A compelling story with brutality, Demons, and pure Evil, and great Acting. Make a Great game.
The story revolves around the Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado, whom on the night of his 21st birthday finds himself targeted for assassination by his evil "uncle" Paulie, Jackie shortly after finds himself being possessed by an evil entity called The Darkness, from here the story unfolds.
Graphics : Excellent, realistic Graphics make the characters look very real, most models look great, aswell as the environment, which the company who created The Darkness hired professional Taggers to make spray paint samples for the City's environment, all authentic, you will find many swedish words around the city, as the creators are Swedish. Another thing that adds to realism is the fact you see your own body when you look down, which i think is neat.
Sound : Superb Voice acting by the main character aswell as The Darkness itself (Mike Patton) not to mention all other characters. Jackie sounds very authentic as an Mafia associate and makes a great character, as does the other characters, they all sound real and mafia-like, The Darkness sounds very creepy and evil, works perfect!. Weapon sounds sound pretty good, mostly authentic sounds i'd say. Not to forget the Great soundtrack too, perfectly capturing the feel of the game.
Gameplay : Unlike most run of the mill shooters, The Darkness has many good features which makes it different from the rest. For example shortly into the game you possess the darkness ability which you can use most of the time as you please, you must however stay out of bright light areas or take out the lights, with The Darkness you can devour hearts to fuel the tentacles among other things, you can use a demonic arm that impales whatever it touches, or you can use it to move/throw large objects. There's an ability called Creeping dark which you send your tentacle head out, you control it and you're able to pull off stealth kills or get through otherwise impossible areas. Darkness guns yet another feature, two powerful guns that blasts your enemies to kingdom come, they are fueled by darkness so best stay in shadows while using them. The final ability is Black hole, player summons a huge black hole at set location which sucks enemies objects into itself and then implodes killing them all, however most of these abilities are unlocked gradually as the story goes.
Story : The Story while pretty short its very well told and unfolds at a nice tempo, some good plot twists, some emotional stirring moments, and so forth. The characters do such a good job voice acting that you end up feeling attached. The story while being short, like gamespot says you feel you covered alot of ground in the end, thats true, i got closure and it was a good story, worthy of a sequel.
AI : The AI works great most of the time, but the reaction coming from people when you come up close with a bunch of tentacles coming out of your back aswell as dual wielding two cannons, isn't what you'd expect, the enemies seem too passive and fearless, but not a major problem.
Multi-player : boring broken Multi-player indeed "tacked" on just for the purpose of having a multi-player mode, but its better than nothing.
Conclusion : Superb game with a great story brutality and good voice acting, more than enough reason to get it. 8.5 Score