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6.4 out of 10

Darkest of Days

 

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  • User Score (14)
    5.6 5.6 from 14 reviewers
  • Expert Score (28)
    5.7 5.7 from 28 reviewers
  • Gameplay (4)
    6.2 6.2 from 4 reviewers
  • Graphics (3)
    6.3 6.3 from 3 reviewers
  • Sound (4)
    6.3 6.3 from 4 reviewers
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  • Score Distribution

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7-8
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5-6
(13)
3-4
(9)
1-2
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Users:
9-10
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7-8
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  • Expert Reviews

  1. Testfreaks blog

    Testfreaks blog
    7.0/10
    17 September 2009

    Darkest of Days could have been an excellent game, they started with a brilliant idea, but they just implemented it badly in the end. If there would have been a multiplayer part to the game then it might have been salvageable, but really it’s just not worthwhile. I’ve also got the PC version of this as well for review, and I’ll be taking a look at that shortly to see if there are any differences between the two versions, so here’s hoping right! Read more

    • +Excellent idea and premise, +It is fun once you play it for a bit and get over the faults, +Graphics are decent when not stuttering and tearing
    • Terrible and useless AI, Long load times, even from hard drive, Frame rates drop all of the time, screen tearing as well, Shot detection is way off, Game is short, No ...

  2. Xbox Evolved

    6.0/10
    11 October 2009

    Overall, Darkest of Days is your pretty average first-person shooter with a very different kind of storyline. The game takes of to a slow start which may make you not want to play it anymore but furthering into the game and learning the storyline, the game actually becomes quite interesting. This game is nothing special and obviously was not trying to become the next big shooter but for at least a new approach on games, it's not too bad of a game for at least a rent. Read more

    • Nice innovative approach and story for a game and some of the weapons are a ball to have.
    • Graphics are nothing to wow at, A.I. is sloppy, a few bad level designs, no multiplayer or co-op, an

  3. The Gamers Temple

    The Gamers Temple
    4.4/10
    20 October 2009

    Darkest of Days has an interesting premise - in a future in which time travel is a possibility, someone is putting people in harm's way in historical battles, battles that they should have survived. You work with an organization dedicated to maintaining the timeline, and your job is to go back in time to those battles and make sure that the people destined to survive those battles actually do. Read more

  4. Defunct Games

    Defunct Games
    3.5/10
    17 October 2009

    With such an intriguing concept behind it, Darkest of Days only succeeds at squandering a good idea. It's a time travel game that seems content with just showing you what you've already seen before. Want to go to World War II again? Well, you don't have a choice. And the American Civil War and World War I aren't much better. Throw in some severe performance issues and you have one of the worst first-person shooters of the year! Read more

  5. GamerNode

    5.5/10
    21 September 2009

    Other gameplay-hampering annoyances include the game's controller setup and problems with combat. Darkest of Days ' control scheme is uncustomizable, but the biggest problems are the hold-to-crouch left analog stick, and the hold-to-view-the-map Back button. The former is likely due to the fact that the game was developed for the PC, where holding a button to crouch is more natural and helpful in battle, but holding a clicked-in left stick while still trying to move... Read more

  • User Reviews

  1. Not what you're going to expect...

    Amazon
    4.0/10
    Reviewer: Kyle, just Kyle, Amazon
    19 December 2011

    Here's the deal: I played this game for the first 4 or 5 levels. I though "these negative reviews are crazy, this game is really fun." A few levels later, everything came to a hault. I realized, this game is not very fun. Some of the achievements are glitched for one thing. Also, you expect that you'll be using advanced futuristic weapons against soldiers of the past. Yes, you will, once every 2 or 3 levels, with limited ammo. Read more

  2. Don't waste your money

    Newegg
    2.0/10
    Reviewer: The Sasquatch, Newegg
    24 June 2011

    Great idea for a game just horribly executed. It's sad that people put their names on this title. The testers must have been blind and deaf. Read more

    • Non, but the idea that could have been a cool game
    • graphics, sound, level design, controls, voice acting...the list is endless

  • WikiFreak Description

Darkest of Days

Darkest of Days is a game developed by 8Monkey Labs and published by Phanom EX for the Xbox 360 game console. It is an action game that is also available on PC and is a game rated by ESRB as Mature for Blood, Strong Language and Violence. The game places the player within the possibility of time travel as being a reality. It lets them go back forth through the annals time to relive some mankind’s most dire hours. By fighting through terrible events such as The Battle of Antietam, the…

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Darkest of Days

Darkest of Days is a game developed by 8Monkey Labs and published by Phanom EX for the Xbox 360 game console. It is an action game that is also available on PC and is a game rated by ESRB as Mature for Blood, Strong Language and Violence. The game places the player within the possibility of time travel as being a reality. It lets them go back forth through the annals time to relive some mankind’s most dire hours. By fighting through terrible events such as The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest conflict of the Civil War, and both World War I and II, the player will attempt to save certain key individuals who were never meant to become involved in these truly monstrous events and thereby change human history for the better. In Darkest of Days, gamers take on the role of Alexander Morris, an unlucky foot soldier who gets transferred to General Custer’s regiment days before the Battle of Little Bighorn. Moments before his inevitable demise, a futuristic time agent warps in to save Morris and transports him to the future where he is told that time travel is now a reality. However, an unknown faction is attempting to re-write history for their own benefit. Gamers are required to stop them, and fight their way through eras spanning thousands of years to do it.

Features

The Darkest of Days features a new engine called Marmoset which allows for optimal graphical capabilities. Gamers fight through epic battles filled with literally hundreds of NPCs on the screen at the same time, all with an advanced AI and all without graphical slowdown and all set against wide-open environments that are detailed and dynamically lighted. The game also features an action-packed first-person shooter storyline that is said not to be just mindless run-and-gun, blow ‘em up gameplay. Gamers will have to not only think about how to approach certain key battles and situations, but also have to take care when fighting – certain key people that were never meant to die will be marked with a special blue aura. If they are killed dire consequences are at hand. Gamers will also get to see what a futuristic weapon can do back through history. The game gives players opportunities to see this and its effect of bringing something from the future and changing the course of history.

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  • Manufacturer's Description

What could you have done with an automatic rifle during the Civil War? 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 ca…

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