22 years ago, the world was introduced to Perfect Dark. A spiritual successor to the wildly popular & console-influential Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark has some enormous shoes to fill. How could another FPS from Rare supplant something as massive as Goldeneye? A game that has nothing at all to do with the James Bond franchise and instead exists in a futuristic, sci-fi setting? I'll tell you how it does that - by doing damn near everything better and expanding the scope of the entire thing. And also, it goes without saying that Goldeneye is a 10/10 and this isn't a thread to dog that game. It's using that game as a benchmark and discussing how Perfect Dark hit the gaming scene with that benchmark in mind.
Storytelling / Characters - The game features a fully-told story & plot, and not just silent cutscenes. The characters have voice acting, and there are several of them who fit into the overall story. There are mid-mission cutscenes similar to Goldeneye, but they are fully voiced. You will also receive live comms from other characters as you progress through the missions. The game itself isn't tied to any other piece of media like Goldeneye, so it needs to set up it's own story from end-to-end. It's not the most spectacular plot you'll ever experience, but having it all fully-voiced after having silent cutscenes in Goldeneye was a massive step forward.
Weapons - Because they game had a sci-fi setting, it was able to take a ton of liberties with weapon design. The key feature that sets this game apart, however, is the secondary fire. By holding B on the controller for a moment, the weapon will switch from primary fire to secondary fire. For the MagSec 4, it changes the pistol from semi-auto the 3-round burst. For the Callisto NTG, it lowers the rate of fire while firing harder-hitting, armor-piercing rounds. The RC-P120 rapidly consumes ammunition to fully cloak the user until they de-cloak and fire again. The Laptop Gun can be thrown several meters away from the player and stick to any surface to act as a sentry gun. The SuperDragon can go from fully-automatic fire to functioning as a grenade launcher. And of course the legendary FarSight XR-20 which allowed you to track your opponents through walls for a one-hit kill. Having Goldeneye-style combat with that added level of depth was a paradigm shift. It cannot be overstated how much of a game-changer the secondary fire modes were for the game.
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The Hub World - You can select missions and multiplayer from the menus, but if you hit back one more time, you're in the Carrington Institute. You're literally there. You can explore the building and interact with NPCs. You can learn how to use specific gadgets. You can learn specific gameplay elements and complete challenges. You can access background information on all of the characters. And most importantly, you can enter the firing range. The firing range features weapon-specific challenges that test the proficiency of the player's ability to use the primary & secondary fire functions of every weapon. Every weapon features a bronze, silver, and gold challenge that often act as a mix of accuracy, speed, and puzzle-solving. It's a brilliant way to get the player to learn the in's and out's of each weapon.
The Attack - This is a specific thing I love about the game, and it ties into the point above. You will inevitably spend a ton of time in Carrington Institute, especially if you're in the Firing Range challenges. In the mid-to-late part of the story, Carrington Institute gets attacked. The Hub World that you are familiar with gets invaded and NPCs around the building are taken hostage. The game provides you with a set of Combat Boosts for the mission, which allows you to slow down your perceived time and perform superhuman breach-and-clear tactics to free the hostages in each room. In addition to saving your people, you have to explore the depths of the building and deactivate a bomb that the enemies have planted. It's tough to describe how cool of a moment this was, but when we all experienced it, it was like, holy shit this is a LEVEL? It was amazing.
Multiplayer - The game obviously allowed for 4-player split-screen combat as you'd expect, but it added a twist. You can also include up to 8 Combat Simulants. In present day terms, bots. You could set their difficulty anywhere from braindead to literally cheating against the player. Additionally, each bot could be given one of 12 personalities for how they interact with the other opponents in the lobby. Additionally, players could track their stats, have a permanent rank, create custom characters, and set custom rules and item spawns for every match. The multiplayer featured 16 maps, 3 of which were reworks of classic Goldeneye maps. On top of that, the multiplayer featured challenges. There are 30 challenges in total and they increase in difficulty as you go along. Some of the later challenges are more difficult, frustrating, and agonizing than your typical FromSoft boss. But it still features that same feeling of relief when it's all said & done. Just a wealth of multiplayer fun to be had.
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For a console-based FPS game released in 2000 on the Nintendo 64, this game was abundant in its offerings and it took everything that Goldeneye laid down and built upon it all brilliantly. I know this is a random thread, but Perfect Dark was on my mind today and I just had to be nostalgic about it with you all.
The Xbox live remake was great in all but how it controlled. I had my fun but I wish they found a way to make it feel better to play.
Dukie85 said: Cyclone has the best reload animation ever, and it sounds so fucking cool when it reloads. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Feeding the magazine through the middle of the gun for the first time like
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Actually had a sealed copy of perfect dark I wish I saved the game just doesn't get boring one of the greatest fps.
Multiplayer was insane but after the first few levels, I'm not too big on the single player. Super ambitious but I like GE's far more.
Tapedeck said: Hell yes to this thread and that Japanese box art is still unmatched. Anywho Laptop Gun is not only the best gun in the game, its probably my favorite FPS weapon ever. Click to expand... Click to shrink...
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The moment you said Laptop Gun the reload noise played perfectly in my head. It's burned in there forever, that metallic, clacky sound.
I have a soft spot for the Shockwave in PDZ too. Obviously inferior to the Farsight but seeing other people skeletons in X-Ray vision through the walls was cool.
The weapons are probably still unmatched, so many fucking options, the alt fires are game changers, and the alien weapons are super neat.
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The co-op and PvP built into the story.... amazing, not to mention the story itself does so many cool things(love the institute callout OP, that shit was WILD) and isn't afraid to go wild with the sci-fi setting in the second half, I mean fuck you start out doing normal James Bond shit but you end fighting alien warlords on another planet.
You choose the game. They have a slayer, a capture-the-case, a king of the hill, a hacking mode, a kill-the-special-person mode, etc.
Teams? Your call. You can make more than two teams as well. I remember blue, cyan, red, magenta, yellow. At least five teams possible, maybe more. My sister and I would often team up against four teams of two bots each, with various difficulties and personalities.
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Character choices: You can play as any humanoid npc from the singleplayer game, with any head in the game. Mix and match bodies to heads to your heart's content. Bots also have all the same options.
Slow-motion mode is possible. Or fast motion. You can set it to vary throughout the game, speeding up and slowing down as you play.
Pick which weapons you want in the map. Choose predetermined sets, or make your own custom set. A weapon's place on the list determines where it spawns in the map, so you can choose this as well when making your list.
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Pick your music. Pick one track or make a playlist. Any tracks in the game are available, and damn are some of them bangers.
My friends and I used to play a one-hour game against Perfect and Dark-level simulants with DK mode turned on (everyone has proportions of Donkey Kong, including huge heads) in the Area 52 map with one-hit kill pistols. This is where I first learned the concept of the bottleneck in combat, although I didn't know what it was called. It was the only way we could win, hiding out in a room with one door and shooting the bots through the door as they opened it. Actually getting to the room alive was hell.
I played through the XBLA version
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