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The Best Gameboy Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: August 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark for the Gameboy is the best. It definetly lives up to the N64 version. If you have a transfer pak, it's even better. Using the transfer pak, you can open up cheats in the N64 version such as the cloaking device, hurricane fists, r-tracker/weapons cache which gives you a radar that shows where the weapons are. It also unlocks The all guns in solo cheat.And that's just the half of it. This promises to be the best Gameboy game ever, or at least the year.

Lives up to it's Nintendo 64 Predecessor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark for the GameBoy Color is a prequel to the hit Nintendo 64 shooter of the same name. It is about the Carrington Institute's best agent, Miss Joanna Dark, a heroine who gives Lara Croft a run for her money. Joanna has just finished training, and is sent on her first mission, to spy on the dataDyne Corporation's South American project. This game is supported by GameBoy Color (with full color graphics), and is one of the first games to be a multiplayer deathmatch for the GameBoy console. You can also hook it up with a GameBoy Printer to print out stickers and mission reports. All in all, this game is going to be the best GameBoy game of 2000. Watch out Pokémon, cuz Joanna's coming to GameBoy Color!

Big Letdown

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was the biggest letdown ever!!! I was expecting a good sequel to perfect dark but i got a halfrate game boy game. tsk tsk tsk. The only good part is getting codes out of the deal.

Horrible Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: October 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I got this game b/c the N64 version was so much fun...whoops. On every level, Perfect Dark GBC absolutely stinks. The controls are sketchy, the sound effects pathetic, and...what else? Everything.

The single worst characteristic about this game is the fact that you can't see the enemies in the room with you until it is too late. When you do discover there is an armed guard in the room with you, it is usually b/c he is running towards you with his gun blazing. Bang bang, you're dead.

I could go on and on, but let me just sum it up: THIS GAME SUCKS!

Fun and full of action

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is full of action and a true shooter through and through. The graphics are pretty good. There are actually voices to hear which makes it neat. This game does get gory. the only bad thing is that the training is really hard!

WHERE IS THE STRATEGY GUIDE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i NEED HELP e-MAIL ME AT CKPROINSPT@aol.com

Good but very difficult!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was good when I first started playing it. the graphics are ok but the heads of Joanna and the enimies are just circles. The sound effects are great though. It can and will get a little gory. The stealth training is really hard because you can't even let a single guard hear you if he does you fail. Overall this is a decent game. One more thing I like about it is the rumble feature it's pretty cool! i reccomend this game to any one who wants a handheld portable James Bond like game.

Not up to snuff...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 was a nearly flawless shooter for the console. This Game Boy version comes out and ends up being a complete waste. Why must Rare create a game that makes it impossible to really sneak around and use stealth tactics when they claim that you must do so in order to survive. Survival of this game is simply having ammo (always low on that) and trying to shoot people that are coming from an angle. The only saving grace of this game is the great use of sound and the features, such as boss attack and such. Make sure you know what you are getting before you pick up this title.

the perfect game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the best game i own...the game stars joanna dark as the main character as this is why its called perfect dark!!!the graphics are excellent showing full on movie scenes.the game is hard but i have only had it since christmas and have already procressed to level 5 boss, were your kept on a boat unarmed...its hard... the game is great, well with a few minor minuses such as no decent music and cruddy controls...

Don't bother. There are other games out there.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When the Transfer Pak was initially introduced for the Nintendo 64, there were very few games that used it. Pokémon Stadium and Mario Gold (see reviews) were the first ones, and Mario Tennis was coming. At the time, I had recently bought Perfect Dark for the N64, and I'd heard that the GBC version would use the Transfer Pak. Based on that, I bought the GBC game. Oops.

My first mistake was expecting an N64-type experience from this game, and that's simply not possible. Perfect Dark was so good for the N64 that it couldn't be translated well for the Game Boy. However, it could still be a good game in its own right. Well, it's not.

The controls, to say the least, are poor. It's difficult to aim, difficult to tell where you're aiming, hard to tell what's happening, hard to see where items are to pick up. It's just difficult to play. I couldn't even force myself to go through the first level.

The sound is nothing spectacular, and while the cut scenes are interesting, the graphics themselves are poor. The cartridge also comes with a built-in Rumble feature, but that really doesn't add anything to the game other than weight.

I can't recommend this game in any way, even for its ability to unlock features in the N64 game (which I couldn't find in the GBC manual and will accept on faith). It's simply not worth it. If you need to get into things in the N64 version, find some cheat codes on-line and save yourself some money.

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