The Darkness

The minute that you think "adaptation", you start thinking "oh great another shitty game, job well done for pointing out this game's shittyness man" straight after, and I'd smack you out, because this is actually a good adaptation. If you don't know what this game is adapted from, it's adapted from a comic book of the same name, and a fairly good one at that. You would've expected this to be a movie - I mean, if they could make movies out of Superman, Batman, Watchmen and Spiderman, why not The Darkness - but hey, I guess people have better ideas, so somebody over at Starbreeze Studios decided to purchase the license and create a game based off that comic. The end product turned out well enough, and if you approach this just expecting a game, you'll be entertained. Hell, you'll probably fall in love with this game. But if you approach this critically, ehh you won't like it as much, which makes it hard to review because you have to approach games critically, but I'll try my hardest...

THE BAD:
None... absolutely Nothing...

SUMMARY:
I don't review games very often, but I make exceptions when a game is exceptionally good or incredibly bad. I also don't have money to spend on every release that looks interesting to me. So when I do buy a game, I like to do a bit of research online and make sure that I'll really enjoy it (especially at $60 per game.) Lately I've been dying to get my hands on a truly 'next-gen' FPS game and I felt like we haven't had any on the 360 yet. This probably was the result of my frustration from reading IGN every day. I got sick of hearing about all these amazing games that wouldn't come out for a really long time. I wanted something good to look forward to soon! I bet many of you can relate to this. Does 'The Darkness' deliver what I was looking for? Read on

I'll start with this, I'd followed The Darkness for quite awhile and was really impressed with all the videos and previews. Like many of you, I...