Monday, May 4, 2009

Original Perfect Dark might be coming to XBLA


A couple months back, people got all excited about a little tease Rare had. In promotion of a Banjo-Kazooie dashboard theme, the Rare employee's gamer profile featured a played game that had a picture icon featuring the N64 model of Joanna Dark. Many people surmised that a port of the original game was en route to XBLA, but that's not exactly hard evidence, is it.

Well over the weekend there was a new leak, this time from the same Brazil conference that supposedly confirmed Forza Motorsport 3 for this year (not something thats totally a shock, mind you). From that same vid, there is a screenshot of a gamer blade featuring Perfect Dark with the same N64 Joanna icon. This is a little more solid evidence to go on, and as a personal time-sucker of my middle school years I am pretty stoked if a port is in fact in the cards.

In the comments of that same 1up News story that features the leak, some users have also speculated what "Bean" (also listed in the screenshot) could possibly be. "Bean" has the same icon as Perfect Dark Zero, so this could be a Perfect Dark Zero 2, or, more likely, Perfect Dark 2, or even some completely unrelated project altogether. My bet is on an already-rumored Perfect Dark 2 coming either this year or perhaps sometime next year since Halo 3: ODST is slated for this year. Whenever it does come out, I'm also betting that the Perfect Dark XBLA port will probably be used as a pre-order bonus a la the original Banjo-Kazooie was for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, another Rare franchise.

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