Banjo-Tooie’s upcoming theme hints at Perfect Dark XBLA
Devil Bottles and the Stop 'n’ Swop Theme join in on the teasing
The month of Banjo news continued a few days ago with a sneak peek of the BT XBLA Dashboard Theme coming this Friday for 250 MS Points. Yet what would Rare be without being the teases that they are?
The most interesting hint, personally speaking, isn’t the one that’s Banjo-related. In the very first screenshot, the last games played by the Gamertag are BT XBLA, Death Tank, BK XBLA, and…a picture of Joanna Dark circa her Perfect Dark N64 days. Is it an announcement of things to come? Probably, however, keep this in mind: when MundoRare went to the Xbox Holiday Showcase, a Microsoft representative told us that they were looking into bringing more of Rare’s N64 classics to the Xbox Live Arcade.
With Goldeneye XBLA’s chances of release already slim to none thanks to Nintendo’s stubbornness, it only makes sense to release one of the best first person shooters out there. If it really is coming out, one could assume that online play will be a major selling point, as well as fixing the massive slowdown that the game had during multiplayer. In short, it may be a tease at the moment, but don’t rule out its release. Here’s hoping that if it is real, they’ll fix the PD icon into a something a little less blurry and more promotional arty.
On the Banjo side of news, we might be getting more with BT XBLA besides the working Stop ‘n’ Swop promised over ten years ago. In the first screenshot, the last video played is called, unsurprisingly enough, Stop ‘n’ Swop. The next screenshot has another theme simply titled the “Banjo-Tooie Stop ‘n’ Swop Theme.” Last but not least, the last screenshot shows none other than Devil Bottles at the right-hand side. Bottles Revenge as a Stop ‘n’ Swop reward, anyone?
With Banjo-Tooie’s new set of free Gamerpics coming out tomorrow as well as an Easter-themed video, the answers to our questions (particularly, the release date and pricing of the sequel the way it should’ve been) will come out sooner than you expect…
Somehow related news
- ‘Bean’ gives credit to Perfect Dark XBLA rumour ()
- Xbox Live to possibly get more Rare titles after PD XBLA ()
- New achievements and a Carrington Institute theme for PDXBLA ()
- Perfect Dark XBLA coming this Winter in 1080p ()
- Will Perfect Dark Return? ()
5 Comments
they should make diddy kong racing on xbla
Comment by rjoe — 18.Apr.09 @ 6:36 am
I really hope they bring back Perfect Dark again, after the big dissapoinment with GOLDENEYE (Thanks Nintendo) we need on XBLA the BEST FPS….PERFECT DARK!!!!. Please RARE bring that game to the XBLA with updated graphics, achievements and MP Online 
Excellent!! Wait for e3!!
Comment by Jhon — 05.May.09 @ 6:31 pm
I hope they are working on it, I would buy this game again right away if it was released on the XBLA.
Comment by The BS Police — 10.Apr.09 @ 12:45 am