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Perfect Dark Zero
In September 2002, after losing a
steady trickle of staff for two years (including many of their
Goldeneye 007 team members, who went on to found Free Radical), Rare
Ltd was purchased by Microsoft. Around the same time, Rare released
several images of Joanna Dark, the protagonist of the Perfect Dark
games.
The "cartoony" style
of these pictures incited speculation that the final game — then
intended for the original Xbox — would employ a less realistic
graphical style than the original game; possibly an anime like
cel-shading technique, (RARE had hired UK Manga artist Wil Overton
to work with them, after seeing an anime-like image of the Original
Perfect Dark game he had created for the cover of N64 Magazine).
Development of the
title was later transferred to the Xbox 360. Perfect Dark Zero's
senior designer Chris Tilston (also one of the project leads for the
game) later revealed that the Xbox version was "about twelve months
away" from completion when the switch occurred.
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