![]() ![]() It’s not just Bond or Bourne, and that’s even true from the very start. I’m talking, of course, about Perfect Dark being a little bit weird. But that’s both literally and figuratively only part of the story, and any reboot of the franchise needs to embrace all of the original to channel what made it so beloved. Or, to put it another way – Perfect Dark is a spy game, and it is ostensibly about a female James Bond. I think everything that Booty says is accurate… but it’s only accurate for around half of the original Perfect Dark. “That’s always a cool meme people wanna lean into – but again, we gotta make sure that comes forward in the right way, so I’m just gonna stick to ‘very carefully’.” Are we going to go all 'immersive sim' with this, really? ![]() “What I think is super cool about Perfect Dark, what’s super cool about Joanna Dark, is the super agent fantasy, the spy, the sort of Bourne Identity, James Bond kind of thing there,” Booty explained. But the next thing he said is curious – and for my money, it’s wrong. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.īooty, who is the head of the now-sprawling Xbox Game Studios portfolio of development houses and games, talked about how any reboot of the Perfect Dark franchise would have to be handled “very carefully”, noting that properties such as this “don’t always age well.” And, you know, Booty is right. Every now and then we get a little surprise, however – and such was the case with Perfect Dark, where Xbox’s Matt Booty briefly deigned to talk about the hotly-anticipated reboot during a PAX West panel. Coming off the back of a Gamescom where Xbox mostly focused on well-known titles that’ll be out pretty soon, it looked like we’d be waiting quite a while for a further update on some of Xbox’s bigger and more mystery-shrouded upcoming games. ![]()
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