative. ![]()
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