Zero is right. Two console generations later and this is the best they can do?!
Fast forward to the current generation of console games. Among which is Perfect Dark Zero, the long anticipated sequel to that great olden-days game.
Unfortunately for those of us who knew the standard , the standard which was set for games more than five years ago, Perfect Dark Zero is yet another example of a money making scheme rather than a "for-the-fans" project.
Since the original game is held in high regard, I am going to compare the two and see just how superior a game from the future is compared to a giant of 2000. Perfect Dark 64 (PD64) had customizeable AI bots. You could set their personality which would dictate their accuracy and health. You could also pick what they looked like by choosing each individual bot and choosing any of a vast number of costumes and heads.
Perfect Dark Zero has "AI bot teams". You pick the team you want which dictates what the characters look like. And thats it... pretty pathetic if you ask me.
PD64 had customizable options. You could set the human player's health, you could pick what the individual weapons you wanted in the map were, and you could make your own teams.
Perfect Dark Zero? Well... you can pick your own weapons, just like in PD64, and... you can choose which team you are on. None of the other stuff though.
PD64's weapons were POWERFUL!
Perfect Dark Zero's weapons... look powerful...
PD64 had really good music which could be chosen. In other words, you could choose which tracks you wanted to play.
Perfect Dark Zero doesn't let you do that...
PD64 let you control your AI bots on your team. You could tell them to hold, attack certain players (including other AI bots), you could get them to follow you, or just go off as they normally would.
Perfect Dark Zero doesn't let you do any of that.
Truth is, Perfect Dark Zero is a good game on it's own. But as the sequel to PD64, a game which came out two generations ago and was better... terrible. They would have been better off just remaking PD64 exactly how it was, just with better graphics. Instead, we got a game with better graphics, but less-worthy gameplay.