If your a fan of the First Person Shooter genre then the Darkness will consume you and give you something new to enjoy.
"The Darkness" is by Starbreeze who brought The Chronicles of Riddick to the Xbox. So, you were probably expecting something good, and oh yes it's good.
You are Jackie Estecado, a guy involved in the Mafia ran by his Uncle Paulie. Jackie's uncle Paulie decides to attempt to kill Jackie on his 21st birthday. Paulie fails and Jackie soon goes for revenge on his Uncle Paulie. But, soon "The Darkness" breaks out of you, and makes you more powerful than ever before. The Darkness is these two snake-like dark black tentacles that are attached to Jackie's back. The Darkness gives Jackie 4 awesome powers.
The first power is when the Darkness can detach from Jackie's body and slither up walls, on the ground, anywhere, while doing this you can basically stealth kill your enemies. They can't do nothing one the Darkness bites them.
Another cool thing is you can eat your enemies hearts out, which will level up your darkness powers. Then there come the demon arm which you can stab into enemies and pick things up with, usually causing instant death.
The next Darkness power is the darkness guns. These guns are very powerful aswell. To use these you need to feed the Darkness with the Dark. This recharges The Darkness. You will need to do this alot. Most of the game consists of shooting out lights or stabbing out lights with the Demon Arm. But, if The Darkness are in the light to long they will go back in you and not come out for awhile.
The final Darkness power and the best is the Black hole. Which sucks your enemies into a black hole. Which instantly causes death. You can also use this to move stuff out of your way.
The game plays like any FPS but you do have weapons in both hands. The aiming is odd. The aiming makes the game a bit to easy, the marker usually just locks on to enemies heads right away. But, the aiming can be bad at some times. It's hard to shoot enemies from far away. The best thing you can so is zoom in a notch which doesn't help all that much.
"The Darkness" has a very good story. Probably the best in a FPS since Half Life 2. The voice acting is just brilliant. You see Jackie talking about the struggle with The Darkness inside of him while the game loads which is the best load time ever. The guy who plays "The Darkness" themselves does it awesome. The Darkness is usually mocking Jackie and his life.
The game is a bit short clocking in at 8 hours. It can also get boring wondering around streets or the subway to find where to go. Finding where to go is really annoying at times. Also you are in the subway alot. That's where you find out what to do and go to the streets.
Between leaving the subway you hear Jackie telling you his story which can get annoying. But is still better than a boring blank loading time. The AI are pretty good, they are pretty hard to kill and try to take cover and kill you.
The game looks very good, not the best but still wha you expect from a PS3 game. The characters animations and movements are really good. The environment looks impressive. All of the different settings look great aswell. The game looks pretty impressive overall. The game is short and after you beat it you are expecting awesome online play to fall back on then you are screwed. The online play in the game is very laggy and makes it almost unplayable. They shouldn't have even included this in the game.
So this game is a must have if your a fan of the First Person Genre. Offering amazing gameplay and something new to the genre itself. The Darkness is a must-have game for gamers.