Never played DK64, but yep, Rare seem to have gone a long way downhill in a surprisingly short time. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (their last full-price game, I think) is awful. Not, as you say, technically poor, just not anything like as much fun as it thinks it is.

Perfect Dark Zero deserves a second chance, though. I played it again after the XBLA release of the original, and honestly struggled to recall what I hated about it. Apart from Joanna being a totally different person, of course. And the stupid achievements. And the wonky controls (although, again, they didn’t seem quite as wonky on my second attempt). Okay, so it’s not the top-notch “AAA title” (God, I hate that term) it should have been, it’s aged so poorly that it almost feels like you’re playing a PS2 game, and it isn’t a worthy sequel to the magnificent original, but it’s certainly worth the 99p you can probably pick it up for these days.

Yes, damning with faint praise, I suppose. Oh Ultimate, how did it come to this?