New Perfect Dark Zero details

By Ellie Gibson Published 23 September, 2005

Revealed in dev interview.

A new interview with the development team behind Perfect Dark Zero, Rare's forthcoming Xbox 360 title, has appeared on Xbox.com.

Some rather interesting stuff is revealed, including details of five of the weapons you'll get to play with - namely the phantom, laptop gun, RCP-90, shockwave rifle and psychosis pistol.

We're promised plenty of replay value, since Rare says it wants to "give players a compelling reason to play story mode again and again. Multiple ways to achieve goals on the levels enhances this.

"We're not going to say how yet, but Xbox Live plays a big part." Hmm.

Head on over to Xbox.com to read the full interview.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Milk #1 7 years ago

    It would be such a nice supprise if this was good.

    /crosses fingers

  • tiddles #2 7 years ago

    EG is so biased against Xbox 360.

  • Dizzy #3 7 years ago

    I hope to see some hard gameplay movies/previews soon. I cannot belive you EG guys haven't visited Rare offices to have a sneak peak. How far away are they??? ;) Oh well.. X05 will probably be the place to reveal DPZ
    Edited by Dizzy at 23/09/05 @ 12:15

  • Universal_Hamster #4 7 years ago

    And still no-one asks about hitzones and injured animations... Im beginning to fear the worst...

  • Blerk #5 7 years ago

    "We're not going to say how yet, but Xbox Live plays a big part."

    Co-op play of the main story levels, then.

  • Zomoniac #6 7 years ago

    RCP-90!!! This was the best gun in the universe on GoldenEye, if it's the same as that one I'll be so happy :o)

  • Dizzy #7 7 years ago

    "We're not going to say how yet, but Xbox Live plays a big part."

    >Co-op play of the main story levels, then.

    Or maybe enemies played by Live opponents?

  • Dizzy #8 7 years ago

    > Dizzy: Isn't that called a team deathmatch? :)

    ;) Well maybe not if it is the main story gameplay mode?? Just guessing here ;)

  • smoothpete #9 7 years ago

    50 player multiplayer? Feck. Bring it on, bitches!

  • Chtulie #10 7 years ago

    "phantom, laptop gun, RCP-90, shockwave rifle and psychosis pistol"
    seen it, seen it, seen it, seen it, and one that sounds like it came from bullfrog's Syndicate.
    Wow, Free Radical really is to Rare what Infinity Ward is to, er, whatever developer it is/was that made the Medal of Honor games.

  • myrmican #11 7 years ago

    You can dive out of the way of enemy fire, but you're more vulnerable

    Is it just me or is that a really fucking stupid statement?

  • renzo #12 7 years ago

    It makes sense.

    You can choose to either get shot, or dive out of the way.

    Diving out of the way causes you to fall helplessly to the ground.

    While you're being all sexy and helpless on the ground, you're vulnerable.

  • Donglebomb #13 7 years ago

    You may gather from the words 'E3 Interview' that this interview isn't exactly 'new'... it's been there for ruddy months.

  • MORZTAN #14 7 years ago

    "It makes sense.

    You can choose to either get shot, or dive out of the way.

    Diving out of the way causes you to fall helplessly to the ground.

    While you're being all sexy and helpless on the ground, you're vulnerable. "...

    and therefore you will still get shot!! It really is a ridiculous feature, isn't it

  • Xerx3s #15 7 years ago

    "give players a compelling reason to play story mode again and again." - The only way they would achieve that is by including a superb coop/countercoop mode online and in splitscreen for multiple players (more than 2 atleast). And on top of that add alternate scenarios of some sort.

    Anyway, this has given me some hope again about PD0. Its on me mightjustbuythis list now.

  • Zero Beat #16 7 years ago

    And still no-one asks about hitzones and injured animations... Im beginning to fear the worst...

    Hitzones are in, nothing said about injury animations yet.

    You can dive out of the way of enemy fire, but you're more vulnerable

    Is it just me or is that a really fucking stupid statement?

    You can dive out of the way of danger, so if you're near a corner that'll give you cover from fire it's a no brainer. But you take a lot more damage while diving so there's no point doing it all the time in the open because you'll still get shot to death, unless someone throws a grenade at you in which case I'm sure increased damage bullets are a nice alternative to being exploded.

  • kangarootoo #17 7 years ago

    We're all kind of speculating here on the exact mechanic behind a single sentence. In Max Payne dodging made you vunerable to fire by way of the fact you landed on the floor in a heap at the end, but obviously not as vulnerable as just standing there twiddling your thumbs.

    I think it is a mechanic that will prove itself (or not) when we finally see it. If we create our own artificial versions of what we think it might be, of course we can make it look shite.

  • effinwooly #18 7 years ago

    Sounds amazing ! Can't wait !!!!

  • Bates #19 7 years ago

    yawn

  • kangarootoo #20 7 years ago

    "yawn"

    Well clearly not, as it moved you to post about it ;)

  • Xavier_B_OXford #21 7 years ago

    Yes! This is the stuff! This is the pure undiluted pleasure injection from a long hard needle we've all been waiting for! Officially set to be one of the greatest games of all time because it's on the all holy Xbox 360 and will show those worthless B$3 cockhats just how pitiful their lives really are.

    The more worthy and intelligent among us will be getting our pleasure fix before Christmas, the B$3 losers will be lucky to get theirs(If such a thing could really be called 'pleasure') by NEXT Christmas! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You idiots!

    Don't you see the console that comes out first is automatically the winner? DON'T YOU? With games like PDZ in our arsenal, the Xbox 360 has the future of gaming all sown up for Microsoft, as they are now the winners by default!

    WOOHOO! DEFAULT! DEFAULT! DEFAULT! The two most beautiful words in the english language!

  • Cbrotherson #22 7 years ago

    "yawn"

    "Well clearly not, as it moved you to post about it ;)"

    Yes, I've often wondered about that -- surely an expression of abject apathy shouldnt be "yawn" or the constantly overused "meh", but rather an absence of any response at all? ;)

  • Vin #23 7 years ago

    This looks the shit; http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2618/pd052xx.jpg

    Lovely.

  • ali-uk #24 7 years ago

    Woah, Vin, that shot of the jungle is fucking mad!

  • admir #25 7 years ago

    played perfect dark on N64 and it was shit dont know why people make such a big deal about this game

  • Yaz #26 7 years ago

    ^^^ Good for you. Moving on......
    Edited by Yaz at 23/09/05 @ 21:59

  • IronGiant #27 7 years ago

    Yawn to the same old fucktards who think there's some conspiracy against the 360 around here. Get a life.

  • Zero Beat #28 7 years ago

    Check out page 2!

    It has death animations! Then they turn into ragdolls. PERFECT!

    And it's beautiful. *sniff*

  • jetli #29 7 years ago

    crap

    pure crap