Footage From Canceled Perfect Dark Reboot Surfaces, Showing Off Fruit Physics and Parkour

New footage of Xbox’s canceled Perfect Dark reboot has appeared online, via a report from gaming website MP1st. The footage, seemingly acquired from a VFX developer’s portfolio, shows destructible environments, sci-fi weapons, and more.

Developer The Initiative shut down last year, before the LA-based studio could get its first Xbox project out of the door. The studio was spun up in 2018 and was being heavily supported by Crystal Dynamics, which was also forced to lay off staff in the wake of the cancellation.

3 minutes of VFX showcase (and leaked gameplay) from cancelled Perfect Dark reboot and Harsuit Labs's version of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, via VFX artist Tracey Landau. https://t.co/EyoaDEzCpC

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The footage shows developers testing weapons in greybox environments, as well as fleshed out levels, using parkour for traversal and testing the reactivity of environments. …