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"If you could go back in time, would you attempt to change history for personal enrichment or to prevent atrocities?
Or would to restrain yourself in order to preserve the causality that leads to your existence, or in fear of unleashing a worse future by preventing mankind from learning from its mistakes?
That is the question at the heart of Darkest of Days, a new game from Phantom EFX of Cedar Falls, Iowa."
When gamers think about first person shooter games, there’s a slew of titles that instantly come to mind. These games place the player in the action and they become immersed in the game with heart-pounding gameplay dynamics. Sure, there’s a ton of great first person shooter games out there, but there’s a lot of companies that have tried to cash in on first person shooters. In other words, for every good first person shooter game out there, there’s a bad first person shooter game. On this list, are the worst of the worst when it comes to first person shooters.
Backlog Quest is a month long special event on Clearance Bin Review featuring daily game reviews of the games that have sat on the shelf for simply too long; old and new.
From Day 17 – Darkest of Days, Tristan Rendo writes, "I’d be a bold face liar if I said I hadn’t ever though about time traveling back to the days of ancient Rome with an assault rifle. Where my advanced weaponry would make me king. Darkest of Days finally let me live out this brief, sociopathic fantasy if but for a fleeting moment; and that is all that counts right?
Well, not really, but it is still kind of cool."
Game Revolution writes: "If you're looking for a game that has you shooting Civil War survivors, WWI veterans, Roman infantry, and while we're at it, some Native Americans (which is half of my heritage... I shot my peoples!), then boy, do I have a game for you. Darkest of Days puts you in the shoes of a Civil War soldier that fought in the battle of Little Bighorn or Custard's Last Stand. At the last minute before your unfailing doom, you are rescued by a Spartan that pulls you into a womb-like object that sends you hurling through time and space. You reach your final destination in a waiting room from hell to be greeted by the stroke patient that is your supposed time partner and a visual user interface with creepy eyes and a fake pompous-ass British accent."
Can't believe PAL regions have to wait until up to March and that it isn't region free!
I know this game has been hammered by some reviewers but the concept is fantastic and I think I'd have fun running around Ancient Pompeii with a machine gun.
I have no idea what they ar eon about, how can it take 6 months for a game to be localised to PAL .. bloody stupid if you ask me, either that, or they are so US orientated, they forgot there's a world outside their own boarders. One never knows.
I didn't mind the game, the world war one section was cool but then it got pretty repetitive in each mission.
It does sound great, but I'll have to wait until March, or, until I end up with a NTSC 360 so I can play the game . . .Would love to actually, as this is the sort of thing in games I enjoy, and the fact that there's no Multiplayer makes it even better - for me.
haha. I even thought twice about that because I knew you would be an expert in the subject of speed.
But to continue on that same line, Saboury's Corvette could be compared to the big studios, having the $ and clout to get to speed so quickly.
Yahtzee actually reviewed this game this week, too.
http://www.escapistmagazine...