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Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark is an action video game developed by Rare and released for the Game Boy Color handheld console in 2000. As a prequel to its Nintendo 64 counterpart, the game follows agent Joanna Dark as she…

1 August 2000

Perfect Dark is an adventure developed by Rare, released 1 August 2000 on Game Boy Color.

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What Perfect Dark is

Perfect Dark is an adventure game developed by Rare and released in 2000. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Game Boy Color only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in early 2022, Perfect Dark follows agent Joanna Dark during the final stages of her training at the Carrington Institute, a research centre founded by Daniel Carrington. After completing her training, Joanna is sent on a mission to destroy a cyborg manufacturing facility in the South American jungle. The facility is run by Mink Hunter and produces high-tech weaponry for terrorist operations. Joanna completes her mission successfully, killing Hunter and destroying the entire facility. She then reports that, during her landing in the jungle, she witnessed an aircraft being shot down and made a note of the coordinates. Carrington learns that there is a UFO in the area and that dataDyne…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Perfect Dark series

Perfect Dark is the second of 4 entries we hold in the Perfect Dark series. The next entry was Perfect Dark Zero in 2005.

See all 4 Perfect Dark games in release order →

What it launched against

Perfect Dark launched on 1 August 2000, within three weeks of Paper Mario, Grandia II, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 and Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child.

Released around the same time: Paper Mario, Grandia II, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child.

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When did Perfect Dark come out?
Perfect Dark was released on 1 August 2000 for Game Boy Color.

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