Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It is considered the spiritual successor to Rare's earlier first-person…
Perfect Dark is a shooter developed by Rare, released 22 May 2000 on Nintendo 64.
What Perfect Dark is
Perfect Dark is a shooter game developed by Rare and released in 2000. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Perfect Dark is a 2000 first-person shooter game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The first game of the Perfect Dark series, it follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute research centre, as she attempts to stop an extraterrestrial conspiracy by rival corporation dataDyne. The game features a campaign mode where the player must complete a series of levels to progress through the story, as well as a range of multiplayer options, including a co-operative mode and traditional deathmatch settings with computer-controlled bots.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Perfect Dark series
Perfect Dark is the first of 4 entries we hold in the Perfect Dark series. The next entry was Perfect Dark in 2000. 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 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Players rate it 79, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Perfect Dark launched on 22 May 2000, within three weeks of Ground Control, Grand Prix 3, Evolva and Motocross Madness 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Ground Control, Grand Prix 3, Evolva, Motocross Madness 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.
Official trailer
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