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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!

Buy this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game rules. It is awsome. It is alittle hard at times but that can be bypassed with good controls, graphics, contols and sound. Buy it if you liked the nintendo version.

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...

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!

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.

Its not the N64 game, but its still great.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It should be obvious that it's impossible to convert a console game to a handheld system. Despite this, Rare tried their hardest to continue the adventures of Joanna Dark and in my opinion, they suceeded. Though far from Perfect, Perfect Dark provides a lot of fun for those who are dedicated enough to learn how the game works. There's a substantial amount of depth to this game, and the multiplayer functions are better than any I've seen for a Game Boy Color game. Plus, its ability to unlock cheats in the N64 version is an added bonus to buying this game. The only problem of this game is the slightly awkward hit detection and play control system. That and the game is almost entirely in a limited third person view. Despite this, it is still a brilliant game that should not be passed up.

Perfect Dark on GBC

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Through-out all the GBC games, this is probably the most unique of the bunch. More importantly, this is probably the only one with full voice over. More than once have I completed the game, so I geuss you could call it kind of addicting. So here you go, my review on Perfect Dark.

Story: Joanna Dark, the hero from the #1 smash hit Perfect Dark, for N64 has returned in the prequal on GBC. Saldly, the story hasn't got the same flare as its prodecesser. Through-out her adventure, Joanna will encouter many bosses, many of which require serious skill to take down. The game also offers many game types, such as sniping(my favorite), driving, and all out action. I'll leave it there for now.

Graphics: Not the Best on the GBC, but they are quite clean, still there is hardly no color variation. Nothing really special.

Sound: The soundtrack is great(what little there is), and yes, the game does feature voice acting, but as unfortunate as it is, they are terrible, blah!

Gameplay: As I mentioned earlier, the gameplay is extremly varied and fun, easily the best part of the game. The controls are a bit mushy though. The stealth is pretty cool too.

my conclusion is that this is a great game, and you should try it if you the series you should give it a go, but still, you might want a more solid adventure, and in that case, you should try MGS.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I saw alot of the reviews for this game and I didnt know whether to get it or not, so I decided to try it. I am pretty impressed by this game. It is not bad at all. PD reminds me of Goldeneye, with the objectives and the watch and everything. The game is challenging, and requires you to be patient and watchful. The weapons are okay, but I dont like how they are hard to fire. I do like how you can get the leftover guns from guards. The rumble feature lets you know you got hit and the training segments kind of sharpen you shooting skills. The graphics are also very good for a game boy. The bottom line is, this game is a goldeneye for the GB minus the music...

Not exactly 'Perfect', but it's good.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you've ever played Metal Gear, you'll feel right at home in Perfect Dark. The same run, shoot, sneak, and loot while performing acts of espionage is duplicated in this cartridge. While controls could be better, they do the job well once you get used to them. The rumble pack does a nice job of letting you know you're getting hit (since it is sometimes hard to see the shots of your enemies on the screen actually hitting you). The sniper mode and 'shooting gallery' modes are a lot of fun, and make good transitions between the scenes. People are complaining that the Nintendo 64 version makes this one awful, but you have to remember the GBC is an 8 bit system, and for the smooth animation and features packed into this cartridge, I believe that Rare did a good job, and that the game is worth the purchase. My only real problem with it is the fact that you can't really see a guard until it's too late and he's running at you, but the ability to shoot through some barriers that the guards can't see you through (barrels, fences, columns, stairs, etc) definately 'levels' that problem out.

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