Starbreeze unleashes The Darkness

User Rating: 8.5 | The Darkness PS3
By DoctorBadass | Review Date:
Starbreeze are responsible for the 2004 hit, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from butcher bay, which in short, was amazing and unlike anything we had seen at the time. Well, Starbreeze has sort of dropped of the radar until last year, when The Darkness was previewed for the very first time. The idea of a mobster gangland setting blended in with an evil demonic underworld sounds fantastic, and in the end, is indeed, amazing.

The Gameplay is very fast paced when it comes to gunplay, and very slow with just about everything else. The game may have you talking to one of many NPCs (Using the great voice acting) when a firefight just happens. You're going to be killing ALOT of mobsters. You get a lot weapons, none of which you really carry. See, the weapons are kind of like throw-away. Use it, toss it, and get another. In the darkness, this works great and makes gun fights breath taking and vicious. If you run up to a thug with say a pistol or magnum, you'll perform some sort of wicked execution style move, and THAT'S awesome. You also have these two demons know as the Darklings, and they also have a knack for slaying mobsters.

So as you can tell, this game revolves a lot around killing'. However, the game has plenty of heart. Story is something I was worried about, but in the end this game turned out to be pretty interesting. You play as some mob lords kid, Jackie and you end up getting screwed, and possessed too. Indeed it sounds odd, but ultimately its pretty cool, and the ending is one for the books.

I'd recommend this game.

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