The Darkness is a first-person shooter based on the Top Cow comic of the same name. Jackie Estacado, a Mafia hit man in modern New York City, becomes possessed by an ancient evil on his 21st birthday. The curse has been passed down through the generations in his family to the first born, starting with his great great grandfather. Jackie is about to be taken out by the henchmen of Mafia don Paulie Franchetti when the curse grants him supernatural powers. He is able to eliminate the hit men and goes after Paulie next, as the Mafia don wants to kill his girlfriend Jenny Romano.

The game offers a mixture of classic first-person shooting with regular weapons, along with the powers of The Darkness. The latter cannot be used in well-lit environments. In dark areas, Jackie can combine both powers. Jackie can switch back and forth during gameplay, and as The Darkness, the viewpoint is placed lower, but with a broader point-of-view. Darkness powers allow Jackie to summon darklings (different types of creatures), summon dark tentacles that grow from his back to break through barriers and smash opponents, along with maw tentacles for close combat. Estacado can also create a black hole and force it to collapse on itself for wide-range damage, and summon darkness guns that fire lightning bolts.

The game takes place in a modern environment, but also in the fictional Otherworld and Hell. The Darkness manifests itself as a voice in Jackie's head and tries to gain complete control of the body. The force feeds on the dark and requires a live human body to exist.

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	The Darkness	PlayStation 3	$11.00
	The Darkness	Xbox 360	$6.33
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A beautiful, introspective poem of a game	PlayStation 3	AkibaTechno (228)
A Solid Supernatural FPS	PlayStation 3	William Baker (10)

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Gamer 2.0	PlayStation 3	Jul 02, 2007	9.1 out of 10	91
Deeko	Xbox 360	Jul 03, 2007	9 out of 10	90
games xtreme	Xbox 360	Jul 06, 2007	8.8 out of 10	88
4Players.de	PlayStation 3	Jul 25, 2007	86 out of 100	86
Xbox360Achievements	Xbox 360	Jul 01, 2007	86 out of 100	86
Gamesmania	Xbox 360	Sep 10, 2007	85 out of 100	85
Fragland.net	Xbox 360	Aug 21, 2007	85 out of 100	85
Game Freaks 365	PlayStation 3	2007	8.2 out of 10	82
PlayDevil	Xbox 360	Oct 01, 2007		80
Computer Bild Spiele	Xbox 360	Sep 05, 2007	2.62 out of 6	68

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Trivia

German version

In the German version almost all blood, flame textures on burning enemies, hurt enemies after shoot outs, ragdoll effects on corpses, several fighting moves and the possibility to spear enemies with the demon arm were removed. Additionally the player now eats the enemies souls instead of their hearts; to accompany that the animations for this were changed. In the bonus material several comic pages with swastikas (the whole pages; not just the symbols) were removed. A detailed list of changes can be found on schnittberichte.com (German).