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Perfect Dark Zero Limited Collector's Edition (Xbox 360)

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

31 reviews
Sales Rank: 2872

Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 15 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5

MPN: S71-00052
UPC: 882224075831
EAN: 0882224075831
ASIN: B000BAMIB8

Release Date: December 2, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Joanna Dark returns in the Xbox 360-exclusive Perfect Dark Zero, the prequel to the international award-winning and multimillion-selling first-person shooter Perfect Dark.

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In a nutshell:
Her name’s Dark, Jo Dark. And this is the story of how England’s female super agent became who she is, from humble beginnings as gun-for-hire to premier league spy. When a straightforward corporate snatch mission leads to a global conspiracy, Joanna Dark and her father get sucked into a world conflict invisible to the public setting Jo on her path to becoming a Perfect Agent.

The lowdown:
Yes, you’ll get to shoot a lot of bad guys with weapons ranging from good old sniper rifles to silenced weapons to the RCP-90, nostalgic automatic weapon of choice for fans of Nintendo 64 classic Goldeneye, also from British developer Rare. Although the graphics aren’t looking as impressive as some other Xbox 360 launch titles, you have to try it to appreciate its subtlety – Perfect Dark feels great to play.

Most exciting moment:
Co-operative modes are becoming increasingly commonplace, but Perfect Dark takes things to the next level by introducing a new character and often wholly separate paths through the game’s intricately constructed maps.

Since you ask:
After creating masterpieces from Goldeneye to platform game legend Banjo Kazooie in partnership with Nintendo, developer Rare was snapped up by Microsoft to work exclusively on Xbox.

The bottom line:
Shaping up to be the shining star of Xbox 360’s launch line-up.
Nick Gillett


Not impressed with the line: "Excuse me, I think I dropped something! My jaw!! (She was a computer character and couldn't understand)	The aliens abandoned genocide. They were terrified of Joanna's magic torch

X-ray vision failed to live up to adolescent fantasies	The infinitely more saucy "Ready Brek" vision

Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Under-rated gem January 10, 2008
FPSfan (London,UK)
Fantastic multiplayer will keep you playing for months

Really varied single player (including split screen co-op and co-op over live).

4 out of 5 stars

Totally Awesome September 4, 2007
SurfyZack (Bournemouth, Dorset)
Yea this game is wicked in loads of ways! Campaign is fun and challenging, and deathmaches are awesome with the levels and the variants - even if you don't have XBOX Live. The graphics and detail of the game are really good too. This limited edition version comes with a disk which as a free skin for your XBOX Guide, some art and a song.

This was the first game I got when I bought my XBOX 360 and it was well worth buying!

3 out of 5 stars

A travesty to the original July 5, 2007
Happy_Shopper (UK)
This game is terrible, and only got away with it because it was a launch title.

I once heard this game was originally designed with the Gamecube in mind but that was halted when Microsoft bought Rare. It certainly feels like it, the graphics are dark, grainy and poor quality colour and the gameplay feels either like you're walking knee-high in treacle or walking on the moon, is there any need, reason or benefit to moving so slowly?

As for the single player plot, well, if there was one. It makes no sense at all, and all the voices have changed. PDZ is supposed to be a prequel to Perfect Dark on the N64 (all time classic), but Joanna Dark was British in that but appears to be American in this version. There is no correlation at all between the two games, they might as well be different franchises. Every mission seems to have some kind of co-operative element with teammates following you, and the framerate goes even lower than usual (if that's even possible) when they die, with the top right of the screen showing their body dropping to the ground which blocks your view of the enemy on the balcony trying to kill you. This is pointless, and they will die because they're stupid. The AI is horrendous. Every mission is just run and gun set to a time limit, "Hurry Joanna!". Where's the stealth aspects and actually having to think about what you did from the original game gone? Not to mention the repetitive and linear nature of the missions, and also the fact that they don't seem to follow on from each other in any kind of coherent fashion.

The whole game feels cheesy, fake and stylised. The soundtrack has been butchered; gone are the atmospheric, relevant and fitting sounds of the original and has been replaced by bad techno music and really cheesy voices such as "DOUBLE KILL!!!" on the multiplayer. The voice acting's horrible as well, no more needs to be said on that front.

The multiplayer is no fun, you're still running through treacle and having to deal with the grainy graphics (I'm running on a 42" HDTV and it still looks horrible, not a fault with my Xbox because my other games including launch titles like Call of Duty 2 and Condemned look amazing). It doesn't make any sense either, everyone's just obsessed with getting headshots all the time (because it takes about 100 rounds to the body to kill anyone, and don't bother with grenades because the explosions look horrible and they do no damage) and the inclusion of bots just makes it worse as they have the AI IQ equivalent to zero.

It's perfectly clear this game is awful and always has been as, if it were good, there wouldn't be a new patch coming out every week or so even to this day. No other 360 game has been patched this often which maybe goes to show how many bugs glitches and issues this game has. If you're wanting to play Perfect Dark, get an N64 and a copy of the original. Perfect Dark Zero is horrible, and not worth the money if you were given it for free. It's no fun, it looks horrible, the gameplay's atrocious, and the 360 had other infinitely better launch titles. Rare have managed to ruin one of the finest games of all time.

3 out of 5 stars

Perfect Dark Zeero May 31, 2007
O. Grover (UK)
Perfect Dark Zero is set before the original Perfect Dark which explains most of my questions when blasting through the game. this is an explaination for some of my questions, but not all.

nearly all the characters from the original Perfect Dark have vanished, there aren't a lot of weapons but there are some new ones to have fun with. the story mode takes you across 14-15 missions each varying with differculty and size. You can play with people over xbox live or on your console and with up to 4 players. i bought this game because it was cheap and i have the original Perfect Dark but i think RARE can do a lot better than all the mediocre games they have developed for the xbox 360.

all in all it was good but could do better

2 out of 5 stars

poor, let us play our way, give us choice and freedom. March 9, 2007
genejoke (uk)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Oh dear. Why did Microsoft spend so much money on rare? if this game is anything to go by it was a poor investment. The controls are aweful, I barely felt I had any control of my character. The graphics are fair, but unspectacular. and the level design is mediocre. what really bugged me was the way the game basically tells you, do this go here as if it is one very long and tedious training mission. arrgh. poor.

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