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Summary I have beaten the entire game on special agent and am now working on perfect agent. This game is definetely the best game on the N64. In fact it is one of the few reasons to own one along with Goldeneye and Zelda.I'm sad to say I most likely won't be playing Perfect Dark 2 if there is one because I decided to go with the PS2 this time but at least I get Gran Turismo 2000 and MGS2. Anyway this game kicks ass in all places especially the multiplayer. Whenever I sleepover at my friends house I bring it and an extra controller along with me and three of us play till 4 am. Buy Now!!! Just a note to all N64 gamers going to the PS2. Don't worry about leaving Rare to much because a bunch of their employees left and made their own company and is making games for PS2. One is called Timesplitters and it looks kick ass I heard they also have another in the works that is more inricate and detailed like PD. Whoohoo Sound The sound is everything I'd expect everything sounds real and there are cinema's before and after every level and sometimes in the middle of the level. It may not be cd quality music but is fits the game so well that its great. When your in a rush and trying to complete the last objective the music will get faster and your adrenaline will be pumping.Gameplay The gameplay is non-stop action and you won't get bored. It took me a while but I finally got golds on the firing range on all of the weopons. The single player is fun and it keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Perfect Dark has a huge challenge so don't expect to beat it in only a month unless your really hardcore. The best of course is the multiplayer. Play by yourself or with friends. I love having simulants and playing friends against a team of bots is great. There are tons of options to choose from so you can play any creative game you can think up. There is also a co-op mode and counter op mode.This is now the only game I play out of the nine games I own. Nothing else compares. The only way I would recommend renting it is if you plan on selling your 64 right away. If so make sure you rent this first cause you don't want to miss out. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Ok,let me tell all you idiots that dissed this game,you have something wrong with you.VERY WRONG. Not only does this game have endless multiplayer fun,but it has intellegent gamplay as well. I played with 4 of my friends and 8 simulants. And yes,it looked like the game was high,the fps was so bad. But as much as i can think of it,that's the only thing wrong with it.Sound AWSOME!!!!!!! The sounds that game from this game are like brilliant for the n64. And the vioce acting is unbelievable.Gameplay The game runs at a steady 25fps,not 13 like that one numskull said. THe frame rate is what ruins it.It can get so blurry,that you'll have to stop whatever you're doing. But it is more steady than Goldeneye007.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By "CHiPs" fanFrom Robbinsdale, MN Review Date 08/22/2000 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Perfect Dark is another great shooter from Rareware. It is a great upgrade of GoldenEye 007. Everything that makes a great shooter is in this game.Sound The sound in PD is very cool. The music fits the game setting and is very well done throughout the game.Gameplay Gameplay is excellent. There are tons of solo missions and the best thing is all the combat simulator levels where you can create your custom setup of enemies, weapons and levels.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This is definatly the best video game ever. That includes playstation and computer aswell. One of the best things in the game is the multiplayer options: Co-operative, Counter operative, challenges and normal multiplayer just like Goldeneye. Aswell as that, there are some smaller options such as "king of the hill" and "hold the breifcase". It will take ages to finish because of all of these things. The cheats are also excellent. The best thing about the cheats is that you don't have to do the missions in a certain amount of time to unlock some of them. The Carrington Institute is amazing, including a shooting range, device training and a test of the new hover bike. And with a great selection of guns, I can't find many faults in the best game ever.Sound With enemies talking to each other and great sound-effects, the sound is also the best by far.Gameplay Alot of critics said not much could beat Goldeneye in the action catergory. I also thought they were right. Rare know this and that's why they haven't changed much of the gameplay. There are the same controls including getting your gun out and side-stepping. The are also a few extra controls like if you hold down A, you get a list of your guns so you can pick whick one you want to use in a second or two.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By ShouQueenFrom California Review Date 08/14/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary I just bought the game, and in the first few hours I got hooked. This is the best game yet. It has a great story line, and best of all they got a female (we rule!) as the hero. I like how she kicks all these guys' butts. I also love how they have an African-American as the president. To go along with that all the bad guys come from different backgrounds. I also like the how they talk too. This game is a real challenge, unlike the Goldeneye that you can beat the whole game in no time(even in 00 Agent), PD is a game that will take you months to beat. Rareware has done it again!Sound One word - WOW!Gameplay The gameplay is great and packed with so many things to do. It surprises you that it won't explode. My favorite is the multiplayer, it's more than just shooting your buddy down. I love how you can create your own scenarios. The solo missions are no doubt one of kind. The objectives right down mind teasing. Of course, I have to mention the cool gadgets you can mess around with in game.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game rocks!!!! The single player is insanely addictive, the co-operative is great with a friend ( but the sim buddy is completely thick ) and the multiplayer is hugely fun. Throw in a near perfection difficulty curve, loads of cutscenes, 30 challenges, computer deathmatch simulants of varying difficulties and even a firing range, and you've got an idea of how massive this game is! Don't beleive any biased pro Playstation gamers. This is one hell of a game. Lets have Perfect Dark 2 or even better another Bond game by Rare on the Dolphin/Starcube.Sound The voices are clean and crisp, the gun shots are loud and very realistic and the addition of gaurds talking makes the game seem that bit more realistic. Very good.Gameplay Perfect Dark, just like Goldeneye is so simple to play, yet so fiendishly difficult to master. The gameplay for this game is cool.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game is absolutely brilliant!!!!!!!!!! I am a huge fan of goldeneye007 and in fact i rented the game 5 times b4 i even owned a n64. and when this game came out i rented it and played it 2 like a day and a half straight! i enjoyed every aspect of the game. The multiplayer was unbelievable! The simulants have a mind of their own it'sexactly like fighting an actual player. I haven't seen co-opertive this good since double dragon 2 for nes! But the goldneye team has gone 2 far this time. there is also a counter-opertive gameplay in wich u can play as joanna dark and ur freind can play as a villan, and since the villan's hve such little life ur oppenant after being killed can controll a new villan! Theses are just a few of the great things on this gameSound Have u ever heard the sound un an Omnimax theatre, very similarGameplay i already explained thatWould you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Welcome to the year 2023. Your new identity will be a top of the line agent named Joanna Dark. She's so perfect in fact she has been granted the code name Perfect Dark.This game is a must for people who loved Goldeneye 64. Even if you haven't played Goldeneye 64 and don't know if you like it rent it. If a friend has it try it at your friends house. Just try it! One of the coolest features is that you can play with your friends in the normal Solo Missions. You either play as partners trying to complete the same mission or one plays as Joanna and the other as an enemy Joanna will normaly encounter during a normal one player game. This game not only has great Gameplay but there are cut screens before, after or even during your missions which adds up to hours of video with real voices. There ar also many weapons to choose from. Like the Farsight. It can look though many layers of walls and you can shoot enemies from afar. Another gun I like is the Laptop Gun. Besides being a nice machine gun you can deploy it as a sentry gun which with shoot any enemy it sees. This game even has cool new gadgets like night vision, Infra Red goggles, and X-Ray scanners. And feeling like no one notices you. That's probaly because you have a cool Cloaking Device on. If you want to try something new and exciting get Perfect Dark. Sound The sound is really cool. During normal game play you hear a tune that coincides with the mission. When you get to a part where the battle tends to heat up the music changes to a more heavy metal type of music. When that change occurs you better switch to a heavier gun and shoot like crazy. Another, sign a enemy has spotted you or you've killed an enemy is that they yell out phrases like, "I've got a clear shot!" telling you to move. If you've killed them, before they die they might say, "I don't want to die!"Another cool thing is that every spoken word is in real speech. This is done by Rare using MP3 compression. This helps majorly with all the video clips they have with real speech not text. Gameplay Compared to Goldeneye the AI is much smarter. If an enemy sees you it may run back to get more of his friends. Or even if they see you they may hide or duck out of the way to prevent being shot. If you get to close to conserve bullets they will engage you in hand to hand combat in which you get hit you will get hurt and also get dizzy.Another thing that makes this game more difficult is that you shoot a civilian you might just as well press start and abort the mission because you've just failed it. Unlike Goldeneye 64 you can kill a few scientists of civilians and not get punished. This is even move of a spy game than Goldeneye even. In one mission you can't just shut down a power core by a touch of a button, you have to use a X-Ray Scanner to press the right buttons to shut it down. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Perfect Dark is an exciting spy game as seen through the eyes of Johanna Dark. Filled with many twists and turns. This game goes with Goldeneye, DK64, and Mario Party (1/2) as one of the very few reasons to own a N64.Sound I've got surround sound hooked up on my system, and all I can say is...DAMN!!!!Surround Sound is the only way to play this game!The only thing I didn't like about the sound, was the overused Midi music. It was cool for a while, but then really got annoying. Gameplay Let's start with what I hate1. BRAINDEAD AI (very Quake IIish) More villians does not equal more fun. 2. I miss my mouse/keyboard 3. Lack of save points. Now, let's continue with the reasons that I shouldn't hate what I hate. 1. BRAINDEAD AI- I shouldn't hate it because honestly, have you ever seen an action movie where the bad guys can hit the broadside of a barn? 2. At least the N64 controler is better than the PSX one :) 3. It's harder to play when you know that when you die, you must restart the level. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary I prefer golden eye, me. It had more background and you knew exactly who you are, and I think every bloke wants to be James Bond. But it still is a great game with many characters and races, many different levels and weapons to.Sound better than golden eye, instead of text in the top of the screen the characters actually talk with text as well. leaving the issue of sound slightly is my rather shocked fact that its an 18 in England, I was actually asked my age for the first time in buying a game, but i'm only half way through maybe there's more to come. I also have this game called mace the dark age, which some will be familiar with and it's only a 15 in England, and from what I've seem so far this game makes perfect dark look like the Oprah Winfrey show especially when you learn how to do the fatalities. but maybe it's getting stricter and kids will no longer be able to purchase super mario worldGameplay One thing I'd comment about is the sheer jump up in difficulty from agent to special agent. I havent yet completed all the missions on special agent and for a person who has completed golden eye all the way through on double-0 agent without dying once, that is really saying something.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Justin TurnerFrom Virginia Review Date 08/04/2000 Overall Rating  4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This is a fun game which is the most fun in Multiplayer, get a few friends togther and start playing this game and it can go on for hours.The story takes place in 2023 and you play as Agent Dark. She is the best of the best and there are plenty of objectives and missions for you that you will have to beat on various diffitcultys to open up new goodies in the game. I reccomend Goldeneye 007 also for the N64 I think that it is just a better overall game. After waiting forever for this game and expecting greatness, thats what we have, but not near as great as I expected, it just doesnt seem to have the magic that Goldeneye did. Sound Sound is good music is good, and the guards will talk and say things when they get shot and cuss. Guns all sound good.Gameplay The gameplay is good almost exactly like Goldeneye 007. I do not like the levels in the game however, they are terrible, and not only that but the futuristic feel of the game is not as good as the atmosphere of Goldeneye.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By I. McRaeFrom Arizona, USA Review Date 08/03/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary GENERAL: Granted, it costed $60 and granted, it requires the Expansion Pak. Most decent games run around there and if you don't have an Expansion yet, where have you been?In any case, Perfect Dark, or Ms. Bond, as my wife calls her, rocks. It's a fantastic game with a few very minor flaws and one somewhat larger flaw. Sound SOUND: GoldenEye to the next level. The voices are crisp and some of the things they say are great. "Why me?" and "You...bitch..." are great. The environment sounds are great too; things like machinery, elevators, guards walking, hoverbikes, and water all really add to the game. Of course, there's the gunfire -- definitely similar to GoldenEye, but a lot more variety. Finally, the music really rounds out the game.A personal issue, however, why does Joanna have an English accent? We already had Bond in GoldenEye! Let's have some American covert operatives who can kick ass and save the world! Gameplay GAMEPLAY: GoldenEye warmed over, basically. I like a few of the touchups, but being able to jump would've been nice. GoldenEye was a great interface, and I believe this is a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it (or at least don't screw it up too much). When starting out, the difference between 'Hold the button down' and 'Just tap it' became a little annoying and it made changing weapons, reloading, and changing modes a little confusing until everyone got the timing down; a very minor flaw.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Perfect Dark is an spectacular game which must be played by anybody who owns an N64.Nearly everything about this game is excellent ...but what can i say it was made by Rare and we all know what Rare can do when they set out to make a game.Many people say that Perfect Dark is just Goldeneye polished up and i have to agree with this in some aspects....but i dont consider this game a clone of the superb Goldeneye but but an evolved version of the game. As soon as you play Perfect Dark you will notice the similaritys between it and Goldeneye. In Perfect Dark there is quite a bit of gore which is very uncommon in N64 titles which are infamous for their childish games and lack of mature games. And i do have to say that the gore gives a good effect to the game and makes it that little more realistic.Perfect Dark brings you into the world of Johanna Dark who is a spy deployed by the carrington institute who is sent out to infiltrate the DataDyne corp and with her you travel through 9 missions (17 levels) and each mission is very large and full of adventure and fast paced action!. Unlike Goldeneye , Perfect Dark had to come up with its own story line and not rely on the fact that anyone who played this game had already seen the movie. Rare has obvisiouly put a lot of thought into the Perfect Dark story line and they have done a good job to. The story story line is full of twists and turns ...but if you want to get the most out of this story you must play the game in perfect agent because if you play through it in the agent mode or the special agent mode you only get part of the story this way. So take my advice an play through it in Perfect Agent. Sound The sound in Perfect Dark is amazing and in full with in- game speech which is sooo uncommon in cartridges but Rare managed to make the sound perfect . And to back all that up the game supports Dolby surround sound which gives the game even more atmosphere (that is if you have the equipment). Also when you kill one of the enimies you can hear them screaming and shouting at you and if you shoot them in the neck you can hear them trying to take in a gasp of air which i must say sounds very cool indeed.I just wonder how the cramed so much sound into a cartridge?Gameplay The single player mode in Perfect Dark is amazing and a lot of fun to play. Each level is very well constructed. Throughout the game you will meet a load of different types of gaurds and all of you enemies are very well constructed and their deaths are stunning.As with Goldeneye there are 3 difficulty settings Agent , Special Agent and Perfect Agent.Agent mode is very easy and you will make it through the game in a few hours , Special Agent is a good deal harder and Perfect Agent is very difficult indeed and i am sure that most owners of this game will not make it through the game on Perfect Agent. In Perfect Dark there are loads of features and options which enhance the gameplay which include a co-operative mode , a counter-operative mode (both of which are extremely fun to play!), an excellent multiplayer mode, 8 bots for multiplayer which have incredible AI , the AI of the bots are smarter and surpass those of Goldeneye , a combat simulator in which you can customise almost anything which is to be in the multiplayer battle , a large training facility , lots of different deathmatch scenarios , over 40 weapons , 16 multiplayer arenas , high resolution mode plus the game supports dolby surround sound. So im sure that a game which such a wide choice of options and features will keep even the best of gamers happy for a long time!. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Dustin WheelerFrom Newark, Ohio Review Date 08/01/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Hell yeah, this game rocks. If you have a 64 and you love FPS and deathmatch game then you should get this game. Heck, if you don’t go buy a 64 just for it, it’s worth it, believe me. While the single player is good, the deathmatch is where it shines. This is THE multiplayer game, on consoles anyway. There are so many moments of awe, here’s just one. Once at the fortress I was running around when I picked up a combat boost, slowing down the game to a Matrix style shoot out. I rounded a corner and out to one of the cat walks when I met up with a rocket launcher toting sim. He fired as I side stepped the rocket and killed him. I rejoiced and then noticed the rocket was radically changing direction and coming back at me. While still in slo-mo I back-peddled and fired, hitting it just before it hit me. I barely survived the explosion. Then the game jumped back to normal speed, whereupon I was instantly gunned down. Then there’s the fact that there’s 16 levels and you can customize everything and save all your stats. It rocks.Sound Rare outdid themselves again. The music is great, if not better than 007’s, and the voice acting is great. I just love hearing the enemies scream and yell, “You bitch!” as they meet their demise.Gameplay Remember those perfect controls from 007? There back and so is the great gameplay. Hell I’d say its even better. The action is faster paced and a lot more fun this time around. Rare has packed so much good stuff onto this cart. If you loved the death animations from 007 you’ll die for PD’s. There’s loads more. I even once had a guy limping after me. Shoot a gun out of a guy’s hand and he’ll pick it back up. Or maybe he’ll punch you and kill you with your own weapon. Sound cool? Then throw in the best deathmatching on a console ever and you’ve got a winner by tenfold. This game kicks so much ass. It’s so fun to play with the new weaponry and gadgets too. How does x-ray and night vision sound? Then there’s the ultra cool far sight. They took the coolest weapon ever, which of course is my fave from Quake, the Rail Gun, and they make it even better by having it see through walls and kill unknowing foes. Those damn camping bastards days are numbered. I could go on forever, so bottom line: Best damn 64 game ever.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game is pretty much a a Goldeneye with a Turok twist ( Rage wars and seeds of evil). Which is a pretty good game. Since it was made by the same creators of Goldeneye, it is the kind of game that will not dissapoint you.Sound The soud on Perfect Dark kicks butt compared to Goldenye and Turok. In Goldeneye, the only sounds you get is either screams, laughs, or sneezes. Another bonus is that you dont have to read what the characters are saying when you could just lisften and watch.Gameplay Perfect Dark's gameplay is like Goldeneye, really easy to catch on. Allthough it has an anticpateing every move of you enemy. But just as you think you know every thing about the weapons and enemys, "CLICK" "OH LOOK MORE GADGETS AND SECONDARY FIRE!!"Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Robert Gushue Bobby GushueFrom Canada Review Date 07/29/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This game is pretty much James Bond, without James Bond. And that's not bad thing. The game is about a Joanna Dark, a young feisty agent with not alot of training. Which is pretty much the way I was when I first played this game. I went into the game expecting a Goldeneye rip-off, but what I found was much deeper than I could have imagined.Sound Hey, this doesn't even need to be described. You hear bullets hitting walls and flesh and foot steps change depending on what surface you are on. And the music is true to the James Bond original.Gameplay The gameplay is tried and true Goldeneye. And in case you haven't played Goldeneye (what were you in jail or something) the game is very easy to catch on to. However, it's small learning curve, or so it may seem, make's you believe you know the game. But wait, what's this? secondary function, secret gadgets...? Where did they come from? Then you beat agent and think, "Man that was hard." But the game's not over. There are still many more modes for you to conquer.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary They don't call this game PERFECT Dark for no reason. This is without a doubt the best game I have ever played. The solo missions, excellent. The multiplayer, brilliant. The Co-Op mode, loads of fun. The counter-op mode, even better (you can sort of use this as a co-op mode as well, but it defeats the purpose of playing counter-op mode to being with) As I said this is without a doubt THE best game I have ever played, and I think it will be a LONG time before another console game FPS beats it's brilliance. If you own a Nintendo 64, and are a fan of FPS's then you have no excuse not to own this game.Sound The sound in PD is also excellent. And rather than in GE007 where the character's conversations were written at the top of the screen, this time around there is actually speech. Unfortunately, the chacacter's lips dont move when they are talking, but if you think this is a major flaw, well I think you're a bit picky. The sounds I like the most in this game are the sounds of the guns reloading. They sound very coolGameplay The gameplay in this game has unparalled brilliance and is better than ANY console FPS around. The reason why I say console FPS, is because HalfLife is on the PC, and well, PerfectDark isn't quite as good as HalfLife. The day I brought perfect dark was a whole new beginning for me. Having previously mastered Goldeneye, I headed straight for the solo missions, and started the first mission on Perfect Agent, and needless to say the Perfect Agent mission on PD, are a LOT more challening than the 00 Agent on GE007. The game play is action packed from start to finish. There will be times when you will find yourself crouching behind a desk or a couch during a gunfight, hopelessly short on ammo. It's almost like being in a John Woo film. Gameplay in single player, multiplayer, co-op and counter-op is brilliant in every aspectWould you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Marshall MitchFrom England Review Date 07/28/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This game needs to be bought by anyone that is reading this wondering whether you should buy it. Rare are amazing for bringing this game out. The only problem I can see with it is that the plot of the game (aliens etc) should have been scraped and kept along the kicking the %^&& out of humans only, not aliens.Sound The sounds are also up to the standard of the gameplay and graphics. The sounds of the guns firing are so lifelike. The reloading sounds are perfection and the music can be very good. One thing that does annoy me is that when you die on multiplayer mode, it sounds like they have taken the music from 'who wants to be a millionaire'.Gameplay People say it's to much like Goldeneye! SO!!!!!Goldeneye was a classic and any other game to follow in it's footsteps would be gladly be bough by me. The levels are well thought out and arranged with appropriate difficulty settings for beginners and masters. I've never played such an amazing game. The reloading in the game is also 1st class. I spent hours just reloading the guns cause it looks cool. The multiplayer is also better than goldeneye with it's additional features such as simulants etc. What more can I say Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This just doesn't feel the same. The game is still good but the feeling of coolness is gone. I want to be James Bond. Not some regular secret operative.Sound The only perfect thing in this game. The guns sound perfect. The voice overs are crisp and clean. You can hear people walking around a corner even if you cant see them. BEAUTIFUL.Gameplay Beautiful. One great thing about this game and GoldenEye is that they are both VERY easy to play and VERY hard to beat. The way they make every level harder is ingenius and more games should follow up on it.Would you like to Comment? 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