Perfect Dark, developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64 in 2000, has come to Xbox Live Arcade ten years later with great anticipation. It also comes with a few surprises, as this isn't a straight port of a classic shooter, such as Doom or Duke Nukem 3d's arcade ports - 4J studios, the team responsible for bringing this revered classic shooter to XBLA, has gone back into the game, improving the graphics, frame rate, enhancing the multiplayer for Xbox live, and adding other goodies throughout. A lot of you spent dozens and dozens of your college days in darkened dormitory rooms, huddled around the N64 with a bunch of your classmates and friends in lengthy, pitched deathmatches with bragging rights and pride on the line - you won't be disappointed with the refreshed Perfect Dark. And for the folks like me who missed it the first time around, it's another chance to play a first-person-shooter that laid a lot of groundwork for every shooter to follow, and raised the bar for console first person shooters for the next decade.
While it’s unlikely that most people will be able to afford TWO Xbox One consoles at launch, the possibility of starting a game on one console, pausing and then moving to another console to continue playing it will be possible, thanks to "The Cloud".
It also can read your heart rate and your emotions, see your body in high definition (even your fingers) and even recognize you based on voice alone, among other cool things. The potential of Kinect-enhanced gaming just got real.
Remember that weird, live-action TV show that you could stop and watch on almost any television in Alan Wake, Night Springs? Well, it seems that developer Remedy has taken the concept one step further, merging game and TV show in a fresh new way.
Forza 5’s long rumored appearance at the Xbox One reveal was hardly a surprise, but the fact that it is coming out this year AT LAUNCH and will look as good as the trailer and dashboard presentation suggested is enough to get excited about!
The more things change, the more things stay the same, but if you are loyal to both Call of Duty and the Xbox platform, then this can only be a good thing, as once again, you’ll be getting all Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC first on Xbox One.
As we all suspected, the new x86 architecture-powered Xbox One will not play Xbox 360 games -- in any fashion whatsoever. But once again, there’s a bright side, as the Xbox 360 will still have a future alongside the Xbox One...
Is it the all-in-one box that we’ve always wanted (and feared)? Yes. Does it come with and require Kinect 2.0 to function? Yes again. Is it a hulking mass of a machine? Bingo! But on the bright side, tech behind the console and Kinect look BADASS!
