The Darkness is a wonderfully dark and twisted game involving the mob, revenge and a pair of demons that embed themselves in your body? I had borrowed this game from a really good friend of mine, and I was not disappointed. It was a great title, I find myself loving all of the characters within the game that I happen to come across, like Aunt Sarah.

I rated this game a solid 9, it is a great game. A first person shooter that I like almost as much as Bioshock, with a great story and awesome game play. Not once did I have any real problems with the controls, maybe a little with the camera but not enough to really take notice or quit the game out right. Then again a lot of games have the problem with the camera. As for the graphics, I thought they looked amazing I rated the graphics a 9. Everything was very clear the cars looked great and so did the darkness itself. The only thing graphically I noticed was if you were standing in front of a mirror and moved around you will notice how Jackie (the protagonist) hair flowing very oddly. Other than that the game looked great.

The sounds were interesting, the music wasn't exactly things that will get stuck in your head. However, the game has an awesome metal style song playing during combat, which I found kind of unique. Even the darkness talks every once and a while. I rated the sound an 8. As for the addictiveness, I rated this game a 9. Once I really started getting into the story of the game I couldn't put it down. I think a lot of people will find this game very entertaining and fun.

The story is always my favorite part of the game, well that and game play. But the story for this is absolutely breath taking. You play as Jackie Estacado, a hit man for hire for his Uncle Paulie who thinks that you and a group of people screwed him over on some money. That is when things start getting weird while running through a construction site trying to escape gunman, a voice in Jackie's head begins to speak to him. Discovering that he has had an timeless force known as the darkness on his 21st birthday, Jackie has to figure out how to stop the darkness from whatever it's evil goal maybe. However, Jackie may use the darkness to his advantage as well. The darkness can become seen to everyone and attack faces by turning into a snake creature, summoning a vortex and things like having "darkness guns." Needless to say there is a lot to this game, a few power ups for the darkness to gain, guns to be found, collectibles like phone numbers and letters to find and call/mail. Which brings me to the depth of this game, I rated a 10. I felt the game had the right amount of added content with the numbers and the letters to find, and the game is pretty deep when it comes to story and how long you actually sit there and play.

Now the difficulty, I'm not going to lie at times I have found myself stuck in certain parts. Kind of like the game will expect you to know right away what you need to do, which can get a bit frustrating. I rated the difficulty a 7. The game is not terribly hard, but can pose as a bit of a challenge from time to time. Then again I guess that is what makes a game fun and entertaining.

I highly recommend that people pick up this title, it was a great game and I don't think a lot of you will be disappointed. Especially with things like phone numbers, letters, guns, mob, darkness and an Italian last name Estacado. I hope that you, the reader have enjoyed this review and will continue to enjoy my reviews, thank you for reading until next review.