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By: Diehard GameFAN | 31 Days of Gaming Terror - Day 10: Dracula

Diehard GameFAN | 31 Days of Gaming Terror - Day 10: Dracula — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:06:05 +0000

[...] this year we’ve had Dracula 3, which was awful, Operation Darkness, which polarized those who played it, and Dracula: Origin, which started great but eventually [...]

By: Diehard GameFAN | 31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 5: Where Are All the Werewolves?

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:29:54 +0000

[...] I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: Operation Darkness is a game where werewolves, Herbert West (or a renamed facsimile), Jack the Ripper, and a Van Helsing take on vampires, zombies, skeletons, Dracula, Carmilla (the titular villain of a vampire novel that predates Bran Stoker’s Dracula), Hitler and Himmler, and if you can’t find SOMETHING awesome in that sentence, I feel very sorry for you. Now, of course, not everybody can love the game; hell, an anonymous staffer offered up the description that “it pretty much sucked and was extremely boring”, and hey, I can relate. But I’m something of a fan of werewolves. I liked Rage, I liked Werewolf: the Apocalypse, and hey, I liked Operation Darkness. It’s a game where you can have a guy turn into a werewolf, charge across the battlefield, and TAKE OUT A TANK with little more than his lycanthrope-enhanced inherent abilities. It’s a game where werewolves take on FREAKING DRAGONS and still manage to kick ass. Hell, it’s a game where the werewolves are an integral part of the plot, as the GOOD GUYS, fighting the good fight to save the world from evil, be it giant tanks, skeletons, vampires, or Hitler himself. [...]

By: Diehard GameFAN | Review: Zoids Assault (360)

Diehard GameFAN | Review: Zoids Assault (360) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:02:48 +0000

[...] the most bewildering one of the lot. It’s certainly different from the prior products. While Operation Darkness was set in a fictional version of WWII featuring vampires and werewolves, and Spectral Force 3 was [...]

By: Avoid One Thing » Blog Archive » Review: Operation Darkness (360)

Avoid One Thing » Blog Archive » Review: Operation Darkness (360) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:30:13 +0000

[...] Review: Operation Darkness (360) When a character’s turn comes up, you’re offered a few options (depending on the character); Move, which lets you move them around the map, Attack, which lets the character attempt an attack on any one or thing in range, Item, … [...]

By: B T » Blog Archive » Review: Operation Darkness (360)

B T » Blog Archive » Review: Operation Darkness (360) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:02:22 +0000

[...] Review: Operation Darkness (360) Your characters can have up to five weapons equipped at any time, between short range melee weapons and mines, medium range pistols, machine guns (heavy and light), Panzerfausts, and thrown explosives (grenades, Molotov Cocktails, … [...]

By: Acid Death » Review: Operation Darkness (360)

Acid Death » Review: Operation Darkness (360) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:38:36 +0000

[...] Review: Operation Darkness (360) This is understandable, to a point; death means death, and if you can’t resurrect the character, then you’ll either have to live without them or reload from a prior save game. That said, the obvious question of “why can’t Herbert just … [...]