ORIGINAL! first game i have ever played where i get to command snake like creatures that bite peoples faces.
I love how i have to get through parts of the campaign to get more powers and better guns. so far i have the creeping dark and demon arm. The powers are original aswell. No other game that i have played has snake-like arms and SPOILER WARNING! the black hole. UNSPOILER! I enjoy stabbing things and throwing them, it sounds not too fun but the rag doll phisics are really good. Its especially fun throwing people. The only thing that frustrates me is that sometimes people fall down and appear to have died but then get up and shoot me, sometimes even kill me. The health system is bassically the same as most of this generations games. It has a twist though, you must stop moving for you health to regenerate quick enough to come back in the fight before another enemy runs at you and will shoot you. the ammount of different weapons is pretty good, ANOTHER SPOILER! many pistols, shotgun, two automatics, riot shotgun and the miniguns, this does not include the historical weapons that you get when you go back in time to WWII, and there are weapons that were made directly by the darkness, these weapons do much damage. UNSPOILER! Very few FPS games alow you to fight cops and mob guys as part of the campaign. You can die fairly easily, shoot out lights, it doesnt have to be too dark for the enemies not to see you. Not being able to put your darkness powers in the light makes it more of a fun challenge. There is a little bit of auto aim unless you zoom in. it really helps because sometimes a light is so bright you cant actually see the light to shoot. I absolutly think one of the coolest parts is the assaination. Getting up close and personal and pressing right and left trigger will go into a small cut scene (kindof) and jackie will do something like shoot him in the stomache then in the head to finish him off. I believe this can be done to any enemies you encounter. The idea of the melee is cool, left trigger for two handed weapons and pistols and SMGs can only use melee if they run out of ammo, jackie then flips the gun upside down and will smack the enemy when you press right trigger or left depending on which gun is empty. MULTI PLAYER
Laggy for now, but that will change when there is a patch. levels are cool from what i saw, it was kind of hard because the lag and the jidder...TERRIBLE! Depending on the hosts options, you could be a human, darkling (small demons that come from the darkness holes) or switching between them with left bumper. It also has just about all of the the guns in the campaign, or atleast most of them. The game modes are basically the same as every other game exept for the "last darkling" and "last human" which if you have played games like call of duty and rainbow six might know of the unofficial game mode "zombies", they're the same thing. EXTRAS (SINGLE PLAYER)
The extras are different. if you find the extra, you must dial the phone number on the piece of paper (extras are phone numbers) that you find, they unlock things like, actually, you can play the game to find out what they are. im not sure how many extras there are, but im thinking somewhere around 100. ACHIEVEMENTS
I dont have too much info on the achievements, but there are secret achievements, multi player and single player. Lots of achievements, so each achievement isnt worth too much gamer points. Other than what i have said, there isnt anything to say. DIFFICULTY
the difficulty is just right because sometimes you die fast and you can get a little lost, but i personally find that fun.
TIME SPENT PLAYING
i havent played too much yet, but i will play more than 100 hours.
LEARNING CURVE
30 to 60 minutes because it takes about 60 minutes before you are told all the controls(using the darkness).
CLASSIFICATION
I knew it would be good, but it was better than good.
Over all if you have the money buy it, if not, BORROW MONEY! it isnt the traditional shooter.