The Darkness is the Mona Lisa of FPS's..
User Rating: 8.5 | The Darkness X360
The Darkness does an incredible job of taking over you soul, figuratively speaking. The game begins like a movie and stays interesting from beginning to end. You play as Jackie Estacado, the perfect imaged Italian, bad ass, mobster with a knack for weapons. The games main story is basically trying to kill Jackie's uncle Paulie who has screwed him over in business some how. Until you are possessed by demon like snake things called The Darkness . Pretty freakin cool. These snakes feed off the darkness in your environment and act as a shield to protect you from bullets and what not. So to keep them present , you want to make sure your constantly shooting out the lights around you. As you progress through the game, you have to devour the hearts of your enemies to increase your Darkness level, which gains you new powers and makes you stronger. Some of your new abilities include The Demon arm, (lets you lash out a sharp tentacle to take out lights or impale enemies), Creeping Dark, (lets you control the head of one of your snakes to kill people or unlock doors), and The Black Hole ability which speaks for itself. There is also an additional power that I won't spoil. Its safe to say that on normal mode, this game is pretty hard. I must have died at least 20 something times by the end. The only real dislike I had about this game was trying to figure out where you had to go. I ended up wandering around on certain parts for 45 minutes just to discover that the solution was mockingly simple. Some level layouts will make you want to inject yourself with boat cleaner but the solid game play and originality more than make up for it. Your weapons range from dual pistols to a m4 like machine gun. And the weapons are well balanced, so you'll still be using your pistols a lot on the last chapter. This game has a very strange plot twist and a decent ending, so you won't want to stop playing until you beat it. The Darkness is a swell game and a must play. And its still at blockbuster, so I would strongly recommend renting it. 
