Perfect Dark (2000) (VG)

User Rating:

9.1/10   

Writer:

Teresa Lillygren (dialogue)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Drama

Tagline:

The perfection - The darkness...

Plot:

A female spy named Joanna Dark who received the highest grade ever from her spy training at Carrington...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Spy | Area 51 | Female | Spy Training

Awards:

1 win

Cast

E. Fischer	...	Agent Joanna Dark / Agent Velvet Dark (voice) (as Eveline Fischer)
Tony Daniels	...	'Elvis' (Maiyan Bodyguard 3) (voice)
Chris Seavor	...	(voice)
Chris Sutherland	...	(voice)
Duncan Botwood	...	(voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Beau Chesluk	...	(voice)
Ben Cullum	...	(voice)
B. Jones	...	(voice)
Alistair Lindsay	...	(voice)
Steve Malpass	...	(voice)
John Silke	...	(voice)
Louise Tilston	...	Cassandra De Vries (voice)

Also Known As:

PD (UK) (promotional abbreviation)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:M (Nintendo 64 version) | USA:T (Game Boy Color version) | Australia:M | UK:18

Company:

Rare

Trivia:

The BAFTA Interactive Award which Rareware, the developers of Perfect Dark, were given for GoldenEye (1997) (VG) can be seen in a safe in the G5 building level of the game.

Goofs:

Continuity: The Guard that Joanna knocks out at the start of the second mission land on his chest with his head facing away from the elevator door, but when he wakes up at the start of the third mission, his body is now facing the opposite direction, even though during this whole time he's supposed to be unconscious.

Quotes:

Agent Joanna Dark: Time to hook up with Jonathan, before he get's into any MORE trouble

Movie Connections:

Edited into Naqoyqatsi (2002)

Perfect game

"Goldeneye" was one of the first games released for the N64 and was a huge success. Many gamers still consider it one of the finest first person shooters ever made. The success of the game was mimicked in the years to come with more and more Bond games emerging, but none of them lived up to the originality and intense gameplay of "Goldeneye." But in 2000, Rareware (the makers of Goldeneye) announced plans for a sequel of sorts named "Perfect Dark" - based on almost identical gameplay, it would be about a female secret agent/spy, and when the game was released it was an instant success (it was also one of the first games to make use of the "Rumble Pak").

"Perfect Dark" is a brilliant FPS and very unique. It mixes different genre staples - spies, aliens, UFOs, puzzles, everything. The sequel is coming out soon for XBox 360 and I'm thinking of purchasing an XBox platform just to play the sequel - that's how impressed I was with the original "Perfect Dark" video game.