E3 2009: Perfect Dark Coming to XBLA This Winter Written Tuesday, June 02, 2009 By James Parkin | |
Major Nelson, also know as Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE Director of Programming, just tweeted the following: "In the booth. Just saw Perfect Dark on XBLA running 1080p. It is coming to XBLA this winter. Free theme coming tomorrow!" Simply fantastic news to fans of the original. Plus, who can argue with 1080p? | |
 Forum Posts: 473 | Comment #1 by CloudStr1f3 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:37:42 PM | (0)    |
| Who didn't see that coming? | ||
 Forum Posts: 9 | Comment #2 by Balverine Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:37:49 PM | (0) |
| Ahhhh! Good old original Perfect Dark! Well we still be able to get unlock those cool secret guns? | ||
 Forum Posts: 22 | Comment #3 by InsaneChaoz Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:37:55 PM | (0) |
| Oh yes! a free theme... | ||
 Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #4 by carlboys Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:37:55 PM | (0) |
| Free theme :) | ||
 Forum Posts: 550 | Comment #5 by wildwest08 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:37:57 PM | (0) |
| cant wait to play this game on xbox live this is one of my favorite video games of all time, too bad the sequel sucked | ||
 Forum Posts: 295 | Comment #6 by Brian Fantana x360a Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:38:00 PM | (0) |
| I am very pleased about this....now....GOLDENEYE! | ||
 Forum Posts: 22 | Comment #7 by Mattymace666 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:38:51 PM | (0) |
| cool 1080p arcade game and a good one at that and a free theme even better | ||
 Forum Posts: 28 | Comment #8 by Joda X Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:38:51 PM | (0) |
| He says winter, you say summer. What is it? | ||
 Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #9 by Nixemo Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:40:33 PM | (0) |
| Freakin' awesome news! Who didn't know it already though... | ||
 Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #10 by Sulkybarbecue Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:40:35 PM | (0) |
| boner. | ||
 Forum Posts: 134 | Comment #11 by Kaboozez Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:41:45 PM | (0) |
| Saw my brothers play this when I was a little kid. Other than that I don't know anything about this. Free theme sounds cool though :) | ||
 Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #12 by sephiroth682000 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:42:20 PM | (0) |
| best news all year | ||
 Forum Posts: 42 | Comment #13 by Doctor Mandrake Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:43:11 PM | (0) |
| That. Is. Awesome. | ||
 Forum Posts: 19 | Comment #14 by Olliezilla Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:45:50 PM | (0) |
| Agree with #6 They so have to put Goldeneye on! That game is a classic | ||
 Forum Posts: 7 | Comment #15 by xCRKx TyPHooN Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:49:22 PM | (0) |
| Oh my god, enough said | ||
 Forum Posts: 3166 | Comment #16 by razzleson Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:49:25 PM | (0) |
| @7 - Good shout! All this E3 news posting is messing with my mind! *goes to correct* | ||
 Forum Posts: 360 | Comment #17 by kizwiz Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:55:18 PM | (0) |
| Rare could of announced this at E3 and actually get atleast some more people interested in the game... They always remain so quiet about what they are doing which effects their sales...Don't really care much for the game though | ||
 Forum Posts: 26 | Comment #18 by crunchb3rry Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 04:57:04 PM | (0) |
| Remake in 1080p, or nasty-ass N64 graphics upscaled to 1080p? | ||
 Forum Posts: 102 | Comment #19 by nukefarmer Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:00:18 PM | (0) |
| @18- Good point same idea as mind never the less im happy | ||
 Forum Posts: 41 | Comment #20 by Killahaseo Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:02:17 PM | (0) |
| now all they need is golden eye 007 | ||
 Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #21 by necromaniac007 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:06:59 PM | (0) |
| Goldeneye would be amazing for XBLA | ||
 Forum Posts: 373 | Comment #22 by Aletdownofstate Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:07:33 PM | (0) |
| Goldeneye pl0x. | ||
 Forum Posts: 495 | Comment #23 by Veteran Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:08:04 PM | (0) |
| I bet it's a hard 200. Also, I was disappointed in PDZ for not having Elvis in. | ||
 Forum Posts: 948 | Comment #24 by Dr Popodopolus Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:09:44 PM | (0) |
| Wow goldeneye, words would not be able to describe. | ||
 Forum Posts: 125 | Comment #25 by Dark Splank Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:18:37 PM | (0) |
| goldeneye please =], might as well release it, theres B-K and B-T on xbla now | ||
 Forum Posts: 1254 | Comment #26 by Chuppernicus Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:27:44 PM | (0) |
| Loved that Game. Cant wait. | ||
 Forum Posts: 552 | Comment #27 by MakoBallistic Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:29:40 PM | (0) |
| OH YES!!! there is a god. | ||
 Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #28 by blackout529 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:29:51 PM | (0) |
| Dam I remember playing this game when I was 10 or some shit....looking forward to reliving some memories. | ||
 Forum Posts: 118 | Comment #29 by Hybrid Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:33:41 PM | (0) |
| Would really prefer Golden Eye 007 for XBLA. | ||
 Forum Posts: 397 | Comment #30 by KingSigy Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:43:21 PM | (0) |
| Perfect Dark was always the better game than Goldeneye, it just happened to come at the end of the 64's life cycle. No one cared about N64 anymore when PS2 was a few months away. This is pretty awesome, I would really love to have this game with an actual frame-rate. | ||
 Forum Posts: 290 | Comment #31 by YogiB Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:46:11 PM | (0) |
| Finally not a live arcade game that I want that's coming this summer :P. Are too many that are coming this summer. But I'm looking forward too play it again. No just say when Jet Force Gemini is coming too Live Arcade or a new Jet Force Gemini or Conker Bad Fur Day on Live or a new Conker like Conker Bad Fur Day. | ||
 Forum Posts: 27 | Comment #32 by SebbeG Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 05:52:23 PM | (0) |
| as a fan of all the N64 titles rare released back in the day all i can say is... HELL YES... Finally we get to play one of the best FPS games ever. Now give us Goldeneye, Jet Force Gemini and Conkers Bad Fur Day and We'll love you forever... :D | ||
 Forum Posts: 237 | Comment #33 by alex31991 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:04:36 PM | (0) |
| hell yea! | ||
 Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #34 by MTW NL Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:05:57 PM | (0) |
| @32, yeah, i'm a huge fan of Rare too! =) I still think that Conkers Bad Furr Day has the best campaign EVER!!! =D | ||
 Forum Posts: 25 | Comment #35 by FatalFlaw810 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:06:55 PM | (0) |
| Finally starting to get some great arcade titles, Perfect Dark should be fun and can't wait to play it on xbox live..hopefully lol. | ||
 Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #36 by LoneStar647 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:10:20 PM | (0) |
| @14 i think it was said in "sentuamessage" a while ago that they wouldnt do that. | ||
Forum Posts: 27 | Comment #37 by SebbeG Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:12:21 PM | (0) |
| @34, plus it has some of the best language ever to be released on a nintendo system :P. It's just so badass for a game aimed at a nintendo audience at the time. although while i love what rare did back in the day. since the break with nintendo they haven't been able to shine quite so bright as they used to. sure Kameo is a good game and the Viva Piñata franchise has some entertainment value, but BanjoKazooie Nuts&Bolts, let's face the facts because that game doesn't even come close to touching the original games. I'm glad they released them on XBLA though since I had to get rid of my N64 to be able to go next-gen at the time. anyway, i really hope to see the rest of the titles, well except Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing since Nintendo still owns the characters, they should be nic | ||
Forum Posts: 27 | Comment #38 by SebbeG Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:19:37 PM | (0) |
| seems like i got cut off... :P anyway, i really hope to see the rest of the titles, well except Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing since Nintendo still owns the characters, they should be nice to the fans and release those two titles for the Wii VC and then I'd have som of the best games ever avalible for Download on the 360 and the Wii... | ||
 Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #39 by Wooodsy Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:31:45 PM | (0) |
| I think I just came! | ||
 Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #40 by PrismSub7 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:34:40 PM | (0) |
| @18- Considering how good Banjo was ported, I guess the same happens to PD. | ||
 Forum Posts: 1804 | Comment #41 by Scotian Bred Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:40:12 PM | (0) |
| Goldeneye was good but Perfect Dark was better, and this free theme hopefully will be a premium theme and not the standard old school theme. The achievements should be fun. I killed this game when it was on N64. Achievements will help me play it once again on "perfect dark" difficulty. | ||
 Forum Posts: 516 | Comment #42 by Vivi Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:50:36 PM | (0) |
| why such an odd price tag? | ||
Forum Posts: 516 | Comment #43 by Vivi Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 06:51:54 PM | (0) |
| nvm.....i read that wrong. | ||
 Forum Posts: 28 | Comment #44 by ryanczajka Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 07:29:56 PM | (0) |
| i busted a load just now from hearing this | ||
Forum Posts: 495 | Comment #45 by Veteran Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 07:40:13 PM | (0) |
| I guess it's gonna cost 1200, but I wouldn't mind paying that. Much better purchase than those fucking Stranglehold maps I bought a few months ago. > | ||
 Forum Posts: 152 | Comment #46 by Double 02 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 07:51:46 PM | (0) |
| Yes, another dream come true besides Duke Nukem 3D XBLA time to own some noobs, no offense! Best news in ages. | ||
Forum Posts: 152 | Comment #47 by Double 02 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 07:53:04 PM | (0) |
| One of my all time favorite games ^.^ | ||
 Forum Posts: 606 | Comment #48 by CriscoDisco878 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 07:58:35 PM | (0) |
| take goldeneye over this. pff. maybe a buy, ive never played it so. | ||
 Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #49 by AgentOrange666 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:02:39 PM | (0) |
| I agree that I would want Goldeneye more, but at least this is a step in the right direction (plus Perfect Dark is awesome as well), and in the future we'll probably see more Rare games coming to XBLA in the future, so all good news in my opinion. | ||
 Forum Posts: 210 | Comment #50 by zyxomma100 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:11:37 PM | (0) |
| 37-38: Agh! I'm in disagreement. I never was a huge fan of the N64-PS1 era, and while the old BK was really fun, I really like what they did in Nuts and Bolts. As I like to keep saying, it's a crazy Lego builder with a fun physics engine... I've literally been waiting for a game like that for over half my life. And Viva Pinata I'd put in the running for best console game this generation. Fantastic freeform game with more depth than most RPGs, and yet the kiddy graphics seem to put almost everyone off. One of only a couple games that I've never personally (off-Internet) heard a bad thing said about. | ||
 Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #51 by Biohazard K Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:17:14 PM | (0) |
| MEGA BONER TIME! | ||
 Forum Posts: 92 | Comment #52 by Bastado Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:24:47 PM | (0) |
| #46 ... your a douche ..."own some noobs"...wow ... please punctuate so we can even understand who these noobs are, also, who should be offended? i see it now...someone sees your comment who considers themself a noob (and really, who on this site does?) then they proceed to cower in the corner from your threatening comment that they might get owned... im glad your excited, but no need to make unwarrented threats anyway, yea i just came to flame...lol im kinda excited aswell...if this game is everything that people make it out to be I look foward to playing it...as I did own a N64...i just never got around to playing this game | ||
 Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #53 by STC9892 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:32:00 PM | (0) |
| Agent Orange hit the nail on the head. This means we're that much closer to seeing Goldeneye, which would be the greatest live arcade release Evarrrrrr. | ||
Forum Posts: 210 | Comment #54 by zyxomma100 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:32:32 PM | (0) |
| Kameo was bad, though. :p | ||
 Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #55 by WheezySparkz Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:39:30 PM | (0) |
| NO NO NO Goldeneye is what I wanna hear! | ||
 Forum Posts: 153 | Comment #56 by Blue Thunder28 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 08:42:14 PM | (0) |
| YAY!!!!! | ||
 Forum Posts: 325 | Comment #57 by MachineAres Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 09:38:00 PM | (0) |
| Wow, hell yes, I was waiting for the official announcement. This is really stupid how this just turned into a Perfect Dark vs. Goldeneye thread, when PD is a far better game for pretty much every reason, it just doesn't have Bond characters and it was made after. | ||
Forum Posts: 325 | Comment #58 by MachineAres Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 09:39:41 PM | (0) |
| And they've also already stated that they WILL NOT release Goldeneye because they would have to buy the rights to use the Bond likenesses again, as they do not own those. Forgot to put that in my other post. | ||
 Forum Posts: 299 | Comment #59 by Celestial Being Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 09:41:07 PM | (0) |
| sweet, now we just need goldeneye and i'll be happy. | ||
 Forum Posts: 1109 | Comment #60 by Pixo Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 09:55:30 PM | (0) |
| Awsome, now I'll have something to work on instead of Gears 2. Can't wait for this. I always played Perfect Dark on N64 when I was younger, good times. =) | ||
 Forum Posts: 232 | Comment #61 by SuperWoody64 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 10:04:36 PM | (0) |
| Free theme usually means non premium. So we can look at half of a picture. We need live to get the theme but it's designed with the old blades in mind. But we can't have the old blades if we're connected to live... And if we try to use the theme on a system not connected to live it won't work... | ||
 Forum Posts: 751 | Comment #62 by Lord of Fate Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 10:26:16 PM | (0) |
| Oh... my ... God!!! Holy... well ... ummm.. >< Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes!! | ||
 Forum Posts: 97 | Comment #63 by VegaDark541 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 10:30:47 PM | (0) |
| Am I the only one who wants to see Blast Corps be ported? That game was one of Rare's best, and virtually impossible to beat 100%. All platinums would be an insane achievement. | ||
Forum Posts: 548 | Comment #64 by ZonaBoy89 Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 10:34:38 PM | (0) |
| that game was awesome on N64! cant wait. | ||
 Forum Posts: 212 | Comment #65 by rad fad Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 12:46:47 AM | (0) |
| @ a couple of idiots above: PDZ is a PREQUEL to the original Perfect Dark, hence no Elvis. | ||
 Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #66 by ArchAngelisk451 Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 01:29:51 AM | (0) |
| Finally, been waiting for this xD | ||
Forum Posts: 27 | Comment #67 by SebbeG Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 04:00:18 AM | (0) |
| also PDZ sucks ass because the team that developed the first one wasn't involved as they were called Free Radical at the time and was working with the excellent game series known as Timesplitters. This is the reason that PDZ sucks ass... | ||
 Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #68 by Wade Wilson 83 Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 04:52:08 AM | (0) |
| For the few i've seen say that Perfect Dark was better than Goldeneye... No | ||
 Forum Posts: 50 | Comment #69 by Drewbles Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 04:54:14 AM | (0) |
| I remember it being a long game and lots of m-player, esp the bots. That gun that cud see thru the walls and shoot ppl from the other side of the level, awesome.Elvis. I dont buy many arcade games and this is one id get. | ||
 Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #70 by Mike Loves Beef Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 08:14:17 AM | (0) |
| Perfect Dark was clearly the better game, i mean yeah goldeneye's single player was amazing but PD's multiplayer system was insane at the time. Games like timesplitters claimed to have brought about the era of completely customisable multiplayers modes with bots and everything but perfect dark nailed it years before. plus the leveling up system was spot on, hope they somehow use that with XBL | ||
 Forum Posts: 173 | Comment #71 by Nerotic Shadows Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 08:26:28 AM | (0) |
| Ah, SO am getting this. Possibly even the full 200? Either way, I hope the multiplayer is online and I want to see what else Rare announces. | ||
 Forum Posts: 98 | Comment #72 by Freshmaker Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 12:04:00 PM | (0) |
| ok I still say fuck Twitter, only because I already knew this was coming out, those icons don't lie, so Twitter still sucks ass, besides they would have released the news sometime soon anyways | ||
Forum Posts: 98 | Comment #73 by Freshmaker Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 12:05:31 PM | (0) |
| whooops I was too busy bashing twitter forgot to add my thoughts haha, I am rele excited for this, now I can lay down the N64 version when it releases for a while to play it on 360 still glad I held onto my copy for awhile, pack ur running boots boy and girls, cuz ur about to get hit with the Farsight Enemy Locater, and the Camping Laptop Gun haha | ||
 Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #74 by BU573R Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 02:37:28 PM | (0) |
| if i want to play perfect dark i will play the disc version ... but i wont because its crap | ||
Forum Posts: 32 | Comment #75 by Zmoke Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 02:43:50 PM | (0) |
| Good news! Hopefully it will have online play. | ||
 Forum Posts: 127 | Comment #76 by Jack Pumpkinhed Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 03:00:11 PM | (0) |
| epic win. I can FINALLY ditch the N64 now :D | ||
 Forum Posts: 313 | Comment #77 by Kyanite Wednesday, June 03, 2009 @ 07:21:36 PM | (0) |
| The N64's best game finally comes to Xbox Live. I will be playing this regardless of the achievements. | ||
 Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #78 by Grizzlybear1980 Thursday, June 04, 2009 @ 06:32:24 AM | (0) |
| I have to say that in my opinion Perfect Dark was better than Golden Eye, but Golden Eye got more of my time and stands out more in my memory because it came out first, more people new the game and wanted to play it. If they came out in backwards order, people would be saying the opposite that they are now. Definate buy! | ||
 Forum Posts: 109 | Comment #79 by weBBa man Thursday, June 04, 2009 @ 10:48:09 AM | (0) |
| i grew up on Rare games, but i never bothered to play Perfect Dark, by the time that game came out, i was already on psone, lol so i feel like i missed out on the whole PD phenomon...SHIT but golden mp was the shit, fuck bond, its was the MP | ||
 Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #80 by lightsup55 Saturday, June 06, 2009 @ 07:55:17 PM | (0) |
| @YogiB (comment #31): @SebbeG (comment #32): Releasing GoldenEye 007 and Jet Force Gemini is one thing, but keep in mind that Conker's Bad Fur Day is already out. It is called Conker: Live & Reloaded and is available for the original Xbox (and IS BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE). It features the single player from Conker's Bad Fur Day and has an all new multiplayer mode with Xbox Live support. Here are some links for more information on Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live & Reloaded: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/splash/c/conker/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker:_Live_%26_Reloaded http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardscompatibility.htm http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilityfaq.htm http://www.xbo | ||
 Forum Posts: 15 | Comment #81 by Genesis Demon Sunday, June 07, 2009 @ 01:52:01 AM | (0) |
| this is THE game, better than goldeneye, too bad its sequel/prequel was such a let down, so glad this is coming out, dam i hate ninpretendo now days, now if only we could steal ZElda off them.... | ||
 Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #82 by idpaul Wednesday, June 10, 2009 @ 02:30:45 PM | (0) |
| awsome game glad that its coming to XBLA | ||
Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #83 by idpaul Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 10:28:06 AM | (0) |
| i know this probably wont happen but is it possible for rare to put some of the goldeneye stuff onto PD like they could put the goldeneye missions into a DLC or even the goldeneye Multiplayer maps because im assuming that they will include aztec MP and the facility MP with the game so i reckon they should include other maps in the future | ||
 Forum Posts: 198 | Comment #84 by samjustsam Wednesday, October 14, 2009 @ 11:12:24 PM | (0) |
| this is great news for me. always wanted to play this but never had a N64. i cant wait till this one comes out. | ||
 Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #85 by pickabooJONES91 Monday, October 26, 2009 @ 12:21:38 PM | (0) |
| YES now all we need is Goldeneye. | ||
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