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The Darkness (PS3)

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Platform : PlayStation 3
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4.2 out of 5 stars 57 customer reviews
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  • Based on the best-selling comic The Darkness created by Top Cow. Launched in 1996, the highly popular comic is currently published in 19 different languages around the world
  • A seamless and unique blend of modern crime drama and supernatural horror with both first and third person non-linear game play
  • Highly destructible environments: Stalk the gritty New York slums, harbors, subway tunnels and rooftops, then defeat the terrifying creatures of The Otherworld-a parallel reality where the Darkness dwells
  • Developed by Starbreeze-the team behind the best-selling and critically acclaimed The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
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Game Information

  • Platform:   PlayStation 3
  • BBFC Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 18 years of age or over.
  • Media: Video Game

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  • ASIN: B000FJ3P0S
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm ; 41 g
  • Release Date: 20 July 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,144 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

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Developer Starbreeze Studios seem to have found a niche for themselves creating top notch video games based on licensing tie-ins that hardly anyone has ever heard of. The Chronicles of Riddick may have been a film flop but the game was one of the best first person shooters on the original Xbox. This follow-up is based on an obscure comic book about a Mafia hitman with the rather handy ability to conjure up the eponymous Darkness – source of seemingly unlimited demonic power.

To some degree the game can be played like a standard first person shooter, with main character Jackie Estacado proving a dab hand with a wide variety of standard pistols, machine guns and shotguns. The Darkness powers though are obviously the game’s real draw, with the ability to use super strong tentacles to fling around objects in the impressively interactive game world or act as a shield or even spy camera. The most interesting of the Darkness abilities though is summoning special imps called darklings. These come in twenty different types, from interrogator to kamikaze to decoy, and ensure there’s always more than one way to tackle any obstacle.

The only problem with the Darkness as a power is that it doesn’t work in strong light, which is where the need for more traditional weaponry comes in – especially when shooting out lights to get your demonic groove back on. The graphics are superb (The Chronicles of Riddick still looks better than many low end 360 games) and despite its obscure origins the Darkness itself turns out to be the most interesting thing to happen to first person shooters in years.
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4.0 out of 5 starsCould have been a contender!
By Joao Cardeira Jorge on 15 Mar. 2008
The Darkness is a game with a good atmosphere, accomplished moments of tension and creepiness and a few problems.
First of all, there are a lot of loading times. You have to take the subway to go to the different locations, to do the missions and every time there's a loading screen. The developer tried to mask this by putting in little monologues by Jackie Estacado, the main character, to advance the story but all these loads get old really fast.
Another problem is the fact that Jackie can't run. This is very annoying, not only during the combat sequences but also as you walk through the streets, slowly, just to get to your destination. There's also no map. You have to watch the street signs and try to find the way. At the start of the game this is very disorienting.
The game is in essence a FPS with a revenge story. Jackie Estacado is a hitman for his uncle, a Mafia boss. On his 21st birthday Jackie not only finds out his uncle Paulie wants him dead, he also gets a visit from the darkness, a demon of sorts, who's origin is never really explained, that needs a host and has haunted the Estacado family for generations. The darkness gives Jackie some powers, like a demon arm which can impale enemies or pick up cars and throw them, two darkness guns, a black hole which sucks enemies into hell and "creeping dark". Creeping Dark sends one of the snakes that accompany you through the game, slithering away to do stealth kills, open doors, go through small openings, etc. Some of these powers are useful, some aren't. Creeping Dark is hard to control as is the demon arm. The Darkness guns are ok but not very powerful and you never lack ammo for the other weapons, so not much use for them. The black hole is the biggest power and is so strong it almost feels like a cheat at times.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPS3 - The Darkness
By Kim Crudgington on 3 Aug. 2007
To be honest, I purchased this game with low expectations, thinking that it would probably be rather dull. But being a new PS3 game that I didn't have, I decided i would buy it to add to my collection.
How wrong I was; as soon as you start playing, you are thrown into a world of interactivity. You start off in a car, which most games would have a simple, drawn-out cut-scene, but the darkness for PS3 goes a step further - allowing you to use the analog sticks to shift your view in the back of the convertible. Most games only allow cut-scenes like this to be viewed from one angle every time, but this allows you to view it in multiple angles, making it feel a lot more realistic!
However, cut-scenes are not what games are about; direct game play, in a game for this price, needs to be impressive. The darkness tops this, and goes a step further just for the sake of it. The whole environment surrounding you is interactive, ranging from light switches; trains pulling up in stations, allowing you to board them, and then travel to a new environment; great execution techniques that you can perform on your enemies (almost makes me nostalgic of manhunt); and even flushing toilets.
The diversity of weaponry is also amazing, ranging from multiple pistols to heavy-duty machine guns. And the graphics... the graphics... they are awesome on HD, easily rivaling Resistance and high-spec PC games such as DOOM 3.
It's not often that I give a game a perfect review; I believe there is always room for improvement, no matter how good a game is, but I really struggled to think how this game could be improved, and eventually came to the conclusion that, for the first time, a game deserves perfection for the attention to detail and the enjoyment that it offers its players.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsBig suprise
By I. D. Clarke on 25 Feb. 2008
The Darkness had been sitting on my shelf under the likes of Uncharted, Folklore and Ratchet & Clank for months, untill one day i decided to play it and couldn't believe i left it so long.

I'd written off all reviews of this game, i'm very, very sceptical about good things said about first person shooters as they tend to get lauded just for being an FPS. (Bioshock, Halo, Crysis you know the games i mean)

The game starts like a fairly typical FPS, there's enough happening to give you an excuse to shoot someone and even when you get The Darkness powers a little way in, its fun, but not all the amazing.

After a while of playing though, something hit me "Woah, this FPS has a story, and quite a good one." The game even leaves you to your own devices about half way through and you have to find your own missions and explore for a while.

I have a few issues with the game, Jackie could do with a run and the game can get absurdly hard even on the easiest mode where you still die far too quickly, but arguably this makes you think a bit more about how you're going to fight a battle.

I feel sorry for this game, its thunder was well and truly stolen by worse first person shooters that got more hype and weren't even superior in the graphics department. I would actualy go as far as to say FPS fans might not enjoy this so much, as there are chuncks of the game where you can't even wield your weapons and have to a bit of talking and get on with that story malarky.

I can seriously say its worth every penny. One thing i will add is stick with it, the story takes a while to get going and it's why i never got into it all them months ago and put it down. Big mistake.
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