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So you have played both games. One has been around nearly four years, the other, one year. (as of 6/02/01) So how do they compare? Does Perfect Dark completely blow Goldeneye 007 away? Or can Goldeneye hold its own against Perfect Dark?
Since Perfect Dark uses the expansion pack, and Goldeneye doesn't, "with enhancement" refers to the expansion pack for Perfect dark, and the Gameshark for Goldeneye. Fair? So if its in white it means no enhancement, gray means with enhancement
* Cheats that give single weapons are not
included
Category | Goldeneye 007 | Perfect Dark |
Number of single player missions | 18, 2 special | 0 |
Number of single player missions | 18, 2 special | 17, 4 special |
Number of multi player levels | 11 | 12 |
Number of multi player levels | 16 | 12 |
Number of players in multi | 4 | 2 |
Number of players in multi | 4 | 4 |
Number of bots (simulants) | 0 | 8 |
Number of bots (simulants) | 8 (sort of) | 8 |
Number of cheats* | 12 | 0 |
Number of cheats* | 19 | 22 |
Cut scenes? | yes | yes |
Cut scenes? | yes | yes |
Voice? | no | no |
Voice? | no | yes |
Number of guns | 26 | 28 |
Number of multi player characters | 64 | 61 |
The following are opinions. If you think differently,
let me know.
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Better graphics | no | yes |
Better music | yes | no |
Better plot | yes | no |
Better weapons | yes | no |
Better designed levels | yes | no |
Better artificial intelligence | no | yes |
Better framerate | no | yes |
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Final Total (without enhancement) | 7 | 6 |
Final Total (with enhancement) | 5 | 7 |
Bottom line: You can't duplicate a classic. Even after 3 years, Goldeneye can hold its own against Perfect Dark, and in my opinion, is still a better game. What do you think? Here are some other people's opinions:
Lou- Which is better? It's a no-brainer! Of course Goldeneye is better. Goldeneye=legend. Perfect Dark=wannabe legend.
L.O.D- Well, screw the reveiws and stats. It's been a year, and Goldeneye is the game im still playing. So i guess that means that it's better than Perfect Dark, right?
Kage-"In Perfect Dark, without an expansion back there is almost nothing to do. Plus a lot of the multi-player levels are the same because Rare just used old Goldeneye levels like the complex and the facility. Goldeneye also has a way better weapons."
Devbinks- GoldenEye is much better than Perfect Dark. PD had some enhancements like better AI, simulants, and a slightly better frame-rate, but it was too futuristic for my taste. I liked the normal weapons and levels that GoldenEye had.
superman9381-"Perfect Dark has cooler graphics and the voices are cool, but the missions aren't as cool. The alien thing messes everything up"
wolverine43-"Perfect dark is much better. The multi player simulants keep you playing for a while, and the single player missions rock."
bob1313-"both games have their highs and lows. perfect dark has the better multi player, while goldeneye has far better single player missions"
mike sherwood-"Perfect dark's guns are all the same. they all fire really fast, and theres no variety to them. goldeneye has the neater guns."
Austin-"Pd is better because the sound is awesome and the guns don't just dip down and reload, they each have a different reload animation. The guns also have secondary functions, which in a sense doubles the guns plus it features the classic goldeneye guns which dont have a secondary feature :( but are still cool. The graphics are the best I've seen in any game yet. The downside :( Pd does require a Expansion pak to have access to the single-player half of the game."
Steve-"Perfect Dark is an impressive game. Tangibly, it is far superior to Goldeneye. Better graphics, voices, incredible lighting effects, multi player simulants, and the list goes on. But, Goldeneye has something intangible. It is difficult to explain, but Goldeneye has it, and Perfect Dark just doesn't."
Mike Foster-"Perfect Dark's simulants are pretty damn cool, but they could still use a lot of tweaking. But you h ave to remember, this is the first game that uses multi player bots like that. It will only get better from here."
Jeff aka "Elvis"-"I like Goldeneye better. Its got much
better designed multi and solo levels
and dosen't need an expansion pak to play. PD will never beat 007."
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