Perfect Dark returns after 15 years: Watch the gripping teaser trailer

Perfect Dark returns after xv years: Watch the gripping teaser trailer

Perfect Dark in development at Xbox Game Studios

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Perfect Dark is receiving a new entry adult by The Initiative and published by Xbox Game Studios. Although we have very little information on the game currently, it's undeniably exciting to run across such an iconic series get brought back into the spotlight.

The original Perfect Dark is a Nintendo 64 game released in 2000. It was critically acclaimed and is still largely considered i of the greatest first-person shooters ever made. As a result, this new entry has a lot of hype to live up to.

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The game was announced in a teaser trailer at last night's The Game Awards. We didn't go to encounter any gameplay, but we were given a glimpse into the setting and general aesthetic. It seems to have identify somewhere in Arab republic of egypt, as the protagonist overlooks a desert storm looming above a urban center, with three gigantic pyramids present in the background.

The Initiative is a relatively new game studio made upwardly of a talented team of developers from a bunch of other properties. The studio is headed by Darrell Gallagher, who previously worked as the head of Crystal Dynamics and Senior Vice President at Activision. Additionally, Christine Thompson, who previously wrote at Bungie, is The Initiative'due south Atomic number 82 Author.

Xbox is dubbing Perfect Nighttime as the first AAAA game. This essentially just ways it could be the most expensive game ever made, or information technology'south potentially merely a publicity tactic to arrive sound similar The Initiative's project is the first taste of something truly next-gen.

If nosotros can await a similar level of graphical fidelity as seen in the cinematic trailer higher up, nosotros may truly get a first expect at what AAAA means. Regardless, we won't know for sure until polished in-engine footage is revealed.