Did the developers never figure out they were 10 years too late to challenge Call of Duty? Talk about budget title.

User Rating: 3.5 | Darkest of Days X360
In opening, Darkest of Days has to be the worst FPS on the 360 console thus far for a long list of reasons. And the thing is, it tried to rip on Call of Duty by way of its grade D storyline but failed at the job with flying colors. I simply do not know what the developers of this game were thinking; how they can even think of it as anything more than a cheap, 10 year-old PC port no one would play is beyond me. Thankfully I only borrowed this game from a friend and didn't waste any of my money on it.

*____Story:

You're basically a new recruit who is commissioned by a council of time-traveling spacemen to stop an unspoken evil from changing history with the technology they have mirrored from your allies. This will send you to cheaply pixelated lands where the environment and your contemporary friends suffer from terrible PC graphics that no one but the developers could have otherwise saved. Beginning your training for this will involve interaction with an un-guided, non-skippable tutorial and other awesome parts of the narrative.

*____Graphics/Gameplay:

At the first second of gameplay I couldn't help but laugh seeing terribly blurry rock patterns around me, grass straight from a Deer Hunter PC simulator that uses the worst graphic engine known to man, N64 character models and much, much more disaster that makes the 360 look last-gen x2.

Beginning with a simple revolver, the aim sensitivity and precision were so bad that my gun would fly from one direction to the other and my shots would never land on the enemies who were filling me full of lead at the same time.

*____Sound/Music:

The voice actors are standard, the sound effects are average, and there really aren't any soundtracks in the game at all to listen to.

*___Overall:

I may have only played this game for the most of an hour but it wouldn't be logical for one part to be terrible and the next to be good so I can't be missing very much.

DO NOT buy this game, rent it--like my friend had--or just play the demo, without any exception. If you're looking for a Call of Duty experience--like how I thought it would be since it tries to rip it off--don't harm your imagination by putting time into this cheap, budget PC title that is 10 years past its actual release date.