As some of you guys probably do or dont know depending on whether you read my last blog or not but I purchased The Darkness last week, after missing out on Riddik on the xbox, thankfully a remake is coming out on the 360 but anyway after missing out on Riddik I didnt want to miss out on this game by Starbreeze after hearing great things about it and the fact I have been tracing its progress since I heard about it in E3 05.
My impressions on this game are very simple, to put things straight this is the most imersive, most engadging, and some of the most fun that I have had in an fps and can only compaire as regards storytelling, character building and such to the likes of half life 2, its that good. The game looks absoloutly outstanding, in my opinion in times as good or even better than gears of war, the enviroments are highly detailed with sharp high res textures and with the amazing HDR lighting as well really adds to the realisium. The characters that you experience in the game are amazing fun and each have there own personality and are distinctly different from one another either how they act around you or how they go about life. An example of this would be jacckies gilfriend jenny, you get to her appartment on your 21'st birthday, you sit next to her this still all in game so you still controll it on the coutch, she gets up to close the windo as shes cold, as she sits down she then grabs hold of your hand, then beggins to cuddle up and finally kiss your character, now this is so realistic and such a great scene of emotion that I can only again compaire to the likes of Halo and Half life series, and in most cases a hollywood movie.
I can really see myself playing this game over and over again, and though the multiplayer feels a bit tacke on and if you get a bad connection the lag is the worst I have ever seen but still on the other hand this game in my opinion is one of the best games out at this moment and from a story point perspective is deffinatley one of the best games out there, so as you can tell I highly reccomend this game, if you havent got it yet go out and buy it, it is an absoloute gem of a game.