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The Darkness (2007)
Wonderfully Developed
I was an avid fan of the Darkness Comics due to the perfect anti-hero: Jackie Estacado. This game covers his persona fairly well, has a thorough story, and lots of action packed scenes to stuff it up with. My only gripe: I wish there was some way Jackie could move faster in some locations and up the AI for your darklings.
There are only a couple continuity problems and some things that sort of leave you wondering what the developer was thinking. The major problem I had is that no one really seems to react to you appropriately when you dawn the darkness. In fact really the only NPC that does is Eddie Schrote: and he isn't even scared of it.
Aside from that, there is nothing more fun then going into creeping dark and eating the faces off a few guys. When we put this game up to a 104" projector in our basement theater I had friends and family over watching another friend play it:: they thought it was a full cgi movie and didn't realize it was a video game.
And yes, it is a FPS but not quite the same. This game plays more along the lines of FEAR without the AI of FEAR. There are a lot of situations where you will need to think through logically about how to get past an area, making sure that you have exhausted each of your darkness abilities in order to do so. The Darkness is constantly interacting with you, there are a multitude of quest-types in the game, and you get the colorful language of a modern Italian-New Yorker.
I will just put it this way. I hate consoles and this game is the only reason I bought the Xbox360