, 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Darkwatch is the absolute analogue of boilerplate if it comes to first-person shooters. While just about every aspect of the bold is complete in agreement of design, none of the abandoned elements in actuality shines or does annihilation to in actuality set the bold apart. Sure, the activity of the bold is affectionate of air-conditioned (who doesn't adulation cowboys that aswell arise to be vampires?), and the vampire admiral abstraction is alluring, but the in-game adventitious just isn't all that deep, and the attract admiral about-face out to be ambrosial agnate to archetypal first-person ballista power-ups. Multiplayer is fun if you're aboriginal accepting a feel for the blueprint of anniversary level, but aloft that, it will not do abounding to authority your attention. Read the abounding Darkwatch 0 Darkwatch Midnight at the O.K. Corral. By Crispin Boyer, 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Fear not that the armies of the abyss are abandoned and crumbling away. They're alive employed--thousands aloft bags of them--in Darkwatch, a abrasive Old West ballista with an extra-crypty flavor. As an outlaw hero affronted high-plains barnacle afterwards a vampire curse, you'll face ashen gunslingers, ax-hurling skeleton Indians, scythe-wielding skeletons--even the ghosts of skeletons you've blasted. Oh, you gun down a few added enemies, too--including witchy barmaids and morbidly obese, projectile-vomiting zombies--but mostly the bold blends into one banausic activity adjoin the undead, with a few horse-riding, turret-manning, and vehicle-driving sections befuddled in. But that's not the abandoned cartilage I accept to aces here. Darkwatch about feels so...so-so, with Halo-inspired play mechanics (a regenerating absorber and two-weapon limit). The pacing goes giddy-up adjoin the end, and you can accomplish moral choices that affect your vampire powers, which become if you aberrate into sunlight--a air-conditioned but underused gameplay quirk. Amphitheatre acceptable or affronted has little aftereffect on the arced story; although the bold kept me entertained, I didn't feel the allegation to epitomize for the alternating ending. Read the abounding Darkwatch 0 Darkwatch Midnight at the O.K. Corral. , 09/13/2005 at 00:00 For the aboriginal few hours Darkwatch feels like a job on the skeleton disassembly bandage as you bang one mindless, awkward cowpoke afterwards another. But a funny activity happens already all hell in actuality breach afar centermost through the game--Darkwatch gets good. The added adversity and adversary array force you to yield advantage of your apparitional admiral and the strengths of your altered weapons. Sadly, the bold never sheds its bad-80s-heavy-metal-album-cover architecture or asinine plot, but alternating with the unbalanced-but-fun online modes (exclusive to Xbox, admitting PS2 offers offline co-op), the added bisected of this undead ballista brings it aback to life. Read the abounding Darkwatch 0 Darkwatch Midnight at the O.K. Corral. , 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Darkwatch is the absolute analogue of boilerplate if it comes to first-person shooters. While just about every aspect of the bold is complete in agreement of design, none of the abandoned elements in a ctuality shines or does annihilation to in actuality set the bold apart. Sure, the activity of the bold is affectionate of air-conditioned (who doesn't adulation cowboys that aswell arise to be vampires?), and the vampire admiral abstraction is alluring, but the in-game adventitious just isn't all that deep, and the attract admiral about-face out to be ambrosial agnate to archetypal first-person ballista power-ups. Multiplayer is fun if you're aboriginal accepting a feel for the blueprint of anniversary level, but aloft that, it will not do abounding to authority your attention. Read the abounding Darkwatch 0 Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance