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DarkWatch:

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Possibly the best fps ever created. You can get this game for $20 max and its well worth the buy. This is an awsome game I love the western vampire twist. The only con that I can think of is that its kind of short. There is a "love" scene but it isnt that great. I have rated this game 5 out of 5 because it is the best fps game i have ever played. Awsome you should buy it.

JERICHO CROSS RULES!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

FIRST, LET ME START WITH THIS GAME IS OFF THE HINGES. I DIDN'T THINK THAT I WOULD LIKE DARKWATCH BUT ONCE I STARTED PLAYING THAT WAS ALL SHE WROTE. I STILL PLAY THIS GAME EVERY NOW AND THEN I STILL LOVE IT. THE TWO PLAYER CO-OP RULES. MY WIFE (YES MY WIFE) LOVES TO PLAY AS WELL. WE TURN IT ON AND OFF WE GO ON ANOTHER ADVENTURE. I DO HAVE TO ADMIT IT IS KINDA SHORT. YOU CAN PLAY FROM START TO FINISH IN A COUPLE OF HOURS. IT DEFINITELY COULD HAVE BEEN LONGER. ALSO I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT WHERE YOU COULD ACQUIRE ALL THE VAMPIRE POWERS GOOD AND EVIL. I ALSO THINK SOME CHEAT CODES WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TOO. BUT OTHER THAN THAT I STILL LOVE THIS GAME. WHERE IS DARKWATCH 2? LONG LIVE DARKWATCH!

Rent, don't buy.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun and has replay value (Good guy or bad guy type) But the game is very short. Easily beaten in one day. I don't remembrr correctly but I think it is about 10 hrs long. Renting this game would definitely be a better investment.

The real cowboys from hell

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Darkwatch was an awesome game all the way through. With killer diverse levels and lots of fun monsters and bad guys. I liked the fact that you had a choice when encountering a forsaken soul to either set it free or consume it; allowing every game to be a bit different depending on the choices the player is making as compared to the program fork possibilities. My only hang-up was that it did not go on forever.

Addictive, easy to play violent fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Not sure why this addictive, fun, easy to play shooter-upper hasn't gotten more press. Gorgeous graphics, innovative weapon design, and smooth rendering are just some of Darkwatch's features. I also love the whole "Spaghetti Western meets a Zombie Flick" mashup going on. I was at the launch party for this title and I was sure it would rise to the top. The only thing keeping this one down is media noise from the other big title games. I would definitley give this one a try if you like FPSs that don't waste a lot of your time with tedious zillion-step puzzles that necessitate level repeats.

HALO-ESQ SHOOTER FOR THE PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ALL I CAN REALLY SAY THAT THIS GAME IS A SOLID TWO PLAYER SHOOTER. IF YOU HAVE EVER PLAYED HALO THEN THE CONTROLS WILL BE ALL TO FAMILIAR, BUT IF YOU HAVE NOT, THE CONTROLS ARE EASY TO PICK UP. I HAD GREAT FUN PLAYING THIS GAME AND WHEN I ADDED MY BROTHER ON THE GAME GOT BETTER. FOR THE PRICE THIS IS A MUST OWN.

Solid horror/western FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, you could do better FPS wise than Darkwatch, but you can do a lot worse too. Blending vampire/zombie horror in a western environment, you play as Jericho Cross; an outlaw who gets more than he bargained for after a train heist gone bad results in turning loose a powerful vamp named Lazarus, and you yourself are turning into one of the undead. Throughout the game, you'll battle hordes and hordes of monsters, zombies, banshees, vamps, and other baddies as you come across victims and get to choose whether to dine on them, or to set them free. This gives Darkwatch a degree of replayability because you can decide whether you want to be good or evil, and your actions have an impact on the outcome of the game. However, you can only carry a limited supply of weapons at a time, which may add a challenge to the gameplay, but it also hurts it. There are also various points of the game where you'll get to ride your zombified horse and shoot, as well as piloting a tank-like vehicle and take out enemies. The graphics look sharp, but when you get close to an enemy, they can become choppy. The sound effects and music are wonderfully done however, and the controls are tight as well. The biggest drawback of Darkwatch however is that the game is ultimately too short. It can be completed in a number of hours, and the multiplayer aspect isn't as fun as one would think. Despite all that though, Darkwatch is still a more than solid FPS set in a unique setting, and if you're looking for a good FPS for the PS2 (and there aren't many these days), look no further.

It's a nice rent, at best...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game used a couple months ago, expecting a great thing of beauty as everyone said it was. I was very disappointed.
The presentation itself leaves much to be desired. I'll admit that the graphics are pretty much top-notch (aside from the fact that you can see pixelated color squares on the Gunslingers when you're right in front of them), but the colors could use a bit more variety. It's nothing but black, grey, and brown throughout the whole game, with the exception of one stage that throws some white at you. In the beginning of the game, you can't go through two minutes of gameplay without being interrupted by a simple cutscene that basically tells you what to do. This would be fine, except they're boring and drab. There a thousand ways I can think of that could have made them interesting. But they're not. And three quarters of the time, they're completely useless and just serve to split the action into frustratingly small chunks.
Enemy A.I. is pretty nice. Each type of enemy has a specifically written A.I. program. Reapers hurl themselves at you with scythes whipping, Gunslingers take cover and try to overwhelm you with fire from different directions, and Oozers waddle at you spitting acid. There are occasional hiccups though, like when Riflemen just stand there and look at you until you blow their head off. The physics are also spot-on (I believe it's the same Havok engine that Half-Life 2 ran on), and dismembered body parts go flying everywhere when the action heats up.
But the levels are incredibly linear. Almost impossibly, actually. They never really deviate from the 'follow path, blow up bad guys, follow path, enter large open area, blow up lots bad guys until a new path magically opens' formula. Occasionally they'll throw you a curve ball, like with the Coyote mission that has you driving a sweet gattling gun-mounted car thing, but that segment is short and feels pointless once you're done with it.
The game engine could use an overhaul, too. The character models of your allies are stiff as a board. The only things that move are their legs and arms. It's not a big deal, no, but it's a noticeable flaw in what could have been a great game. The riding missions are boring and drab. Basically, you ride through a blue-grey wasteland that has absolutely no features while you mow down Undead Riders (imaginative name, by the way) left and right. They're boring and I found myself not even thinking, just sweeping the area with my pistol.
The atmosphere definitely works, though. You're introduced to a gothic Tim Burton-esque Wild West that seems mysterious and compelling.
The story never really flourishes,though. It starts off strong, pretty original, but after that it tries to pull too many twists and never really ties them all together. Halfway through the game, I was suddenly struck by the thought that I had no idea why I was doing what I was doing and what I was supposed to be accomplishing by doing it. Events transpire and you don't know their point. It supplies the basic events and facts, but doesn't delve into their background at all. You're left to wonder why this person did this or why that group of people was killed...etc.

This is a long review, I know, but it barely scratches the surface. I would suggest renting it. It's not worth the $30 that Amazon currently wants for it.

solid shooter, but not that great.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this was a pretty fun game, but it wasn't really great. it could have been really great, but it has a few drawbacks. Still, it's pretty fun, so I suggest that you only rent it, like I did.

Now in the game you play as a trainrobber named Jericho Cross. In one night, he is about to rob a certain train in Arizona, but when he blows open the vault's door he finds out that inside it held Lazarus, the lord of the vampires. He is then bitten by the monster, and he becomes a half- vampire. He is then recruited by a secret organization (called the "Darkwatch") that fights evil, and he must quickly defeat Lazarus before he turns into a vampire completely.

In the game you fight all sorts of monsters, such as skeletons, zombies, banshees and more. The graphics in this game are also pretty good. However, the biggest problem I had with this game was that it was too short. You can finish it in about 6-8 hours. If the developers would have made it longer, it would have been much better. Also, there isn't much sense of progression, because you only get a few powers throughout the game, and you don't get each weapon as you progress through the game, but rather almost all of them are found in each level, and you can only carry 2 weapons at once. this didn't make the weapons feel very unique, and that kind of dissapointed me. These were the only two major drawbacks to the game.

Other than that, it's pretty fun. Even though the weapons aren't very unique, there's a pretty big variety, and you'll have things like a pistol, duel pistols, a shotgun, a sniper rifle and more. Also, since Jericho transforms into a vampire, you also get vampiric powers, which include blood vision, which makes you see your enemies much more clearly, double-jump, which is self-explanatory, and blood shield, which functions like an armor. Other than that, there are many parts in the game where you are faced with different choises. In these situations, you'll have to determine wether you want to do something good or evil. For example: You'll come across an injured person, and you'll be given a choise to either kill him and drink his blood, or cure his injuries and let him go away peacefully. These choises give you different vampiric powers which are either good or evil ( based on your choises ). This was a pretty fun addition to the game, even though your choises don't really affect the storyline, aside from a choise you'll have to make at the end of the game that will affect the ending.

There is also a multiplayer option in the game, but the multiplayer isn't as great and fleshed out as in other games like Ratchet:Deadlocked. It mainly consists of standard multiplayer modes like deathmatch, Capture The Flag, etc. and it doesn't have real depth to it. If you want a good online game, buy Ratchet:Deadlocked, like I mentioned earlier.

Overall, this is a pretty solid and fun shooter, but some things keep it from being truly great. I suggest that you should just rent it, because it's pretty fun while it lasts. However, if you want a really good First-Person-Shooter, I suggest you buy Doom 3.

Shockingly good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay I usually don't play first shooter games since my last experience with the horrible video game eternal ring. Though that was not the case for darkwatch,I was hooked when I first popped this video game into my ps2. I love vampires so that is was probably got me. And choosing your destiny is awesome. Some people complain about it being too short but hey, as long as it was a great game then why complain? I never got tired of fighting off the evil things and this game isn't scary at all which is another thing I feared and I am a big baby. And when I am angry I just play this game and shoot ugly looking dead thingies, it's awesome. This has a nice western twist on it too which is cool. I wouldn't suggest to game if you're the kind of person who likes to sit in front of the tv for 12 hours playing the game, go buy final fantasy if you're like that. Though if you're like me, playing a game for 2-4 hours tops then buy this game, I love it. Give this a chance, I did!

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