What you need to know
- Perfect Dark is a reboot of Rare's 2000 spy-themed shooter in development at The Initiative, one of the developers at Xbox Game Studios. It was revealed at The Game Awards in 2020 with a cinematic trailer.
- A new report has revealed that the game is still "two to three years away," and that The Initiative and its partner studios struggled to settle on a cohesive vision for the project.
- First, the developer teamed up with Halo co-development studio Certain Affinity, though the relationship between the two was tense and they split in 2021 after three years once they put together a vertical slice of the game.
- After The Initiative was wracked by multiple departures, it teamed up with Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics. The project has slowly been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 in 2022.
- While progress has been made on the game, developers say it's still in pre-production, and that it won't be ready to launch for several years.
