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wikipedia wrote:The Darkness is an upcoming video game for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 consoles (AND PC, cmon we all know it) based on the comic book of the same name. (By Starbreeze Studios - makers of the very excellent Chronicle of Riddick - Escape From Butcher Bay game for Xbox/PC)
On the eve of his 21st birthday, the player takes control of Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado who is suddenly possessed by the malevolent powers of The Darkness. Although this supernatural entity allows him to wreak havoc on his enemies, the Darkness also has a powerful will of its own and Estacado must now learn how to control it. The gameplay uniquely blends both modern crime drama and supernatural horror through both first-person and third-person perspectives. The environments are highly destructible allowing players to explode the scenery of the New York underworld to wreak vengeance on his former Mafia employers and eventually defeat the terrifying creatures of The Otherworld, a parallel reality where the Darkness dwells.
IGN hands on from yesterday
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/753/753473p1.html
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Wonder how multiplayer will be.
Multiplayer seems to be a little toned down. I dont think you get much of the single player powers in it from what I've read. You can choose between mob members who can use guns, take hits etc. etc. but the unique twist is that they shapeshift into the darklings (the little thing hushing the woman) which can scurry along walls and move faster but die very easily and all that good stuff. You can change on the fly.
Yeah Riddick was like number one "game you thought would suck but ended up being awesome" ever.
I never asked for this!
oh, and if i chose what games i played based on their names...i dont think id find many games id like.
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...Or it would if I had the hardware to run it.
Seems like they're going to keep the darklings intact, which is good. I love those goddamn things in the comics. I might have to hunt down my Darkness collection. I had most of the first run.
I don't mean "100 shades of brown lol" either. In that second screenshot the human looks completely weird and the glistening skin on the monster on the left looks awful.
Actual plotline sounds like it holds some potential though getting the right balance of survival-horror and traditional FPS would result in a game I'd love.
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There's a gameplay trailer at xboxyde, it's lengthy but keep in mind this was an E3 version trailer so graphically it isn't quite the same.
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3217_en.html
TDK (the publisher of KOTT) posted the complete soundtrack for KOTT on their website for free download, but sadly the site seems to be down now. Fear not though, 'cause I upped a copy right here if you'd like to check out just how good the guy is
Hehe yeah, I think I still might have some of his old mods on floppys deep down in some drawer
Seriously those are some shit screenies there, get the one with the tentacle stabbing through a torso or a gun inside a guys mouth, that's the real deal. It seems its going to be a supernatural type of Max Paynelike FPS, which is awesome. You better be getting Hitman style jobs for a few missions away from the main plot, where you get to assassinate some well protected targets, I don't want to hang out in grungy sewers and alleys the whole game, a la every other recent sci fi shooter.
But...uh, anyway, cool.
when the thread drops off the first page in the early morning for most people and thus the majority of forumers dont get to see it, sometimes yeah.
bumping it like that after days or something would be unreasonable. I could have said something else to "hide" it - but what's to hide? just getting the topic a reasonable amount of exposure before letting it die naturally.
id like it if people did that for topics i was interested in, but missed because i slept during the brief time it was on the front page
Anyway, those two things aside I'm quite looking forward to this - said it before, say it again, Riddick was amazing not only because it was an excellent use of a then-mediocre license but also because Starbreeze hadn't given any indication they were capable of anything so good. Enclave and Knights of the Temple were 90-proof distilled shit on a disc. If they can keep up this new, surprising form and do justice to what was originally a pretty good pulp comic book (before the art went to shit, at least) I'll be very happy. The preview video looked like it needed a fair bit of work, but it was still fantastic.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
edit: lewieP - fair enough
I figured it was probably from a while back. Didn't seem to have any real AI or much animation going, but it looked pretty good, some of the effects were gorgeous and it did lay out the gameplay fairly well.
It's just it featured the hero picking up a police car and flinging it around with his giant demon wang. :P
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
But these are the guys who made Riddick, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
And if this is the same video I'm thinking of, it was specifically labelled "Not for public viewing, do not release" or something, so it's not as if they were trying to show off anything in particular. I didn't understand what he was supposed to be doing either, I figured it was one of the devs messing around and running through the features at random.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
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