The Darkness (PS3)

European copy but works fine in usa ps3. Had all booklets and even a poster inside.

Excellent and perfect

The Darkness is simply great. Really difficult to put your finger on why, exactly: it's old fashioned looking, the lead character looks a bit like a 30 year old Bob De Niro wearing a ridiculous goth fright wig and the characters are every cliche from every mob movie ever made - you die horribly easily, sometimes it's never clear exactly where you're supposed to go and - worsts of all - it uses the L2 and R2 buttons to fire your weapons and the L1 and R1 buttons to summon and use the Darkness, meaning (if you've just come from a modern PS3 shooter) you die even more often than really should, not less. That being said however - I absolutely loved this game. It's cheesy and more than a little bit corn ball, but the story is actually good, you care about what happens to the main protagonist, and the Darklings (though really, really dumb AI wise) never get old. Combat is a combination of guns and The Darkness - it's a parasitic demon turns out orphan Jackie inherited from his dead Great Grandfather. There's a whole bit set during a hell version of WW1, get through it and you basically end up as an avenging God. It's interesting, I guess (since it's published by 2K) kind of a forerunner of Bioshock in its own way. As long as you stay in shadow you can use you're powers (which increase depending on the number of enemy hearts you consume). It adds an interesting tactic. A lot of people just go at it like a FPS, but taking a bit of time and actually using your powers smartly is magnificently satisfying. It's very difficult to actually describe how or why that is - but it is. There are so many guns knocking around you never run out of ammo and the Creeping Dark (they're the snake things that accompany you when you summon the Darkness) allow you to not only look round corners but stealth kill. Though tricky to control, that combination alone is a blast and (as the game progresses) your powers are augmented further by a Demon Arm - kind of a tendril thingy, helps you pick up and throw heavy objects as well as use them as a shield or else quietly use to knock out lights without alerting enemies, etc - Darkness Guns (infinite ammo and great for taking out Zombie Krauts during the WW1 section) and Black Hole. Black Hole rocks. That and a full blown choral symphony blazing away as you go about your bad business - The Darkness puts a sloppy grin on your face every time you pick it up. Enormous fun. There are also little demons - Darklings - you can summon to "help" you. They're not very bright and you have to kind of point them where to go, but used strategically they are actually very useful. Berserker goes off and kills whoever you point it at while you stay in the shadows, Light-Killer kills the lights (as well as electrify s enemies), Kamikaze does exactly what it says on the tine and blows himself (and anyone else near by) up and Gunner kills commies. Again. It's a thing. Oh, and yes - as others have mentioned - if you sit and watch TV with Jenny (it's a thing) To Kill a Mocking Bird comes on and you can watch the whole thing if you want. Later (at other locations) you can watch the classic Frank Sinatra movie The Man with The Golden Arm (full version) as well as a few music vid's and - best of all - the very first Buster Crabbe episode of Flash Gordon. He pushes Dale Arden out of a plane, you know.... Genius. Really enjoyable game. Check out The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (PS3) . The same development team for The Darkness are responsible for that as well as it's predecessor (Escape from Butchers Bay, also on the disc) both actually good FPS - this from someone who isn't a fan of the genre at all - as well as a-typically good movie tie-ins, especially the first one (Butchers Bay). Old school but good. Enjoy.

Meilleur que le 2 et indispensable dans le genre. Si vous aimez le style (très) dark, les histoires de mafieux et que vous avez envie d'incarner, pour une fois, le monstre dans un jeu, achetez le sans regarder à la dépense. 8 à 10h de jeu "environ" inoubliables.

Gioco funzionante, quasi pari al nuovo, libretto per nulla usurato e disco senza graffi. Perfetto.

Guasto

il a adorait, il ne regrette pas son achat, il joue sans arrêt, il faut que l'on se fâche pour qu'il arrête.