Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark is a remastered release of the first-person shooter video game by the same name. Developed by 4J Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios a decade after the original's 2000 release, the…
Perfect Dark is a shooter developed by 4J Studios, released 17 March 2010 on Xbox 360.
What Perfect Dark is
Perfect Dark is a shooter game developed by 4J Studios and released in 2010. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Perfect Dark is a 2010 first-person shooter developed by 4J Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 through its Xbox Live Arcade download service. The game is a remaster of the original Perfect Dark, which was developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. Although the gameplay remains largely unchanged, the remaster features significant technical improvements over the original, including new higher-resolution textures and character models, a higher frame rate, and a multiplayer mode that supports the Xbox Live online service. The story of the game follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute organization, as she attempts to stop a…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction, stealth and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Perfect Dark series
Perfect Dark is the fourth of 4 entries we hold in the Perfect Dark series. It arrived 4 years after Perfect Dark Zero. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Perfect Dark Zero at 72.
How it was received
Perfect Dark holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Perfect Dark launched on 17 March 2010, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, God of War III, Metro 2033 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Perfect Dark yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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