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good game play.......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I liked the game; especially the darkness powers and the creatures you could summon (especially urinating on corpses and the jestures) but it was lacking in the story department, I really didn't care about the mafia parts but I have to say the game is fairly original and worth checking out.

The Darkness is cheap thrills

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game and it can be very aggravating waiting for all the cut scenes when loading a new area of the game. This occur hundreds of times. Other than that, the game has a nice mobster vibe to it and is definitely a nice shooter. Very similar to Bullet Witch due to the extra abilities.

Pretty, a good story, but incredibly linear for the genre

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Xbox 360 has brought in a new era of roleplaying/shooter crossovers, which offer the deeper story and flexible character development of RPGs with more first or third person action to spice up the combats. Most of these games offer a "casual" or "easy" difficulty setting so RPG players can enjoy them too.

The best of these products, like Mass Effect really deliver on this promise. The stories are engaging and compelling; the player has real choice in how to develop the character(s), and the combat gains the adrenaline rush of a shooter without necessarily requiring the reflexes of a long-time shooter player or a teenager on Jolt to play.

Sadly, The Darkness may look like one of these games but it is not. The gameplay is entirely linear, without even a nod to real choices. On a typical map you face a sequence of combats and single-solution puzzles and don't even have much choice in the order you encounter them; on some of the maps attempting to deviate from the preplanned course will just get you "killed" in punishment, forcing you to restart from the last programmed point you successfully satisfied.

Compared even to story-driven shooters like BioShock, this is terribly disappointing, and the game has zero replay value. Compared to early efforts like Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition or polished modern games like Mass Effect, this is not a game - it's a movie where you are forced to use the controller and earn progress.

Yet for all of that, this game is not a total loss. The visuals are good, and combine with the sounds to be evocative and visceral. The body animations are reasonably rendered even if the characters' mouths rarely move when they talk. The overstereotypical New York mobster dialog and voice acting is amusing, and delivered with a sense of humor to make it fun rather than trite.

While I doubt this game will ever be remembered as seminal, or even remembered in a few years, it is not a total waste. Given that it can be found used, played, and then resold it's probably worth your time to play.

its fun, it keeps you on your feet, and it looks good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

overall i think this is a pretty good game, i have always liked games like this. probably the closest comparison i could make is if you took the suffering, and chronicles of riddick game and put them together. its a lot of fun, its a little creepy and extreemly violent, so overall i think its really good.

Game play like no other!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game is very good and very interesting. You would do well to buy it. With that said, I must convey that when I first started playing it I was a little disappointed as it seemed to be pretty standard fare. Jackie basically walked around NYC and shot stuff. There were lots of cussing, cops, and cut scenes. The darkness powers were, however, pretty interesting. They were like nothing I have ever seen in an FPS. The game didn't really start to get good until I began accumulating more and more darkness powers. Then all of a sudden, I'm transported to a kind of WWI hell and I finally get this large dark tendril that I can use to impale people with. Wow! Talk about your 180. Now this is what I was expecting. At this point I'm very engrossed and basically don't want to put the controller down. Graphics are good, but they're not as good as Gears of War. The TV's in the game are a novel concept, but they don't really add much to the story. Making phone calls also doesn't mean much to the story, but as long as it helps unlock extra content I'll put up with it. I do like the fact that it is a mature story and not just a bunch of gore to satisfy the kids (who shouldn't be playing this anyway). The RPG elements in the game certainly add to the story and add depth to the characters. Summoning Darklings can be a little frustrating in that they don't always go where you want them to. However, they are nice to have around during intense fire fights, since they take out enemies that would otherwise be distracting and troublesome. The ending reminded me of Halflife 2. It seemed a little ambiguous, but it certainly leaves the door open for The Darkness 2. This is a solid title that is very innovative. I would have liked to be able to use both darkness serpents (creeping dark) rather than just the right one. I'd like to see a better array of guns with more ammo available. Who knows. Maybe The Darkness 2 will incorporate some of these suggestions. At any rate, it's a good game that is like nothing else on the market right now. Embrace the Darkness!

Great game, but get the PS3 version for better graphics and more content

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 80
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Without a doubt this is a great game. But, you should get it on the PS3 for more content and better graphics.

The Darkness; Is good....Or just plain not good?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 45
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I been waiting for this game for a while. Also has a lot hipe because these are the people who created of that Riddick game. If your Epect something so good, it not what you think. But don't get me wrong it is very entertaining game I enjoy to play it.
The story is not slow but this is all you need to know is this:

There is this dude name uncle paulie who is trying to kill you. And feels like no one is on your side, beside your girlfriend jenny who one know snice you two grew up. But the mob people is trying to and to much to handel. But thankfully ther is a demon on your side to kill all of them.

Now the Xbox Live.. Well I would say the funiest is survior. The game is only 8-10 hours long. So go ahead buy this game. Or not?

cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

great game the graphics is amazing .. the story.. the soundtracks.... guys Im in love with the soundtracks in this game !!!!
how can I get them ?

cheaper please!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seriously amazon should really make this game cheaper to buy. It should not be so much. It is a short game. Please sellers lower the price!

360 game with xbox graphics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a fan of the comics and I thought that the games was fun to play. The thing that I did not like is this is a 360 game with xbox graphics. The story was great but like I said the graphics were not up to the 360's potential.

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