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The Darkness comes to light |
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Written by Justin Hoeger, McClatchy-Tribune
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 |
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“The Darkness” is really — well, it’s dark. That’s in the drenched-in-shadows sense and the would-be-rated-a-hard-R-if-it-were-a-movie sense.
Developed by the same folks who made the stellar “Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay” a few years ago, “The Darkness” is packed with mob-movie language, blood and violence. But for the most part it’s not played up for cheap sensationalism — this is a dark story about shady people doing bad things, a story told well in the video-game medium.
It’s actually based on a comic book of the same name, and the story line has been adapted from the series. Jackie Estacado, the nominal hero of this tale, is a young hit man for New York’s Franchetti crime family. He seems like a fairly well-adjusted guy, all things considered, but his boss, Paulie, is not.
Jackie has a girlfriend, Jenny, who grew up with him in an orphanage before Paulie took him away. They’re still together years later, but she doesn’t know what he does, and the consequences his career have for her are both tragic and catalytic in the game’s story line.
“The Darkness” is a great-looking game and, as one might expect, the lighting effects are particularly good. The single-player campaign is the reason to play the game, but there is an online multiplayer mode as well a few otherwise standard game types, including capture the flag and variants of death match and tag.
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