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Ashley Bardhan

Original GoldenEye and Perfect Dark composer “would’ve loved” to work on the reboot, but the studio “chose someone else”

Perfect Dark screenshot.

The Perfect Dark reboot seems to finally be happily underway. Its trailer, revealed at Xbox Games Showcase 2024, shows the first-person shooter series' agent Joanna Dark stomping and stealthing through a sunny Garden City. It would fit perfectly into Cyberpunk 2077. So the trailer indicates a new genre direction for Perfect Dark, as well as completely redone visuals (as is to be expected for a 25-year-old game), and, apparently, brand new music. 

Perfect Dark's original composer, Grant Kirkhope, writes on Twitter that he "would've loved to have scored the new Perfect Dark," but "alas, it wasn't to be." The former Rare composer previously worked on the British developer's 1997 FPS GoldenEye 007, one of the world's first-party games.

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