If you're a fan of muddy graphics, choppy frame-rates, and A.I enemies that will walk right past you on a dirt road – then go ahead and spend $50 on what may be the sloppiest FPS release yet; everyone else still reading this review should keep an eye out on those bargain bins. While very much below average, Darkest of Days is capable of entertaining those willing to look past all its faults, and beam-in on memorable game moments and plot twists as you make your way through history
Ever wonder what it would be like to relive some of the most earth shattering moments in human history? Wouldn't it be great to have the answers to the world's greatest mysteries? In Darkest of Days you will get to do hardly any of that, but you will get a chance to enjoy trying to preserve our history while trying to fix your screw ups along the way. Being a PC port from a no-name developer, Darkest of Days has some annoying hardware and game play glitches, but the concept, story, and variety of game play that Darkest of Days employs helps this game in a tremendous way in keeping your interest to the end.
While developer 8Monkey Labs hasn't quite succeeded with its inventively fashioned FPS, it's easy to see the potential behind the game, and that does actually help carry it through a lot of its difficulties. It would seem the game began with a rather broad 'what if' scenario, probably arrived at in the pub in an animated discussion between two designers without much aptitude for narrative, but it's also perfectly understandable how that loose premise seduced the rest of the team.
A few great ideas and an original concept (the fact that you can take part in historical battles from different periods of time through time travel technology) are wasted by a repetitive gameplay and a stupid A.I. making Darkest of Days a game not worth taking in consideration.
