The combat levels provide the most entertainment, usually spanning vast landscapes like level four’s rooftops, while the stealth levels are, well, not very fun at all.
The missions can be pretty easily categorized, being either all-out combat, stealth, or in some cases, a mixture of both. Perfect Agent provides the most challenge, forcing players to memorize enemy positions as well as the layout of the level in order to have any chance of survival. Secret Agent provides a moderate challenge while adding in a few new objectives to the mix. Agent mode keeps the objectives to a minimum and is really just for casual gamers looking to breeze through the campaign without much difficulty. There are three difficulties to choose from – with an unlockable fourth – that vary quite a bit it terms of challenge and objectives. Though the narrative clearly took a dive during the game’s development, gameplay remains faithful – almost too faithful – to the original. Adding salt to the wounds is the borderline cheesy voice acting by just about every cast member in the game, sans Joanna. The story proves to be one of the single-player campaign’s biggest let downs: The cutscenes appear mish-mashed together without much thought and certainly without much closure, there’s an assortment of plot holes to be found throughout and there’s really no reason to watch the intro and outro sequences as they provide little in terms of fleshing out what isn’t there. Alongside Joanna is her father Jack Dark, who seems to get himself in more trouble than not, and the ever-so-helpful Chandra, who provides the team with field support and the occasional pep talk. Perfect Dark Zero chronicles super spy extraordinaire Joanna Dark’s first missions as an agent, and takes place well before her work with the Carrington Institute. It’s by no means the killer app we were all hoping for, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a must-have launch title. For the most part, Perfect Dark Zero lives up to our lofty expectations, with a slew of new features, a sizable single-player campaign, one of the best co-op modes to date, and more weapons than you can count on your own two hands. The original was chock-full of gameplay features, including a multiplayer mode to die for, a solid story dwarfed only by the game’s visuals and stellar musical score. And maybe that’s why Rare decided to skip a generation with the series. It’s no easy task to create a sequel, or in this case, prequel, to a game that has, since its release, been declared as one of the top 100 games of all time. It’s in my Xbox 360 as we speak and it’s got a lot to live up to.
And for almost six years, die-hard fans such as yours truly, have been glued to the Internet in anticipation for any new insight into Joanna’s next-gen offering. For almost six years we’ve been teased with rumours, E3 tech demos, editorials and the like. It’s been close to six years since Joanna made her first appearance on the Nintendo 64 in 2000.
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