Once Jericho’s escaped from Lazarus, he joins the organization in the title, a secret police force dedicated to destroying the supernatural threats to humanity.

The rest of the time, it comes down to twitch reflexes and a few thousand bullets, which is where Darkwatch starts to get interesting. You can only use your powers so often, however you’ll need to recharge them between each use by absorbing blood from fallen opponents. If you opt for the Evil path, you’ll obtain powers like Black Shroud, which damages anything that hits you, and Turn, the ability to force an opponent to attack its former allies. Good players get to play with stuff like Silver Bullet, which enhances your firearms damage, or Fear, which makes lesser enemies cower before Jericho. You’ll also gradually acquire a series of new powers, based upon how you choose to play Jericho. Whichever moral path you take, Jericho’s developing vampirism gives him a host of abilities, such as an insane hang time when he jumps, thermographic “blood vision,” a swiftly-regenerating blood shield, and the ability to regenerate health by draining the blood from dead enemies. Your choices will affect the way the story plays out, and eventually, the ending you get. You can give in to Lazarus’s taunting and embrace Jericho’s curse, becoming a monster who consumes the souls of the living or avoid temptation whenever possible, saving the lives of other people who Lazarus has tainted. Jericho’s about halfway to becoming a full-blooded vampire, with many of the associated powers and weaknesses. As a sort of backhanded thank you, Lazarus bites Jericho and leaves him to die.Īt this point, you have a choice to make. Instead of gold, he finds the newly-resurrected ancient vampire Lazarus, whose release sets off a plague of undead across the entire frontier. He leaps onto a train headed across the Arizona territory and blows its safe. The Discovery Channel, this isn’t.ĭarkwatch begins when Jericho Cross, an outlaw wanted for train robbery (and a proud graduate of the Gordon Freeman School of Laconic Protagonists), embarks on one last job. Darkwatch departs from historical accuracy fairly early on – if you’re the sort of person for whom the fun is ruined when you stumble across a pair of automatic pistols in the Old West, then stay away – but really, you’re shooting zombie cowboys.

There are many shooters on console these days, but not many of them reach this level of lunatic intensity, or give you quite so many toys to play with.

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