First, I’ll have to try this demo… Darkest Days sounds like an interesting game…..
Second, Destructoid has reviewed the demo of Darkest of Days demo: “
Darkest of Days has been on my radar for quite some time now, albeit with some reservations. Any game that could reasonably be described as ‘Quantum Leap with assault weaponry and no Dean Stockwell’ tends to have that sort of effect.
The premise is almost too good, too easy to screw up: your character travel through time to right chronological wrongs, relying primarily on era-specific weaponry and tactics (save for the occasional, anachronistic assault rifle rampage). As 8monkey labs released a remarkably long demo for the game yesterday, I finally got a chance to play out my most gratuitously violent Sam Beckett fantasies.
(View the rest of the article at Impressions: Darkest of Days demo)