Perfect Dark Zero - Original Xbox

[crazytaxinext]

Just released from Wil Overton, a selection of screens showing Perfect Dark Zero from when it was in development for the Xbox after it's move from Gamecube.

http://www.transformationsequence.com/video-games.html

[monomaniacpat]

Interesting. Sure glad they didn't use this boxart:

[Shakey_Jake33]

I actually somewhat liked the game on the 360. I won't pretend it was anywhere near as good as its predecessors, or even that good a game for the time, but I enjoyed playing it. It had character.

[QualityChimp]

It was probably my favourite 360 launch title as it was my first proper introduction to online gaming. Capture the Flag had some really exciting moments as I jumped onto a waiting team hovercraft and we sped off to victory!

As for that boxart, I know it says Pd0, but that would have been mistaken as "Paedo"! :O

[Daragon]

Am I the only one who thinks that this looks cooler than the game we actually got? Graphics look more stylish too.

[EvilBoris]

It almost looks like the game was a bit more flat shaded , but to make it look next gen, they coated it in shader effects and bump mapping

[Wil]

Oi, stop nicking my pics

But honestly, all this stuff was just part of the gazillions of ideas and scribbles that got done during dev (which went on foreeeverrrr). I won't pretend the game came out anything like I'd have hoped but you live and learn.

[EvilBoris]

I've got a wee jobby for ya joanna!

[Wil]

I've got a wee jobby for ya joanna!

I'm scared of firing it up now. The years have made it seem not as bad and I don't want to ruin the image in my mind.

[EvilBoris]

I decided that very same thing fairly recently, as I was toying with going back to it and trying to do it on the hardest setting (couldn never do that jungle level) as I actually really enjoyed it at time, despite the slating it got here, the actual gameplay itself wasn't a million miles away from the N64 game. Unfortunately FPS and Stealth titles had changed or improved the objective style gameplay during Perfect Dark's absence from the shelves.

I don't think the slightly wobbly aiming and the distinctly 1st gen graphics will do it any favours were I to go back to it.