Coming from someone without nostalgia goggles, I have to say that Perfect Dark Zero was better than the original. That might be because I played Zero before the original, but I still thought that it was much better.
Perfect Dark vs Perfect Dark Zero
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Perfect Dark
Pros:
-Helped modernize console shooters
-Highly customizable multiplayer
-Introduced weapon reload animations
-Had a strong female protaganist
Cons:
-Very limited graphics due to it being on the N64 (even for it's time. Things like giving Joanna red hair were impossible for them to do since the game was on the 64)
-Blocky character models
-Confusing, poorly told story
-Main character is basicly just Bond but female
-Almost no character development
-Poorly explained objectives
Perfect Dark Zero
Pros:
-Made Joanna more fleshed out and more human/relateable
-More comprehensable story than its predisesor
-Later spawned the most excellent books Perfect Dark: Initial Vector and Perfect Dark: Second Front and the comic Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears(the books are far, FAR better than the game, you must hunt down these books!)
Cons:
-Story & dialouge still kind of bad, also still kind of poorly told (the books don't suffer from this though)
-Some characters & parts of the story/gameplay too silly to take seriously
-Limited multiplayer
-Multiplayer nowhere near as fun as the original
-Graphics are often iffy
Both I find to be fun games, but both have their problems. I love them though since I'm kind of in love with Joanna, and because it inspired me to write up my own book series.
Pros:
-Helped modernize console shooters
-Highly customizable multiplayer
-Introduced weapon reload animations
-Had a strong female protaganist
Cons:
-Very limited graphics due to it being on the N64 (even for it's time. Things like giving Joanna red hair were impossible for them to do since the game was on the 64)
-Blocky character models
-Confusing, poorly told story
-Main character is basicly just Bond but female
-Almost no character development
-Poorly explained objectives
Perfect Dark Zero
Pros:
-Made Joanna more fleshed out and more human/relateable
-More comprehensable story than its predisesor
-Later spawned the most excellent books Perfect Dark: Initial Vector and Perfect Dark: Second Front and the comic Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears(the books are far, FAR better than the game, you must hunt down these books!)
Cons:
-Story & dialouge still kind of bad, also still kind of poorly told (the books don't suffer from this though)
-Some characters & parts of the story/gameplay too silly to take seriously
-Limited multiplayer
-Multiplayer nowhere near as fun as the original
-Graphics are often iffy
Both I find to be fun games, but both have their problems. I love them though since I'm kind of in love with Joanna, and because it inspired me to write up my own book series.
I wouldnt call the AI rubish since they depend on difficulty and perfect is fucking nutsOutright Villainy said:
The weapons are some of my fav from a game tho but I dont think anything beats Rachet and Clanks or in FPS sense the old Turok games like Seeds of Evil
Perfect Dark was the better game between the two, but I actually will admit that I did like Perfect Dark Zero. It did have a lot of stupid little flaws (nonsensical story, terrible voice acting, rather clunky controls), but in the end I found it to be a really fun game and in the end that's all I give a damn about.