Note: Acheivements for Perfect Dark have already been spotted on the internet, such as in this screenshot:SEATTLE-In a stunning move today, Microsoft and subsdiary Rareware announced today that they would be prining the classic Nintendo 64 game "Perfect Dark," the predecessor to the hit Xbox 360 title Perfect Dark Zero, to the Xbox Live Arcade system. Coming just weeks after Rareware annouced that none of their titles would be appearing on the rival systems "Virtual Console." Following the announcement, Microsoft's Peter Moore was able to sit down and talk to us about this upcoming game.
Happycat: So, when will this be released to the general public?
Peter Moore: Sometime in the fall, and or early summer.
HC: Can you give us a dae at this time?
PM: I can't, sorry.
HC: Are there any new features that the xbox 360 version will have that the original did not have?
PM: Well, for starters, there is going to be online play over Xbox Live, and new LAN modes. Also, the game will now have leaderboards, so you can compare your stats in this game compared to other players.
HC: How many players will this support?
PM: The original game, if you remember, was limited by the hardware. You could have 4 people and 12 bots playing at once. Now we have support for up to 32 players at once in the newest builds. But that number may change.
HC One last question, How well does the game run on the xbox 360 hardware?
PM: Well, we had to recompile the entire game for the hardware of the Xbox 360, but it does run much better than the original game did.
HC: Thank you for your time.
PM: You're welcome.
Microsoft has released several screenshots from preliminary builds of the game, more to come soon:
