10 Industry-Defining Video Games That Are Nowhere To Be Seen
7. Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark was supposed to be the next great first-person shooter franchise. After being initially conceived as a sequel to Goldeneye 64, the developers thought that they could create a hero even better than James Bond. The end result was Perfect Dark, a gritty, futuristic, and provocative sci-fi shooter the introduced the world to Joanna Dark and proved that a female video game protagonist can be kick-ass and awesome without exploiting her sexuality (until Perfect Dark Zero). But instead of being placed in the pantheon of great first person shooter games, the Perfect Dark series has kind of fallen by the wayside in recent years. After Perfect Dark was released in 2000 to a massive wave of success, Joanna Dark's follow-up adventure was the slightly underwhelming prequel, Perfect Dark Zero. From there, what momentum that remained in the franchise slowly levelled out. A proper sequel to Perfect Dark 64 titled 'Perfect Dark Core' was planned but sadly cancelled, and instead, Joanna Dark's story continued in comic-book form. Most recently, the developers released a HD-remake of the original Perfect Dark for Xbox 360, which was pretty good but certainly not the brand new sequel expected. With Halo, Call of Duty, and Battlefield over-saturating the FPS landscape, the shooting gaming world could definitely use some more feminine energy.
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