Insider: Perfect Dark by The Initiative is not doing well

Giant Bomb journalist and insider Jeff Grubb shared on the Giant Bombcast podcast his observations on the development of Perfect Dark, a game being worked on by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics.

Grubb characterized the state of the action game as extremely unsatisfactory, noting that the project has been struggling for several years, and Crystal Dynamics' involvement in the development process has not yielded the expected results. He also mentioned that the developers are still undecided about the game's perspective - first-person or third-person.

Three independent sources confirmed the information about the problems in the development of Perfect Dark: insider and developer shinobi602, journalist Alex Donaldson (RPG Site, VG247) and youtuber-historian Liam Robertson.

Last summer, IGN published an extensive piece on the development of Perfect Dark, claiming that the project is progressing but is still at a very early stage and a release can be expected in 2-3 years at the earliest.

The Perfect Dark game is planned for release on PC and Xbox Series X|S. Work on the project has been underway since 2018.