DarkWatch

by Amazon.com

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001EFUQY
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 15, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,219 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You are Jericho Cross -- outcast, outlaw, and loner.

Everything changed the night you robbed the wrong train. You thought you'd hit the mother lode before skipping down to Mexico, but instead you unleashed Hell on earth: An ancient Vampire Lord and a curse he put on the West.

One more thing--he bit you, too. Now you're a half vampire, working with the Darkwatch -- a secret society even stranger than the undead monsters they battle, and you're all that stands between the West, the doom of men...and that of your own soul.

Darkwatch is a cinematic 1st person shooter (FPS) blending the Vampire-Horror and Western genres...

They grind their enemies for fuel, fashion their skin into protective cloaks and create weapons designed to exterminate en masse, and they're the good guys! They are the Darkwatch, a mysterious secret society that has protected humanity from evil since the dawn of civilization. Their newest and most deadly agent is Jericho Cross, an outlaw gunslinger pulled into their ranks by an unfortunate close encounter with a vampire lord.

Jericho's only chance to regaining his stolen humanity is to pursue the vampire through an American frontier overrun by evil minions. Along the way he relies on his deadly gun-fighting skills and advanced weapons and vehicles created by the Darkwatch, owing as much to sorcery as to technology. As a half-vampire, his superhuman abilities allow him to move, see and take damage as no living man could. When he's in a tight spot, or needs an extra burst of speed, he can summon his demonic horse from the very ground he stands on, firing his weapons from horse-back or crushing the rotten skulls of undead opponents with flailing hooves.

To fight a monster, one must become a monster. Jericho Cross had no choice...but only he can save the West and his own soul from eternal damnation.

Features:

• Blast through a frightening re-imagination of the Wild West, with explosive FPS action framed by a cinematic storyline and exceptional art and design work inspired by both vampire-horror and Western genres
• See the world around you react to your every decision with a unique reputation system. Hero or villain--it's your move.
• Unique weapons, powerful assault vehicles, horse-mounted gun fighting and special vampire abilities bring new depth to FPS gameplay in both single and multiplayer
• Take the "un" out of "undead" in a variety of ways with a wide assortment of "Darkwatch-enhanced" weapons, including pistols, rifles, shotguns, rocket-launchers, dynamite and even weapon-specific melee attacks
• Experience a "living west" with massive seamless worlds, non-linear missions and dynamic enemy and NPC A.I.
• Location-specific damage brings precision to gunplay -- tear the undead to pieces, or taunt the pesky living by shooting off hats or making them dance to your bullets
• Online multiplayer capability with unique maps and original game modes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars ground breaking in its day, December 20, 2009

By 

Eric N. Persson (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: DarkWatch (Video Game)

this FPS has great cutscenes good story and awesome gameplay. You are a train robber and during a heist you free an ancient evil and are bitten by a vampire. You end up joining a regulatory force called the darkwatch. from now it's zombie, vampire and monster killing...yeah banshees too. You'll use night vision TNT and either vampire abilities or good abilities. Yeah there are many karmic choices not unlike newer stuff like Infamous. Karmic decisions dont really change the story but allow you to take on either good or evil abilities to fight enemies. Damage to enemies is area specific and de-limbing is often. Each weapon has specific melee functions too.

Some down sides? they ask you which missions you want to complete but it doesnt matter. You end up completing all the missions offered without being able to refuse them so at best you can only choose the order in which you play them.

limited weaponry. in all I think there's maybe 7 weapons?

All in all it is a very unique ride. A western riddled with zombies, zombie horses, stuff that looks like its right out of hellraiser. What a great blend of undead and old west if you like FPS get this one if for any reason that it'll increase in value.

3 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PRE-ORDER because this game will be a HIT!, October 6, 2004

By 

Angela Morales (Johnstown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: DarkWatch (Video Game)

Darkwatch is going to have some awesome graphics and a kick ass storyline. There will also be a Darkwatch movie too, so if I were you I'd pre-order this game so you can have it before your friends can.