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A Very Unique Game 4 1/2 Stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased this game the other day and so far I'm glad I did. First off, the graphics are amazing. The gameplay is really exciting. Its not your typical shooter where you shoot everything you see. You speak to people and your responses affect the way the game turns out. The demons are nasty, devouring hearts of all the people that you kill. You can also use the demons to find secrets or passageways that your character would not fit in. The soundtrack sounds excellent on 5.1 surround sound. I tried playing versus on xbox live and was a little disappointed. It lagged pretty bad, im sure they will fix that soon. My only other disappointment was that it seems pretty easy so far. I recommend renting this game at the very least. Definitely not as good as Gears of War but I think it's the next best thing.

BUY THIS GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The BEST GRAPHICS for the XBOX 360 available!

This game has it all. Im a huge fan of Condemned and this is pretty close besides all the demonic mess. This game will rock your sox off. The online multiplayer is fun but very laggy no matter connection speed. Great storyline hitman for the mob..etc.. Buy it! DOOO IT..DOOO IT..

Even Mike Jones shut up when he played this game !

Fun the first time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you want a game with a pretty good storyline, amazing graphics, fun to play (the first time), and fairly short, then pick up The Darkness. Seriously, I had a blast playing through this game the first time. Storyline kept me pretty interested, though the monologue cutscenes got annoying when moving from section to section. The graphics are by far the best aspect of this game. They really immerse you in the game world. The game was pretty short (I was able to complete it in about 6.5 hours), which was a little disappointing. Overall, I would suggest renting this game like I did.

A twist on the standard FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great lighting,excellent controls and engaging story.Well worth the price of admission. The story line is saprisingly fleshed out.Seemed to be about 15 to 18 hours on the hardest dificulty in the single player portion.
Accually controling an evil entity was interesting.And as long as you can keep the lights out or stay in the shadows you are shockingly powerful.

Fun, but not as good as Chronicles of Riddick

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Starbreeze has an impressive resume entry with Chronicles of Riddick (...and I'm looking forward to the upcoming re-make), and I was looking for the same type of strong characters, story, unique gameplay, and unique environments. The Darknees provided much of this but felt somewhat lacking. The Darkness attacks, while fun, were somewhat stunted with the difficult to control main attack (the snake thing). From the previews, I was getting excited about throwing cars at things and causing satisfying havoc. It turned out that you could pick up cars, but you couldn't really expect to do much with them. Shooting out the lights, while a fun dynamic in things like Splinter Cell, became redundant. When all the lights were out, the Darkness seemed to randomly help you out with seeing fairly well while other times you couldn't see much of anything.

On the good side, Mike Patton was excellent in the game. Additionally, the story was entertaining and I enjoyed the messed up WWI-type areas. The graphics were mostly good and the sound was fairly entertaining.

Riding in the car at the beginning of the game was also confusing and felt poorly done. All of the rail-shooting parts of the game felt tacked on and unsatisfying.

I do enjoy playing this game and hope that they can improve if a sequel is considered.

The Darkness has you...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Darkness - Circa 2007

GOOD:
- Unique "Darkness" powers and give you the abilities like sending out a tentacle creature that can stealth kill your enemies, Stab people/objects with another type of Shadow Tentacle, create black hole vortex that sucks up everything in its path and spits it back out, use demonic looking guns that shoot Lighting & Thunder (which are also fueled by the shadows around you) and even summon four different types Minions to do your bidding.
- Watch TV, the TVs in the game play real movies, cartoons, and music videos and you can even change the channel too.
- It's not all shooting, in this game you come to claim points where you can interact with non combat characters in a open ended (go almost to any part of the game at any time) version of New York City. In these parts of the game you can meet and talk (but mostly do favors) for the citizens of NYC or just be a jerk and kill them.
- Great voice acting.
- Graphics look good (for 2007) and animations are fairly smooth as well.

BAD:
- Shooting/knocking out lights while unique in the first hour of gameplay or becomes more of a choir and distraction as the game progress.
- Some people might find the story of the game disjointed and cliché.
- Some times the Darkness powers don't seem to work the way you want or need in a situation, example The Darkling (your minions) have very simple A.I. and seem almost useless in some situations by not attacking enemies or running head long into bright areas (where they die instantly), and the Darkness Guns which act like traditional guns have no real value next your standard guns, outside of the fact that they have unlimited ammo and no reloading in the dark (also note they have no ammo in the light).
- The online gameplay feels tacked on and is glitchly, unless a patch comes out for it I would say stay away from the multiplayer option of this title.

IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- A decent range and Varity of your standard issue First Person Shoot type of guns, with Shotgun, Duel pistols/SMG's and M16 types.
- The aiming sight in the game is just a simple red dot, which while it frees up space on your screen a few people might find it difficult to aim with.
- The lack of a true or traditional HUD (Heads up Display for health/power meter and such) can make the game confusing and difficult to some.
- Being in the light makes your Darkness powers very weak or even not available (in bright light), so you're going to spend lots of time seeking out shadows in order to use your powers and get the most out of this game.
- It's not all in the streets of NYC; some parts of the game take place in a dream world that looks like a hell version of World War 1.
- This game is for adults or mature gamers as most of the dialog is full of foul words and the content of this game can be pretty gory, for example your dark tentacles eat human hearts (they show them ripping the hearts out of your slain enemies chests and chewing them up, not joking) to gain new power, and also getting close to any enemy with your guns drawn and shooting them up close will make the game go into an animation where you (pretty violently) execute the your enemy (examples are shots fired into an enemies leg followed by a shots to the head).

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCIATED TOO:
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butchers Bay (Xbox & PC)
- F.E.A.R. (PC, 360, PS3)
- Prey (360)

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- A demo of this game is available on Xbox Live Marketplace.
- This game is based on the comic book of the same name (the comic and story is similar to Witch Blade comics).
- This game was made by Star Breeze Studios, which also made The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butchers Bay.
- This game is banned in Singapore and heavily modified in Germany
- It is possible to watch the entire film of To Kill a Mocking Bird in this game by watching the in-game television.
- Mike Patton of the Rock Band Faith No More did the voice for the Darkness (with little to no help with voice editing).
- This game is also on Sony's PS3

Overall not a bad experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

... except in multi-player.

Die Single Player Campaign of The Darkness was quite enjoyable. When I bought the game I was wondering if the two demon arms would become annoying, being constantly in view, but actually, the developers did a pretty good job with their use and placement.

The 'city' areas are fairly small, connected by a subway hub. While the buildings etc look pretty good, the streets are mostly dead. If something moves, there's a 95% chance you have to kill it. There is not much 'life' going on.

The missions are straight forward, except a few collectables that you will never find, unless you use an online guide. However, you can finish the game without them.

For the completionist and the multi-player achievements on 360, you will have a hard time. It's not so much fun chasing down all the achievements. Especially in the painful multi-player. It's one of the laggiest games ever. For the last achievement, you need to be on the winning team in 250 multiplayer matches, which is simply excruciating, giving the painful experience.

And for some reason, I was at 55% of completion for the last achievement, when all of a sudden, it went back to 40%. I haven't played it since.

The single-player campaign was fun, but forget about multi-player. They had a pretty good concept, but the execution is beyond flawed.

Henning Thiel

I got my moneys worth.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hello, I love this game. I never usally beat games I own. I start doing something else and never really get into them again, but I will have this beat later on today. This game is really fun. It has a good story. Good graphics. Good controls and a cool thing called "Darkness." This allows you to make demons come from your body for all kinds of things. Somethimes you need to stick one through a small hole to unlock a door. Sometimes you may need one to go and shoot or attack you enemies. You will go to hell and back through this game. When you start to find out more about why you have the Darkness you get even more sucked into the game. This game is not linear at all. You can just go to the sub way, hop on a train and go to wherever you wish. I must say, buy this game,this and Bioshock.(see my review on amazon) I feel like I 164% got my moneys worth with this game. I'm pretty sure everyone will feel this way. The only thing that gets annoying are the cut scenes. When you do certin things cut scenes come on. They are ALWAYS the same. You will probably get sick of hearing them. But do not fret, after like 10 seconds you can hit B and skip them. So it's cool.

awsome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game is very fun and for anyone who dosent mind lots of heart eating violence the controls could have a little more flexibility but overall its a reaally enjoyable game.

Like being in a movie

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. It felt like I was inside a movie. There was a plot. There was a definite storyline with a begining, middle, and end. You're introduced to the character, you discover his motives, what makes him tick. You get wrapped into the opposing forces, you care about him, you want to help him. You follow along in the peaks and valleys of this moment in his life. You come up to the end, you don't have a choice, you have to go through with it even though it's not the best decision for him. And then the story is wrapped up and it's over. Except, instead of spending $20 on a 1.5 hour movie in a theater with sticky floors, crying kids, and crappy food you spend $50 (or less if you rent it) and get 10 hours of entertainment in your own home with hopefully cleaner floors, better food, and no crying kids (unless your at my house).

Gameplay was good, probably the best way of handling loading I've ever seen, an excellent story, and top notch voice acting. I think those who've given it lower votes probably are anxious teenagers with no love of a good story. They're just wanting a game that's kill kill kill with no motive or substance. This game has plenty of motive and substance and if that's something your looking for a game, then this is the game your looking for.

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