To make it simple The Darkness is a quite a gruesome game. Jackie on his 21st birthday was given quite a surprise when was cursed with the Darkness and survived a assassination attempt by his uncle Paulie. At first you are faced with the dilemma if you should tell your beloved girlfriend Jenny about your secret. During the game something terrible happens to Jackie and he not only wants to seek revenge for what his uncle Paulie has done but he wants to find the roots to The Darkness. Alright enough about the story lets get into the game play. Through out the game Jackie will get new Darkness abilities. These abilities make it easier to fight and when different abilities are used at the same time it can create some cool scenarios. To gain all these extra abilities u need to eat enemies hearts after you have killed them. It involves one of your large snake like tentacles ramming its head into the dead victim and with the sound of ripping flesh it will either share it with the other one or eat it all to its self. Early in the game you will b able to summon a darklings and will get more later in the game. these darklings become very handy e.g the kamikaze which will run itself into a group of enemies and blow itself up, the berserker will use a saw and cut someones head off. Of course The Darkness has a wide arrange of weapons that u will come across. Pistols, SMG, Automatic Rifles, Shotguns you name it the Darkness has it. These weapons of course will make wreaking havoc that much more funner. Aiming in the game is easy as pie. Throughout the game you will come across collectibles which are simply phone numbers on small bits of paper. These give u extra content e.g interviews, concept art all that kinda good stuff. Graphic wise the game looks really good. Although i don't have a HD tv i still found the game look reasonably good. I'm sure the game looked a lot better if would b running at its full potential. The character models are highly detailed. Environments look great lighting of course has to be good cause you get most of the darkness from being in the dark. The effect when you shoot out all the lights in a room and have your snake like tentacles out looks really really cool. Little touches like the way your hands interact when moving around corners, being close to a wall or door, the out fits that u can find for your darklings throughout the game. it all adds to the cake.
So i have said a lot of good stuff about this game but there are a few flaws. Loading times between levels and switching train stations is a bit long. the levels that you move around in feel a little cramped and would of been better if they were more open ended. And really the game could of been a bit longer.
As a person who has never read the comic books or new nothin about the darkness i found the game enjoyable. I highly recommend anyone who has a PS3 to pick it up and give it a go.
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