The Darkness Preview PlayStation 3

The Darkness Preview - PlayStation 3

The Darkness, coming as it does from Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze, is no ordinary, common or garden first person shooter. You seek out the shadows not to hide, but to gain strength. Step into the light and it'll all start to go horribly wrong. For this game, you'll need more than an arsenal of weapons and an itchy trigger finger - in The Darkness you'll need stealth and guile too to survive. The Darkness is a third-person shooter like you won't have played before. It's not out until June but we've had a sneak look. Check out our hands-on preview of The Darkness for Playstation 3 now to find out more. Click here to read the The Darkness preview for PlayStation 3! The Darkness Preview for PlayStation 3
We may have become accustomed to first-person shooters. Here, we have a gun. Over there, we have a bad guy. Between the two of us, a stream of bullets. Someone dies, hopefully them, as there’s only one of you and seventy-four million of them (plus respawns). It’s easy to think you’ve seen everything. Until you’ve eaten a guy’s heart from half a mile away, at which point you realise you haven’t. The Darkness is that kind of game.
Developers Starbreeze – whose previous brilliant Chronicles of Riddick on Xbox was good evidence that the general failure of moviebased games is more a failure of imagination on the creator’s part – gives it a pedigree, but this is a distinctively weird, yet completely accessible, take on the genre based around Top Cow’s comic-book. Playing, for the first few sections, you wonder whether something has gone awry in the playtesting. It's reminiscent of a game like Metal Gear, but with the effect of skulking in the shadows reversed. Rather than letting you avoid trouble, it allows you to make trouble, building up an energy gauge that lets you lash out with its various tentacle attacks or work as a shield to protect your fragile life. Step into the light – bright light, especially – and it starts to smoke, losing energy until it disappears. To keep yourself at an advantage you spend time shooting out lightbulbs or – for the shortcut – eating the hearts of your opponents. Obviously. Click here to read the full The Darkness preview for PlayStation 3 now! P3Zine is the world's first free PlayStation 3 magazine. Written by the best PS3 journalists from the UK, it offers free PS3 previews, reviews and developer interviews. It's your ultimate PlayStation 3 resource. The third issue has a massive previews section of the hottest games coming up on the PlayStation 3. This month we have a huge Colin McRae: DIRT hands-on preview, including a full and frank interview with Colin McRae producer Alex Grimbley of Codemasters. Also in previews, we've looked at The Darkness, Stuntman: Ignition and Dark Sector. In reviews, we've been playing the biggest release of the moment - Spider-Man 3: read our review to see how we rate it. And check out our new section for PlayStation 2 reviews, our PlayStation 3 community section, news, letters, opinion and much more. And it's all enhanced with video multimedia. Just click to download the full magazine now and you can read it and all the other articles too.