Why is darkest of days rated m

Quantity has its own quality. Winnow them down to ten or so, and the game gets smart. Your enemies will gang up to fire all at once, and then duck behind rocks and trees for the tedious reloading.

Whole armies will stand around while their compatriots get shot, but platoons will run for cover and away from your attacks. I was pleased with the settings though. That was a nice choice. Ultimately, too many things were too similar to other games, and not done with enough greatness to move things forward. How can a bad game keep you interested?

Darkest of Days answers this. There are a lot of questionable design decisions and badly outmatched fights, but for all that, you want to keep playing. A lot of that is the occasional set-piece battle that you fight through. Blowing up a bridge, repelling a charge with a cannon, stealing a zeppelin, that sort of thing.

You might not have a great amount of freedom in all of the missions, but 8Monkeys paced the game very, very well. Sometimes that means you get to obliterate forces with future weapons, sometimes it means you get to make a daring last stand inside a besieged fort. Almost every mission has that wow factor at the end, and that will keep you playing past the annoyances.

Addictiveness Rating: Great. Appeal Factor For a game where time travel is such an integral factor, Darkest of Days made a major mistake in the release window. With more time in development, maybe that multi-player element could have been added, or some more polish to the close in graphics. With just a bit more shine and maybe a January or February launch, this might have had sleeper hit written all over it.

As it is, Darkest of Days has a lot of great ideas and a good story marred by a lack of refinement. You are part of the team because you died in battle before your transfer papers made it to Washington. Dexter, your comrade in arms, has a different story. He was a firefighter. He was pulled out of a collapsing building and brought into the future on September 11th, Coupled with the fact that Darkest of Days was released three days before the anniversary of the attacks just makes it harder to swallow.

Especially for a firefighter. It feels like a cheap stunt played entirely for shock value, even if it does make sense internally. Short Attention Span Summary Darkest of Days takes you through some of the worst battles in the worst conflicts in human history, and tasks you with making sure that they happened correctly.

A brand new game engine puts a lot of enemies on the screen at once, but works much better at large battles than small fights. Despite having some neat ideas and in-game moments, this time travel game needed more time in development and a couple of extra writers before it entered the timestream. Your email address will not be published. Now Trending: Unboxing: Shadowrun Sixt Review: Yakuza Kiwami Negative: 6 out of PC Gamer UK.

All this publication's reviews. It's obvious that the scope of this game has been too much for the first project of an independent studio. More time, money and experience would have improved the game a lot. Cheat Code Central. Darkest of Days also features very little content - there is only a single-player story mode to wade through that has very limited replay value.

All this publication's reviews Read full review. Darkest of Days ends up being a mediocre FPS. The production values are severely lacking, but under the hood you can see that the developers really tried.

This is only the second game produced by 8monkeylabs, hopefully their future games will have a more polish. Gaming Nexus. A meandering plot and lackluster game play relegate Darkest of Days to the "save it for a snowy, can't-get-out-of-the-house day" shelf. The ideas were there, but Darkest of Days doesn't deliver where it counts. Darkest of Days is a below average first person shooter that tries to capture the player with a "Timecop"-like story, but the monotonous game fails to capture the players interest.

User Reviews. Write a Review. Positive: 21 out of Negative: 4 out of Amazing for an indie game. This isn't the kind of indie game where it's a constant struggle to eek out any fun or it's only for Amazing for an indie game.

This isn't the kind of indie game where it's a constant struggle to eek out any fun or it's only for a niche market, the fundamnetal gamepaly is enjoyable. You can just breeze through it if you're a casual and want to ignore the story.

I'm glad to see other users posting their comments here as well. This game is quite original and so far quite fun. The graphics are very I'm glad to see other users posting their comments here as well. The graphics are very nice especially considering the VAST expanse of scenery and draw distance.

I'm playing in 7. October 8, Just Dance announced at Ubisoft conference. June 16, August 21, Digital Chumps. Darkest of Days provides a unique and overall well put together single player campaign.

Any fan of action games or time travel mechanics should give this one a serious look. All this publication's reviews Read full review. But there are no festivals in gaming, outside of the ten games that get selected for spotlight every year at PAX. The concept is intriguing and the game worlds can be very immersive, but the execution in Darkest of Days falls short of its potential amid control, AI, and other gameplay issues. Gamers' Temple.

Long load times and limited magazines feel more like a cheap way to pad the game's length than to capture an historic feel, especially when these weapons are far more accurate at a far greater range in the game than their real-world counterparts ever were.

Xbox Achievements. Darkest of Days takes the concept of time travel in an interesting direction, and then proceeds to fumble at every turn.

Poor AI and slowdown lead the list of this game's problems, and with so many better shooters out there, this isn't worth the time and frustration. Darkest of Days is the worst first-person shooter of this generation. User Reviews. Write a Review.