500°

Perfect Dark - XBLA vs N64 comparison images

Rare Extreme writes: "jotokun over at Gamefaqs posted these great comparison shots from Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64. Really shows what a great job they are doing on the XBLA upgrade."

Read Full Story >>
rare-extreme.com
FragMnTagM5472d ago

I can't wait to play this, I have been wanting this for a long time. It is hard to find an N64 these days. It is great to know in a few months I can play this on Live.

George Costanza5472d ago

If that forum poster is right about these being the original uncompressed/uncrappified textures that would be amazing!

Viatrophy5472d ago

It's looking pretty damn good!

Any one know when the release date is?

George Costanza5472d ago

Right now it's at Winter 2009.

I've honestly never been this excited for a XBLA game, this definitely qualifies as a heavy hitter if it delivers!

Elven65472d ago

George: Add me to the list, day 1 for me!

UnSelf5472d ago

greatest FPS of all time.

Hands down

TheIneffableBob5472d ago

You could always play Perfect Dark in an emulator.

It's pretty cool playing old games at HD resolutions.

STK0265472d ago

I can't wait for this game to come out. Hopefully they will allow for every multilayer modes to be playable online (I mean Co-op and counter-op).

Also, am I the only one who doesn't really like what they have done to the face of that guard? Her face almost scares me =/

dragunrising5472d ago

Its hard for me to look at the N64 screens...I feel like I took my glasses off. Glad to see the game looks a lot sharper albeit sterile.

phosphor1125472d ago

100% sure that those aren't the "uncompressed" textures. Not only are some textures different, but companies would not make textures over 4 times the resolution of what is supported on the hardware. That would mean more programming, more space to take up.

If you look at the gun textures. Those are really high res. You can see scratches, etc etc. While the 64 version is almost flat.

D4RkNIKON5472d ago

I can't believe they got an N64 game to look better than KZ2. Next Gen all the way. /sarcasm lol all fanboyishness aside, it does look really good. The fact that it plays online is also awesome. Great idea

5472d ago
FamilyGuy5471d ago

That's a pretty friggin sweet update! Why don't other, older games (classics) get released like this?

Dread5471d ago

@dark

a sony fanboy bringing kz2 in a perfect dark (nintendo 64 game) remake post.

pathetic.

Ausbo5471d ago

it looks great

I hope somehow that they can release goldeneye in the future.
F**k you nintendo

FragMnTagM5471d ago

If you read the article (forum post), scroll down and look at the emulator versus the updated xbox version, it is way superior. They definitely updated this game a bit.

TheIneffableBob5471d ago

I know, but the OP said that it's hard finding an N64 to play the game on.

+ Show (15) more repliesLast reply 5471d ago
Elven65472d ago

Holy crap, this looks amazing!

First day buy for me, 4J Studios really knows how to do it, from Oblivion to Banjo their ports have always kicked ass!

George Costanza5472d ago

The guys at 4J are definitely talented, sucks how they are always stuck with porting jobs, not many people realize they are the ones doing them.

ShadesMoolah5472d ago

All those blind gamers that say some current gen games look like they have N64 graphics or words to that effect. Well this just proves that they are talking out of their asses.

Elven65472d ago

Those people must be insane! Perfect Dark is one of the if not the best N64 game and it had issues, most notably the framerate which was more a N64 thing then anything else.

Kamikaze1355472d ago

I was wondering....what's the deal with the "Complex" level from Goldeneye 007 on the N64 being in this game as well?

Elven65472d ago

Fan service I assume, the more popular Golden Eye maps were remade in the PD engine. This is about as close as we will get to Golden Eye and I'm fine with that!

STK0265472d ago

In my opinion, Complex was one of Goldeneye's best multiplayer map, if not the best one. As a matter of fact, when playing PD, I often chose Complex over most of the PD maps.

This is just my opinion, but I felt that many PD maps were rather boring to play in, so having Complex was great for me and my friends back in the days.

Max Power5472d ago (Edited 5472d ago )

in its original box. Bought it, opened it, played it for 15 minutes and put it back, perhaps I'll bust it out and see whats what. But Rare did a good job with the port.

Bathyj5472d ago

15 Minutes! Boy did you miss out. I have over 10K headshots in multiplayer for this game.

Time to dust the old XB off.

likedamaster5471d ago

"Time to dust the old XB off."

XB as in Xbox? Or XB as in Nintendo 64?

Bathyj5471d ago (Edited 5471d ago )

XB as in XB360 so I can get PD64 on it.

Sorry if that was too subtle.

??!??!?!??

ambientFLIER5471d ago

I have this game factory sealed still, as well as an open copy. You can find them sealed on ebay for 10 bucks including shipping. They made a ton of them.

Troll-Killer5471d ago

Yeah, dummy...don't you know XB is the universal nickname for the N64. Geez....EVERYBODY knows that. :o

+ Show (2) more repliesLast reply 5471d ago
Show all comments (63)
100°

Insider Claims Perfect Dark Reboot Remains in a 'Very Rough State

Insider reveals Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot struggles in development, far from ready despite ongoing efforts.

Read Full Story >>
infinitestart.com
helicoptergirl23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

The hits just keep on coming. Will not be surprised if this gets canned. It already got rebooted and they had to bring on an outside studio to try and help developement. Some of the original creatives have left the project.

But I will say, just wait until the MS showcase. If you don't see it there, then alarm bells should start ringing.

Snookies1223d ago

God, please don't screw this one up Microsoft! I am keeping my expectations super low, but Perfect Dark (the original) holds such a special place in my childhood. I want this to turn out well SO bad.

helicoptergirl23d ago

Are you expecting the game to be shown at the upcoming Xbox Showcase?

neutralgamer199223d ago

Just cancel it because we know you won’t be happy with its sales performance while giving it away on GP day one. GP is the biggest issue for developers and that affects the sales. No one can deny that now. GP equals to good deal for gamers and bad deals for AAA development. Take two CEO said it and he was 100% right. There are certain games that make sense on GP but not every game. 20 million gamers playing a game on GP doesn’t mean much to MS it seems because they still want sales. Just please start releasing all games on other platforms otherwise Phil is next now. You can’t spend 80 billion and be this bad

Inverno23d ago

The studio was founded in 2018. It's still not adding up in my head how it can take 6 years to develop a game, with a whole dev studio working on it.

jjb198122d ago

This is the only upcoming MS game I'm looking forward to. I hope it doesn't get canceled.

110°

Xbox Showcase 2024: 7 Things We Want

Kevin writes: "The upcoming Xbox Showcase 2024 is going to be important for the future of Xbox consoles and Game Pass, and here's 7 things we want to see."

rlow129d ago

Perfect Dark would be cool but I’m hoping for Fable. I’m really interested where they’ve taken the game.

Tacoboto29d ago

Looking ahead now, I'd say Avowed is what I'm looking forward to most in the fall. Obsidian's been nothing but quality and consistency so I can't wait to see what they've been cooking

80°

5 predictions for an Xbox Developer Direct curveball

From Contraband to Perfect Dark, here are some potential wildcard surprises that could appear at this month's Xbox Developer Direct.

Read Full Story >>
theloadout.com
The3faces139d ago

Wow I actually commented in a Xbox thread before Jin_Sakai! Contraband gameplay would be dope.