Date: Saturday, March 13 @ 15:56:50 UTC Topic: Live Arcade
Perfect Dark is coming back, to the Xbox 360, that is. After a disappointing launch sequel, Rare is bringing the original game back to the Xbox Live Arcade next week, all shined up and ready for massive online consumption. The comparison video above does a great job in showing what fans can expect from the process, which seems to primarily include smoother frame-rates and cleaner polygons, while retaining the same dumb-as-dirt enemy AI.
And while it may seem ludicrous to compare a ten-year old Nintendo64 game to its Xbox 360 counterpart, it does bring up one nagging detail that can't be avoided. After years of desperately trying to replicate the success of their Nintendo/Rare partnership, it's interesting that the most anticipated projects coming out of the developer these days are updated ports of their original - and Nintendo-subsidized - games.
Perfect Dark makes its Xbox Live Arcade debut on March 17th. It's still not Goldeneye, but is probably the closest thing you'll be getting anytime soon.