Darkest of Days
Have you ever thought about the possibility of going back in time to rewrite history for the better? That possibility is a reality in Darkest of Days, where players will travel back and forth through the…
Darkest of Days is a shooter developed by 8monkey Labs, released 7 September 2009 on Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Darkest of Days is
Darkest of Days is a shooter game developed by 8monkey Labs and released in 2009. It was published by Phantom EFX. It is available on Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Marmoset.
The premise, in the publisher's words
By fighting through terrible events such as The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest conflict of the Civil War, and both World War I and II, the player will attempt to save certain key individuals who were never meant to become involved in these truly monstrous events and thereby change human history for the better.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Darkest of Days holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 Ghz, 768 MB of RAM and nVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 with at least 128 MB of video memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Darkest of Days launched on 7 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.
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