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 enlarge | From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $9.49
You Save: $10.50 (53%)
New (32) Used (29) from $9.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 549
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 29971
UPC: 827307997877
EAN: 0710425299711
ASIN: B000HX1P72
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: INCLUDES GAME, CASE AND ARTWORK.
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 Teriffic GAME June 13, 2008
My son had boughten this game and was very pleased with it - there is a lot of action and fighting in it!
 OK - Kind of Predictable June 5, 2008
This is an OK game if you can get it for under $20. It's not very challenging and pretty much tells you what to do every step of the way.
The graphics are cool.
Another great comic book video game. May 31, 2008
Well, the same guys who brought you riddick: escape from butcher bay have brought another game that is dark and fun. If your not a fan of the comic, then this is a great game to start with, if you are, even better. Get it!!! Play it!!!
"I Attack the Darkness!" May 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've never read The Darkness comic. I couldn't get past the fact that the character looks like a bad Spawn rip-off and the quote from Brunching Shuttlecocks about the truth behind Dungeons & Dragons: "I attack the darkness!"
The Darkness is essentially every Mafia movie cliche mixed with the brooding atmosphere of The Crow. In fact, the protagonist, Jackie Estacado (Kirk Acevedo), looks and sounds at lot like Michael Wincott, who played Top Dollar in that film. If you've seen The Crow, you know that Wincott's got a very distinctive appearance, with his long black hair, leather overcoat, and hawkish features. In The Darkness, Jackie is affectionately nicknamed Ratface by his girlfriend Jenny Romano (Lauren Ambrose). As you can imagine, having personal connections in a dark game like this is inevitably a liability, but I digress.
The Darkness owes a lot to films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with random narrative from our hero, outrageous characters, and an uneven mix of action and drama. The first cut scene (created with all in-game graphics) gives a perfect sense of what's to come: lots of cursing, lots of gore, absolutely no respect for authority, and plenty of violence, all taking place in New York. It's the New York of the seventies, when crime and graffiti were rampant and sane people didn't wander out alone by themselves. And you're one of the reasons.
The Darkness is a two-headed demonic symbiont that lives within Jackie and, we discover later, the entire Estacado bloodline. In that respect the game is a lot like Spawn or Venom; the Darkness is a personality as much as it is a thing that augments Jackie's considerable gun-fu skills with the ability to create black holes that suck everything into them, whiplash barbed tentacles, magical guns, and snake-like mouths. In the dark, Jackie can summon other demons to do his bidding, which range from kamikaze critters loaded with explosives to gatling-gun wielding warriors.
Jackie's opponents have no such superpowers, and it's a credit to the game's creators that any supernatural monsters you encounter all fit the plot. There's no inevitable escalation of the villain gaining superpowers to do battle; indeed, the villain behind most of Jackie's woes, Uncle Paulie Franchetti (Dwight Schultz) is as much a moral foil as he is an arch-foe. Killing him isn't the point.
The game revolves around the issue of Jackie's soul. Mob life is a violent one, and The Darkness contrasts the mythical honor of the "old ways" with the mad-dog frenzy of Franchetti. When Franchetti starts blowing up orphanages, the older mobsters use Jackie as their form of vengeance.
The Darkness uses the New York subway system as its primary means of shuttling Jackie from place to place. This makes a lot of sense and provides a sense of realism to an otherwise route form of travel that bedevils so many first-person shooters. The streets are filled with entertaining characters who all have missions of their own to complete. Two of the most memorable characters include Butcher Joyce (Mike Starr) and Aunt Sarah (Norma Michaels), but there are many more and the voice actors are all superb. Between screens, and there are a lot of load screens, Jackie narrates his life and death to Jenny, which provides a humorous series of quotable anecdotes. These are the first load screens that actually distracted me from the load time.
Despite the age-old Mafia tropes, The Darkness takes the themes explored in The Crow and Spawn and amps them up to eleven, without ever losing focus on sacrifice, violence, and even love. I wasn't entirely convinced that saving Jackie's soul was feasible (I earned the anti-hero rating from the game), but the very notion of redemption being possible is a breath of fresh air to the first-person shooter genre.
my ears May 26, 2008
The darkness is a fun and good game you play as a guy named Jackie who on his twenty first birthday finds himself in a world of trouble with the mafia but fortuently he is helped by a demon that calls itself the darkness. The game has an interesting a long story that seems to put to shame many other fps single player games with three different levels of difficuties. The biggest problem I had with this game was the language. While you could turn off the blood and gore the game dropped the f bomb in almost every sentence. The multiplayer is okay as well but you will probably want to play through the story mostly.
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