Perfect Dark has seventeen main levels of the campaign. I’ll also be looking in detail at two levels and a third set of levels that illustrate some of the things I like the most about the singleplayer campaign in Perfect Dark, and that many reviewers have tended to miss in favour of criticizing some of the weaker levels in the set. This piece is going to look at this claim, consider the level design of Perfect Dark in depth, the more-modern level design of some other shooters, and then consider whether these criticisms are valid, or merely a sign of the times in an age of shooters that, perhaps, demand rather less of their players. They posit players asking “Where do I go?” whilst fumbling around the apparently obtuse level design.
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Gamespot suggested the levels are riddled with “locked doors, unused rooms, and dead ends” Eurogamer argued that “games are now so much better at telling you where you should go next and what you should do when you get there” Gametrailers criticized the lack of “waypoint markers or maps” Joystiq suggests that “without a blinking arrow navig ating you to your next objective, the gameplay can feel aimless” CVG says the level design is “adrift of the clear and responsive standards we’re now used to” while Cheat Code Central, with impressive hyperbolae, suggest that “the modern gamer will find it borderline unplayable.”Īll these criticisms boil down into a core statement – that the actual navigation and traversal of the physical space of these maps is unnecessarily challenging. Whilst it was generally met with a positive reception as an impressive modernization of a classic game, especially since the new engine was built ground-up to be as close a copy of the old engine as possible, several reviewers claimed the game’s level design didn’t hold up well compared to its modern successors. A few years ago Perfect Dark was re-released on Xbox Live Arcade.
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