While the Darkness isn't the best FPS of all time, the way it's presented and how it plays makes the game a must buy.

User Rating: 9 | The Darkness X360
By fhiz | Review Date:
While the Darkness isn’t the best FPS I’ve ever played, it’s easily one of the best presented I’ve seen. Everything from the graphics and sound are extremely polished which helps the player become immersed in Jackie’s world. Gameplay: The game’s main mechanic is of course, a FPS. The first thing I noticed while playing the game was a extreme amount of auto aim. This is a good thing in the early stages of the game when you’re rapidly pressing the triggers to fire your pistols at enemies and when your pin pointing your aim to shoot out lights. I don’t know how well this will play out farther down, but it could get annoying to people who don’t like auto aim. Anyways, the thing that really shines in the Darkness is well… The Darkness (oxymoron) There’s nothing like using your demonic best friend to sneak up behind a mobster, kill him, then devour his heart. Other powers include a tentacle that lets you impale objects and people which allows you to throw them around, creating black holes, and summoning Darklings which really are the comic relief of the game. It really is quite funny to see the first Darkling you summon come up out of a hole in the ground, move a car, and randomly attack some guy standing on the street. It also is very funny to shoot them in order to make them say things like “I’m telling mommy!” or “I HATE YOU!”

Graphics: The graphics in the Darkness are extremely well polished. Everything looks very realistic and highly detailed. The lighting is also very well done, well at least that what you get to see of it (you really are meant to turn off the lights) The only gripe I have with the graphics is when you get a close in on a hand or a face; you’ll start to see sorta muddy textures on the character models. Other than that, I have no big gripe with the game.

Sound: This is the best part of the game. The voice acting is top notch, everyone from Jackie, Jenny, Paulie to The Darkness is so well done, especially Mike Patton’s work on the Darkness. I already knew he was a great vocalist, but damn does he do a great job for the voice of The Darkness. It’s just so creepy and demonic and at some points his voice is going places I never knew a human voice could go. Another great thing about the sound is the music. During down time there will often be classical music playing in the background which gives a sense of tension even with down time and as soon as you bust out your guns a fast aggressive guitar riff starts setting the tone to your gun fight. So basically everything from voice acting to music in this game is 100% perfect.

Value: It’s your standard FPS, yeah you can rush through the game and finish it 8 hours or so, or you could spend your time with the game, look for collectibles/darkling costumes, be a good boyfriend, help the people of New York, and do side missions which causes that 8 hours to turn into more. There is also multiplayer which is actually pretty funny. What other game do you get to be a hyperactive darkling that can crawl on walls and leap much farther than a human while letting out some crazy scream?

Tilt: the Darkness is over all an extremely well polished game that is worth every penny spent. Everything from the great graphics and the wonderful sound to the story that immerses you into even caring about Jackie’s fictitious girlfriend is so high quality, it hurts. There’s no getting around it, this game is just great.

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