


2021, we wouldn't expect to see it until 2023 at the earliest. Perfect Dark does not have a release date and since it's still in early development as of Sep. This allows the developers to focus their efforts on current-generation hardware, while streaming the game to platforms that don't have the processing power to natively run the game. Like other big Xbox first-party games such as Starfield, Perfect Dark will likely be playable on Xbox One, mobile devices and more platforms through Xbox Cloud Gaming. Due to how far out the game is, we shouldn't expect to see an Xbox One version released, as most future Xbox first-party games are coming only to the newest generation of consoles, as well as PC. Source: Xbox Game Studios (screenshot) (Image credit: Source: Xbox Game Studios (screenshot))īased on how other Xbox Game Studios titles are released, we can infer that Perfect Dark is coming to Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC. You can take a look at some of the official concept art below. DataDyne isn't mentioned by name but given how prominent its logo appears in the cinematic trailer, it's almost certainly one of the corporations involved. Lead writer Christine Thompson says that the story is set in the near-future, where an ecological disaster has taken place, or "eco sci-fi." This is a world where corporations are helping people and saving the world on the surface but there are sinister things that need to be exposed. Getting some of that camera movement that we see watching body cameras, GoPros and trying to get that excitement of moving in places and in ways that you and I don't." "Sliding under things, jumping over things, we really wanted to play up the physicality and being in the world. "One of the things we thought about is how to differentiate what we call spy-fighting versus what you'd see in a traditional first-person shooter," Murray added. Some of the wild guns stand out, still," design director Drew Murray noted.

Perfect Dark is something of a cult classic game and there's a lot the team is drawing on in order to build up on, and not replace, the original, even as the team is trying to walk the balance of not staying too devoted to the past. The new Perfect Dark is a "secret agent thriller set in a near-future world." In an interview (which you can watch above), Darrell Gallagher, studio head of The Initiative, explained that the team really liked the idea of secret agents, especially one like Joanna Dark, a "female secret agent in a world of corporate crime." Game Director Dan Neuberger added that, "There really isn't a game out there that's hitting that sort of blockbuster secret agent vision."īlockbuster is the key word here, as Gallagher also added that he wants this game to stand out "among our peers in TV and movies."
