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Today, we got a first look at gameplay from Perfect Dark, The Initiative's highly anticipated reboot of the secret agent series featuring the iconic Joanna Dark.


In the near future, Earth is struck by a series of global disasters, bringing ecosystems around the world to the verge of collapse. In the all-new Perfect Dark game, you experience the journey of Joanna Dark, dataDyne's elite agent, as she hunts down the world's most wanted criminal, Daniel Carrington, to uncover the mysteries behind the technological breakthroughs that could threaten the lives of millions of people.


The new trailer showed us Joanna's descent into the game's Cairo setting, offered us a glimpse at the mysteries behind this near-future ecological sci-fi story, and introduced us to a game that blends fluid traversal, gadgets, close-quarters combat, gunplay, stealth, and more to create the ultimate secret agent experience.

 

[Schachtier]

This looks really cool, cant lie.

 

[N0S]

Looks like Deus Ex and Mirror's Edge combined.

 

[R6Rider]

In before the memes about her looks.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Looks sweet, baby

 

[xHunter]

She looks like she is about to call the manager

 

[VAVA Mk2]

Looks much better than PD0. That was so cartoony and stupid.

 

[analog_future]

Looks sweet, baby

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Looks good from the very little I caught on the stream.

 

[The Shepard]

This looks good

 

[StueyDuck]

Game looks good enough.

But an absolute bastardisation of the IP. Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title.

Looks like they've just attached a random game to an ip because they were worried it wouldn't sell.

As been mentioned, calling this a deus ex sequel is more apt

There is also alot of cyberpunk style fake gameplay but most games do that with their vertical slice so I'm not gonna knock it for that

Edit: I see where the narrative is going with the game and Joanna. I just want it to be clear my gripes are with the game itself resembling nothing to what I consider perfect dark to be. It has nothing to do with the looks of the character

 

[skyfinch]

Fuck, now I need to buy Series S again.

 

[peish]

She looks like she is about call the manager

looks like MCU captain marvel

otherwise, PD looks like Gamepass seller! MS wins

 

[clarky]

Looks like Deus Ex and Mirror's Edge combined.

Sounds like a great combo. Hopefully they pull it off.

 

[pasterpl]

Got Deus ex vibes from this. Day 1 for sure.

 

[FeralEcho]

Game looks amazing but what have they done to Joanna...

Western devs are utterly incapable of making aestetically pleasing women anymore...

 

[SALMORE]

nothing good nor interesting in that trailer ! looks like a generic fps fps from the days of the PS360

 

[R3TRO]

Looks surprisingly good

 

[Banjo64]

In before the memes about her looks.

There's no meme to be had. Sadly masculine looks = strong female character for the challenged Western devs.

 

[Dacvak]

Looks solid! Game pass is really looking tasty atm.

 

[Valt7786]

Gameplay looked great, looking forward to it.
It's 1st person so not a big deal, but Jo-Chinna Dark is not it.

 

[tTHANOSs]

The trailer looks scripted but it does look good.

 

[adamsapple]

That looked fantastic.

Glad to see it's coming along.

 

[DavJay]

MS should hand off women designs to the stellar blade artist. This is unacceptable

 

[Braag]

Looks very interesting, definitely keeping my eye on this.

 

[XXL]

I'm hoping this is an immersive sim.

I want to know more about it.

 

[WorldHero]

Looks better than I thought, hope they add some blood though.

 

[kikkis]

Looks good, but I find FPS parkour disorienting.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I think doing this as an Arkane-style immersive sim seems like a smart take, even if it's a departure from the classic game. I don't really want a boomer shooter throwback so this works for me.

 

[begotten]

But an absolute bastardisation of the IP. Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title

They set it in Cairo too so they can use all those Unreal Engine 5 environment assets from the marketplace.

 

[MujkicHaris]

Looks like a reskin of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. And that game was a disappointment.

 

[Red5]

Deus Ex sequel despite the name, in light of a true Deus Ex sequel being cancelled by the boneheads at Embracer I'm looking forward to this game. Hopefully it's truly semi open world like Deus Ex.

 

[StueyDuck]

They set it in Cairo too so they can use all those Unreal Engine 5 environment assets from the marketplace.

We are definitely returning to a era where it's obvious when a game is UE. Like we had back in the UE3 days.

 

[Griffon]

Her face...

The gameplay might be alright tho. The gunplay is a bit hard to parse if it's good or not.

 

[Northeastmonk]

She looks good. Would.jpg lol

It looks pretty good. I'd definitely check it out.

 

[Georges Chiellins]

Boring.

 

[Soltype]

Not going to lie, she looks British.

 

[SoloCamo]

Just know whenever any one of you hates their job, someone is out there being forced to make ugly lead woman characters.

 

[analog_future]

Game looks good enough.

But an absolute bastardisation of the IP. Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title.

Looks like they've just attached a random game to an ip because they were worried it wouldn't sell.

As been mentioned, calling this a deus ex sequel is more apt

There is also alot of cyberpunk style fake gameplay but most games do that with their vertical slice so I'm not gonna knock it for that

Edit: I see where the narrative is going with the game and Joanna. I just want it to be clear my gripes are with the game itself resembling nothing to what I consider perfect dark to be. It has nothing to do with the looks of the character

I dunno, it's a first person action-espionage adventure starring a female protagonist that utilizes futuristic tech. Seems strong to say "Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title".

 

[MagiusNecros]

Game looks good enough.

But an absolute bastardisation of the IP. Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title.

Looks like they've just attached a random game to an ip because they were worried it wouldn't sell.

As been mentioned, calling this a deus ex sequel is more apt

There is also alot of cyberpunk style fake gameplay but most games do that with their vertical slice so I'm not gonna knock it for that

Edit: I see where the narrative is going with the game and Joanna. I just want it to be clear my gripes are with the game itself resembling nothing to what I consider perfect dark to be. It has nothing to do with the looks of the character

Agreed. Joanna is attacking Carrington which in the original game she is supposed to be an Agent of. It's also being developed by Crystal Dynamics so there is that too. Expect lots of wishywashy monologue.

Seems like a Perfect Dark reboot(again?). Not too keen on it.

 

[StueyDuck]

I dunno, it's a first person action-espionage adventure starring a female protagonist that utilizes futuristic tech. Seems strong to say "Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title".

I mean either you played the original perfect dark or you didn't. I'm sorry you didn't, hopefully you'll catch up some time.

 

[analog_future]

I mean either you played the original perfect dark or you didn't. I'm sorry you didn't, hopefully you'll catch up some time.

I played the original PD and well as PD Zero. Way to respond to a pretty reasonable comment like a dickhead.

 

[StueyDuck]

Agreed. Joanna is attacking Carrington which in the original game she is supposed to be an Agent of. It's also being developed by Crystal Dynamics so there is that too. Expect lots of wishywashy monologue.

Seems like a Perfect Dark reboot(again?). Not too keen on it.

But even "plot" aside. Again they are just attaching names from the original to an arbitrary sequel.

Perfect dark was essentially female James bond in a fifth element/blade runner future.

It was suave and cheesy , I mean it had a gray alien you saved called Elvis and the ultimate enemy was a weird starship trooper tyrannid bug thing

This is just deus ex

 

[TintoConCasera]

Not convinced at all, but I desire to know more.

 

[StueyDuck]

I played the original PD and well as PD Zero. Way to respond to a pretty reasonable comment like a dickhead.

Whatever floats your boat.

"It'S an AKsHun GamE witH cHaraCter and ThiNgS , eXAcTly tHe SaME"

We both know you weren't making a good faith argument and it's purely console driven, I am console agnostic and perfect dark was thee game I played most on N64 until I got timesplitters2 to take that spot and hey look at that, made by the same people...

Needless to say I know what the game is and the game I saw on screen now is absolutely nothing like perfect dark.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Looks promising but doesn't look like PD , looking forward to playing it on Ps5.

 

[BlackTron]

Game looks good enough.

But an absolute bastardisation of the IP. Absolutely nothing In this is perfect dark at all other than the name in the title.

Looks like they've just attached a random game to an ip because they were worried it wouldn't sell.

As been mentioned, calling this a deus ex sequel is more apt

There is also alot of cyberpunk style fake gameplay but most games do that with their vertical slice so I'm not gonna knock it for that

Edit: I see where the narrative is going with the game and Joanna. I just want it to be clear my gripes are with the game itself resembling nothing to what I consider perfect dark to be. It has nothing to do with the looks of the character

I get it, the original PD was a straight up hardcore FPS game. Goldeneye 2. None of this Mirror's Edge stuff and the like.

But I think the franchise has the room to change and adapt. And maybe it should, because trying to be a straight up hardcore FPS in this market is a different beast than in the N64 days, which is the last time PD happened.

I'm not counting PD0 of course.

But even "plot" aside. Again they are just attaching names from the original to an arbitrary sequel.

Perfect dark was essentially female James bond in a fifth element/blade runner future.

It was suave and cheesy , I mean it had a gray alien you saved called Elvis and the ultimate enemy was a weird starship trooper tyrannid bug thing

This is just deus ex

I really don't think we've seen enough of the game to draw these conclusions. You didn't even know aliens were in PD until some time into the game, nevermind the first trailer.

 

[FewRope]

The gameplay was omega fake, what the fuck was that

 

[SyberWolf]

Looks like Deus Ex and Mirror's Edge combined.

i also had deus ex vibes

 

[MagiusNecros]

But even "plot" aside. Again they are just attaching names from the original to an arbitrary sequel.

Perfect dark was essentially female James bond in a fifth element/blade runner future.

It was suave and cheesy , I mean it had a gray alien you saved called Elvis and the ultimate enemy was a weird starship trooper tyrannid bug thing

This is just deus ex

Seems more like a rewrite of the first game but things seem to be flipped on their head. Joanna is indeed supposed to be a Bond archetype but there is just too much talking going on. Probably is a Deus Ex game at it's core but just using Perfect Dark name to generate more hype.