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Great Graphics, Great Lead Character, Fun Gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 66 / 74
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark Zero is one of my favorite release titles for the XBox 360. The graphics are gorgeous, the main character (female!) has personality, and it's a good combo of shooting, stealth and puzzle solving.

We've been of course testing all of the release titles, but we keep coming back to Perfect Dark Zero just for sheer fun of gameplay.

First, the basic mission tree. You are Joanna Dark, daughter of a bounty hunter who follows in her father's footsteps. You're athletic, nimble, smart, and maybe a bit fool-hardy. The game is set in the future (Joanna was born in the year 2000) and you get an interesting mix of locales to explore as you take on your assignments.

The graphics in this game are simply GORGEOUS, as you might expect from the XBox 360. I highly recommend you play this on a HD TV - I've done screenshots comparing HD to low-def and the difference is rather impressive. The water ripples, the light plays off the rippling water, the rippling water reflects on the textured brick wall, you name it. You get red and blue lights shining down from the ceiling and the lights color their surroundings and even combine where they cross.

There are of course some amusing issues - this still isn't photo-realism of course. There are times that a red laser beam has slight "ripples" in it, for example. Still, the quality is far better than anything else on the market.

I suppose you could complain that Joanna goes running around in high-heeled boots and low-cut pants, but heck, I was impressed that her chest size was reasonably normal. Compared to most other video games out there, with their mostly-naked women with inflato-boobs, Joanna is quite demure!

The sound is aiming for a James Bond feel here. I think that is pretty clear from the intro credits. You get a boppy rock soundtrack through much of the game. The dialogue is reasonably well done, and you can't really say much about how gunshots sound. They sound like gunshots.

Gameplay is a mix between Splinter Cell and a FPS. There are times that being stealthy and quiet really pay off. There are other times that just running fast and blasting away will work. There are cool lockpick puzzles, too. I do get frustrated that you can't "jump" though. I'll see a nice, inviting open window at less than waist high, and I have to walk right by.

I have mixed feelings about co-op mode. On one hand it's fun to have two females working side by side and taking out the enemy. On the other hand, if one person decides to quit, it shuts down the whole mission. I really like it on other games where a person can pop in and out as necessary. This especially is helpful if a less experienced gamer is stuck and needs help just for a short while.

There's also deathmatch style gaming available, both on local gameplay and XBox Live. This lets you sneak around and head-shot your enemies with great glee.

We've played this for many hours and haven't noticed any problems with lag or crashing. There are certain moves that don't happen instantly - for example, when you shoot from cover, you have to wait for Joanna to "rise from a crouch" before she fires. This is quite realistic. The game also has cinematic sequences when things go into a Matrix-like slo-mo which seems to be in many current movies.

If you play this game on easy mode, you can probably zip through all the missions in a single very long gaming session (say 14-16 hours). The harder levels of difficulty are of course more challenging. Really, though, all single-player gameplay is is just a training mode to help you prepare for live gameplay. Once you've gotten your skills sharpened on the computer players, prepare to take on the real challenge, with real live opponents!

Highly recommended.

WOWOWOWOWOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 34
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow. What a great game. If you are wanting to show off and showcase your new system. This is the game to do it. Kameo is good. THis is the best. Does it compare with Halo? Absolutely. The graphics are incredible. You will not have this kind of graphical experience on any current generation hardware. Only Xbox 360 can provide it. This game has a great co-op mode to play the whole game in either by split screen or by Xbox Live. This is no ordinary co-op either. Sometimes you don't even start in the same place on the level. the story is meh. But the action and the graphics and the gameplay more than make up for the story.

Bottom Line: Buy this game with your new XBOX 360. If you need two games, get this one and Kameo.

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.

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.

A Sweet Game, Heres the info.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark Zero is divided into two catagories:

SOLO MODE:
This mode is the normal mode featured in all FPSs. It is really fun at the begining. Later on when the gameplay wheres off you get mad at the horrible story. Trust me if you are getting this game for a great story (like half-life 2) don't get it for this. The weapons are SWEET! They all have a secondary functions and some even have a third functions. The primary function is shooting bullets (like I had to tell you). The secondary funtions can be like a grenade launcher or something odd like caltrops (a ninja weapon). The third functions aren't usually weapons. They are like a flashlight, night vision, or a silencer. This game only has two vehicles but they are good ones. You will mostly use these in multiplayer and only a couple times in single player. The first vehicle is a jet pack. YEAH A JET PACK! IT IS SO FUN! When you first get in it you will be like a mech walker and you can walk around the battlefield in the jet pack. If you press RB than the legs fold into wings and you hover. Then the longer you hold LT the higher you go. When you stop holding LT you drop. When your in the air you go faster but your dual machine guns are pretty inaccurate. When your on the ground you go slower but your guns are more accurate. The second vehicle is the hovertank. It is a giant hover craft (its about the size of five warthogs), it can hold a driver, gunner, and some passengers. The turret is a machine gun but can be excanged for good weapons you have such as the plasma rifle or rocket launcher. There are four difficultly settings for single player. There is agent, secret agent, perfect agent, and if you beat it on perfect agent you unlock dark agent. The single player is only about 10-13 hours long in secret agent. If your only looking to get it for the single player you better be really into it or just rent this one over the weekend.

MULTIPLAYER:

This is were Perfect Dark shines. If your having a sleepover this is the game to rent. WARNING: IF YOU RENT THIS AT A SLEEPOVER YOU WILL NOT SLEEP! As you might remember with HALO 2 you can't really play multiplayer unless you have Xbox Live or 4 willing friends over. With Perfect Dark Zero you can add up to sixteen bots! Bots are computer controlled players. If you are playing offline and have four friends over your can have up to 20 players offline! The bots difficulty is just like single player. Agent bots are like verusing total noobs. Secret Agent is like verusing your friend whose played it about 5-10 times at your house. Perfect Agent bots are like verusing people who are is good as you. This is the setting you put it on if you want intense close battles. Dark Agent is the setting if you want to get owned. These bot are unbeatable. There are six maps but each have 3 sections. You can only choose one section per game so it is like there a 18 maps. You can choose the small section 2-6 people. The medium 8-16 or large 20-32. Yeah I said 32 because online you can have 32 players in one match. If you have xbox like get this game. There are two catagories of multiplayer games. One is Death match and the other is dark ops. Bots can only play in the deathmatch games. The deathmatch games are basic. They are Killcount, Team Killcount (Killcount is the same as slayer), Capture the flag and Territories (Like from Halo 2). These games are all the same as in other FPSs. The Dark Ops games (The funner games but also the games bots can't play in) are Onslaught, Eradication, Sabotage, and Infection. Onslaught is where there is an attacking team and a defending team. The defending team has one life and the attacking has unlimited. The attacking team only has a pistol and has to go to the defending teams base to kill them. The defending team has one life but can "Purchase" their weopon with "credits" they start and earn buy getting kills or staying alive. The teams switch and then the team with the most amount of time stayed alive wins. In eradication everybody has on life and they can purchase their weapon. Last team standing wins. In Sabotage both teams have unlimited lives and the attacking teams destroys property and the defiending team defends it. Then they switch. The team with the most amount of properties damage wins. Infection is essentially Halo 2's zombies. The game starts of with two infect player who are walking, shooting skellitons. They have a pistol. The uninfected players get to buy their weapons. If an uninfected player dies from an infected on they become infected. Last player uninfected wins.
If you want a great all around game get Perfect Dark Zero.

Gameplay: Very fun and enjoyable 9.5

Graphics: Great on a HDTV, things can be to shiny though 9.0

Sound: Great bullets and rickoshaying sounds 9.5

Presentation: Cool Menu and lots of options 9.5

Lasting Appeal: Single Player 8.0
Single and Offline Multiplayer 9.0
Single, Offline, and Online Multiplayer 9.8

Total: (Not an Average) 9.5

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.

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! :-)

fun,but better on xbox live

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

if your planning on getting this game just let me tell you in my opinion the story modes fun, but it's way way better on xbox live.

Perfect Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man do I love this game! I love the cover ability. It's so awesome hiding behind a wall then poking your head out in sniper mode and blasting a cap in a dudes head. I've been hearing complaints about the amt of ammo it takes to kill people and i am saying they're fing crazy. it takes two to one shots to someones head to kill them so just aim for there head. Problem solved. I also love the amount of stats it keeps for you. I don't really care about the story and i really wouldnt expect one with this much action in the game. I havent beaten it yet. I am loving offline mutiplayer and am excited to try out online. I highly recommend this to any fan of halo or any other good fps games!

Enjoyably Enjoyable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played this game and I liked it very much. That is why I gave it a "5." The game is good. It requires both an XBox 360 and electricity to make it work. Please be sure that you have both before you play it or you will not enjoy it as much as you would otherwise.

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