Perfect Dark Zero Demo Hits Live
Free content coming too, with pay-to-play stuff coming later. Hooray?
Joanna Dark's return in Perfect Dark Zero on Xbox 360 hasn't been quite the killer app Microsoft would have hoped for when it bought developer Rare, but the company's not giving up on cranking out a few more sales yet. Microsoft said this week that it would release new downloadable content for the game and also a demo to entice fence sitters.
The demo is set in the Outpost level and lets you play either alone, with a friend in split-screen mode, or online over Xbox Live. It will be available for free through the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Current owners will also be getting theirs, in the forms of new downloadable content. There's a new multiplayer map called Plaza and also eight new computer-controller opponents. These have unique personalities that will, for instance, have them target the best player or the last player to kill them.
While this new content is free, Microsoft is also rolling out paid-for premium content. Four new multiplayer maps are already planned with more likely to come afterwards.
Find out more about the game in our full Perfect Dark Zero review.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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