Simply the most beautifully executed and intense game I've ever owned.
User Rating: 9.4 | The Darkness X360
This is the best $60 I've spent on a game since I started playing "Pong" on an Atari Arcade machine in the 70's. I'm completely blown away. I just achieved the Romantic Kiss with Jenny. Wow. Hot. Almost too real. So now that I've cuddled with her on her couch as she sweetly sleeps with her pretty head on my chest, I will finish watching "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is one of the all-time classic movie greats. Another movie I'll watch later while playing this amazing masterpiece of a video game will be "The Man With The Golden Arm" starring none other than Frank Sinatra as an Ex-Con junkie as presented on the beat-up ol' b&W TV stuck in a shopping cart parked next to a passed-out wino on a bench in the Canal St Station right before you go up to Chinatown. Has anyone helped the ol' Harmonica player in the Trinity Church Station? Suffice to say there's satisfaction in intimidating a little street punk with your own Mafia Cred in order to spread a little harmony in an apocalyptic nightmare that is The Darkness. It's freakin' awesome how immersive this title is. A potato-sack outfit for your Beserker? How funny is that? Shooting the lights out? May sound like Splinter Cell, but even Sam Fisher can't darken the back alleys of the Bronx to rip out a baddie's heart, flip it up in the air and catch and devour it for extra strength! I can't believe I had reservations about picking this up today.
Details are the Devil. And The Darkness just kicked Satan's Ass right into its pile of detail. Rejoice with all the joy you find in the Easter Eggs discovered within the first 45 minutes of play. Here's a challenge to all of you ADHD sufferers who won't review this title more than a 9.0:
How many of you guys are blown away in this game by just watching your body walk down a flight of stairs ? Have you noticed the shadows on the zipper of your jacket, or how your controller seems to make your whole body feel the pavement under your Italian designer shoes? I believe Starbreeze launched the FPS/Adventure bar way up in the stratosphere with "The Darkness".
Are you playing this yet? No? Well, you better not play it if you're one of those unfortunate few who remain among the unwashed ranks of the non-observant or willfully illiterate.
I will propose to you that within the first two hours of your experience in The Darkness' world, you will reach some sort of a minor epiphany about your life and video games, at the very least. I cannot wait to get through this story, and I've spent too much time typing this review. I'm off to my couch and my 360.
Simply the most beautifully executed and intense game I've ever owned. 
