Though overrated and not “perfect”, Perfect Dark Zero still provides a thrilling FPS experience.

User Rating: 7.8 | Perfect Dark Zero X360
By NicAgent | Review Date:
Even though Perfect Dark Zero is over one year old now, it still remains one of the top FPS shooters to hit the Xbox 360. You play the role of a girl named Jill Valentine, and you are sent on many missions of various types, much like Goldeneye 007 and 007: Nightfire. The gameplay for the most part is good, with a fair share of guns and gadgets to use. Weapons include shotguns, SMGs, pistols, and even machine guns. Additionally, each weapon has a secondary mode that helps the player in some way, i.e. an enemy radar screen, flashlight, night-vision, etc. However, something that I would have liked was better controls. The x-axis is not inverted unlike in most games, and you might have to do some adjusting to fit it to your settings. But aside from that the game plays fairly well. It’s all good stuff and is much like Goldeneye 007 in excellence, though not quite as good.

There are some pretty nice graphics I must say. The guns all look stellar, and cannot look much better. Many of the textures are near picture-perfect, and breathtaking. However, the one major drawback on the graphics are the characters, which look rather bland, 6th generation. Even 007: Nightfire has better graphics on its characters. Additionally, some of the vehicles when seen moving in cutscenes does not look all that realistic. But still overall the graphics are about as best as you can get for an Xbox 360 launch title.

The sound is good for the most part, though the voice of your boss can get annoying. The futuristic-sounding music could also have been done better, too. I can’t say anything too bad about the sound, but it could have used some improvement.

The campaign is fairly long and even after it’s been exhausted, there’s plenty to do in multiplayer modes. The ranking system no longer works, but there are still plenty of multiplayer games going on to try your skill in.

Overall Perfect Dark Zero is kind of overrated (9.0 is a bit excessive) and it doesn’t quite live up to its “perfect” name, but it is still a recommended title for FPS fans.

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