IGN Perfect Dark Zero: First Impressions

[Flawless]

Forget every screenshot you've seen. We've seen Rare's shooter in motion, and it's gorgeous. First impressions.

Forget the crappy screenshots you've seen. They completely misrepresent the game. Forget that Microsoft didn't show its number one game at its news conference. That was a mistake, in hindsight. My first appointment to Microsoft's booth on day one of E3 was with the Rare team responsible for the upcoming Perfect Dark Zero, and I was wowed.

I had mixed expectations; I'm a realist. Games in development often have low framerates and shoddy AI. They're not done. Of course they do. Today, I saw a demo of Perfect Dark Zero running on a Xbox alpha kit (a PC) using an old ATI graphics card, not the final GPU from the Xbox 360, and was told the game was only using about 25% to 30% of the system's full power. And Perfect Dark Zero looked incredible. Incredible. It looked nearly as good as Gears of War, which, in my humble opinion is the best looking 360 game of the show so far (I saw that running in realtime too). So, simply put, Perfect Dark Zero shocked me.

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[Kodiak33]

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Forget every screenshot you've seen. We've seen Rare's shooter in motion, and it's gorgeous. First impressions.



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I made a post too, hopefully a mod will erase it.

[Flawless]

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Wow, we posted at the exact sametime.

[sublime96]

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Wow, I read this article and im definately getting this game now. I can't imagine playing with 49 other people.

[Flawless]

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Q:What is your feeling about the acquisition of Rare and what do you expect from them now and in the future of this new generation?

Steve: The Rare acquisition was a big acquisition. It ranked as one of the top 10 biggest acquisitions at Microsoft and we had to bring it to the board of supervisors for a vote. When we bought Rare we realized their approach would broaden our strategy. We've re-vectored our strategy since the acquisition, but this is part of a strategic bet, and Rare will do more on Xbox 360 than on Xbox. That's for sure. They will be Xbox 360 oriented.

They've worked out well. They're an important part of our start. And we want Rare to get it right, we don't want to rush them. I mean look at Halo when we first showed it. It looked awful. We gave Bungie time, and it worked out. I mean, look at sales of Halo and Halo 2. We want to give Rare the right time to make their games.

Peter: They're great guys, the Stamper brothers. The guys at Rare are geniuses. The two titles they're working on, PDZ and Kameo are deep, thorough, and sophisticated, they're not shallow games. And PDZ is a genre-breaking title.

Steve: How am I feeling about Rare? Our shareholders will be excited when these games are done. No doubt. I'm feeling pretty good right now about Rare. Really good.