Darkest of Days

[bkfount]

Re: Darkest of Days

If it's worse than Hour of Victory and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty that's quite an accomplishment.

it is worse than turning point, but I played both game for the concept anyways. Turning Point had a better storyline in comparison, even though it was quite horrible as well. At least this game is a quick 1k achievement points.

Not only does it have laughable time paradoxes, but your character was snatched from Custer's Last Stand and literally indoctrinated, trained and sent on a time traveling mission in seconds. The novelty of using historical battles as a shooting gallery is ruined when no one even reacts to you busting out unimaginable futuristic weaponry.

[goh]

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If it's worse than Hour of Victory and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty that's quite an accomplishment.

It's N64 quality...and I don't mean PD/Goldeneye. Think Daikatana.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Maybe a rental just to get the horse puncher achievement?

[Klocker]

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omg, that was horrible.... interesting concept poorly executed.

It was like paying a game that 3 guys made in their basement in 1998

[Flawless]

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[ExtremeGamer]

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Awful, absolutely awful. Not even a rental.

[Whitesox]

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Why is it that all shooters with an interesting idea suck!?!

[bkfount]

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Awesome video, they never did get their horse punching achievement. I only rented it to that, and got it by taking out a whole stampede of yodeling Indians on horses with my fists.

The game runs like *** even installed on the HDD. It has horribly slow loading and a laughable framerate. I even found a bunch of confederates behind some bushes standing around like their AI script ran out. They didn't recognize me or even react as I shot them one by one.

I still say there's some enjoyment in a rental, just because it's one of those rare games that's so bad it's funny. That Dexter guy is even a 9/11 firefighter for no reason other than to throw that into their joke of a story.

[bkfount]

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Why is it that all shooters with an interesting idea suck!?!

I don't know, the last level in Pompeii is the best in the game. It's got the volcano in the background, everyone running around panicking, and an awesome future weapon you set people on fire with. It was fun, but getting to the end of the game sucked.

You can see glimmers of a far better game in here. The concentration camp level was done well by this game's standards too. It just didn't have the funding or polish to realize their vision better.

[Solidice]

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I played a copy of the PC version, the PC version feels better control wise and looks better graphics wise, but the stand still and not react to you AI is still there. I've played a lot more games that were worse though, but this game is not great either. good idea for a game though.

when using the future technology, you should be force to use covert operations and "sneak" around to not be seen. otherwise your "contaminating" the timeline, which is what your trying to prevent in the first place.

[jmood88]

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I only came to this thread to post the Giant Bomb video but Flawless beat me. I am literally laughing out loud right now. I had to stop cause I couldn't breathe.