When Microsoft’s XBox 360 launches this fall, the expectation is that the system’s must-have game will be Perfect Dark Zero<\/i>, the prequel to the best-selling first-person shooter Perfect Dark<\/i> on the Nintendo 64.<\/p>\n
But wait! some fanboys are saying. Isn’t there already a prequel to Perfect Dark<\/i>? Wasn’t it called GoldenEye<\/i>, since Perfect Dark<\/i> was a sequel of sorts to the James Bond game?<\/p>\n
Well, yes and no. Other than play style and the appearance of some characters in the multiplayer maps, there’s not a lot to connect GoldenEye<\/i> to Perfect Dark<\/i>. So, Perfect Dark<\/i> is a sequel in spirit if not in story. And Perfect Dark Zero<\/i> will, from what I understand, show us how Joanna Dark, the protagonist in Perfect Dark<\/i>, became involved in a lethal brand of industrial espionage.<\/p>\n
Turns out there’s going to be a novel as well — Perfect Dark: Initial Vector<\/i><\/a>, written by Greg Rucka, mystery and Batman writer. I’m curious about Initial Vector<\/i> — I liked Perfect Dark<\/i>, and I generally like Rucka’s work, though I didn’t much like his Grendel<\/i> novel, Past Prime<\/i>. I know that Rucka can take the concept of near-future industrial espionage with agents licenced to kill and do something interesting with it.<\/p>\n There’s a part of me, though, that wouldn’t mind seeing Rucka write Initial Vector<\/i> as something of an Ian Fleming pastiche, to acknowledge the line of development from Her Majesty’s secret servent to the operatives of the Carrington Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Microsoft’s XBox 360 launches this fall, the expectation is that the system’s must-have game will be Perfect Dark Zero, the prequel to the best-selling first-person shooter Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64. But wait! some fanboys are saying. Isn’t there already a prequel to Perfect Dark? Wasn’t it called GoldenEye, since Perfect Dark wasContinue reading “On the Literary Perfect Dark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1006,855,1007,1008,4091],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-greg-rucka","tag-james-bond","tag-joanna-dark","tag-perfect-dark","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}