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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 24
Date: August 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Darkness is a first person adventure game with prevalent crime and horror themes. Interactions with the environment are limited, and the mood and feel of the game leaves me with nothing but disgust. Avoid this game at all costs.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game along with Resistance when I first bought my PS3 after reading a few shining reviews in the gaming mags. According to these reviews, the real selling point of this game is the engrossing plot. Unfortunately, I was never able to enjoy the plot because of the rediculous gameplay. The whole "avoid the light" thing is interesting, but the real flaw here is the game is TOO real to life. There are dozens of street lamps on every map and you'll have to pause every 20 feet to shoot them all out to avoid losing power, nevermind that there are hordes of gangsters trying to cap you all the while. The "darkness powers" are supposed to make this whole process a little bit easier, but aren't really that effective. Don't even get me started on the uselessness of the darklings, who die almost instantly after touching any light whatsoever.

Ignoring all of the things that are supposed to make this game unique, it doesn't even stand up as a decent first person shooter (just to give you an idea, aiming is facilitated by a rediculous red dot in the middle of the screen). There's no effective way to manage your weapons, so when you run out of ammo with one gun the next one just pops randomly into your hands out of some invisible queue. The idea here was that they were trying to get rid of the "heads-up display" that can tend to block a lot of the action in first person shooters. Unfortunately, it just ended up being a big mess, and it's not like there are no menus involved at all here. Every time you get a new objective you must enter a menu to figure out what you're supposed to be doing. It's not that big of a deal, a lot of games do this, though I do find it somewhat annoying. The real problem with this setup is the fact that the font they used is so tiny it's almost unreadable on a standard definition TV. If you're like the mojority of PS3 owners out there who haven't yet made the switch to high-def, you'll be doing a lot of squinting.

The one good thing I can say about this game is the graphics are pretty good, but there are a lot of games out there with good graphics AND gameplay. As for the supposedly wonderful plot, it boils down to every lame mobster cliche in the book with some tacked on occult powers. If you must experience "The Darkness", just pick up the comics. On the other hand, if you want to spend 20 minutes sneaking into little Suzie's bedroom to unplug her nightlight so your minions won't be incinerated on the street below, by all means, play the game.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have never written a review but felt compelled by my disappointment. This game is bad, very bad. The whole concept is ridiculous, you spend more time shooting lights than people. It was so boring I literally could not play it past the first few levels. Save your money, don't buy this game!

can't customize the controller

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the designers of the game decided that I MUST learn to shoot with my middle finger. I decided NOT to waste my time and to return the game. anyway, the plot and gameplay is idiotic.

Sight unseen

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 26
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If the game is so great, why isn't there a decent trailer that shows the actual gameplay?

You can go online and see reviews about how "great" yesterday's games were also...I can read 100 positive reviews, but I still won't buy a $60 game until I can see the darned thing - at least ONE SECOND of game play...come on, don't tell me all the marketing money was wasted on a teaser!

The Darkness

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is the antithesis of fun. It is almost painful to play. This is odd because there is no one aspect of the game that is individually bad. The graphics are good. The control scheme is solid. The voice acting is adequate. The loading is a little slow, but not worse than many other games. Somehow it all combined to make a game that is less than the sum of its parts.

ok not amazing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is ok its not amazing you walk kinda slow and that is not great also there is not a lot of weapons in the game the AI is not very good they stay in one spot and dont do much also story mode is kinda slow I bought it and I recommend renting it or going to circuit city and paying $50 so you dont feel bad if you dont like the game a lot

The Darkness could be better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Darkness is a game that is engaging yet at times restricted. The programmers could have made the game more open ended. IF your expecting a openended game like GTA than your in for a surprise, the game is good but many times in the game I feel that theres not enough. THeres not enough civilians walking about doing their business. Almost all the charactersin the subway are the same, I dont recall anyone ever coming to a subway just to be there. This game is a good game but its for one time play only.

Has potential, but falls short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Darkness is a fairly typical story driven FPS with alot of intriguing elements added into it that make it a worthwhile play for someone who really digs the genre.
Other have mentioned the good parts of Darkness, being the setting, sense of immersion, etc., and while agreeing with most of these I will quickly highlight my problems with the game.
1.) Graphics - good but not fantastic, PS3 version has no excuse to not have superb anti-aliasing. Pure laziness on the developers part.
2.) Gameplay - Bad guys tend to be of the "stand in one place and shoot" variety. Bad guy AI is severely lacking, you won't see anyone take cover or flank or anything here, dissapointing coming from games like Resistance and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
3.) Controls - Why, why why, no keyboard/mouse support? Any developer that releases an FPS on PS3 that does not have Keyboard/Mouse support is going to get griped at from me, plain and simple.

Ok game overall

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun and all but it gets to be pretty redundant a times. Lots of action and gunfights, but a horrible ending and and ok storyline.

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