Perfect Dark Looked Better Than Expect
I didn’t have particularly high hopes for the Perfect Dark reboot. Firstly, the game is a reboot. The original Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 was not only one of the best games of it’s generation, but one that I have fond memories of; given that Rareware no longer exists as it was, and then there has been more than a few words on the troubles that the game has been having in development, anything other than a faithful remaster of the classic first-person-shooter, I have about as high a hope for as a deflated balloon. However, I will say that the new trailer doesn’t look as bad as I had expected.
The reboot doesn’t have the exact same style as the original, but that’s to be expected. Perfect Dark was released back in the year 2000, it was always going to be the case that developers would look to expand upon the old material in any new game with the same name. It worked for Doom in 2016, when a reboot for the iconic series managed to re-establish the Doom name as a big franchise with a new, exciting presentation and gameplay mechanics, but still managed to keep some of that familiar feeling that classic doom has. Whether co-developers Crystal Dynamics and The Initiative will manage the same for Perfect Dark is another matter. The game could still just as easily turn out to be the same lifeless, dull reflections of past quality titles (both games and otherwise) that we seem to be seeing more and more of, but the newest trailer leaves the reboot in a better light than it was thought to be.
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to the black hole that is Football Manager.
