List of Perfect Dark media

Perfect Dark is a science fiction video game franchise developed by Rare. All the games in the series are first-person shooters, excluding Perfect Dark for the Game Boy Color, which is an action game. In addition to video games, the series has also expanded into other media, including novels and American comic books. These supplements to the video games have resulted in significant development of the series' fictional universe. Set in the 2020s, the series revolves around Joanna Dark, an operative for the Carrington Institute fictional agency, as she attempts to stop conspiracies by rival corporation dataDyne. The series has been commercially and critically successful, and the games combined have sold over four million units worldwide.^[1][2]

Video games

Game	Release date
	North America	PAL region
Perfect Dark	May 22, 2000[3]	June 30, 2000[3]
First game in the Perfect Dark series Developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 Uses a modified version of the GoldenEye 007 game engine[4] Requires the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak to access the game's campaign and most of the multiplayer features[5]
Perfect Dark	August 28, 2000[6]	August 2000[6]
Developed by Rare for the Game Boy Color Takes place one year prior to the Nintendo 64 game Includes a built-in rumble feature and supports the Transfer Pak, the Game Boy Printer and the Game Boy Color Game Link Cable[7]
Perfect Dark Zero	November 17, 2005[8]	December 2, 2005[8]
Developed by Rare for the Xbox 360 Takes place three years prior to the Nintendo 64 game First Perfect Dark game published by Microsoft
Perfect Dark	March 17, 2010[9]	March 17, 2010[9]
Remake of the Nintendo 64 game Ported by 4J Studios and released as an Xbox Live Arcade game for the Xbox 360[10] Features improved graphics and online multiplayer[10]

Soundtracks

Title		Release date	Length	Label
Perfect Dark: Dual CD Soundtrack		November 15, 2000[11]	138:42	Nintendo of America
Double soundtrack album composed by Grant Kirkhope[11] Features the complete score of the Nintendo 64 video game Released exclusively through Nintendo Power magazine[11]
Perfect Dark Zero Original Soundtrack		November 8, 2005[12]	73:56	Sumthing Else Music Works[12]
Soundtrack album composed by David Clynick and produced by Nile Rodgers[12] Features 27 tracks of Perfect Dark Zero Contains two tracks from MorissonPoe and one track by Kepi and Kat[12]

Printed media

Title	Release date	ISBN	Media type
Perfect Dark: Initial Vector	October 2005[13]	ISBN 0-7653-5473-X	Novelization
Written by Greg Rucka and published by Tor Books[13] Set six months after Perfect Dark Zero and focuses on dataDyne's new CEO election
Perfect Dark: Hong Kong Sunrise	November 17, 2005[14]	—	Comic book
A special-edition comic booklet only available in the collector's edition of Perfect Dark Zero[15] Written by Eric Trautmann and illustrated by Cold FuZion Studios Sets the scene for Perfect Dark Zero
Perfect Dark: Second Front	January 2007[16]	ISBN 0-7653-5474-8	Novelization
Written by Greg Rucka and published by Tor Books[16] Set minutes after Janus' Tears and focuses on a clandestine group of hackers responsible for some major accidents that allowed dataDyne to takeover involved corporations
Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears	August 2006 - January 2007	ISBN 0-7615-5304-5	Comic book
Released in six monthly issues from August 2006 to January 2007 Written by Eric Trautmann, illustrated by Cold FuZion Studios, and published by Prima Games[17] Set between Initial Vector and Second Front and focuses on Joanna's attempts to unmask a mole in the Carrington Institute's Los Angeles office A promotional half of the first issue was originally available as a freebie giveaway at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo, and later featured in Prima's official Perfect Dark Zero strategy guide A compilation regrouping of all six issues was released on March 20, 2007

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