Interesting concept, poor construction

good fun | Darkest Of Days

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	• Darkest Of Days Windows \| Phantom EFX, 2009 average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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Darkest of Days

Darkest of Days Important; Go to [...] for Darkest of Days first Patch for game to play properly or you will be very disapointed When you get on the Air ship and keep getting killed with no way out. Other wise i'm liking this game. I do recommend this game. I Love it.

Interesting concept, poor construction

What made me attracted to this game was the prospect of mass infantry battles, mainly the civil war era with musketeers. I wasn't dissapointed with that part, but everyone else is downhill.

NOTE: CONTAINS WEAPON SPOILERS

Pros

-Epic battles, especially the Civil War era battles. My favorite part had you walking in line towards the enemy and firing at the enemy line. So, so epic. Reminds of Empire Total War in FPS.

-Using future weapons to kill enemy troops using muskets. Yeah, pretty rigged xD

-Part with a portable artillery rocket launcher. Didn't come with instructions and let me thinking I was being shelled on by the enemy when it was my own rockets. Once I figured it out, it was a blast to use.

-Shooting Germans with the maxim gun as they pour out of the woods. Epic.

-Frickin' shooting a wall of Roman LEGIONAIRES with SWORDS and SHIELDS with an automatic shotgun.Doesn't get more hilarious than that.

Cons

-Biggest gripe ever: crappy A.I. I cannot stress this enough. Once I accidentally slipped into a trench and was faced with like 9 soldiers just sitting there staring into space like they were mentally retarded or something. Meleed them all down and had zero resistance. WTF?? I don't recall the union sending idiots to battle.

-Repetitive at parts. Mainly the parts where you just walk to x location and shoot y amounts of people to win.

-Bad death animations. One part you fire a cannon at massed infantry. It looks like they just decided to lie down and take a break instead of dying.

-Future battles were EXTREMELY boring. Way too hauntingly similar to CoD except with dumbed down combat mechanics. Pretty much just plot filler than something of interest.

Conclusion
This game had so much potential. Add multiplayer, like 50v50? Then some pople would buy it just for the multiplayer....The game seems capable of supporting that many units. I suppose the game semi-justified its pricetag. Introduced an interesting concept, but failed at making it shine as brightly as it could've.

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good fun

got the game for a good price and it was pretty cool.good shooter with that time traveling/modern weapon thing working pretty well.could have been more choices of time eras but killing rebs and romans with sub machine guns was pretty fun.

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Excellent, but short.

This is a purely incredible game. The graphics are higher than average, although at times your graphics card WILL overheat.
The plot is better than most games. It's no half-life 2 to be sure, but it's better than crysis.
The A.I. is actually quite good. I have yet to see it "slip up" in any way.
As a matter of fact, my only real complaint would be that you ARE limited to 5 different battles that you keep returning to. It's interesting-- that's no problem -- but I feel that there should have been more scenarios. Maybe the cold war or something set in 2075 or something along those lines...
There is NO malware of any kind. Yes, it installs software for support for the game engine, but that's all. And I KNOW some half-retarded hillbilly's going to say it will hack your computer and spread you passwords to every site on the web, as well as telling everyone you exact location. IT WON'T.
All in all, on a scale of one to 10, this gets a solid 9 and three quarters.

Also, as a warning for you modders, I have yet to find a editor for this game.

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In DARKEST OF DAYS, you'll get to experience some of the most varied gameplay ever released in one title. Things will never get stale as you travel to distant times and fight alongside people from that time period. Fighting in Antietam (the bloodiest day of the American Civil War) feels much different than fighting on the side of the Russians at Tannenberg (where the Russians withstood 140,000 casualties in WWI.) Fight in FIVE different Time Periods: Whether its in Pompeii, Antietam, WW or two other unannounced time periods, you will fight with real weapons from the time period. You will battle against enemies that fight in different ways, all reflective of how fighting was done at the time.

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