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User Rating: 8 | The Darkness PS3
By Yojimbo25 | Review Date:
I played the Darkness on the 360, back when I still owned the system, and I loved it. It looked amazing, played similar to Chronicles of Riddick of my favorite XBOX games. But on the PS3 however, its the same but then again its not....

Graphics
The Darkness looked razor sharp on the 360, on the PS3 it doesn't. Both versions looks the same, but the PS3 suffers from anti aliasing issues. The game has rough gritty textures, graphical glitches, and a choppy framerate. The PS3 version looks like Riddick on the original XBOX, and I'm disappointed because the full potential of the PS3 is not being used. Sigh..

Audio
On the sound side. Darkness features some great voice acting, a Starbreeze trademark it seems. The Darkness its self is creepy sounding.

Gameplay
The game features the same white knuckle gameplay as Riddick did, minus the first person combat. Alot of the same quirks are here as well. For instance the camera pans back to a third person view climbing up ladders. The added Darkness powers give the main character a godlike apperance. The mulitplayer is nothing to write home about.

Overall The Darkness on the PS3 is a great game, and at the budget price of 19.99 its good buy for fans of Starbreeze's stellar Chronicles of Riddick.

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