I agree that this is a horrible placement of countries, but it's 2020, a lot could change by then. Chirac could invade Germany and Germany could then try and overrun Russia, again.
But I have played the first Perfect Dark, and I thought the game was great. It was basically an advanced remake of the game GoldenEye 007, but I still liked it.
By the looks of things, dataDyne (that wierd symbol is their logo) was a pretty bad bunch of guys (and a women who was the CEO or something). Looks like they finally succeeded in taking over the world, like they tried to do in the first game with the help of the Skedar (aliens, the Carrington Institute, who Joanna Dark works for, had the help of the Greys or Maians as they called them). In the later single player missions you were kidnapped and taken into space and you eventually kill the King of the Skedar. The Maian who helps you out in certain levels told you to call him "Elvis".
There were many other features that also made the game cool, there was Mission Co-op, Mission Counter Op (where one player is a bad guy and tries to kill Joanna). There were certain training missions that didn't suck. There's just a lot of good stuff, too much to list all of them.
(I mean the map)
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