The Darkness does horror/Goth well for a FP game. Not since the first Suffering have I see anything quite like this.
User Rating: 8.5 | The Darkness PS3
The darkness is a really good FP game. But Im not so sure you can call it a shooter in full. Thats because you do so much more in the game, and more with your powers also. The graphics and look of this game are vary cool. Put it this way. I played FEAR after I played this game. And FEAR felt like a old N64 FPS after playing The Darkeness. While your playing the Darkness their is so much detail. So much so that High definition TVs play in the game. They actually play videos and movies, while you walk around them in Pure High Quality. The city streets of "somewhat fictional" NY are gorgeous and Gothic. And the detail "even in the tiny areas" is done vary well. Granted the areas are not massive. But every inch looks fantastic. The controls are pretty good. And the super powers give a whole new way to play. Although the controls can get a little weird on one of the superpowers. For the most part they are good. And the story is vary good. Their is no "hers a gun, now go shoot for are pride" here. Theirs much more. Its a cool story, based around the underworld, and mob/gangsters of NY, and a few other areas. Many characters come into play. A Girlfriend, a Ant, A great great great Grandfather or Uncle "or something?" Also another uncle that plays a major part. Theirs also other Mob guys, and just regular street rats who tie into the story. Theirs so much talk and connection with the characters. That at some points, you start to wounder if this is a Adventure game. Than soon after a fight will brake out, to show you its not. But the emotion and characters and story are pretty well told, and pretty deep. The story gets more deep as you deal with this Darkness in you, and in others. So much so that you even leave NY for a little while, to take a trip to a wild version of Hell. Hell is kinda like some old World War. Its not a place of this world thow. Its a place where people are stuck at. Its like playing Call of Duty on a bad trip. Which is pretty freakish. The games not short, but its not as long as games need to be. The areas are not as big as they could have been. But some show massive Gothic scale backgrounds. While anything you can get to is vary detailed, so it feels vary large. And everything this game does, it does vary well. And the game actually looks better, after the first chapter in my opinion. Which is the chapter many have seen in tailors or whatever. So yea the game looks vary good. And whats more, is it has a style to it. And emotion comes threw the style of art in the game. The goth feel is drawn out well in this one. Its just a Great, fun game. A FP game thats not about capture the flag. And that puts you into one Dark cool world, with a character you can get to know and like. If you want to leave the hype to others, and play something pretty cool. This is it. 
