Jeff Grub indirectly confirms that The Initiative is working on Perfect Dark

[Joe_Sinister1 (Joe_Sinister)]

@Eduardo

Like Avowed and Pillars

I’m intrigued…

[Prine]

We really need a 3rd person spy game, hope this rumour is true.

[TavishHill]

@Prine

We really need a 3rd person spy game, hope this rumour is true.

Breaks my heart Ubisoft doesn’t do another Splinter Cell. MS should just cover dev costs and make it happen.

[anon3022132]

@Prine

We really need a 3rd person spy game, hope this rumour is true.

Amen

[T0kenAussie (Scott Turner)]

@TavishHill

Add this to the OP: https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/26/the-initiatives-first-game-whats-the-so-called-aaaa-studio-making/

It is NOT a new Perfect Dark game after all. Grubb misspoke. It’s…more complicated than that. Check the link for details.

It’s not perfect dark it’s velvet dark

On the serious side though it would be like doing god of war reboot in a way. Some things stay the same and some change. In god of war the setting and gameplay style changed while the character stayed the same.

My bet is the PD universe will be consistent with changes. Future punk and corporate intrigue are hot story beats now and PD has that in spades but Joanna had a storyline revolving around alien conspiracies and other far out concepts. MS also have a big FPS already and while I loved deus ex it didn’t set the world on fire

So keep the universe and the broad themes but blend in Third person stealth gameplay in a futuristic setting with the driver being corporate espionage and rogue ai etc. have the coalition work on an MP mode similar to spies v mercs

[peter42O]

@TavishHill

Breaks my heart Ubisoft doesn’t do another Splinter Cell. MS should just cover dev costs and make it happen.

Rand Al Thor 19, is that you??? lmao

[LifeForms]

Great news if true!!

[The_Xboxer (Adam)]

@peter42O

Would love a third person story driven single player action adventure Perfect Dark game in a cyberpunk type setting. Similar to Deus Ex. I’m sure that there would be multi-player as well which is of no interest to me but as long as they keep the single player and multi-player modes separate, I’ll be a happy camper.

[nrXic]

@T0kenAussie

… Yooooo Velvet Dark would have been a third person stealth / action game and not a first person shooter as the original Perfect Dark, as Rare wanted to expand their franchise in different genres, especially when such games as Metal Gear Solid and Symphon Filter were super popular on the Playstation. Lines up with what was said in 2015 by Kenn Lobb https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-banjo-kazooie-perfect-dark-and-more-will/1100-6424597/

This is PERFECT, if that’s the case.

Addendum: oh jeez I didn’t mean for the pun, I swear!