Microsoft’s long-in-development new Perfect Dark recreation resurfaced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase right now, offering a primary have a look at gameplay from the following entry within the shooter collection. Within the footage, we see agent Joanna Dark embarking on one other harmful mission in a near-future Cairo.
In a blog post, Xbox mentioned individuals don’t want any prior information of the Perfect Dark collection to benefit from the reboot, however longtime followers might discover some callbacks.
The brand new Perfect Dark is a single-player recreation that has gamers utilizing traversal mechanics like parkour and devices to take down enemies. “It takes in components of first-person shooters, immersive sims, and stealth-action, however blends them right into a seamless complete. The purpose is to supply a real undercover agent fantasy–and letting gamers use their numerous instruments and talents in the way in which,” Microsoft mentioned.
Within the recreation, the world has been overrun by an occasion known as “The Cascade,” which is the time period for a collection of environmental disasters which have made some elements of the world inhospitable to human life.
“Within the wake of the catastrophe, a hypercorporation often known as Core Mantis steps in to create an answer often known as The GEN Community, and deploys it in Cairo–restoring ecological steadiness and making a freshly walled metropolis, insulated from the hostile setting outdoors to develop into a middle for technological innovation,” Microsoft mentioned.
Not all the pieces is at it appears, although, and these hypercorporations that got here to energy don’t even have humanity’s greatest pursuits at coronary heart.
In accordance with Microsoft, devices play a key position within the new Perfect Dark, which is sensible given it is a undercover agent/spy recreation. Within the trailer, we are able to see Joanna utilizing a gadget to research NPC voices and to create pretend conversations to idiot safety techniques.
“Devices can be utilized for misdirection and manipulation, however we additionally see that Joanna can use a instrument to scan an NPC and be taught particulars about them,” reads a line from the sport’s description.
When it comes to fight, the builders say they’re attempting to create a “symphony” of mechanics that merge traversal, hand-to-hand fight, gunplay, environmental components, and devices into one system.
There may be nonetheless no phrase on when the brand new Perfect Dark will launch, however it can launch on Sport Go. The brand new Perfect Dark is in growth at Microsoft’s personal studio, The Initiative, alongside co-developer Crystal Dynamics.
A report from Might 2024 mentioned the brand new Perfect Dark recreation was in “tough form.” The brand new trailer launched on the Xbox Video games Showcase makes it appear to be the sport is additional alongside in growth than some might need imagined.
The Perfect Dark reboot was introduced again in 2020, and continues to be seemingly early in growth. In 2021, Crystal Dynamics joined The Initiative to assist out with growth.
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