It's so much of a struggle just keeping your shuttle in the air, that when you finally shoot down hordes of menacing enemy fighters with unguided missiles, it feels like a real triumph. Your shuttle is rickety, and I do mean it: fire too many shots in a row, for example, and the power drain causes you to fall out of the sky. Once you get over the "oooh" effect, though, you'll quickly find that Darker is far from a walk in the park. The city you're defending is nicely realised, with convincingly varied scenery and attention to detail, like the clock tower which chimes as you putter past. The graphics in Darker is much better than most games of its time. The problem is, your race is hopelessly behind in the technological race, so your shuttle is very slow and rickety at best. Your task is to fight the Halon, the race which is in control of the light side of the planet, to wrestle controls from them. You are the Delphi, one of two races on a curious planet where one side is perpetually in daylight and the other is perpetually in darkness. The Halons used to live in the light but recent events have caused their side of the planet to fall go dark and now they are attacking you in an attempt to take over your technology.Īs a Delphin pilot, your job is to stop them and take down of their attacking ships which is what most of the gameplay consists of: Finding enemy ships and killing them.ĭarker is a very atmospheric spaceflight simulator that, ironically, pays too much attention to atmosphere at the expense of playability. Your side of the planet is constantly engulfed in total darkness but the Delphins have adapted to this life. In this spaceflight 'simulator' / 3D shooter, your race (the Delphins) is sharing a far away planet with the Halons.
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