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Title : The Darkness Walkthrough
Author : Joe Barbee
Date : Thursday, July 05, 2007
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General Tips and Hints
Hello hello! First off, let me say, see section 3 if you're
having trouble with anything. I hit all the hard to reach
spots people talk about on the message boards at gamefaqs.com
first there. This includes ALL the phone numbers and ALL the
Darkling Costumes.
To get it out of the way, please don't contact me for spelling
or grammar mistakes, capiche? It's a waste of both our time.
The full guide will be out SOON. Right now, I just wanted to
get the general hints and tips out there for those that are
clogging up the message boards. I've played through parts
of normal up to three times now, and will start hard once I
completel normal all the way. It is THEN, that I will begin
the full walkthrough guide. Until then, the gamefaqs.com
message boards are a wonderful place to visit, just please
use the search function first if it is available to you. Odds
are, your questions HAVE been answered there, I promise.
Now, as a short intro about me, since I like to do that to my
FAQs. I've written a handful of faqs for gamefaqs.com, and
loads of reviews. I love gaming, have been at it since the
NES days. I'm 24, living on my own, have a cool family, a
small circle of friends, and a great girl (hopefully for a
long while :P). I'm a huge dork when it comes to games,
movies, comics, and music, in that order. I've been into The
Darkness since the late nineties Image/Top Cow comics boom.
You should definately check it out if you like the game!
Witchblade is also quite cool, though I like Darkness more.
The Darkness was a title slated for 360 launch but it has been
delayed time and again. I say the tweaking done during this
time of delay was well worth, as we have a very polished end
product, and a fun game! If you're iffy about how long the
game is, give it a rental first, as it only lasts around 10
hours, unless you really, REALLY stop to smell the roses.
However, I love the title so far, and I'm not tired of it yet.
Good achievements, multiple ways to play, a variety of good
side missions and character interaction, and some good, pulse
pounding shoot outs make this one a replayable title if you
ask me!
Look into the comics if you enjoyed the game. Consider the
game a sort of "Hollywood-ized" plotline. It's very basic and
a bit different from the comic books, so odds are if you dig
this game, you'll LOVE the comic books. Trade paperbacks
(graphic novels) of the titles are out, and contain alot of
content. Dimension Films (The Crow, the Scream movies, etc)
owns the rights to a film, but I'm not sure if they'll go and
make one or not. If they do, odds are, it'll be alot like
this game in terms of story and special effects. That suits
me just fine actually. I do hope to see a sequel to this
title, and one can be done. The ending is sort of like in
the comics, the ending to issue 40 actually. And they went
on for several more crossovers and issues, so that's NOT the
end for Jackie Estacado!
Let's get into it, shall we?
Come, embrace The Darkness...
General Tips and Hints
Just because you're the Darkness, doesn't mean you're an
invincible killing robot. Take cover, use your FPS skills!
Aim for the head or other critical points when using guns.
A few well placed shots and your foes will drop you, powers
or not!
Never forget, when you lean around an object, or press up on
someone/thing/object, Jackie will aim his guns around them
sort of, giving you better accuracy.
If you go around sticking guns in people's faces, or if you
walk away from them while they speak to you about something
they find important, they may not be so friendly next time
around, so show some respect!
Use the Creeping Dark! It can scout out new areas for foes,
stealth kill one or two in a group, making it easier on you,
or destroy lights, open doors, and unlock other areas other-
wise unavailble to you. It IS weapon too, don't forget!
Hey, never forget you can do cool execution type moves for
almost ALL the guns, including shotguns, double kill with
two hand guns and differing left and right clicks (and double
click), and rifles of all types. Keep those eyes open!
You can see how much ammo you have for all your guns at one
time by going to the Inventory screen (select button).
You can throw vehicles and other large objects at your foes!
Even if you don't kill em, it'll wound them and slow them
down enough for you to do harm.
While in shadow, The Darkness will feed upon the dark to
help restore expended power. See below for more info.
The light is your enemy now. In games were it used to help,
here it hurts in more ways than one. Not only can bright
lights impair your vision, they help your foes see you!
Plus, they weaken you when in Darkness mode, thusly depleting
your shileds faster and making your attacks lesser. Use
bullets, creeping dark, or the demon arm (my fave!) to take
out lights ASAP! In a battle, this can mean the difference
between victory, and becoming a little red stain.
Doing side missions can help you learn maps better, get you
more guns, increase your darkness level (more hearts to eat),
get your collectable numbers, and add to the number of kills
with each type of power you have, plus other such achievements
, if you care about those. Not only that, it gives you the
warm fuzzies inside, since Jackie Estacado beleives in doing
things the old school way, and helping out the neighborhood!
Darklings are good, from killing in various ways, to just
plain distracting foes away from your presence. Don't forget!
There are five levels of Darkness power. You need to consume
around 200 hearts to get the maximum power and energy. This
can be done by the time you reach the Turkish baths, if you
do every side mission and eat every heart from the moment you
first can. If not, don't worry, you will get it before the
you finish the game, if you just eat alot throughout. Don't
forget to eat the hearts! Trust me, the more energy you have,
the better. It sustains your shields, and your skill to use
powers over and over (including ammo for the darkness guns!).
The black hole power is great. Convienent, strong, etc. But,
if you use it, count on your shield dropping almost every
time. Meaning, be sure you kill everything in the room that
poses and threat to you, or you're probably going to die after
you leave yourself vulnerable for that short time.
To destroy the chopper, aim a black hole up out the skylight
window. You'll know when and where.
There are phone numbers all over the walls, billboards, and
everywhere really.
Guess what? When a human (usually a bad guy target) is around
the corner, or otherwise nearby you, you'll notice the
Creeping Dark heads rear up and snap or hiss towards them.
This is a great way of knowing whether or not a threat is
right around the corner, so that you can melee, use a shotgun,
or the Demon Arm (my personal favorite).
Need a subway train fast? Stand on or very near the track,
it'll be there within seconds!
Know your weapons. You may find yourself often swapping
weapons out, due to lost weapons, or losing the darkness
guns. Since it autoswaps you to whatever weapons it finds
strongest, know your weapons in case this happens to you in
the middle of a fire fight.
Everything in this game can be reached through simple means.
You're never as lost as you might think you are. Think of the
game's two subway stations as two hubs. Use the transit
service machines if you feel lost. I will go into detail on
where to find places in the guide as well. Some things are
more well hidden than others. Things like Gun Hill, and City
Hall station. They are off the beaten path of the subways,
but still within the subways. Keep this in mind while playing
the game and you might not feel as frustrated.
If you're stuck, and you just got a certain power, try using
it! All over the place. This is especially true for the
black hole power. It can tear open walls, or bend barred
areas open in certain levels.
Stuck? Section 3 is for you, my FAQ section!!
Can't reach a heart to eat or what not? Don't forget the
Creeping Dark power! That handy head can eat hearts on it's
own, pick up collectable papers, and ammo!
Canal is the first subway station.
Fulton is the second.
Fulton has two tunnels and utility access type points to go
further in the game, later on.
I will be writing this guide in Hard mode, so if you need any
tactics and tips for it, read on!
Pay attention to the select button and all the in game
tutorials, capiche? This makes my job a bit easier here.
Continued on next page...
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