Closing in on four years since Microsoft’s Perfect Dark reboot was announced, and a year since it was reported that “little meaningful progress” had been made on the project since its unveiling, it’s now being claimed the reboot remains in “a very rough state”.
Microsoft’s Perfect Dark reboot was initially being developed by the company’s Santa Monica-based The Initiative studio, but 2021 hinted at troubles for the project when it was revealed Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics had been brought in to assist.
Meanwhile, video game historian Liam Robertson wrote, “From what little I have heard about the development of the new Perfect Dark, it sounds like… a big, protracted mess.”
That’s according to journalist Jeff Grubb who, while discussing Xbox’s surprise recent studio closures on the Giant Bombcast, told co-presenters, “I’ve been hearing for years that Perfect Dark is in a rough state, [but] it sounds like it’s in a very rough state.