Despite being a little short, Perfect Dark is still fun if you're a fan of FPS games.

User Rating: 8.2 | Perfect Dark N64
By blazewind191 | Review Date:
Perfect Dark is probably the result after a couple of 007 games. Voice acting, more death animations, cooler weapons, and the sci-fi touch really makes Perfect Dark a good game. Perfect Dark is very much like the 007 games. Except you play as female protagonist, Joanna Dark. The game has its own unique bits that make it special. First, I'll start with the graphics. Not very much is unique, but there are some nice touches. When you aim with a gun out, the cursor has high-tech crosshairs that even have a "span" in a square for some weapons. Also when you target a person, the cursor either goes red or blue. Red obviously meaning that your target is an enemy. Blue meaning that the person's either an innocent bystander or a neutral person. Another unique graphical touch is the blood. When you shoot an enemy, blood splatters on the wall or floor, making this more realistic than past FPS games. Also when you reload, the reloading animation is shown before the gun is brought to the bottom of the screen and back up, fully loaded. The ammo gauge is also replaced with a meter that depletes by every bullet being shot, instead of plain numbers.

Next, I'll talk about the story. Pretty much, the game game starts off by looking for a piece of high AI that is very valuable. The good guys here are Carrington Institute and the Maians. The bad guys are Datadyne and Skedar. Datadyne keeps the AI known as Dr. Carrol that holds valuable information about Datadyne that proves very useful to the Carrington Institute. The Institute relies heavily on Joanna Dark, their top agent. While retrieving Dr. Carrol, Joanna soon finds herself entangled with a war being the Maians and the Skedar. Both are of alien races. Joanna also befriends a Maian who helps her.

There are also 3 difficulty modes for each mission. There is Agent, which is either considered Easy or Normal level for some players. Special agent is considered Normal for experienced players and Hard for beginners. Perfect agent is very hard for both experienced and starting players. Cheats can also be unlocked by beating a certain mission on a certain difficulty under a certain time limit. Some of them are DK mode, invincibility, and playing as different characters for partners. There is also a new Co-op and Counter Co-op mode. This involves 2 players. One being the good guy and the other on the bad side. A cheap technique to help the good guy win is to keep using Suicide Pills as the player keeps switching bodies of one bad guy to another.

Finally, I'll talk about the controls. If one has played any 007 games, then they are most likely to be familiar and comfortable with the Perfect Dark controls. However for those who have not, it doesn't take long to get used to the controls and already be on Special Agent missions.

Perfect Dark is a great game. A superb one during its time, but still going on strong today. Despite being a little short, Perfect Dark is still fun if you're a fan of FPS games.

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