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Halo + 007 = PDZ

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Perfect Dark Zero is a great game. I want to start off with that. To keep it simple the game is a mixture of Halo gunplay with 007 espionage and stealth tactics mixed for a pretty enjoyable game. Here are my personal Pros & Cons

PROS:

+ Fun single player mode with shorter & more replayable levels
+ Co-op fun
+ Optional bots in multiplayer (for those without live)
+ Lot of cool weapons (w/ cool secondary features)
+ Interesting "slot" system for holding weapons
+ Mediocre story line

CONS:

- Very unrealistic (killing an enemy at point blank can take up to 4 shotgun shots)
- Pistols pretty much pathetic ('cept Revolver)
- Last boss (No spoiler, but when you play it, just think "WHAT?!")
- Only 13 levels
- Online play can seem a little too chaotic

Overall, the game is a lot of fun, but not very original. I know that everyone says it but it's true. If you want the best shooter for the 360, go with Call of Duty 2. It is a much more realistic game. If you want an unrealistic, but fun sci fi action game, this is for you. BTW, the graphics are great!

How Many Years In The Making?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was walking through the mall one day and I saw an Xbox 360. I really haven't played Xbox that much; and haven't played the 360 at all. ( I'm a PS2 gamer/'Cube gamer. ) I picked my mission and was on my way. The first thing you notice OBVIOUSLY are the graphics. The graphics are fantastic, and very polished. Anyways here I go with my low-down!

Graphics: 9/10. Although extremely great,polished,fresh,and colorful, the bullet holes don't do much, and the blood looks extremely fake.

Sound: 8.5/10. It was loud in the mall, but I could hear some of what was going on. The voices are OKAY, the gun sounds are what you would expect from any above-average shooter... you know.

Control: 7.5/10. I haven't really gotten used to the Xbox controller yet, but it wasn't TOO bad. I got used to the controls somewhat, but I didn't master them. They aren't bad, but aren't great either.

Fun: 7.5/10. There is Co-Op, there is a nice story line, there are nice graphics and sound, but where exactly IS the fun? I mean, it's OKAY, but it's been in the works for quite a long time and I would have expected more. If you're a Perfect Dark fan, buy this. If you are a shooter fan, get Call of Duty 2 for the 360.

Perfect Dark is Perfect!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Of the two games I purchased with my XBOX 360, this is the one I've played the most. It's addicting and fun. I would recommend it as the one to get with the 360 if you like this type of game.

Good, But Not Perfect Dark 64

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was OK with the graphics (I expected photorealism, I guess), but the actual gameplay in single player mode seemed very repetitive--how many times do I have to kill this b****'s hologram and fight these stone samurais...for real?? I tried multiplayer next...and I was practically hooked! PD64 is my favorite game because of the customizable features in the Combat Simulator, and I was glad the 360 game retained MOST of that. I'm sure most FPS fans will like it, but the multiplayer is the redeeming value.

This Game Sucks

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Graphics - 2 out of 5
Fun 1 out of 5
Game = Boring

I bought this game because i had heard the hype about it, that it was supposed to be all next gen and the new halo, but it was definatly not, do not but this game, get call of duty instead...

Stuck in the year 2000

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As I play Perfect Dark Zero, I find myself disengaged. The characters are predictable, the missions are cliche, and the gameplay, while good, is nothing new. PDZ is visually stunning, but the gameplay hasn't advanced since the original, while the rest of the gaming world has.

Look at Call of Duty 2 for the X360. It's immersive, the AI is strong, you have squadmates along side you. You are part of a complicated environment that is really convincing. Your heart beats fast while you play and you feel a satisfying sense of accomplishment and relief when you finish a mission. PDZ falls far short of this.

Or consider GTA: San Andreas. Great mission storylines, cool quirky characters, and a gritty sense of reality that permiates the game. It's really well written. PDZ's storyline is worthless.

I thought this would be the killer-ap for the X360, but I was wrong. If you want a first-person shooter, Call of Duty 2 is a far better choice. Even Condemned: Criminal Origins, while flawed, offers more original and interesting gameplay. While Perfect Dark Zero is beautiful, it's stuck in the year 2000. A RARE miss.

Incredible detail - light on plot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The storyline is very important to a shooter. For the intricate detail and extraordinary visual quality, you would think the plot would offer something of greater substance. The set-up for the storyline is great but they didn't take it to create something truly great. The game is fun but it does not leave you at the edge of your seat at the end of each mission. This makes it easier to turn off the console and step away but come on, you want to be pulled in and deeply anticipating the next mission. The challenges are good and the quality of the game overallis outstanding. I just with they had put the same quality into the plot.

The prequel to one of the best fps games ever made is finally here!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like GoldenEye, Perfect Dark or Timesplitters you should play this game. This is not Halo and that is a good thing. It has cameras and alarms to avoid and you actually have to make sure you have a silenced gun, If you raise the alarm, the mission is over. This game gets better the longer you play it, but if you don't have Xbox live, you probably should not get this game. Singleplayer on Perfect Agent difficulty, Xbox Live co-op and Dark-ops on Xbox Live are probably the best features in this game. You will not be able to enjoy this game if you use the default controls, you will need to adjust the sensitivity and you may end up changing it multiple times to be able to actually play the game.

A great game, but doesn't really live up to the original.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If this was a stand alone game, I would just say, "Hey, this is a pretty cool game, but its got some problems". However, this isn't a stand alone game, this is a sequel to what many including myself consider to be one of the best shooters of all time. So this game is going to be held up to higher standards, and it is going to suffer for it.

The graphics are very good for a launch game, and showcase the potential of the Xbox 360 well. Lighting is heavily used in this game, and seems to be what they focused on the most when developing the graphics for this game. As a result, everything shines like crazy, even the plants are shiny. They used a lot of color this time around, not unlike Halo's art style. It gives the game a refreshing look that is much appreciated. Some of the character models are very strange looking and disproportionate, which doesn't make any sense because other character models look perfectly normal.

The soundtrack is pretty typical of Perfect Dark. It is essentially the same one as the original but remixed and expanded. Gun effects and explosions all sound fine, but aren't really anything special. The voice work is pretty cheesy, it even makes me wince with embarrassment sometimes.

The game-play, while solid, isn't really improved in any way from the first game. In fact, sometimes it even feels a little worse. What I mean by this is that it doesn't control very tight, so it takes some getting used to, but once you've got the hang of things it's a perfectly fine shooter. The game features pretty the same weapon set as the first Perfect Dark. The storyline is your pretty average FPS campaign, nothing special. The plot itself is really stupid, and the ending is atrocious. The campaign does however, feature a couple really cool moments, even so, it only lasts about 6 hours. This brings me to multi-player. It's pretty interesting with some neat ideas and innovative game modes. This being said, they could have taken the multi-player a lot further and made it more competitive, increasing it's longevity. It's basically the same game as before but in HD.

Rare really let me, along with a lot of other fans down with this one. It's still a very solid shooter with some nice ideas, but it really wasn't executed well. It makes me wonder what they did with all that development time. This game is still worth at least a rent, if for no other reason that to see how the the prequel to one of the best shooters ever turned out.

Good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A good shooter. The thing I wanted to bring attention to was the game's music. The soundtrack is great. Every single track is wonderfully melodic and rhythmic. Thank goodness for game music; I wouldn't have any music to listen to if it weren't for game music. The music in PDZ has a somewhat James Bond 007 sound from the 60's kind of style. It's actually not my favorite kind of music, but in PDZ it's great. So, thank you so much to Rare for the excellent music in PDZ.

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