It was created as a spiritual successor to Rare’s GoldenEye 007, the standout James Bond game released for the N64 in 1997, because Rare was outbid for the James Bond license by Electronic Arts and thus unable to make another James Bond game at the time. For one, it was pretty advanced for its time. The original Perfect Dark was formative for the stealth genre, even if it hasn’t led a large franchise like Metal Gear Solid, for example. The new Perfect Dark will build on the pillars of the original – it will be an FPS secret agent thriller, as Microsoft describes it, led by Perfect Dark’s protagonist Joanna Dark. The new Perfect Dark will likely be a reboot of the original game released in 2000 by Rare, which was then owned by Nintendo. Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter that’s supposed to emulate the feeling of being a real spy.
