Set in the year 2020, three years before the original hit game Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark Zero features a gripping story, multiple game scenarios for endless replay-ability, a massive arsenal of weapons and combat-enabled vehicles. The sci-fi, first-person shooter features a fully interactive world and supports up to 50 players online via Xbox Live.
GenreFirst-Person Shooters
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Rare | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Perfect Dark Zero Reviews xbox360
acegamez.co.uk review
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gameshark.com review
The campaign game is made up of levels with a mission briefing to explain objectives. Before starting the mission the player may rebalance his kit, up to the allotted load slots, with weapons and gadgets of his choice. The game generally offers the player a pretty good default load for each mission, but by varying the load of weapons and gadgets, new ways to approach winning the level can be opened up. It adds a bit to the replay value. And as each level completed generally sees Joanna pick up a new weapon to add to the home arsenal, previous levels can be tackled again with new weapon options.
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xboxaddict.com review
The single player game is a solid experience, but PDZ really hits a homerun in the multiplayer park. If you like co-op, not only can you play on the same Xbox 360, but you can also team up over Xbox Live. Some levels feature branching pathways in which the co-op players are put on separate paths that intersect at certain spots – enabling you to help out your teammate.
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gamingtarget.com review
Multiplayer games are great fun and the large, expansive maps are well designed and look simply breathtaking. Intense battles in tight subway corridors and other urban settings, sniping across huge, open chasms and mountains as well as assaulting a monstrous tower in the center of a snow covered valley – it’s all good, all the time. The squad based modes are a blast and encourage teamwork, while the shooting mechanics are nicely tuned and balanced. You’ll need to practice your headshot, since it takes some time to blast all the body armor off of your foes.
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gamingtrend.com review
Moving throughout a level has a similar feel throughout it, but the environments themselves have a good amount of variety so that you don’t feel like you are going through the same area over and over again. The other characters you encounter have a nice variety to them. While you get similar characters across the same level, you won’t encounter them in later levels.
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gamespot.com review
The type of weapon you’re carrying influences your running speed, which is something to consider. There’s no jump button, but you are given some tactical options, like taking cover behind obstacles and executing quick rolls at the touch of a button. The cover system is implemented quite well, letting you take position behind any barrier or at any corner at the touch of a button, while seamlessly switching your perspective to a third-person viewpoint, which gives you more situational awareness.
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gamezone.com review
One thing that I thought was very interesting about this game is that your running speed depends on which gun you are carrying. For instance you can’t carry the M60 and expect to go sprinting throughout the level taking out any enemies that come up on you. No if you are using bigger guns you will expect some lower speed while running and the opposite is true if you are using more of the pistols. So this is a trade off – do you sacrifice speed for power and vice versa?
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1up.com review
Compensating for all the mindless and reckless circle-strafing of its deathmatch modes are the "Dark Ops" tactical games that combine Counter-Strike’s turn-based, one-life-per-round strategies with PDZ’s wide array of useful weapons and gadgets. Since the stakes are much higher in a game of Dark Ops, players tend to play more cautiously, using more stealthy camp-and-move tactics as opposed to just straight run-and-gun. Moreover, the fact that weapons do less damage than you’re used to also works out to be a blessing in Dark Ops simply because you tend to survive more skirmishes than you would a typical game of Rainbow Six 3.
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computerandvideogames.com review
PDZ is easily the most graphically gorgeous first-person game ever seen on a console. But it’s the exceptional replay value both offline and on, the multitude of weapons you’ll entertain yourself with for weeks, and the ballsto-the-wall, last-second way this game came together without imploding that makes you glad to be a gamer.
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dignews.com review
The gameplay works well enough, although it does a good amount of borrowing from other titles in the genre, and not always good stuff. Like Chronicles of Riddick and Metroid Prime, Perfect Dark Zero lets you occasionally take the camera back for tasks that require you to see the character, like rolling and aiming from behind cover. That’s not bad, but the way the game takes after its predecessor and Goldeneye in not allowing the player to jump is outdated and restrictive, making it very frustrating when the only thing separating you from where you want to go is a knee-high barrier. In most cases, you’ll automatically climb up when this happens, but not always. I suppose, on the bright side, the game also has Goldeneye’s excellent level design sensibilities.
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atomicgamer.com review
Instead of jumping, the A button allows you to get cover behind a wall or pillar. This switches the camera to a third-person mode and lets you do things like reload in relative safety behind cover, and you can pop out to shoot and expose less of yourself. It’s vitally important in many places during the single player campaign, and is very handy in the multiplayer modes as well.
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teamxbox.com review
Perfect Dark Zero isn’t just all good looks – it packs some serious punch. Every aspect of gameplay is covered: single-player campaign, co-op campaign, and multiplayer action, both on and offline. The game is split up into two major components: Missions and Combat Arena. The Mission mode is where you’ll take Jo through the rigors of being a gun for hire. The story spans 13 missions in total and there are four difficultly levels to choose from, although the fourth and most challenging one (Dark Agent) won’t be available until you beat the game on Perfect Agent difficulty. The higher difficulty levels don’t simply tweak the enemy numbers and AI; additional objectives are added as well. This, coupled with difficulty-specific achievements, extends the replay value of PDZ tremendously.
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cheatcc.com review
As far as I can tell, Joanna is set to take over the family bounty hunting business. Large corporations are becoming more brazen as business practices are more focused on world domination causing several warring factions among these mighty empires. With help from her father Jack, Joanna is poised to refine her techniques until she becomes the perfect agent.
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game-over.net review
Perfect Dark Zero is a beautiful looking game. A great amount of detail was put into creating surface textures that look three dimensional, like ground tiles. In fact, the textures almost look too good in certain environments. They have a shiny gloss to them that’s appropriate in most of the hi-tech establishments, but it’s odd in the jungle level, for example, to see the jungle floor sparkle like somebody took a mop and a bottle of Mr. Clean to it. Aside from that, everything from the character models to the explosive weapon effects are outstanding. The audio is equally good, highlighted by a great soundtrack. Some of the voice acting is a little hokey but it’s a minor gripe in an otherwise brilliant presentation.
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worthplaying.com review
The gameplay itself is a lot like GoldenEye and the original Perfect Dark. Its pace is a lot slower than Halo and thus requires a lot more strategy. There are plenty of times where you can run and gun, but almost all missions require a degree of stealth. There are some missions where the game is over if you are detected by an enemy. More commonly, if you are spotted by a guard, he’ll radio for backup, and instead of having to take out a few enemies, you now have to contend with 30.
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ign.com review
The story of this game follows Joanna Dark, a super spy, during a period of time before she became wrapped up with the Carrington Institute in her battle against dataDyne, an evil corporation. Like in the previous game, you start out a mission with one or two concrete objectives, then acquire more based on which difficulty level you choose. Some objectives are necessary to complete while others are optional. Once you beat a level on one difficulty, it opens up the next. You’ll need to beat the entire game on Perfect Agent, the third difficulty level, if you want to unlock the near impossible fourth difficulty level, Dark Agent.
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planetxbox360.com review
PDZ features almost every game mode you can think of including: co-op campaign, single-player campaign and multiplayer mode, both online and offline. The single player spans a total of thirteen missions, across vast landscapes and varying settings. The game takes you through all manner of environments, for example you will shoot your way through corporate buildings, snowy landscapes and sandy deserts. All of the levels have a large amount of depth to them, and are great for multiplayer battles. The four difficulty levels cater for all players’ needs whether they are right off the noobie bus or straight up professional, and they extend the replay value of the game tremendously.
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gamerstemple.com review
we’re finally ready to take a look at the gameplay. Well, the single player gameplay at least. Perfect Dark Zero is a first-person shooter that is most akin to various first-person shooter secret agent games that have come before it. Pure running and gunning will get you killed pretty quickly,
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gamershell.com review
Perfect Dark Zero definitely does not disappoint, unless you have no choice but to play the game on a non-HDTV television set, in which case many parts of the game look a little above a current-generation Xbox title. When you do unleash the power of the 360 with a high definition television, or the HD/AV VGA cables, the game looks incredible. The explosions are some of the best to date and the special effects are superb. While some of the generic models for Joanna’s foes can be ugly up close, the important characters in the game look impressive and the exotic locales that players will visit are even more stunning. Ranging from a nightclub, laboratories, an alpine fortress, urban rooftops and even a jungle, there certainly is enough variety for anyone in here. The framerate is usually consistent, although there are a few occasional slowdowns, but these usually occur in massive firefights while playing online.
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gamechronicles.com review
The overall presentation has its highs and lows with the high point coming at the beginning with the rocking intro movie and everything else going downhill quick with awkward menus, clumsy interface, and lengthy load times.
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