The team had been reading a lot of science fiction at the time, and posters from films such as Nikita graced the walls of their office. So everyone was in the mindset of вЂWhat can we do to make this better than GoldenEye?вЂ™ There were a lot of ideas for new features and everyone had thoughts about what could have gone into that game but didnвЂ™t.вЂќ Spy-fi

вЂњCan you make it better than the first one? That should be easy, but generally, it isnвЂ™t. вЂњPerfect Dark was like the semi-sequel to GoldenEye, and itвЂ™s always difficult making a sequel,вЂќ recalls Mark Edmonds, who led development by the end. But the teamвЂ™s ambition expanded throughout the course of the project, and many of GoldenEyeвЂ™s systems were improved and overhauled. In theory, the main effort would go into building new levels that ran on the previous gameвЂ™s tech. They had developed a brand new engine, so it made sense to build upon that and create a new title in the same vein, with similar gameplay and the same вЂњweapon centricity,вЂќ as Hollis put it.ДЇrom the very beginning, Perfect Dark was planned as a spiritual successor to GoldenEye, with the aim to have the game finished within just one year. For most of them, the James Bond shooter was the first game they had ever made. The team didnвЂ™t want to abandon everything it had accomplished with GoldenEye 007, of course. If we made another Bond game, itвЂ™d be like the second album and people wouldnвЂ™t think weвЂ™ve really innovated.вЂќ And at the time we were competing with things like Turok, and they all had carte blanche to do whatever they wanted with baddies and weapons and so on. ThereвЂ™s only so much Soviet-era stuff you can endure. The first question was, вЂDid we want to do another Bond game?вЂ™ I personally wasnвЂ™t interested in doing another game in that universe, weвЂ™d spent enough time вЂ“ three years, essentially вЂ“ in the Bond universe for my tasteДavid Doak (yes, the scientist we all shot in Facility) adds: вЂњWe were pretty much Bonded-out. вЂњI personally wasnвЂ™t interested in doing another game in that universe, weвЂ™d spent enough time вЂ“ three years, essentially вЂ“ in the Bond universe for my taste.' вЂњThe first question was, вЂDid we want to do another Bond game?вЂ™ and Nintendo actually offered that option but that was very easily dispatched,вЂќ Hollis tells us.

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