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Perfect Dark Zero is Perfect!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
This is one of the best games I have ever played in the 25 years I have been playing video games; it is so much fun! The graphics are amazing on any television, and they are photo realistic when you play the game on an HDTV. The 5.1 audio is also amazing; it literally is a tool that helps you play the game. You can locate enemies in better ways thanks to the high-quality 5.1 sound, because you can hear their voices or their steps or their guns in certain speakers at certain times; it really is incredible to have sound be such a huge factor in gameplay!

The background music is also excellent. Perfect Dark Zero is the first videogame I ever bought the soundtrack to. When you hear the song, "Limelight," which plays at a nightclub you are at in one of the early stages, then you will know what I am talking about! The bass pumps out the sound as if you are at a real nightclub, and when you get closer to the building, it is as if you are really there! This is something you will love about the way Xbox 360 uses 5.1 audio!

The gameplay difficulty is also another factor that is excellent, because you can set what sort of difficulty you want it to be at based on what sort of agent you are. I like the way that you have a technical person that your character Joanna Dark is working with named Chandra; she guides you to your location if you take too long doing something and clearly don't know where to go next. This makes it so you don't end up wasting time going back and forth over and over like you do in some of those other games on other systems. This game also has multiplayer and online capabilities that are very nice, especially the online features!

The controls can be adjusted, too; that way, you can have your controller do whatever you want. I personally changed the way the character moves so that Perfect Dark Zero played much more like Halo. The default analog controls are based on the control setup of the original Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64, which is something that I do not like very much. I believe that many of the negative reviews for Perfect Dark Zero focused on the control setup and the way that it wasn't as good as Halo. However, the controls of Perfect Dark Zero can easily be adjusted by using the Options menu. Perfect Dark Zero's left and right analog stick controls can be identical to those of Halo if you just make one change in the Options menu. So I went to the Options screen and changed it so the right analog stick moves the characters head up, down, left, and right so it is easy to coordinate where you are looking. I also changed the controls so the left analog stick causes Joanna Dark to move forward and backward and strafe left and right. I believe that this should have been the default control, because it allows anyone familiar with a first person shooter like Halo to instantly be familiar with the controls in Perfect Dark Zero. Thankfully, this is an easy adjustment to make, and it is a great overall control adjustment feature that I highly recommend!

Cons:
I have nothing to complain about this game! Under normal conditions, I would say that the only thing to complain about would be that the game had to come to an end, but the fact that you can play this game online with so many other people makes it so you always get replay value out of this game! Plus, you can go back to earlier levels with more advanced weapons and gadgets that you got in later stages and beat up on those bad guys and examine new places in very fun ways! The only potential bad thing about Perfect Dark Zero is that the default controls are based on the control scheme from Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 rather than the control scheme from Halo on the Xbox. Thankfully, this can be corrected in the Options menu. There were probably people who didn't give Perfect Dark Zero the full chance it deserved, because the default controls make it more difficult to coordinate where you are going and what you are looking at. Hopefully, the programmers at Rare will change the default controls of the next Perfect Dark videogame so they are like the controls of Halo on the Xbox rather than the controls of Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64.

Comments:
My personal comment would be for people who haven't played this game yet: If you really want to play a fun game that is meant to be fun for the player while taking advantage of graphics, sound, action, humor, and online features all at the same time, then you should at least rent this game! I recommend that you go to the Options screen and change the control setup so it is like Halo on the Xbox rather than Perfect Dark Zero on the Nintendo 64. This is a game that will really make a great gift for anyone! I highly recommend getting the Limited Collector's Edition of the game if you can still find it, because it only costs $10 more at most places, and it comes with some nice things, such as a bonus DVD.

Also, the writers in this game did such an excellent job with the way that the script is designed. The level of humor in this game is absolutely amazing. For example, one of the weapons you use, called, "the Laptop," makes the quick note that it uses Windows 2020. Another funny thing is the way you can listen to people in the game; I have spent lots of time just listening to people talk in the game. Listening to this one guy talk on his cell phone with his wife is absolutely amazing! The voices of the enemies are excellent; they are very nicely done.

Overall, I think that anyone will like this game. If you have an HDTV and a 5.1 audio system, then you will be absolutely amazed with what you see and hear. The graphics on a normal television are still far superior to anything else produced on any other system, and if you don't have a 5.1 sound system, then the stereo sound is still great, just not as great as the true 5.1 element that would have brought in a new element of gameplay. I believe that everyone with an Xbox 360 should at least give this game a try, because I can't imagine anyone not liking it. This game will only be available to play on the Xbox 360, which means that if you don't have one, then this is the sort of game that you would want to get when you do buy your Xbox 360. I hope that everyone who plays this game enjoys it! :-)

Perfect Dark N64 was way better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off, its almost 2008, and I just bought this game. I bought it because it was so cheap that it was practically free. Good thing too, it sucks!

Xbox 360 games now have graphics that totally blow this game out of the water. The AI is a joke, and the controls are, well, its hard to describe but basically they suck. It just doesn't feel right.

The biggest disappoint I have is that this game taints my wonderful memories of PD for N64. Now that was an awesome game. Playing PD N64 with my siblings was the best. The bots, the weapons, the levels, it was great. The controls were so much better on N64 too.

Its too late to appreciate this game, too many other excellent jaw-dropping games are out... buy something like Halo or GoW.

I can't understand some gamers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, this game on any system, not just the 360, is not fun to control and there's no feeling of accomplishment when you pass each mission. The feel of the character during movement and shooting is inexcusably remedial, very slow, very tedious to aim, and like others said it takes far to much effort to drop 1 guy.
The game reminds me of a poor man's Red Faction 2 for XBOX with noticeably better graphics, but as far as 360 goes, the other 6 games I currently own surpass PDZ in the graphics department.

So the reason for my title is that for those who game this game 5 stars...where exactly are you standards? I can think of at least a dozen shooters off the top of my head for the regular XBOX that I'd rather be playing than PDZ, and Doom 3 in my opinion has better grahpics than this game. Halo, Halo 2, Doom 3, Project Snowblind, Mace Griffin...the list goes on and on, and obviously Quake 4 and COD 2 for the 360 trump this game.

Do yourself a favor, even if you love spy-type storylines and you're in need of a shooter, rent it first and you'll see what I mean. It's maybe worth 10 bucks when the price comes down, but definitely not worth 40-50, and most definitely not a launch console seller.

I know everyone has their own opinion, but giving this game 5 stars, even if your basing it on the so-called innovation this game brings (which it doesn't), you skew the standard of a shooter so far in the wrong direction it baffles me.

This game is good....you guys are just halo nerds

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Why are you guys bashing this game? Theres nothing wrong with it! Just because Halo 3 is not here yet and this isnt exactly the same you think its crap. Oh and this is more realistic looking than Halo because in Halo you are some man in a green space suit shooting at aliens and flying cockroachs, how can that look more "realistic" than this?

I loved the first perfect dark and this ones fun to. Dont sit here and bad mouth it just because you cant have your halo fix right away.

Pefect Dark for XBox 360..amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark was one of the first 360 games i played and i was absolutely hooked from the beginning. the graphics are great, gameplay is awesome, and the co-op option is great. not having to follow eachother and you can do your own thing. great game and anyone who likes a good, challeging shooter game..PERFECT DARK is for you.

it's decent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'll try to keep this short as possible. As you may know, this is the prequel to the game, Perfect Dark that was on the Nintendo 64..which at the time was seen as the sequel to the blockbuster hit GoldenEye 007. Perfect Dark Zero keeps a lot of what made the first game as fun as it was, so if you are a retuning fan you should get some enjoyment out of it, as I did.

The graphic style is pretty slick. It's more of a stylized animation style rather than a more realistic one, but there are hint here and there that we indeed have seen some of what we can expect from other next generation games such as bricks on buildings actually having depth. One thing about the graphics is that the lighting makes a lot of things look shiny or like they are wet...even things such as wood..which is a little odd.

The story line is pretty weak. No need on really paying too much attention to it..just follow the objectives and try not to get annoyed by the bad voice acting...espectially by Chandra..who helps you remotely throughout the game. The game play is pretty solid, though there is somewhat of a learning curve to how weapons function.

There is one thing about this title that bothers me a lot. The fact that the game is pretty glitchy. You will experience unexplained freezes..which seems to happen more when going from one game mode to another. Another glitch I've noticed happens in the game itself. Starting at the end of level two, sometimes when you kill an enemy, their bodies will float and flop around for absolutely no reason. That in my mind is unacceptable especially for the pricetag.

So is this a killer app? No. It's a decent game. A fun one, especially when playing again friends...but there are better games of the same or similar genre, such as Call of Duty, Quake 4..but if I were you, i'd give this a try.

THis game rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got 360 on day 1 and if u want an awesome game that doesnt cost 60 dollars this game is worth every penny. first this game has top quality graphics which shuold be no surprise because rare always give top of the line graphics.Also its presentation is exellent and the multiplayer kicks butt. Buy this game it is the best game so far tied to call of duty 2.

Complete Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics, but that's just about it. I was very disappointed with this game. It had so much potential. I read one reviewer claim that Perfect Dark Zero was as good as Halo...completely untrue. I'm trading it in for Ghost Recon.

Awesome Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After seeing that Perfect Dark dropped in price I figured I would buy it. Going into it I figured that if the price was lowered that fast, then Perfect Dark Zero was not that great. I was wrong, I wish the story mode could of been longer but I will not argue.

This is a great game! Graphics are pretty good. They are "soft" which makes it alot easier on the eyes which is a big part of why I like it so much. I recommend this to anyone who hasent bought it yet. Thirty dollars is a steal for such a great game like this.

It's all very shiny and dull

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Goldeneye is the single best gameing experience i have ever had and knowing that this is from the same people that brought me that wonderful game just makes me very sad. This whole game feels rushed and unfinished and considering how long it was in development for is quite frankly not on. The single player game is very boring, you'll find yourself falling asleep by the third level. The AI is appaling and to add insult to injury they for some reason felt the need to put arrows on the ground to help you on your quest. I find it insulting to think that Rare feel that gamers can be so dum that they need arrows to tell them where to go, someone at Rare needs a slap. Another thing that annoys me is that you can't jump for some reason, i mean you could even jump in the original Doom. Quite frankly Rare need a good hard kick up the arse. Apart from the fairly good multi-player game there isn't anything else good i have to say about this dissapointing mess. Do yourself a favour, avoid the rubbish and buy Call of Duty.

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